Review of Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume II: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1535 to 1557 (1525); Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume 56: Annotations on Romans

Review | Contributor(s): Hilmar M. Pabel

Review of The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France

Review | Contributor(s): Eva Kushner

Review of English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1475-1525; Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England

Review | Contributor(s): Samuel Glen Wong

Announcements / Annonces

Article | Contributor(s): Author Not Applicable

The English Enchiridion Militis Christiani in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries

Article | Contributor(s): Douglas H. Parker

Following earlier articles in Renaissance and Reformation and Erasmus in English, this paper examines the fate of Erasmus's Enchiridion Militis Christiani in three late editions published in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Again in 1686, 1752, and 1816, Erasmus's work was...

Observations on Milton’s Accents

Article | Contributor(s): John K. Hale

Milton’s diacritics in six languages, though mostly typical of his time, allow some inferences about his language attainments and scholarship. For Latin verse, he uses accents to disambiguate rhythm or meaning. For Greek scholarship, he is punctilious. Italian authors are culture to him, French...

Le dialogue de l'auteur et du lecteur dans La Sepmaine de Du Bartas

Article | Contributor(s): François Roudaut

Dans cet article, il s’agit avant tout d’attirer l’attention sur les mécanismes dialogiques qui animent tout le projet de Du Bartas dans La Sepmaine. Le narrateur de ce récit de la Création est mu par un profond désir de convaincre, de faire connaître, d’amener le lecteur à une expérience...

“The Obedience due to Princes”: Absolutism in Pseudo-Martyr

Article | Contributor(s): Phebe Jensen

This paper attempts to tease out the contemporary political resonances found in John Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr. While it is true that Pseudo-Martyr aligns itself with absolutism, it does so in a very complex and ambivalent manner, rejecting political patriarchalism and adopting a moderate sense of...

Christianisme, métaphysique et épistémologie chez Marsile Ficin

Article | Contributor(s): Yvan Morin

Ficin centre la hiérarchie universelle sur l’homme, au sens d’une âme raisonnable. Métaphysiquement, la description substantialiste qu’en donne Kristeller ne semble pas pouvoir se comprendre sans l’apport hénologique des hypostases et la transformation chrétienne de cet apport. Cassirer, Allen,...

Review of The Influence of John Donne: His Uncollected Seventeenth Century Printed Verse; John Donne: Pseudo-Martyr

Review | Contributor(s): Judith Scherer Herz

Review of Positions Concerning the Training Up of Children

Review | Contributor(s): Kenneth J. E. Graham

Review of Montaigne and the Gods: The Mythological Key to the “Essays.”

Review | Contributor(s): Cathleen M. Bauschatz

Review of Étienne Jamet alias Esteban Jamete, sculpteur français de la Renaissance en Espagne condamné par l’Inquisition

Review | Contributor(s): Bertrand Jestaz

Review of The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking

Review | Contributor(s): Graham Roebuck

Announcements / Annonces

Article | Contributor(s): Author Not Applicable

Recent Books / Livres récents

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Lecture allégorique et lecture emblématique: l’utilisation de “l’allegacion” à des fins morales; l’exemple des Métamorphoses d’Ovide

Article | Contributor(s): Jean-Claude Moisan, Sabrina Vervacke

Legrand, dans l’Archiloge Sophie, donne à “l’allegacion” deux finalités: embellir le langage et inciter à la vertu. Pour ce faire, il s’ingéniera à fixer le sens moral profond que recèlent les fictions des Métamorphoses d’Ovide en les rangeant sous des catégories commodes et faciles d’utilisation...

A New Set of Spectacles: The Assembly’s Annotations, 1645-1657

Article | Contributor(s): Dean George Lampros

With the collapse of press censorship that followed the impeachment of William Laud in the Fall of 1640, a group of London printers took advantage of their new-found freedom and encouraged the House of Commons to convene an assembly of divines whose sole task was to revise the notes located...

“Deir Sister”: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok

Article | Contributor(s): Susan M. Felch

Anne Vaughan Lok was a prominent supporter of the protestant cause and an active participant in the early reformed communities of the mid-sixteenth century. Although recent scholarship on Anne Lok seems to indicate that she may have felt hindered by her own gender and overly dependent on male...

“A Plott to have his nose and eares cutt of”: Schoppe as Seen by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Article | Contributor(s): Winfried Schleiner

That Gaspar Schoppe, author of several stinging publications against James I, was brutally attacked in a Madrid street in 1614 has often been dismissed as the victim’s larmoyant exaggeration of a mere licking, although Schoppe claimed that it was an attempt on his life. But there is a letter...