Review of Erasmus and the Renaissance Republic of Letters

Review | Contributeur(s): Mark Crane

Review of An Introduction to German Pietism: Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe

Review | Contributeur(s): Avram Heisler

Review of Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne

Review | Contributeur(s): Barbara C. Bowen

Review of Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples

Review | Contributeur(s): James Nelson Novoa

Review of John Donne and Religious Authority in the Reformed English Church

Review | Contributeur(s): Christopher Warley

Review of Catholic Reformation in Protestant Britain: Catholic Christendom 1300–1700

Review | Contributeur(s): Andrew A. Chibi

Wandel, Lee Palmer. The Reformation: Towards a New History.

Article | Contributeur(s): Christina Moss

L’écriture féminine à la Renaissance française sous le regard des chercheurs canadiens

Article | Contributeur(s): Diane Desrosiers, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu

Au cours des dernières décennies, un travail considérable a été accompli par les chercheurs canadiens dans l’exhumation et la réhabilitation des textes des femmes de lettres de la Renaissance française. En raison de leur positionnement géographique à l’intersection des États-Unis et de...

Canadian Contributions to Anabaptist Studies since the 1960s

Article | Contributeur(s): Jonathan R. Seiling

Anabaptist studies in Canada have been marked by an exceptional degree of productive, inter-confessional (or non-confessional) engagement, most notably between Mennonites, Baptists, and Lutherans. The institutions making the greatest contributions have been at the University of Waterloo...

Textes missionnaires dans l’espace francophone

Article | Contributeur(s): Guy Poirier

Guy Poirier aborde, dans cet article, les points de réflexion qui ont amené à la création du partenariat « Textes missionnaires dans l’espace francophone », et notamment les questions liées aux nouvelles études sur les grandes découvertes, à la pluridisciplinarité et à la diffusion des...

Forty Years of the Collected Works of Erasmus

Article | Contributeur(s): Mark Crane

This article discusses the origins and development of the Collected Works of Erasmus series, a project to translate the vast majority of the Dutch humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Greek and Latin writings into English. A unique partnership between the University of Toronto Press and a team of...

A Curatorial Model for Teaching Renaissance Book History in Canada

Article | Contributeur(s): Janelle Jenstad, Erin E. Kelly

Only by holding early printed books can students learn both the strangeness of the past and its oddly familiar struggle with technological innovation. Even partial collections like the one at the University of Victoria have enough rare books to serve these purposes. But how do we teach book...

Travaux sur la censure et les index des livres interdits réalisés à l’Université de Sherbrooke

Article | Contributeur(s): J. M. De Bujanda

L’invention de l’imprimerie au XVe siècle s’avère un puissant facteur de diffusion des idées dont se servent les autorités civiles et religieuses ainsi que le mouvement humaniste. Quand au XVIe siècle l’imprimerie devient le principal moyen de diffusion de la Réforme protestante, les...

Making Scholarship Public: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Early Modern Studies

Article | Contributeur(s): Paul Yachnin

How can collaborative, interdisciplinary research on early modern Europe expand the reach of the humanities beyond the academy? In what ways could such a “public turn” enhance the effectiveness of humanities research and teaching? This essay recounts how a number of large, interdisciplinary...

Building A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript

Article | Contributeur(s): Constance Crompton, Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, Maggie Shirley

This article describes the context and development of A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript, a collaboratively created Wikibook edition of the sixteenth-century verse miscellany known as the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add. 17,492). This project began in 2001 when Dr. Ray Siemens led a...

Capstone and Cornerstone: Creating a Virtual Research Centre in Honours and Graduate Courses in Renaissance Literature

Article | Contributeur(s): Elizabeth Popham

For the past three years, I have experimented with courses for senior undergraduate and first year graduate students that incorporate features of directed reading projects, making use of a Managed Learning System (MLS) site as a “virtual research centre” for collaborative investigation of...

Augmented Criticism, Extensible Archives, and the Progress of Renaissance Studies

Article | Contributeur(s): Michael Ullyot

In the three decades since the rise of New Historicism, Renaissance studies has progressed through extensions of scholars’ archival reach to new objects for new interpretations. The future will bring expansions on a larger scale, like those we now witness in English print archives....

Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies in Canada: A Graduate Student’s Perspective

Article | Contributeur(s): Sarah M. Loose

This article focuses on digital humanities and Renaissance studies in Canada, highlighting established projects such as Iter and newer efforts such as Serai, and addressing recent interest in historical GIS. This survey of projects demonstrates how the work of Renaissance studies faculty and...

Word-entries and Big Data in Lexicons of Early Modern English

Article | Contributeur(s): Ian Lancashire

This brief thirty-year history of Lexicons of Early Modern English, an online database of glossaries and dictionaries of the period, begins in a fourteenth-floor Robarts Library lab of the Centre for Computing and the Humanities at the University of Toronto in 1986. It was first published freely...

Records of Early English Drama: A Retrospective

Article | Contributeur(s): Sally-Beth MacLean

The Records of Early English Drama, founded in 1976, remains a productive humanities research project, with thirty-three volumes in print and two open access research and educational websites to date. This retrospective essay reflects on the individuals who contributed to its founding and...