Making Scholarship Public: Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Early Modern Studies

Article | Autor(es): Paul Yachnin

How can collaborative, interdisciplinary research on early modern Europe expand the reach of the humanities beyond the academy? In what ways could such a “public turn” enhance the effectiveness of humanities research and teaching? This essay recounts how a number of large, interdisciplinary...

Building A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript

Article | Autor(es): Constance Crompton, Daniel Powell, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, Maggie Shirley

This article describes the context and development of A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript, a collaboratively created Wikibook edition of the sixteenth-century verse miscellany known as the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add. 17,492). This project began in 2001 when Dr. Ray Siemens led a...

Capstone and Cornerstone: Creating a Virtual Research Centre in Honours and Graduate Courses in Renaissance Literature

Article | Autor(es): Elizabeth Popham

For the past three years, I have experimented with courses for senior undergraduate and first year graduate students that incorporate features of directed reading projects, making use of a Managed Learning System (MLS) site as a “virtual research centre” for collaborative investigation of...

Augmented Criticism, Extensible Archives, and the Progress of Renaissance Studies

Article | Autor(es): Michael Ullyot

In the three decades since the rise of New Historicism, Renaissance studies has progressed through extensions of scholars’ archival reach to new objects for new interpretations. The future will bring expansions on a larger scale, like those we now witness in English print archives....

Digital Humanities and Renaissance Studies in Canada: A Graduate Student’s Perspective

Article | Autor(es): Sarah M. Loose

This article focuses on digital humanities and Renaissance studies in Canada, highlighting established projects such as Iter and newer efforts such as Serai, and addressing recent interest in historical GIS. This survey of projects demonstrates how the work of Renaissance studies faculty and...

Word-entries and Big Data in Lexicons of Early Modern English

Article | Autor(es): Ian Lancashire

This brief thirty-year history of Lexicons of Early Modern English, an online database of glossaries and dictionaries of the period, begins in a fourteenth-floor Robarts Library lab of the Centre for Computing and the Humanities at the University of Toronto in 1986. It was first published freely...

Records of Early English Drama: A Retrospective

Article | Autor(es): Sally-Beth MacLean

The Records of Early English Drama, founded in 1976, remains a productive humanities research project, with thirty-three volumes in print and two open access research and educational websites to date. This retrospective essay reflects on the individuals who contributed to its founding and...

Barthélemy Aneau’s Alector ou le coq and the Paradox of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

Article | Autor(es): Jenny Meyer

Barthélemy Aneau’s histoire fabuleuse, Alector ou le coq (1560) epitomizes a burgeoning sixteenth-century awareness of the globe and its scope. New possibilities for envisioning global space went hand in hand with the development of cosmopolitan sympathies among Renaissance humanists; namely,...

Building Opposition at the Early Tudor Tower of London: Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort

Article | Autor(es): Kristen Deiter

Medieval and early modern English monarchs constructed the Tower of London’s iconography to symbolize royal power, creating a self-promoting royal ideology of the Tower. However, the Tower’s cultural significance turned sharply when Thomas More wrote A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation...

Authority and Attribution in the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter

Article | Autor(es): Rebecca M. Rush

This essay addresses the vexed question of the genre of the Sternhold and Hopkins psalter by considering the framing of the psalms in the early editions printed in England and on the continent. It is undeniable that all of the producers of the Sternhold and Hopkins psalter were committed to the...

Eucharistic Love in The Merchant of Venice

Article | Autor(es): Ian McAdam

The article considers the ambiguous characterizations of The Merchant of Venice in light of Protestant and Catholic interpretations of the Eucharist, and raises implications for masculine gender construction in the opposition between Jewish and Christian cultural and theological perspectives. The...

Hamlet, Pirates, and Purgatory

Article | Autor(es): Tom Rutter

Hamlet’s abduction by pirates during his voyage to England is an episode that does not appear in the main narrative source of Shakespeare’s play, Belleforest’s Histoires tragiques. This essay surveys the various sources that have been proposed, including the Ur-Hamlet, Plutarch’s “Life of Julius...

Review of The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years’ War

Review | Autor(es): Hilmar M. Pabel

Review of Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem

Review | Autor(es): John McClelland

Review of Métamorphoses de Morphée. Théories du rêve et songes poétiques à la Renaissance, en France

Review | Autor(es): Virginie Leroux

Review of Descartes et ses critiques. Actes du colloque international organisé dans le cadre du Congrès annuel de l’Association francophone pour le savoir. Québec, mai 2008

Review | Autor(es): Jean-François Méthot

Review of Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

Review | Autor(es): Sally Hickson

Review of The English Poems of Richard Crashaw

Review | Autor(es): Kenneth Borris

Review of Early Modern Habsburg Women: Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

Review | Autor(es): Paula Clarke

Review of Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History

Review | Autor(es): Janice Liedl