Review of Langage et vérité. Études offertes à Jean-Claude Margolin par ses collègues, ses collaborateurs, ses élèves et ses amis

Review | Contributor(s): Jean Céard, Peter G. Bietenholz

Review of Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture; Achille Bocchi and the Emblem Book as Symbolic Form

Review | Contributor(s): Anthony Raspa

Review of Rabelais et l’humanisme civil

Review | Contributor(s): André Tournon

Review of New Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century English Religious Lyric

Review | Contributor(s): Margo Swiss

Review of Ma bibliothèque poétique

Review | Contributor(s): Jean Braybrook

Review of The Tragic Mission of Bishop Paul Juusten to Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The Itinerary of the Delegation to Moscow Translated, with Introduction and Commentary

Review | Contributor(s): Raymond A. Mentzer

Announcements / Annonces

Article | Contributor(s): Author Not Applicable

Copernican Ideas in Sixteenth Century France

Article | Contributor(s): Henry Heller

The French religious wars were marked by intolerance and fanaticism. At the same time the ability of the established church and state to enforce religious and intellectual conformity was seriously undermined. In this atmosphere of crisis and relative intellectual freedom the old Aristotelian and...

Facettes et reflets du mythe mirandolien

Article | Contributor(s): Louis Valcke

Il existe autour de l’Oratio de hominis dignitate de Jean Pic de la Mirandole un véritable mythe prométhéen, par lequel le texte de l'Oratio s'est chargé peu à peu, à partir de Burckhardt, d'une fonction prophétique. Le présent article vise à revoir dans ce contexte les différentes idées reçues...

Engendering England: The Restructuring of Allegiance in the Writings of Richard Morison and John Bale

Article | Contributor(s): Jacqueline A. Vanhoutte

This paper examines the way in which old systems of allegiance are interrogated, and replaced by an emergent nationalism in two writers closely associated with the Cromwell government: Richard Morison and John Bale. In their attempt to contruct nationhood in sixteenth-century England, both...

Review of Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary

Review | Contributor(s): James H. Sims

Review of Ilaria Del Carretto e il suo monumento. La donna nell'arte, la cultura e la socieîà del '400

Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Review of La poésie au miroir. Imitation et conscience de soi dans la poésie latine de la Pléiade

Review | Contributor(s): Paul Chavy

Review of Tudor and Stuart Women Writers;Privileging Gender in Early Modern England

Review | Contributor(s): Jean LeDrew Metcalfe

Review of Comme en plein jour. Dossier sur l’Éminence grise alias François Leclerc du Tremblay en religion le père Joseph de Paris, frère mineur capucin (1577-1635)

Review | Contributor(s): Maurice Lebel

Review of Martin Bucer: Reforming Church and Community;The Peter Martyr Library, Volume One. Early Writings: Creed, Scripture, Church

Review | Contributor(s): Ed J. Furcha

Response

Article | Contributor(s): Anthony Raspa, Judith Scherer Herz

Montaigne: un regard mathématique sur la mort

Article | Contributor(s): Marcel Goulet

La réflexion que, dans les Essais, Montaigne poursuit sur la mort, en vue de découvrir un ars moriendi spécifiquement humain — toute croyance religieuse étant expressément écartée —, l'amène à soumettre à son jugement la doctrine stoïcienne et sa rhétorique de l'amenuisement, d'une part, et...

Renaissance Queens and Foucauldian Carcerality

Article | Contributor(s): Lisa Hopkins

This essay examines the figuring of images and experiences of imprisonment in the public and private writings and speeches of three women — Marguerite de Navarre, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I — and a man, Sir Philip Sidney, writing to an explicitly feminised agenda. It explores the ways...

The "Honest Style" of Ben Jonson's Epigrams and The Forest

Article | Contributor(s): James P. Crowley

During his imprisonment for the murder of Gabriel Spencer in 1598, Ben Jonson converted to the outlawed Roman Catholic Church, and for the next 12 years made no attempt to conceal his recusant status. Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence...