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"The Great Sophism of All Sophisms": Colonialist Redefinition in Bacon's Holy War
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Craig M. Rustici
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2163/?v=1
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"The praise of that I yeld for sacrifice": Anne Lock and the Poetics of the Eucharist
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Ben Burton
La Réforme a provoqué une crise linguistique, tout aussi importante que doctrinale et interprétative, en particulier au sujet de la signification de l’Eucharistie du point de vue des mots, des...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2925/?v=1
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"Theatre of Fine Devices" - The Visual Imagery of Webster's Tragedies
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Samuel Schuman
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1625/?v=1
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"To Depart from the Earth with Such Writing": Johannes Kepler's Dream of Reading Knowledge
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Elizabeth A. Spiller
Johannes Kepler peut être compris comme représentant du conflit entre l'observation et la lecture qui a défini les théories de la connaissance à la Renaissance. Le constat de nouvelles...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2450/?v=1
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"Un chant à l'honneur de la France": Women's Voices at the End of the Republic of Siena
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Konrad Eisenbichler
Au cœur du XVIe siècle, alors que la république de Sienne était menacée par les intérêts expansionnistes du duc Côme Ier de Florence, plusieurs femmes se portèrent à la défense de leur ville....
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2736/?v=1
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"Verie Devout Asses": The Stupid Puritan Clown
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Robert Hornback
Si les puritains de la Renaissance se considéraient comme érudits et rationnels, les auteurs qui leurs étaient contemporains étaient loin de les représenter ainsi. Leur portrait était plutôt marqué...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2825/?v=1
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"What should we do?": The Predicament of Practical Reason in Hamlet
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Eric P. Levy
Fondamentalement, ce qui se passe dans Hamlet ne concerne ni l'action ni les antécédents de l'action, mais la mise en cause de la doctrine de l'action rationnelle, donc de la raison pratique. La...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2481/?v=1
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'Espirituación': Juan de Ávila's Doctrine of Union with the Holy Spirit
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Rady Roldan-Figueroa
Saint Juan de Ávila a joué un rôle majeur dans la réforme catholique espagnole. Son programme de réforme s'est concentré principalement sur la formation morale du clergé catholique. Toutefois,...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2868/?v=1
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'Gates Pure and Shining and Serene': Mutual Gazing as an Amatory Motif in Western Literature and Art
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Robert Baldwin
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1877/?v=1
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'Heav'n Hath Timely Tri'd [Her] Youth": Self-Knowledge Through Language in Milton's Comus
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Carol Scheidenhelm
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2152/?v=1
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'I am not made of stone': Theatrical Revision of Gesture in Shakespeare's Plays
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Steven Urkowitz
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1880/?v=1
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'Nature as Symbolic Behavior': Cresol’ s Autumn Vacations and Early Baroque Acting Technique
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Alfred S. Golding
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1884/?v=1
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'Now Shall I See the Fall of Babylon': The Spanish Tragedy as a Reformation Play of Daniel
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Frank R. Ardolino
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2044/?v=1
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'Stone Walls' and ‘I’ron Bars': Richard Lovelace and the Conventions of Seventeenth-Century Prison Literature
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By 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...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2171/?v=1
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'Teach Me This Pedlar's French': The Allure of Cant in The Roaring Girl and Dekker's Rogue Pamphlets
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Miles Taylor
Dans The Roaring Girl de Dekker et Middleton, ainsi que dans les pamphlets délinquants de Dekker, des citoyens respectables de Londres, fascinés par l’argot des bas-fonds de la société jacobéenne,...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2888/?v=1
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A 'tröstlich pictura': Luther's Attitude in the Question of Images
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Rosemarie Bergmann
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1659/?v=1
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A Case Study of the Reception of Aristotle in Early Protestantism: The Platonic Idea of the Good in the Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Alfonso Herreros
The present article examines the philosophical ethics of Protestants teaching in higher education during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their reception of Aristotle’s Nicomachean...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/4297/?v=1
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A Catholic Theologian Responds to Copernicanism: The Theological Judicium of Paolo Foscarini’s Lettera
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Irving A. Kelter
This paper is an in-depth analysis of the Carmelite Paolo Foscarini's role in the debate on Copernican cosmology in the early seventeenth century. Using as a point of departure the 1616 Judicium...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/2359/?v=1
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A Compendium of the Wondrous Deeds of Caterina da Racconigi: Hagiography or Philosophical Treatise?
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Gabriella Zarri
Gianfrancesco Pico’s interest in Caterina da Racconigi, a mystic and prophet revered in Piedmont in the first decades of the sixteenth century, was born out of a scientific curiosity prior to...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/4141/?v=1
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A Curatorial Model for Teaching Renaissance Book History in Canada
16 Oct 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Janelle Jenstad, Erin E. Kelly
Only by holding early printed books can students learn both the strangeness of the past and its oddly familiar struggle with technological innovation. Even partial collections like the one at the...
https://www.hsscommons.ca/en/publications/3480/?v=1
