Review of Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources

Review | Autor(es): Mark Jurdjevic

Review of Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please

Review | Autor(es): Laura Giannetti

Review of Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power

Review | Autor(es): Jennifer Mara Desilva

Review of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England

Review | Autor(es): Madeline Bassnett

Review of Poor Tom: Living King Lear

Review | Autor(es): Jeremy Lopez

Review of The Adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hungaria (1592)

Review | Autor(es): Stephen Guy-Bray

Review of Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction

Review | Autor(es): Andrew Benjamin Bricker

Review of The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger

Review | Autor(es): James Sommerville

Review of The Body in Mystery: The Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England

Review | Autor(es): William Acres

Review of The Early Reformation in Germany: Between Secular Impact and Radical Vision

Review | Autor(es): Greta Kroeker

Review of Performing Privacy and Gender in Early Modern Literature

Review | Autor(es): Mark Albert Johnston

Preface

Article | Autor(es): Vanessa McCarthy, Amyrose McCue Gill

Introduction

Article | Autor(es): Ian Frederick Moulton

On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500

Article | Autor(es): Marc D. Schachter

This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentaries on Juvenal’s Satires from antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. By tracking the changes in glosses to a passage in the Sixth Satire that refers to sex between women, it contributes to...

Renaissance Painting and Expressions of Male Intimacy in a Seventeenth-Century Illustration from Mughal India

Article | Autor(es): Mika Natif

This article explores the artistic relationship between Western European Renaissance art and Mughal painting ca. 1630s at the ateliers in North India. A central theme is the employment of European painterly modes in the Mughal visual tradition that expressed male-male intimacy, carnal desire, and...

Reading and Viewing Sex in Early Modern French Vernacular Medicine

Article | Autor(es): Sarah E. Parker

Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. Medicine was engaged in a broader struggle to establish itself as a legitimate and professionally defined discipline; yet many practitioners marketed their ideas to a non-professional public...

Bestiality and Gluttony in Theory and Practice in the Comedies of Giovan Battista Della Porta

Article | Autor(es): Sergius Kodera

Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535–1615), Neapolitan nobleman, scholar/scientist, and writer famed for books on natural magic and physiognomy, expressed quite explicit views on bestiality—that is, on human beings having sex with animals. Della Porta populated his plays with characters who allude...

Sex Acts in La Celestina: An Ars Combinatoria of Desire

Article | Autor(es): Marlen Bidwell-Steiner

This article investigates one of the most important and erotically explicit early modern Spanish texts: Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina (1499/1507). Highlighting the dynamics of the three sex acts depicted in the plot, it argues that intercourse can be read as a negotiation of the text’s main...

“Or whatever you be”: Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender Labour in John Lyly’s Gallathea

Article | Autor(es): Simone Chess

This article explores sociologist Jane Ward’s gender and sexuality theory: the notion of “gender labour,” in which a cisgender (not crossdressed or trans*) partner participates in co-creating his or her partner’s queer gender. While work on gender labour thus far has focused on contemporary...

Review of The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250–1750

Review | Autor(es): Christine Fillion