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Review of OEuvres complètes: Tome V. Microcosme

Review | Contributor(s): Brooke D. Di Lauro

Review of Maniérisme et Littérature

Review | Contributor(s): Vivek Ramakrishnan

Review of Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France: Treatises by Caring Physicians and Surgeons (1581–1625)

Review | Contributor(s): Lisa Wynne Smith

The Question of Esoteric Writing in Machiavelli’s Works

Article | Contributor(s): Rasoul Namazi

The question addressed by this article is whether esotericism or secret teachings exist in Machiavelli’s writings. This question has been a major point of contention between the commentators of Machiavelli, with many denying the existence of esoteric teaching in the Machiavellian corpus. This...

“Of rose and pomegarnet the redolent pryncesse”: Fashioning Princess Mary in 1525

Article | Contributor(s): Stephen Hamrick

While a more accurate appraisal of Mary Tudor’s life and reign is underway, historians of literature continue either to ignore or to misinterpret surviving representations of Princess Mary. To begin correcting this failure, the article analyzes a complex 1525 verse portrait of Mary, setting that...

“No chronicle records his fellow”: Reading Perkin Warbeck in the Early Seventeenth Century

Article | Contributor(s): Igor Djordjevic

This article argues that John Ford’s play Perkin Warbeck should be read in the context of “new” Jacobean readings of the historiography of Henry VII’s reign. After tracing the origins and dissemination of Warbeck’s scaffold confession of imposture, and exposing the sixteenth-century chroniclers’...

Thomas Browne and the Silent Text

Article | Contributor(s): Jessica Wolfe

Throughout his writings, the physician and essayist Thomas Browne (1605–82) grapples with the problem of how and whether to interpret the silence of texts. His innovative solutions to the problem of “negative authority,” the term used in early modern theological debates over the significance, or...

Ecclesiastical Chronotaxes of the Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): Damiano Acciarino

During the sixteenth century, confessional disputes between Catholics and Protestants became the “battlefield” for determining and shaping the reformed Christian religion. Antiquarian erudition played a key role in this process, acting in accordance with the diverse cultural systems in place,...

Review of Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity

Review | Contributor(s): Angela Ranson

Review of The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection

Review | Contributor(s): Sally Hickson

Review of The Idea of a Moral Economy: Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Prescription

Review | Contributor(s): Wim Decock

Review of An Apology or Answer in Defence of the Church of England: Lady Anne Bacon’s Translation of Bishop John Jewel’s Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae

Review | Contributor(s): Patricia Brace

Review of Dictionnaire des poètes français de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle (1549–1615). A–B ; C-D ; E-J

Review | Contributor(s): Grégoire Holtz

Review of Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds: Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Mark Fortier