François Bonivard and his Difformes Reformateurs

Article | Contributor(s): W. G. Naphy

This article presents François Bonivard (the pre-Reformation Prior of Geneva's Cluniac monastery) and his Des Difformes Reformateurs, the premier example of his satirical and polemical skills. In this, he attacks the violence and immorality accompanying and undermining the Reformation. Opposed to...

Review of Poets, Patrons and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France

Review | Contributor(s): Yvan G. Lepage

Review of Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Roger Gerald Moore

Review of Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton

Review | Contributor(s): Andrew Barnaby

Review of The Court Musicians in Florence During the Principate of the Medici, with a Reconstruction of the Artistic Establishment

Review | Contributor(s): William R. Bowen

Review of Oeuvres complètes

Review | Contributor(s): Robert Melançon

Anagrams etc. The Interpretive Dilemmas of Lady Eleanor Douglas

Article | Contributor(s): Richard Pickard

The period 1620-1660 saw the emergence of several English women, of varying classes, who chose Biblical prophecy as an entry into public, political discourse. Many of these women, such as Hester Biddle and Margaret Fell Fox, stated their opinions with relative clarity. Lady Eleanor Douglas,...

An Intertextual Discourse on Sin and Salvation: John Donne's Sermon on Psalm 51

Article | Contributor(s): Chanita Goodblatt

John Donne as preacher invokes the "Protestant paradigm of salvation," stressing the marring of human nature by Original Sin and the dependence upon God's grace for spiritual reatoration. This paradigm informs his participation in the intertextual discourse on sin and salvation begun by the...

Le théâtre au service de la cause universitaire à la Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): Lyse Roy

Cette étude retrace l'histoire la production théâtrale à l’Université de Caen à la fin du Moyen Âge et au début de la Renaissance. Elle s'intéresse particulièrement à la production de la Farce de Pates-Ouaintes, oeuvre présumée de Pierre de Lesnauderie. Cette pièce permet de comprendre les liens...

Martin Luther on Deësis: His Rejection of the Artistic Representation of "Jesus, John, and Mary"

Article | Contributor(s): Franz Posset

At times, Reformation scholars and art historians are confused about Luther's attitude toward the visual arts which depict saints as intermediaries between God and humanity. Rarely do they thematize the issue in relation to the deësis, i.e. Christ enthroned, with Mary and John the Baptist as...

Review of The Works of John Webster, Volume 1. "The White Devil" and "The Duchess of Malfi"

Review | Contributor(s): R. B. Parker

Review of The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity

Review | Contributor(s): Peter Auksi

Review of Monstres et chimères: Montaigne, le monstre et le fantasme

Review | Contributor(s): Bernard Croquette

Review of Les sources de la pensée philosophique de Raimond Sebond (Ramon Sibiuda)

Review | Contributor(s): Zoé Samaras

Review of From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights: Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought, 1300-1600

Review | Contributor(s): Janice Liedl

Review of Spiritualités, hétérodoxies et imaginaires; études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Guy Poirier

Review of Literature and Culture in Early Modern London

Review | Contributor(s): Paul S. Seaver

After Shylock: The "Judaiser" in England

Article | Contributor(s): Lloyd Edward Kermode

In Elizabethan England it was common to blame the country's economic problems on some hated Other, in most cases the Jews who came to represent the stereotypical usurer. This paper investigates how two plays — William Haughton's Englishmen For My Money (1598) and John Marston's Jack Drum's...

Telling Stories, Naming Names: Heptaméron 43

Article | Contributor(s): Laura Doyle Gates

This paper focuses on the idea of the grammatical third person as organizing principle for the 43rd tale of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron. The third person encompasses several relevant domains, among them the assignation of gender, the function of proper names, and Benveniste's notion of...

La fantaisie et la nature des femmes dans l'Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre

Article | Contributor(s): Marie Claude Malenfant

Les occurrences de fantaisie dans l’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre instaurent une différenciation entre les sexes des personnages du récit-cadre et des contes. Mais lorsqu'on considère la façon dont s'enflamme la fantaisie de l'un et l'autre sexe, les conséquences de cette flamme, puis la...