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  1. Quitslund, Beth, and Nicholas Temperley, eds. The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others; A Critical Edition of the Texts and Tunes
  2. Quiviger, François. Leonardo da Vinci: Self, Art and Nature

    Quiviger, François. Leonardo da Vinci: Self, Art and Nature

    Article | Contributor(s): Guita Lamsechi

  3. Renck, Anneliese Pollock. Female Authorship, Patronage, and Translation in Late Medieval France from Christine de Pizan to Louise Labé
  4. Rizzi, Andrea. Vernacular Translators in Quattrocento Italy: Scribal Culture, Authority, and Agency
  5. Romagnino, Roberto. Décrire dans le roman de l’âge baroque (1585–1660). Formes et enjeux de l’ecphrasis
  6. Vives, Juan Luis. De Europae dissidiis et republica. Ed. and trans. with an intro. by Edward V. George and Gilbert Tournoy
  7. Waddington, Raymond. Titian’s Aretino: A Contextual Study of All the Portraits
  8. Wallace, William E. Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
  9. Piercing Proverbial Crows’ Eyes: Theft and Publication in Renaissance France

    Piercing Proverbial Crows’ Eyes: Theft and Publication in Renaissance France

    Article | Contributor(s): Emma Herdman

    The ironic Latin proverb “cornicum oculos configere” was classically illustrated by the example of Gnaeus Flavius, celebrated for his theft and valuable but unauthorized publication of Rome’s legal secrets. Erasmus’s discussion of the proverb in the Adages consequently focuses on the tension...

  10. A Case Study of the Reception of Aristotle in Early Protestantism: The Platonic Idea of the Good in the Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics

    A Case Study of the Reception of Aristotle in Early Protestantism: The Platonic Idea of the Good in the Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics

    Article | Contributor(s): Alfonso Herreros

    The present article examines the philosophical ethics of Protestants teaching in higher education during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their reception of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, 1.6. Two theses are illustrated. First, the survey of fourteen commentaries shows clear parallels...

  11. Towards Confessional Reconciliation: The “Protestantization” of Charles V in David Chytraeus’s De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio (1583)

    Towards Confessional Reconciliation: The “Protestantization” of Charles V in David Chytraeus’s De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio (1583)

    Article | Contributor(s): Isabella Walser-Bürgler

    In 1583, David Chytraeus (1530–1600), one of the key figures of north German Protestant humanism, published his Latin biographical oration De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio on Emperor Charles V (Holy Roman emperor from 1520 to 1556). Despite the numerous confessional conflicts between the...

  12. Undermining the Elect Nation: King Lear and the Hebrew Patriarchs at the Court of James I

    Undermining the Elect Nation: King Lear and the Hebrew Patriarchs at the Court of James I

    Article | Contributor(s): Patrick Timmis

    This article examines King Lear’s creative redeployment of the Old Testament stories of the patriarchs, especially the narrative of Jacob and Esau in the book of Genesis. After contextualizing the reliance of the “Gloucester subplot” on this narrative within a broader predestinarian tradition of...

  13. Necessary Leaven: Hypocrisy and the Heptaméron

    Necessary Leaven: Hypocrisy and the Heptaméron

    Article | Contributor(s): Emily Butterworth

    Hypocrisy is a recurring concern in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, part of the wider dynamic of dissimulation, pretence, and exposure explored in the storytelling project. This article discusses the contexts in which hypocrisy is revealed and debated in the Heptaméron. While clerical and...

  14. “Des responses et rencontres”: Frank Speech and Self-Knowledge in Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées

    “Des responses et rencontres”: Frank Speech and Self-Knowledge in Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées

    Article | Contributor(s): Luke O’Sullivan

    Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées (1584, 1597, 1598) constitute an exercise in commonplacing framed as a collection of tales told around a Poitevin dining table. They engage in a form of quasi-philosophical thinking staged by and for an urban merchant community, the social world in which Bouchet...

  15. Equity and Amerindians in Montaigne’s “Des cannibales” (1, 31)

    Equity and Amerindians in Montaigne’s “Des cannibales” (1, 31)

    Article | Contributor(s): Shannon R. Connolly

    Since the first publication of the Essais in Bordeaux in 1580, readers of this work have recognized skepticism underlying the judgment of its author, Michel de Montaigne. Arguing that the Pyrrhonist school of skepticism relies upon cultural diversity, or that Montaigne was influenced by...

  16. Wiggins, Alison, Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann, and Graham Williams, eds.; Katherine Rogers, web developer. Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550–1608. Edition
  17. Ioppolo, Grace, project dir. Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project. Other
  18. Rusche, Harry, and Justin Shaw, project dirs. Shakespeare and the Players. Other
  19. MacLean, Sally-Beth, and Alan Somerset, co-directors. Records of Early English Drama: Patrons & Performances (REED: P&P). Other
  20. King, Edmund, principal investigator. The UK Reading Experience Database