Review of The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Albert Johnston

Review of «Petite patrie». L’image de la région natale chez les écrivains de la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Barron

Review of Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy

Review | Contributor(s): Kevin Siena

Review of Imitatio Christi: The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England

Review | Contributor(s): Amie Shirkie

Review of Michelangelo’s Christian Mysticism: Spirituality, Poetry, and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Review | Contributor(s): James M. Saslow

Review of Epistulae Beati Rhenani. La Correspondance latine et grecque de Beatus Rhenanus de Sélestat

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Crane

Review of Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, Practices

Review | Contributor(s): Ashlee Bligh

Review of Canace (1542)

Review | Contributor(s): Robert Buranello

Review of Exile and Religious Identity, 1500-1800

Review | Contributor(s): Giovanni Tarantino

Review of Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England

Review | Contributor(s): Madeline Bassnett

Review of De Disciplinis, Savoir et enseigner. I. De causis corruptarum artium / Les causes de la corruption des arts. II. De tradendis disciplinis / La transmission des savoirs

Review | Contributor(s): Marie Barral-Barron

Review of Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace: Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century

Review | Contributor(s): Brian A. Catlos

Review of Drama and Devotion: Heemskerck’s Ecce Homo Altarpiece from Warsaw

Review | Contributor(s): Jessica Maratsos

Nicholas of Cusa’s Dialogue with Augustine: The Measure of the Soul’s Greatness in De Ludo Globi

Article | Contributor(s): Sarah Powrie

Nicholas of Cusa’s De Ludo Globi (1463) explores the tensions between the soul’s terrestrial and transcendent aspirations; between its desire to engage materiality through creative self-expression and to remove itself from its historically-bound identity in mystical contemplation. Many of Cusa’s...

Symbiotic Anthropology and Politics in a Postmodern Age: Rethinking the Political Philosophy of Johannes Althusius (1557–1638)

Article | Contributor(s): Nico Vorster

Postmodern societies are increasingly characterized by a hyperpluralism that coincides with an interdependence between social spheres and structures. Actions in one sphere of life often impinge on other spheres of life. This leads to a consistent and endemic conflict between the social dynamics...

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

Article | 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,”...

Broken Lutes and Passionate Bodies in A Woman Killed with Kindness

Article | Contributor(s): Deanna Smid

Thomas Heywood’s 1607 play, A Woman Killed with Kindness, ends with the protagonist, Frankford, discovering the lute of Anne, the wife he has just banished for adultery. Grieved by the sight of the instrument that he conflates with his marriage and with Anne herself, Frankford exiles the lute...

“Nature’s Bastards”: Grafted Generation in Early Modern England

Article | Contributor(s): Claire Duncan

This paper examines the shared rhetoric between human and horticultural generation in early modern England, particularly focusing on grafting. Early modern English gardening manuals imagine grafting as a method of controlling generation in the natural world, and early modern English obstetrical...

Review of German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600

Review | Contributor(s): Guita Lamsechi

Review of Book M: A London Widow’s Life Writings

Review | Contributor(s): Janice Liedl