Speech Versus Spectacle: Autolycus, Class and Containment in The Winter's Tale

Article | Contributeur(s): Ronald W. Cooley

Shakespeare's Winter's Tale is a play in which theatrical spectacle triumphs over speech, as stage action obscures the incoherence of verbal representation. This paper identifies Autolycus as a composite of Jacobean anxieties about the sources of social instability, and explores his place in this...

Le procès de Montaigne par Malebranche. La véracité à l'aune de la vérité moderne

Article | Contributeur(s): Syliane Charles

L'analyse détaillée des critiques formulées par Malebranche à l'encontre de Montaigne nous sert à révéler le hiatus existant entre le cadre épistémologique de la Renaissance et celui de la modernité. L'éclairage de ces contextes nous conduit, sur le plan de l'histoire des idées, à soutenir...

Prodigious Births and Death in Childbirth in Le Palais des Nobles Dames, (Lyons, 1534)

Article | Contributeur(s): Brenda Dunn-Lardeau

In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the treatment of the theme of prodigious births and death in childbirth is of particular interest compared to that of his sixteenth century contemporaries. On the one hand, the author's religious faith...

Thomas More's Utopia: Preface to Reformation

Article | Contributeur(s): Walter M. Gordon

Recent studies have stressed the ambiguity of Thomas More's Utopia. Although the essay does not argue against this view, it does point to the clear and basic contention of the work which, if lost, makes it impossible to come to grips with the questions the book poses. Utopia criticizes the upper,...

Review of Resistant Structures. Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts.

Review | Contributeur(s): Helen Wilcox

Review of International Colloquium Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Marguerite de Navarre

Review | Contributeur(s): Hélène Lucuix

Review of Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640.

Review | Contributeur(s): Sean K. Lawrence

Review of Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and his World

Review | Contributeur(s): Paul W. Harland

Review of One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century; The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629

Review | Contributeur(s): Thomas Worcester

Review of English Religious Poetry Printed 1477-1640: A Chronological Bibliography with Indexes.

Review | Contributeur(s): Daniel W. Doerksen

Rethinking "Continuity": Erasmus' Ecclesiastes and the Artes Praedicandi

Article | Contributeur(s): Francis P. Kilcoyne, Margaret Jennings

Erasmus' "radical orientation towards continuities," coupled with a series of congruent physical and philosophical circumstances, suggests a possible relationship between certain medieval artes praedicandi and the Ecclesiastes sive de Ratione Concionandi. By exploring the parallels between these...

Thomas Phaer and the Assertion of Tudor English

Article | Contributeur(s): Rick Bowers

Thomas Phaer's many printed works, including legal and medical texts, occasional verses, and classical translations, all insist upon - even assert - English as a language suitable for learned consciousness. As a physician, legal theorist, man of letters, and member of Parliament, Phaer represents...

Le retour de Pologne d’Henri III: images alexandrines du roi au Bucentaure

Article | Contributeur(s): Guy Poirier

Si la véritable nature du roi Henri III, celui que Pierre Chevallier dénommait le roi shakespearien, demeure scellée pour l'éternité, les pièces de circonstance écrites pendant les premières années de son règne peuvent en revanche nous renseigner sur les tentatives parfois contradictoires de...

“Things Themselves”: Francis Bacon’s Epistemological Reform and the Maintenance of the State

Article | Contributeur(s): Andrew Barnaby

This essay attempts to provide a specific cultural context for Francis Bacon's project of natural philosophical reform. Documenting Bacon's earliest understanding of the link between the nature and uses of natural philosophy and what he would call the "care of the commonwealth," it moves from a...

Review of Labour, Science and Technology in France, 1500-1620

Review | Contributeur(s): Bert Hall

Review of La France du XVIe siècle. 1483-1598.

Review | Contributeur(s): Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt

Review of Juste Lipse (1547-1606) en son temps: Actes du colloque de Strasbourg, 1994

Review | Contributeur(s): Edmund J. Campion

Review of Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics.

Review | Contributeur(s): Dayton Haskin

Review of De Nederlandse Bijbelvertalingen 1522-1545/Dutch Translations of the Bible 1522-1545.

Review | Contributeur(s): Gary K. Waite

Encyclopedism in Anatomy of Melancholy

Article | Contributeur(s): Samuel G. Wong

This paper considers the implications of Burton's "encyclopedism" defined here as the condition of a work where writing is a form of therapy compelled by disease. The notion of encyclopedism suggests the ways in which the encyclopedia serves as a compendious alter-ego to Burton's book. Reading...