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

Review | Contribuidor(es): Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt

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

Review | Contribuidor(es): Edmund J. Campion

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

Review | Contribuidor(es): Dayton Haskin

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

Review | Contribuidor(es): Gary K. Waite

Encyclopedism in Anatomy of Melancholy

Article | Contribuidor(es): 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...

"Inter inextricabiles... difficultatum tenebras": Ficino's Pimander and the Gendering of Cartesian Subjectivity

Article | Contribuidor(es): Michael Keefer

After reviewing the evidence that Descartes' philosophical itinerary was to a significant degree shaped by a reading of the Hermetic writings translated by Ficino, this article proposes that, in the Cartesian and Hermetic texts alike, the body from which an emergent autonomous subjectivity seeks...

A défaut de dire tout: dire partout. Étude des modes énonciatifs dans Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet

Article | Contribuidor(es): Isabelle Lachance

Poésie maniériste? Baroque? Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort (1594) peut-être le résultat de multiples influences, et chaque situation d'énonciation de ce recueil comporte sa manière propre de structurer les courants idéologiques de l'époque à laquelle il a été écrit, et ce,...

"He took his religion by trust": The Matter of Ben Jonson's Conversion

Article | Contribuidor(es): James P. Crowley

During his imprisonment for the murder of Gabriel Spencer in 1598, Ben Jonson converted to the outlawed Roman Catholic Church, and for the next 12 years made no attempt to conceal his recusant status. Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence...

Review of Titian's "Venus of Urbino"

Review | Contribuidor(es): Alexander Nagel

Review of Les Images ou tableaux de platte-peinture de Philostrate

Review | Contribuidor(es): Raymond Cormier

Review of Conforming to the Word. Herbert, Donne, and the English Church before Laud

Review | Contribuidor(es): Helen Wilcox

Review of Defining Dominion. The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany

Review | Contribuidor(es): Jean-Michel Sallmann

Review of Music Discourse from Classical to Early Modern Times. Editing and Translating Texts. Papers Given at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 19-20 October 1990

Review | Contribuidor(es): J. Evan Kreider

Review of Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England

Review | Contribuidor(es): Christina Luckyj

Review of Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d'amours

Review | Contribuidor(es): William Kemp

Crime and the Road: A Survey of Sixteenth-Century Travel Journals

Article | Contribuidor(es): Luigi Monga

This article is a journey through the lesser known travel diaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its intent is to underline the occurence of violent images along the European roads, particularly in Italy, Spain, France, and England. Criminality, danger, and violence are all common...

Renaissance et Humanisme en Slovaquie

Article | Contribuidor(es): Eva Frimmová

Cet article constitue un survol analytique de l'impact des idées nouvelles sur la culture et le monde intellectuel en Slovaquie durant le période renaissante. Les contacts sont nombreux entre les humanistes, les intellectuels et les scientifiques autant à Presbourg que dans les villes...

Representations of Women in Tudor Historiography: John Bale and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity

Article | Contribuidor(es): Krista Kesselring

The writings of Anne Askew and the Princess Elizabeth have received attention as two of a small number of published works by women in the Tudor period. The lengthy additions and glosses of their editor, John Bale, have garnered much less notice. Bale appropriated these writings for the use of...

On Reading La Puce de Madame Des-Roches: Catherine des Roches's Responces (1583)

Article | Contribuidor(es): Anne R. Larsen

Catherine des Roches's authorial participation in the famous poetic flea contest during the Grands Jours of Poitiers in 1579 was all but forgotten a decade and a half after her death when Estienne Pasquier claimed the volume of La Puce de Madame Des-Roches as his own by eliminating her name from...

Review of Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo

Review | Contribuidor(es): C. Jean Campbell