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Vitali, Francesco. I nunzi pontifici nella Firenze di Ferdinando I (1587–1609)

Article | Contributor(s): James Nelson Novoa

Wolk-Simon, Linda, ed., with the collaboration of Christopher M. S. Johns. The Holy Name: Art of the Gesù: Bernini and His Age

Article | Contributor(s): C. Mark Steinacher

Becoming “Indians”: The Jesuit Missionary Path from Italy to Asia

Article | Contributor(s): Camilla Russell

The Jesuit missions in Asia were among the most audacious undertakings by Europeans in the early modern period. This article focuses on a still relatively little understood aspect of the enterprise: its appointment process. It draws together disparate archival documents to recreate the steps to...

A Love That Reforms: Improving Gender Relations by Contesting Typologies of Women in La Comédie de Mont-de-Marsan and L’Heptaméron 10 and 42

Article | Contributor(s): Theresa Brock

This article examines how two texts by Marguerite de Navarre contest the tendency in courtly and ecclesiastical literature to reduce women to typologies based on sexuality, spirituality, and notions of virtue. In place of simplified typologies, Marguerite’s writings can be read as depicting...

“What condition will not miserable men accept?”: Hegemonic Masculinity in John Lyly’s Galatea

Article | Contributor(s): Jamie Paris

Studies of gender in John Lyly’s pastoral comedy Galatea (1592) have primarily focused on the queer potential of the female-to-male (FTM) crossdressing plot. While the critical focus on same-sex love and gender fluidity in the play has been evocative, it has understated the importance of...

Spenser’s Sprites: Platonic Daemons in The Faerie Queene

Article | Contributor(s): Jesse Russell

Throughout the twentieth century, critics of the poet Edmund Spenser wrestled with the question of the presence of Plato as well as Platonic thought in Spenser’s works. Having recently established the profound presence of Platonism in Spenser via Marsilio Ficino and other sources, the field of...

“Not so much perdition as an hair”: The Political Deployment of Christian Patience in The Tempest

Article | Contributor(s): Deni Kasa

Early modern theology and martyrology understood patience as a transformation of one’s perspective on suffering, so that pain and humiliation came to be seen by the sufferer as honourable and even desirable. This article suggests that The Tempest explores the political implications of Christian...

Moore, Shawn, and Jacob Tootalian, principal investigators. Digital Cavendish: A Scholarly Collaborative. Other

Article | Contributor(s): Megan Peiser

Bauer, Ralph, gen. ed. Early Americas Digital Archive

Article | Contributor(s): Amy E. Earhart

Cave, Richard, gen. ed., Michael Leslie, Eleanor Lowe, Lucy Munro, Marion O’Connor, Helen Ostovich, Julie Sanders, Elizabeth Schafer, Matthew Steggle, eds. Richard Brome Online. Edition

Article | Contributor(s): Colm Maccrossan

Adams, Robyn, ed. and technical director. The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585–1597. Database

Article | Contributor(s): Gabriella Mazzon

Roger Clegg, principal investigator, and Eric Tatham, developer. Reconstructing the Rose: 3D Computer Modelling Philip Henslowe’s Playhouse. Other

Article | Contributor(s): Joanne Tompkins

Daybell, James, and Kim McLean-Fiander, co-directors. Women’s Early Modern Letters Online [WEMLO]

Article | Contributor(s): Amy Bowles