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Calvinist Miracles and the Concept of the Miraculous in Sixteenth-Century Huguenot Thought
Article | Contributeur(s): Moshe Sluhovsky
This paper is a study of French Calvinism as a language. It was a language which employed the signifiers and the signs of the traditional Christian culture. There was persistent usages of key Catholic words in the theology of early Huguenot believers, regardless of their level of education or...
The Development of Hispanitas in Spanish Sixteenth-Century Versions of the Fall of Numancia
Article | Contributeur(s): Rachel Schmidt
The story of the Celtiberian town of Numancia and its fall in 133 B.C., as seen in the writings of Livy, Plutarch and others, was a well established topos in sixteenth-century Spain. The accounts of the bravery of the Numantians in defending their besieged city formed the basis for hispanitas,...
Silvestro da Prierio and the Pomponazzi Affair
Article | Contributeur(s): Michael Tavuzzi
The Italian Dominican friar Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio (1456-1527), known as Prierias, served as Master of the Sacred Palace during the pontificates of Leo X, Adrian VI and Clement VII. He is chiefly remembered for his involvement in the cases of Luther and Reuchlin and an epistolary exchange...
“To Warn Proud Cities”: a Topical Reference in Milton’s “Airy Knights” Simile (Paradise Lost II.531-8)
Article | Contributeur(s): John Leonard
In Paradise Lost II.531-8 modern editors often see an allusion to Josephus’ account of armies appearing in the sky shortly before the fall of Jerusalem. In fact, reports of spectral soldiers and aerial battles were quite common in seventeenth-century English pamphlets, such as Mirabilis Annus and...
Review of La cité heureuse: l’utopie italienne de la Renaissance à l’Âge baroque
Review | Contributeur(s): Claude-Gilbert Dubois
Review of Authority, Church, and Society in George Herbert: Return to the Middle Way
Review | Contributeur(s): Mary Arshagouni Papazian
Review of Maurice Scève et la pensée chrétienne; A Scève Celebration. Délie 1544-1994
Review | Contributeur(s): François Rouget
Review of Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados; The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation
Review | Contributeur(s): Robert Richmond Ellis
Review of Logique et litérature à la Renaissance. Actes du Colloque de la Baume-les-Aix, Université de Provence, 6-18 septembre 1991
Review | Contributeur(s): Marie-Luce Demonet-Launay, André Tournon, Jean-Claude Margolin
Review of Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume II: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1535 to 1557 (1525); Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume 56: Annotations on Romans
Review | Contributeur(s): Hilmar M. Pabel
Review of The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France
Review | Contributeur(s): Eva Kushner
Review of English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1475-1525; Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England
Review | Contributeur(s): Samuel Glen Wong
The English Enchiridion Militis Christiani in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
Article | Contributeur(s): Douglas H. Parker
Following earlier articles in Renaissance and Reformation and Erasmus in English, this paper examines the fate of Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis Christiani in three late editions published in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Again in 1686, 1752, and 1816, Erasmus's work was...
Observations on Milton’s Accents
Article | Contributeur(s): John K. Hale
Milton’s diacritics in six languages, though mostly typical of his time, allow some inferences about his language attainments and scholarship. For Latin verse, he uses accents to disambiguate rhythm or meaning. For Greek scholarship, he is punctilious. Italian authors are culture to him, French...
Le dialogue de l'auteur et du lecteur dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas
Article | Contributeur(s): François Roudaut
Dans cet article, il s’agit avant tout d’attirer l’attention sur les mécanismes dialogiques qui animent tout le projet de Du Bartas dans La Sepmaine. Le narrateur de ce récit de la Création est mu par un profond désir de convaincre, de faire connaître, d’amener le lecteur à une expérience...
“The Obedience due to Princes”: Absolutism in Pseudo-Martyr
Article | Contributeur(s): Phebe Jensen
This paper attempts to tease out the contemporary political resonances found in John Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr. While it is true that Pseudo-Martyr aligns itself with absolutism, it does so in a very complex and ambivalent manner, rejecting political patriarchalism and adopting a moderate sense of...
Christianisme, métaphysique et épistémologie chez Marsile Ficin
Article | Contributeur(s): Yvan Morin
Ficin centre la hiérarchie universelle sur l’homme, au sens d’une âme raisonnable. Métaphysiquement, la description substantialiste qu’en donne Kristeller ne semble pas pouvoir se comprendre sans l’apport hénologique des hypostases et la transformation chrétienne de cet apport. Cassirer, Allen,...
Review of The Influence of John Donne: His Uncollected Seventeenth Century Printed Verse; John Donne: Pseudo-Martyr
Review | Contributeur(s): Judith Scherer Herz
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