“I haue often such a sickly inclination” Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos

2022-06-13 18:32:48 | Article | Contributeur(s): Ray Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/VAP8-W194

Literary Studies

“If you could send over your documents to the photostat department...”: Paris Peace Conference Documentation and the Advent of Microfilm

2023-06-14 04:58:04 | Presentation | Contributeur(s): Peter Binkley

Robert C. Binkley, Microfilm, Library History, New Deal, 1930s

“Il ridervi de la goffezza del dire”: Niccolò Franco et la satire napolitaine du pétrarquisme

Article | Contributeur(s): Roland Béhar

This essay explores the Neapolitan background of Niccolò Franco and argues that although the main purpose of his Il Petrarchista (Venice, 1539) was certainly a kind of Erasmian and Aretinian satire of the Petrarchist mode which grounded Pietro Bembo’s Prose della volgar lingua (1525), still not...

“Illegal” Pawns for “Immoral” Loans: Testing the Limits of the Monti di Pietà in Late Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

Article | Contributeur(s): Paola Pinelli

Les archives toscanes contiennent une importante documentation illustrant divers aspects des premières années des prêteurs sur gages des Monti di Pietà. On y trouve de riches informations sur le sexe et le statut des emprunteurs, sur les montants empruntés, sur les intérêts, ainsi que sur les...

“INKE-cubating” Research Networks, Projects, and Partnerships: Reflections on INKE’s Fifth Year

2022-06-13 18:28:23 | Article | Contributeur(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/NDCD-XP47

Digital humanities

“It is the Wild West out here”: Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Article | Contributeur(s): André Magnan, Mengistu Wendimu, Annette Desmarais, Katherine Aske | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.518

This research builds on the emerging body of literature investigating the implications of changing land tenure relations in the Prairie Provinces, where over 70% of Canada’s farmland is located. Through an analysis of survey data collected in 2019 from 400 grain farmers, we address the...

“Its smoke must make it blind” : Fire and a commitment to regeneration

2025-03-19 22:03:24 | Essay | Contributeur(s): Charles Z. Levkoe, Alexia Moyer, Alyson Holland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.435

“La parola «rammendare».” Natalia Ginzburg’s Gemeinschaft

Article | Contributeur(s): Mimmo Cangiano

My article has a dual purpose: on the one hand I will discuss the concept of social community that emerges from the public activity of Ginzburg. I will look at the political practice that Ginzburg sketched out, clarifying how this would become that “politica della memoria” aimed at defending and...

“La «Sacra Rappresentazione»: Entre les Médicis et Saint-Marc.” Thèse de Doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2009.

Article | Contributeur(s): Sophie Stallini

“Manage, Negotiate, and Challenge Identities”: Young Italian-Canadian Identities from the Eyetalian Perspective

Article | Contributeur(s): Domenico Servello

This study is an investigation of identity and Italian-Canadian youth in the post-World War Two period. A thorough examination of the limited secondary literature on this topic, as well an analysis of the works of authors, journalists and others published in the Toronto-based magazine Eyetalian,...

“Men that are Safe, and Sure”: Jonson’s “Tribe of Ben” Epistle in its Patronage Context

Article | Contributeur(s): Robert C. Evans

“Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”: : ArcticNet, 5th December 2022, Toronto, ON

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Article | Contributeur(s): Angus Naylor, Tiff-Annie Kenny, Chris Furgal, Dorothy Beale, Duncan Warltier, Marie-Hélène Carignan, Lynn Blackwood, Brian Wade, Gabriela Goodman, Jordyn Stafford, Matthew Little | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.643

This Commentary details key challenges and opportunities relating to the promotion of food security in Inuit Nunangat, discussed as part of the event “Moving from understanding to action on food security in Inuit Nunangat”, convened at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting on 5th December...

“Must I be . . . made a common sink?”: Witchcraft and the Theatre in The Witch of Edmonton

Article | Contributeur(s): David Stymeist

Les auteurs de The Witch of Edmonton (1621) se servent d’une stratégie d’ambivalence en représentant sur scène Elizabeth Sawyer, qui avait été dernièrement exécutée pour sorcellerie. L’intertissage complexe d’un scepticisme rationnel avec un traitement sensationnaliste et superstitieux à l’égard...

“My Fears Dissolve / into Tranquil Blue”

Article | Contributeur(s): Venera Fazio

“My Own Worst Enemy”: Translating Hamartia in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Article | Contributeur(s): Bryan Brazeau

This article considers the ways in which Aristotle’s notion of hamartia (ἁμαρτία) in the Poetics—the tragic fault that leads to the protagonist’s downfall—was rendered in sixteenth-century translations and commentaries produced in Italy. While early Latin translations and commentaries initially...

“Nature’s Bastards”: Grafted Generation in Early Modern England

Article | Contributeur(s): Claire Duncan

This paper examines the shared rhetoric between human and horticultural generation in early modern England, particularly focusing on grafting. Early modern English gardening manuals imagine grafting as a method of controlling generation in the natural world, and early modern English obstetrical...

“No chronicle records his fellow”: Reading Perkin Warbeck in the Early Seventeenth Century

Article | Contributeur(s): Igor Djordjevic

This article argues that John Ford’s play Perkin Warbeck should be read in the context of “new” Jacobean readings of the historiography of Henry VII’s reign. After tracing the origins and dissemination of Warbeck’s scaffold confession of imposture, and exposing the sixteenth-century chroniclers’...

“Not so much perdition as an hair”: The Political Deployment of Christian Patience in The Tempest

Article | Contributeur(s): Deni Kasa

Early modern theology and martyrology understood patience as a transformation of one’s perspective on suffering, so that pain and humiliation came to be seen by the sufferer as honourable and even desirable. This article suggests that The Tempest explores the political implications of Christian...

“Of rose and pomegarnet the redolent pryncesse”: Fashioning Princess Mary in 1525

Article | Contributeur(s): Stephen Hamrick

While a more accurate appraisal of Mary Tudor’s life and reign is underway, historians of literature continue either to ignore or to misinterpret surviving representations of Princess Mary. To begin correcting this failure, the article analyzes a complex 1525 verse portrait of Mary, setting that...

“Or whatever you be”: Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender Labour in John Lyly’s Gallathea

Article | Contributeur(s): Simone Chess

This article explores sociologist Jane Ward’s gender and sexuality theory: the notion of “gender labour,” in which a cisgender (not crossdressed or trans*) partner participates in co-creating his or her partner’s queer gender. While work on gender labour thus far has focused on contemporary...