Donne's Model: Henry IV

Article | Contribuidor(es): Anthony Raspa

Donne's Pseudo-Martyr is his first major published work and the longest that he ever wrote. As he argues in it about the relationship of the state and religion to each other, he establishes Henry IV of Navarre, king of France, as one of his models of a competent and tolerant king. Henry's...

Image de force, perception de faiblesse: La clémence d'Henri IV

Article | Contribuidor(es): Michel De Waele

Parmi les nombreux éléments qui composent la légende d'Henri IV, la clémence qu'il manifesta envers ses ennemis occupe une place de choix. Sans elle, affirment de nombreuses personnes, le premier Bourbon n'aurait jamais pu s'asseoir sur le trône de France. Tous ne partageaient pas cependant cet...

Review of Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet

Review | Contribuidor(es): Derek N.C. Wood

Review of The Spenser Encyclopedia

Review | Contribuidor(es): Terry G. Sherwood

Review of L’attifet des Damoizelles; L’Épithalame

Review | Contribuidor(es): Hannah Fournier

Review of Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament

Review | Contribuidor(es): A. Kent Hieatt

Review of Lucien de Samosate et le Lucianisme en France au XVIe siècle. Athéisme et polémique

Review | Contribuidor(es): Claude-Albert Mayer

Review of The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods

Review | Contribuidor(es): Werner O. Packull

Review of Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Myth of Venice

Review | Contribuidor(es): William Blisset

Early English Protestantism and Renaissance Poetics: The Charge is Committing Fiction in the Matter of Rastell v. Frith

Article | Contribuidor(es): Peter C. Herman

The debate between John Rastell and John Frith constitutes a previously unrecognized ancestor to Stephen Gosson's attack on poetry and Sir Philip Sidney's (problematic) defense of it. Although the nominal aim of Rastell's A Newe Boke of Purgatorye and Frith's A Disputation of Purgatory is...

Re-Reading Folly: Rabelais’s Praise of Triboullet

Article | Contribuidor(es): Camilla J. Nilles

Rabelais's praise of Triboullet differs from earlier works on folly by using the fool's differing perspective to conduct its search for authentic meaning. The descriptions of the sage mondain and the divine fool initiate the process, establishing folly and wisdom as relative terms, whose meaning...

The Autobiography of Grace, Lady Mildmay

Article | Contribuidor(es): Randall Martin

The following is an annotated transcription of Lady Grace Mildmay's autobiographical papers, written between 1617 and 1620. These "Memoirs" reveal the preoccupations and moral teachings of an English woman brought up in the reformed faith. They also contain a wealth of information on monetary...

Review of Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance

Review | Contribuidor(es): Richard Spacek

Review of Les voix du signe. Nature et origine du langage à la Renaissance

Review | Contribuidor(es): Claude-Gilbert Dubois

Review of The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537

Review | Contribuidor(es): Maria Rika Maniates

Review of Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence

Review | Contribuidor(es): Charles Fantazzi

Review of Étienne Pasquier et ses Recherches de la France

Review | Contribuidor(es): Claude Sutto

Review of John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, his Predecessors, and his Contemporaries

Review | Contribuidor(es): Janice Liedl

Ad dotandum puellas virgines, pauperes et honestas: Social Needs and Confraternal Charity in Rome in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Article | Contribuidor(es): Anna Esposito

In the late fifteenth century, Roman confraternities, especially that of SS. Annunziata, provided dowries for poor but "honest" girls. This charitable work was in response to the growing needs of a relatively defenceless segment of a society that was undergoing rapid transformation. This study of...

The Reception of Erasmus’ Adages in Sixteenth-Century England

Article | Contribuidor(es): Erika Rummel

The Adages of Erasmus, a collection of more than 4,000 classical proverbs, was a bestseller in its time. The book was valued both for its usefulness in Latin composition and its witty asides on contemporary society. The dissemination of the Adages in England is of special significance because the...