French Renaissance Paleography

2023-05-11 21:55:42 | Contributor(s): Elizabeth K Hebbard

This is a review of French Renaissance Paleography.

French Renaissance Translators and the Dialectic of Myth and History

Contributor(s): Glyn P. Norton

Friction in the Archives: Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

Contributor(s): Erin Lambert

The writings of martyrs have been at the centre of the history of Reformation-era Anabaptism since the sixteenth century itself, and scholars have long used them as sources of information about a persecuted and typically clandestine community. Based on a rare confluence in the surviving source...

Froben Press Editions (1505–1559) in the Holdings of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Library: A Brief Survey

Contributor(s): Valentina Sebastiani, Wendell Ricketts

Analysis of the material aspects of books has opened new fields for historical enquiry that connect humanist learning, theology, and the press. The collaboration between Erasmus of Rotterdam and the printers Johannes and Hieronymus Froben of Basel between 1514 and 1536 offers itself as a vantage...

From a Local to a Global Perspective in Crime Writing: On Massimo Carlotto, Impegno, and Respiro corto

Contributor(s): Enrichetta Lucilla Frezzato

Having conducted a thorough analysis of the social and economic environment of the Northeast of Italy and having exposed a scenario of widespread illegality and culpable collusion in his Alligatore series and noir novels, Massimo Carlotto concluded a narrative cycle by enlarging his object of...

From a study of the Newfoundland and Labrador school food system: : Describing an evolution in ways of knowing about school food

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contributor(s): Emily Doyle | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.471

In this perspective piece I reflect on the importance of considering the place of schools within broader systems for critical school food study and intervention. These reflections are based on my study of school food in Newfoundland and Labrador from a systems perspective which helped reveal...

From Applicant to Inmate: the Regio Ospedale di Carità di Torino: 1748-1756

Contributor(s): Margaret Josephine Moody

From Carnival to Pious City: Scenes of Urban Life in Leandro Bassano’s The Months

Contributor(s): Anca-Delia Moldovan

This work examines the urban environment depicted by Leandro Bassano in his cycle of the Twelve Months during February and March, and the notable iconographic shift it presents with respect to the typical imagery of farming labours. Leandro represented the themes of Carnival in February and Lent...

From locus amoris to Infernal Pentecost: the Sin of Brunetto Latini

Contributor(s): Elio Costa

From Mass immigration to Professional Workers. A Portrait of the Present Italian “Comunità” in Ontario, Canada

2023-05-25 19:26:39 | Contributor(s): Daniela Sanzone

From Motherhood to Fatherhood: The Eclipse of Reason in the Taviani Brothers’ Tu ridi

Contributor(s): Manuela Gieri

The paper presents an in-depth analysis of Tu ridi, a free adaptation of some of Luigi Pirandello’s short stories, realized by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1998. Within a filmography largely characterized by an attention to the historical, social, and political transformations that Italy...

From Nestoroff to Garbo: Pirandellian Humour in Its Cinematic Vernacular. 29

Contributor(s): Michael Syrimis

A discussion of the 1932 Hollywood adaptation of Pirandello's 1930 play, Come tu mi vuoi, in the context of Miriam Hansen's analysis of Hollywood cinema as "vernacular modernism" allows us to explore the relationship between Pirandello's umorismo and mass culture. The coexistence of multiple...

From the 'Auctor' to the Authors: Writing Lyrics in the Italian Renaissance

Contributor(s): Roberto Fedi

From the Closet to the Wallet: Pawning Clothes in Renaissance Italy

Contributor(s): Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli

Dans l’Italie de la Renaissance, ce sont les vêtements qui sont le plus couramment mis en gage par ceux qui cherchent à obtenir des prêts auprès des banquiers juifs et du Monte di Pietà. Des robes, des chemises et même des chaussures sont mis en gage, et les vêtements féminins le sont plus...

From War to Peace: Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Flanders 1300–1500

Contributor(s): Laura Crombie

From Writing the Grant to Working the Grant: An Exploration of Processes and Procedures in Transition

2022-06-13 19:11:41 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/PV1D-FN69

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FS - Food sovereignty

2025-03-19 22:03:52 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.125

Citizens in many countries are increasingly wary of the global industrial neoliberal food system. A number of food scares, growing awareness of human rights abuses in the countryside, a global food crisis, and climate change have all prompted many to form alternative food movements that are...

FS - From protest to policy: The challenges of institutionalizing food sovereignty

2025-03-19 22:03:53 | Contributor(s): Hannah Wittman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.99

In response to the failure of current approaches to alleviate the linked challenges of global food insecurity and environmental degradation—many of which involve voluntary measures to improve agricultural efficiency and increase yield—grassroots actors have called for the re-regulation and...

FS - Repeasantization, agroecology and the tactics of food sovereignty

2025-03-19 22:03:53 | Contributor(s): Blain Snipstal | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.132

From the dawn of the 21stcentury, we have seen and experienced at the global and local levels several severe world food crises, the advancement of global land grabbing and land speculation phenomena, the further entrenchment of the agribusiness model of agriculture and land/resource...

FS - SYNTHESIS - The hefty challenges of food sovereignty’s adulthood

2025-03-19 22:03:53 | Contributor(s): Andrés García Trujillo | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.111

The three articles in this section reflect a broader shift that is taking place in the debate on food sovereignty. After almost two decades since its inception, the term—which is also a “counter-narrative”, a “mobilizing tactic”, and a “political agenda” (Desmarais, this issue)—has gained...