Webster, Susan Verdi. Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito

Contributor(s): Jonathan Locke Hart

What a Difference a Sea Makes in the Decameron: The Mediterranean, a Structural Space of the Novella

Contributor(s): Roberta Morosini

This essay presents a reading of the Mediterranean sea as a narrative space in the Decameron. Through a reading of text and images, the paper illustrates the categories of mobile/static and foreign/domestic at work in the Decameron. It also introduces a third epistemological category, hybridity,...

What about the other 50 percent of the Canadian population? Food allergies ignored in national policy plan

2025-03-19 22:03:37 | Contributor(s): Susan Elliott, Francesca Cardwell | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.326

Food allergy is a growing public health epidemic in Canada, affecting 50 percent of Canadian households either directly or indirectly. Despite the physical, psychosocial and quality of life impacts to those affected, food allergy has recently been ignored in the Canadian policy context. While...

What Does it Mean to Be White in America: My Multi-Metamorphoses

Contributor(s): Gil Fagiani

Gil Fagiani is a storyteller by nature and by craft, both of which he employs in his essay My Muli-Metamorphoses, a version of which originally appeared in the anthology What Does it Mean to Be White in America (Two Leaf Press). Fagiani traces the dramatic arc of his transformation from a...

What is tragic about Torrismondo?

Contributor(s): Glenn Pierce

What Makes a CSA a CSA? A Framework for Comparing Community Supported Agriculture with Cases of Canada and China

2025-03-19 22:03:25 | Contributor(s): Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Weiping Chen, Tony Fuller, Steffanie Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.390

In different parts of the world, community supported agriculture (CSA) has taken a variety of organizational forms, drawn on different ideologies, used a variety of land tenure arrangements, and taken on varied types of market relations in terms of how they arrange sales and memberships....

What the Monk’s Habit Hides: Excavating the Silent Truths in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron 31

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Chesney Zegura

In Heptaméron 31, Marguerite de Navarre portrays a lascivious “Cordelier” or Franciscan who takes over a matron’s household during her husband’s absence, kills her servants, and disguises the woman as a monk before abducting her. Despite its surface resemblance to Rutebeuf’s “Frère Denise,”...

What’s Wrong with Mis-devotion? A John Donne Enigma

Contributor(s): Ronald Huebert

The nominal purpose of this article is to develop a cogent and persuasive interpretation of the term “mis-devotion,” a coinage John Donne uses twice in his poems: once near the end of The Second Anniversary and once in the second stanza of “The Relic.” I also cite the two known examples of this...

Where Had All the Flowers Gone? The Missing Space of Female Sonneteers in Seventeenth-Century England

Contributor(s): Diana E. Henderson

Les petits lieux de la poésie lyrique — et en particulier le sonnet — offraient un espace dans lequel les femmes du XVIIe siècle se sont retrouvées. Mais ensuite, qu’est-il advenu en Angleterre de l’immense potentiel du sonnet féminin, en particulier après le premier quart du XVIe siècle ? Les...

Where Lie the Similarities and Differences?: A Comparison of University and Industry Partners in Collaboration

2022-06-13 18:52:49 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens, INKE Research Group | https://doi.org/10.25547/EYAF-QD64

Digital Humanities

Who is Studying Italian and Why? Student Responses in the Greater Toronto Area

2023-05-25 19:36:15 | Contributor(s): Biagio Aulino, Cosmo Femia, Damiano Femia, Maria Ferlisi

Who Was Christopher Columbus?

Contributor(s): James W. Cortada

Who Were the Nuns? A Prosopographical Study of the English Convents in Exile 1600–1800.

Contributor(s): Jaime Goodrich

This is a review of Who Were the Nuns? A Prosopographical Study of the English Convents in Exile 1600–1800.

Wholesale or Retail? Antoine de Marcourt's The Boke of Marchauntes and Tudor Political Theology

Contributor(s): Torrance Kirby

Le Livre des marchans (1533) d'Antoine de Marcourt a été traduit en anglais et publié en deux différentes occasions. La première édition de langue anglaise, intitulée The Boke of Marchauntes, a été publiée par Thomas Godfray en août 1534 – année de l'adoption de l'Acte de Suprématie par le...

Whose Dolce Vita is this anyhow? The Language of Fellini's Cinema

Contributor(s): Marguerite Waller

Why Did the Monkey Kill the Giant? Another Look at Margutte’s Death

Contributor(s): Pina Palma

In the Morgante through Margutte’s death-by-laughter Pulci voices a caustic critique of Ficino’s philosophical theories while obliquely denouncing Lorenzo de Medici’s acceptance of them. The spectacle of the monkey wearing and taking off Margutte’s boots follows...

Why Was There Even a Reformation in Lindau? The Myth and Mystery of Lindau’s Conflict-Free Reformation

Contributor(s): Johannes Wolfart

Histories of Lindau emphasize a remarkably conflict-free course of early reform in that particular locale. This view is established and maintained by multiple means, including hyper-credulity towards the peacefulness asserted by local authorities, anachronistic projections of the confessional...

Wiggins, Alison, Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann, and Graham Williams, eds.; Katherine Rogers, web developer. Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550–1608. Edition

Contributor(s): Leah Knight

Wilbur R. Knorr on Thābit ibn Qurra: A Case-Study in the Historiography of Premodern Science

2023-05-18 22:32:24 | Contributor(s): Sonja Brentjes

There was a widespread belief among historians of science of my generation that high competence with regard to content and languages alone can guarantee better, more reliable results than can good philology combined with high competence in history or the other human sciences. In my casestudy of...

Wilbur R. Knorr on Thābit ibn Qurra: A Case-Study in the Historiography of Premodern Science

2023-09-06 23:06:08 | Contributor(s): Sonja Brentjes | https://doi.org/10.25547/33DP-3F68

historiography, history of science