Review of Iron and Blood: Civil Wars in Sixteenth-Century France

Review | Contributor(s): Michel De Waele

Review of Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare

Review | Contributor(s): J. M. Richardson

Review of The Life of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester (1563-1626)

Review | Contributor(s): Martha Kurtz

Review of Erasmus and the Jews

Review | Contributor(s): Steven Rowan

Lucrezia Marinelli and Woman's Identity in Late Italian Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): Prudence Allen, Filippo Salvatore

In this paper the Italian Humanist Lucrezia Marinelli (1571-1653) will be examined from the two complementary perspectives on her place in the late Italian Renaissance Studies and her contribution to the philosophy of woman. Marinelli is remarkable in both areas of intellectual history; and her...

Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné charmé par les voix du mythos

Article | Contributor(s): Carole Duchesne

"The Great Sophism of All Sophisms": Colonialist Redefinition in Bacon's Holy War

Article | Contributor(s): Craig M. Rustici

Review of The Perception of Women in Spanish Theater of the Golden Age

Review | Contributor(s): Victoria O'Malley

Review of The Medical Mind of Shakespeare

Review | Contributor(s): F. David Hoeniger

Review of Ronsard en son IVe centenaire. Études ronsardiennes I: Ronsard hier et aujourd'hui; II: L 'Art de Poésie

Review | Contributor(s): Christine M. Scollen-Jimack

Review of Religious Radicals in Tudor England

Review | Contributor(s): Gary K. Waite

Review of Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting

Review | Contributor(s): Meredith J. Gill

Review of Mourir de rire d'après et avec Rabelais

Review | Contributor(s): Barbara C. Bowen

Re-reading the folie: Louise Labé's Sonnet XVIII and the Renaissance Love Heritage

Article | Contributor(s): Deborah Lesko Baker

Louise Labé’s Sonnet XVIII is far from subtle in its forceful representation of sexual intimacy. After François Rigolot and Ann Rosalind Jones, Deborah Lesko Baker suggests a new reading of this most famous poem, and attempts to demonstrate how Louise Labé employs and ironizes the Petrarchan...

'Stone Walls' and ‘I’ron Bars': Richard Lovelace and the Conventions of Seventeenth-Century Prison Literature

Article | Contributor(s): Raymond A. Anselment

In transcending stone walls and iron bars, Lovelace's well-known song "To Althea, From Prison" celebrates a freedom distinctly at odds with prevailing, often religiously inspired transformations of seventeenth-century carceral realities. Lovelace's celebration of "Minds innocent and quiet"...

Aneau, des Emblèmes d'Alciat et de l'Imagination poétique aux Métamorphoses d'Ovide: pratique d'un commentaire

Article | Contributor(s): Marie Claude Malenfant, Jean-Claude Moisan

La pratique du commentaire chez Aneau, telle qu'elle s'affine dans son oeuvre d'emblématiste, de traducteur et de commentateur, "emblématise" cette tendance renaissante où l'interprétant des textes réitère la glose séculaire tout en s'appropriant cette tradition. Ainsi le commentaire anellien...

"Is Abbot Isidore also among the Prophets?": Protestant Influences upon the Annotated Bible of Isidore Clarius

Article | Contributor(s): R. Gerald Hobbs

This paper attempts to recognize the important role played by Isidore Clarius in the reform of the Vulgate in the Sixteenth Century. In his preface, prolegomena and notes to the Bible, Clarius provided a form of pre-Tridentine Biblical scholarship which enjoyed more affinities with evangelical...

Review of Dialectique et connaissance dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas: "Discours sur discours infiniment divers"

Review | Contributor(s): James Dauphiné

Review of Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London

Review | Contributor(s): C.J. Neville

Review of Pio II e la cultura del suo tempo

Review | Contributor(s): Louis Valcke