Review of Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes
Review | Contributor(s): David Katz
Marguerite de Navarre, a Nicodemite? Adiaphora and Intention in Heptaméron 30, 65, and 72
Article | Contributor(s): Scott Francis
This article situates Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron within the reformist debate over adiaphora, or theologically indifferent matters made righteous or sinful by the believer’s intentions and conscience. It discusses how adiaphora and their implications for Christian liberty and Catholic...
“Encores me frissonne et tremble le coeur dedans sa capsule”: Rabelais’s Anatomy of Emotion and the Soul
Article | Contributor(s): Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin
This article examines the role of anatomical references in the representation of emotion and argues that they constitute textual markers of the Rabelaisian view of the relationship between the body and the soul, and the nature of the soul itself. By analyzing the ancient models of natural...
Aristotle and the People: Vernacular Philosophy in Renaissance Italy
Article | Contributor(s): Marco Sgarbi
The essay focuses on vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy, which began to gain currency in the 1540s, just as the vernacular was beginning to establish itself as a language of culture and the Counter-Reformation was getting underway. With over three hundred printed and manuscript...
Gangrene or Cancer? Sixteenth-Century Medical Texts and the Decay of the Body of the Church in Jean Calvin’s Exegesis of 2 Timothy 2:17
Article | Contributor(s): Lindsay J. Starkey
In 2 Timothy 2:17, Paul compared the effects of false teachings on the Church to a disease. Rejecting previous translations that identified this disease as cancer, Jean Calvin (1509–64) insisted that it must be gangrene in his 1548 commentary on this epistle, citing and discussing medical texts...
Fall of the Peacemakers: Austria’s Protestant Nobility and the Advent of the Thirty Years’ War
Article | Contributor(s): Peter Thaler
This article examines the prelude to the Thirty Years’ War in Austria. It places the country’s estate system in an international context and evaluates the implications of the religious schism for the relationship between monarchs and nobles. Thwarted in their efforts to enforce confessional...
Review of Luther’s Theology of Music: Spiritual Beauty and Pleasure
Review | Contributor(s): Michael O’Connor
Review of The Wealth of Wives: A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual
Review | Contributor(s): Monica Chojnacka
Review of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance
Review | Contributor(s): Brandon Alakas
Review of Hieronymus Bosch: Visions and Nightmares
Review | Contributor(s): Larry Silver
Review of Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration
Review | Contributor(s): Amanda Eurich
Review of Crusade Propaganda in Word and Image in Early Modern Italy: Niccolò Guidalotto’s Panorama of Constantinople (1662)
Review | Contributor(s): David R. Lawrence
Review of Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
Review of Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome: The Rise of the Resident Ambassador
Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Review of The Saint between Manuscript and Print: Italy 1400–1600
Review | Contributor(s): Mary Morse
Review of Bishops and Power in Early Modern England
Review | Contributor(s): Freddy C. Dominguez
Review of Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare
Review | Contributor(s): Daniel Fischlin
Review of Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: The Legacy of Benjamin Kohl
Review | Contributor(s): Mark Crane
Review of Writings of the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna
Review | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Louise Bernhardt
Review of Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe: Contexts, Concepts, and Expressions
Review | Contributor(s): Emily O’Brien
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