Sir Thomas More, Utopia, and the Representation of Henry VIII, 1529-1533

Article | Contributor(s): J. Christopher Warner

This essay examines Sir Thomas More's Utopia in the context of Henry VIII's divorce crisis. During this period tracts from the royal press publicized an image of Henry VIII as a disinterested philosopher-king who welcomed open debate and advice at his court. Reading Morus and Hythlodaeus's...

Review of Le mythe de Jérusalem du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance

Review | Contributor(s): Marguerite Soulié

Review of The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition

Review | Contributor(s): Jean LeDrew Metcalfe

Review of Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy

Review | Contributor(s): C. E. McGee

Review of The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry

Review | Contributor(s): R. V. Young

Review of Poetices libri septem: Criticus

Review | Contributor(s): Claudine Jomphe

Review of Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613

Review | Contributor(s): Randall Martin

Erratum: The Honest Style of Ben Jonson's Epigrams and The Forest, by James P. Crowley

Article | Contributor(s): François Paré

Marie Dentière et la prédication des femmes

Article | Contributor(s): Cynthia Skenazi

Dans son Epistre très utile (1539), Marie Dentière s'approprie le modèle de la prédication donné par Farel pour dénoncer avec fougue la corruption de l'Église romaine. La réaction de Farel et de Calvin à l'activité d'une femme qui, en outre, contrairement aux interdits religieux, prêche en public...

Civic Rivalry and the Boundaries of Civic Identity in the French Wars of Religion: Châlons-sur-Marne and the Towns of Champagne

Article | Contributor(s): Mark Konnert

An examination of the policies and actions of the city council of the Champagne town of Châlons-sur-Marne during the French Wars of Religion qualifies the view that the wars spelled the end of the bonne ville. In particular, this article examines Châlons' rivalries with the other towns of the...

The Missing Dialogue Concerning the Will Between Erasmus and Luther

Article | Contributor(s): Robert R. McCutcheon

For all their doctrinal antagonism, the treatises on the will of Erasmus and Luther betray a fundamental affinity in their twofold ambiva-lence toward dialogue: whether a fundamental issue like the will should be debated at all; and whether dialogue is the appropriate vehicle for such a...

Faut-il donner un sens philosophique au mot humanisme?

Article | Contributor(s): Jacques Chomarat

Du quatorzième au seizième siècle, l'humanisme est souvent pris pour une doctrine qui tend à substituer l'homme à Dieu comme centre du monde. Mais Pic de la Mirandole se borne à affirmer le libre-arbitre de l'homme: il se rattache à la scolastique. De purs humanistes, tels que Pétrarque, Valla,...

Review of Essays on Renaissance Literature. Volume One: Donne and the New Philosophy

Review | Contributor(s): Michael Keefer

Review of Va Lettre Va. The French Verse Epistle (1400-1550).

Review | Contributor(s): Viviane Mellinghoff-Bourgerie

Review of Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1650

Review | Contributor(s): Judith M. Kennedy

Review of The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism

Review | Contributor(s): Jonathan Harris

Nouvelles lectures de Montaigne

Article | Contributor(s): Jean Lafond

Review of An Early Music Dictionary: Musical Terms from British Sources, 1500-1740

Review | Contributor(s): Donald Beecher

Review of Délie as Other: Toward a Poetics of Desire in Scève’s “Délie”;"Corps mystique, Corps sacré: "Textual Transformations of the Body from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century"

Review | Contributor(s): Deborah Lesko Baker

Differentiating Hamlet: Ophelia and the Problems of Subjectivity

Article | Contributor(s): Richard Finkelstein

By considering the positions Hamlet explores with regards to the nature of intention, the nature and acquisition of knowledge, the effectiveness of reason, and their relation to psychological integrity, the author of this paper argues that Shakespeare evaluates the play's participation in the...