Remaking the Bible: English Reformation Spiritual Conduct Books

Article | Contribuidor(es): Helaine Razovsky

Among the thousands of devotional works produced in the centuries following the English Reformation are hundreds that may be called spiritual conduct books. This article defines the term "spiritual conduct book" on the basis of a text's purpose and audience. Unlike more familiar secular conduct...

Pour une lecture féminine de la Bible à la Renaissance: socialisation et principes herméneutiques dans trois traités anonymes mis à l'Index

Article | Contribuidor(es): René Paquin

La démocratisation de la Bible fut au coeur de la Réforme protestante. Or, en France, cette réclamation rencontra une vive opposition de la part des instances religieuses traditionnelles. L'interdiction faite aux laïcs de lire, de traduire ou d'imprimer la Bible en langue vernaculaire donna lieu...

The Neoplatonic Logic of Richard Hooker's Generic Division of Law

Article | Contribuidor(es): W. J. Torrance Kirby

Richard Hooker's theology of Law is rooted in a twofold argument: the systematic appropriation of the neoplatonic structure of argument and an appeal to protestant conceptions of Nature and Grace. This paper offers a close reading of Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie in an attempt...

Intertextual Madness in Hamlet: The Ghost's Fragmented Performativity

Article | Contribuidor(es): Hilaire Kallendorf

This essay establishes King James I's Daemonologie and Reginald Scot's Discouerie of Witchcraft as intertexts for Hamlet. It demonstrates how the diabolical linguistic register borrowed from these intertexts both heightens the verisimilitude of Hamlet's madness and expands the performative...

Review of Dialogues et Devis des Damoiselles

Review | Contribuidor(es): Claude La Charité

Review of The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe

Review | Contribuidor(es): Kevin Pask

Review of The Life of Thomas More

Review | Contribuidor(es): Scott R. Pilarz

Review of La génération Marot. Poètes français et néo-latins (1515-1550). Actes du Colloque Internationnal de Baltimore, 5-7 décembre 1996.

Review | Contribuidor(es): Laura Willett

Review of Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the Essais

Review | Contribuidor(es): Cathleen M. Bauschatz

Review of Charting an Empire: Geography and the English Universities, 1580-1620

Review | Contribuidor(es): Bruce McLeod

Review of Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610

Review | Contribuidor(es): Alan G. Arthur

Review of Closet Devotions

Review | Contribuidor(es): Michael M. Holmes

Review of Remembering the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome

Review | Contribuidor(es): Alexander Nagel

Reforming the Tudor Dialogue: A Case Study

Article | Contribuidor(es): Seymour Baker House

This case study assesses the implications of rhetorical style in dialogues by Thomas Becon and his contemporary, Desiderius Erasmus. Becon imitated an Erasmian theme but rejected Erasmus's classically oriented rhetoric and the epistemology it advanced. Instead, he used the dialogue form as a...

On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides

Article | Contribuidor(es): Patricia Demers

This essay explores the text of Lady Jane Lumley's Tudor translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis in an attempt to see the mind of an erudite, privileged young woman at work. By braiding domestic and political contexts in Lumley's adroitly oblique allusions to her time, it attends to her interest in...

Le Dialogo de la bella creanza de le donne (1539) d'Alessandro Piccolomini et ses adaptateurs français

Article | Contribuidor(es): Claude La Charité

En 1572, sous le titre d'Instruction pour les jeunes dames, Marie de Romieu donne la première traduction française du Dialogo de la bella creanza de le donne (1539) d'Alessandro Piccolomini, dans lequel une dame d'expérience amène insensiblement une jeune mariée insatisfaite à envisager une...

Celebrating Difference: The Self as Double in the Works of Louise Labé

Article | Contribuidor(es): Catherine M. Müller

This essay examines the figure of the double in Sonnet VIII of Louise Labé in relation to the theme of the androgyne in the Débat de Folie et d'Amour and in the light of the proto-feminist claims of her "Épître Dédicatoire." It suggests that the poet from Lyon, in inscribing dialogue at the very...

Review of Les Advis, ou, les Presens de la Demoiselle de Gournay 1641, (vol. 1)

Review | Contribuidor(es): Cathleen M. Bauschatz

Review of Le Promenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne. Texte de 1641, avec les variantes des éditions de 1594, 1595, 1598, 1599, 1607, 1623, 1626, 1627, 1634

Review | Contribuidor(es): Cathleen M. Bauschatz

Review of Les Terrains vagues des Essais. Itinéraires et intertextes

Review | Contribuidor(es): Michel Liddle