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  1. Gabrielle de Coignard’s Sonnets spirituels: Writing Passion within and against the Petrarchan Tradition

    Gabrielle de Coignard’s Sonnets spirituels: Writing Passion within and against the Petrarchan Tradition

    Article | Contributor(s): Deborah Lesko Baker

    This article will focus on the ways in which Gabrielle de Coignard’s Sonnets spirituels, cultivated in purposefully sought domestic isolation, reveals conflictual aspirations nourished by the pursuit of an untainted devotional path that nevertheless cannot escape the assimilation of the earthly...

  2. “C’est un amour ou Cupidon nouveau”: Spiritual Passion and the Profane Persona in Anne de Marquets’s Les Divines Poesies de Marc Antoine Flaminius (1568–1569)

    “C’est un amour ou Cupidon nouveau”: Spiritual Passion and the Profane Persona in Anne de Marquets’s Les Divines Poesies de Marc Antoine Flaminius (1568–1569)

    Article | Contributor(s): Annick Macaskill

    While best known for her 480 Sonets spirituels, published seventeen years after her death in 1605, the Dominican nun Anne de Marquets also contributed a remarkable collection of personal spiritual poetry during her lifetime in Les Divines Poesies de Marc Antoine Flaminius (Paris, chez N....

  3. Éros médical. Le périple anatomique de René Bretonnayau (1583)

    Éros médical. Le périple anatomique de René Bretonnayau (1583)

    Article | Contributor(s): Dominique Brancher

    À la Renaissance, seule l’utilité biologique reconnue aux jeux de Vénus paraît conférer le droit de les pratiquer et d’en parler dans les traités médicaux en langue vulgaire. Mais le plaisir du texte, à l’instar du plaisir sexuel, peut se délier de l’utilité et conduire à savourer ces...

  4. « Si je ne suis pas sans reproches, du moins suis-je sans peur »: la passion dévorante de Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard

    « Si je ne suis pas sans reproches, du moins suis-je sans peur »: la passion dévorante de Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard

    Article | Contributor(s): Hervé-Thomas Campangne

    Descendant du chevalier Bayard, Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard faisait partie de la compagnie de gentilshommes qui accompagnèrent Marie Stuart en Écosse après la mort de François II. Épris de la reine, il se cacha sous son lit en espérant peut-être séduire sa bien-aimée ; la souveraine...

  5. A Fantastic Frenzy of Consumption in Early Modern France

    A Fantastic Frenzy of Consumption in Early Modern France

    Article | Contributor(s): Kathleen M. Llewellyn

    The enthusiastic (even excessive) consumerism of contemporary western society has its roots, according to some, in the expansion of the consumption of goods in Renaissance Europe. Early modern men and women were ardent, even “passionate” consumers. Such self-indulgence was regarded as decadent...

  6. « Quant à ce beau discours du mespris du monde ... »: Foi calviniste et plaisirs mondains chez quatre grandes dames de la Réforme en France

    « Quant à ce beau discours du mespris du monde ... »: Foi calviniste et plaisirs mondains chez quatre grandes dames de la Réforme en France

    Article | Contributor(s): Jane Couchman

    Le rejet des « vanités de ce monde » tient, on le sait, une place prépondérante dans la théologie calviniste. Cette étude explore le rôle de ces « plaisirs mondains » dans les lettres et les mémoires de quatre des grandes dames de la Réforme en France : Louise de Coligny (1555–1620),...

  7. Playing with Fire: Narrating Angry Women and Men in the Heptaméron

    Playing with Fire: Narrating Angry Women and Men in the Heptaméron

    Article | Contributor(s): Emily E. Thompson

    In De Ira, Seneca dedicates three books to the denunciation of anger, a passion he insists serves no necessary purpose and leads to countless ills. Certainly Marguerite de Navarre acknowledges the violent potential of this passion in the stories of the Heptaméron. Yet her devisants not only...

  8. Laughing at Unbearable Urges: Reshaping the Male-Authored Script of Desire

    Laughing at Unbearable Urges: Reshaping the Male-Authored Script of Desire

    Article | Contributor(s): Dora E. Polachek

    As Pierre Champion noted a half a century ago, “ The Cent Nouvelles nouvelles open a secret door into the house of men of that time.” The misogynous aspect of these novellas, designed to inspire laughter, is evident in most of the stories dealing with masculine drives and uncontrollable desires...

  9. Review of Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England

    Review of Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England

    Review | Contributor(s): Meghan C. Swavely

  10. Review of The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women

    Review of The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women

    Review | Contributor(s): Pierre Cameron

  11. Review of Collaboration, Conflict, and Continuity in the Reformation: Essays in Honour of James M. Estes on His Eightieth Birthday

    Review of Collaboration, Conflict, and Continuity in the Reformation: Essays in Honour of James M. Estes on His Eightieth Birthday

    Review | Contributor(s): Johannes C. Wolfart

  12. Review of Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England

    Review of Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England

    Review | Contributor(s): Katherine Acheson

  13. Review of The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage

    Review of The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage

    Review | Contributor(s): Linda L. Carroll

  14. Review of Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources

    Review of Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources

    Review | Contributor(s): Mark Jurdjevic

  15. Review of Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please

    Review of Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please

    Review | Contributor(s): Laura Giannetti

  16. Review of Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power

    Review of Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power

    Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Mara Desilva

  17. Review of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England

    Review of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England

    Review | Contributor(s): Madeline Bassnett

  18. Review of Poor Tom: Living King Lear

    Review of Poor Tom: Living King Lear

    Review | Contributor(s): Jeremy Lopez

  19. Review of The Adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hungaria (1592)

    Review of The Adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hungaria (1592)

    Review | Contributor(s): Stephen Guy-Bray

  20. Review of Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction

    Review of Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction

    Review | Contributor(s): Andrew Benjamin Bricker

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