Review of Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
Review | Autor(es): Valeria Finucci
Review of The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento
Review | Autor(es): Thomas V. Cohen
Review of Edmund Spenser’s Poetry
Review | Autor(es): David Katz
Review of Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation
Review | Autor(es): James W. Nelson Novoa
Review of Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton: Political Prose, 1644–1660
Review | Autor(es): John Leonard
Milton’s Paradise Lost: Previously Unrecognized Allusions to the Aurora Borealis, and a Solution to the Comet Conundrum in Book 2
Article | Autor(es): Clifford J. Cunningham
This article reveals that John Milton employed an allusion to the aurora borealis in book 6 (79–83) of Paradise Lost, unrecognized in more than three centuries of scholarly analysis. Two other likely allusions, and one certain, to the aurora have also been identified. This research casts doubt on...
Velázquez’s Democritus: Global Disillusion and the Critical Hermeneutics of a Smile
Article | Autor(es): Jimena Berzal de Dios
Velázquez’s Democritus (ca. 1630) presents a unique encounter: not only are there few depictions in which the Greek philosopher appears with a sphere that shows an actual map, but Velázquez used a court jester as a model for Democritus, thus placing the philosopher within a courtly space. When we...
Recasting Recantation in 1540s England: Thomas Becon, Robert Wisdom, and Robert Crowley
Article | Autor(es): Kate Roddy
The legacy of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments has urged scholars of the English Reformation to consider martyrdom the ultimate act of resistance, and recantation as an embarrassing lapse of faith. However, more recent criticism has drawn attention to the subversive potential of the false...
Tommaso Campanella in the Schulmetaphysik: The Doctrine of the Three Primalities and the Case of the Lutheran Liborius Capsius (1589–1654) in Erfurt
Article | Autor(es): Marco Lamanna
Following some recent findings, this essay presents the first known case of the reception of the doctrine of the primalities (power, knowledge, and love) by the Italian Tommaso Campanella within German scholastic philosophy, the so-called Schulmetaphysik. Here, the focus is on the Lutheran...
Monstrous Births and Imaginations: Authorship and Folklore in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Article | Autor(es): Lisa Walters
The amateur actors in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are compared several times with the fairies who inhabit a forest outside of Athens. This article will investigate the significance of the analogy by exploring commonalities between discursive elements in folklore, physiology, and philosophy that...
Review of The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio
Review | Autor(es): Johnny L. Bertolio
Review of Le cinquiesme tome des histoires tragiques
Review | Autor(es): François Paré
Review of Emblems of Death in the Early Modern Period
Review | Autor(es): Kenneth Borris
Review of Shakespeare’s Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre
Review | Autor(es): Trevor Cook
Review of Pierre Viret et la diffusion de la Réforme. Pensée, action, contextes religieux
Review | Autor(es): René Paquin
Review of Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience
Review | Autor(es): Mark Albert Johnston
Review of Journal du règne de Henri IV. Tome 2 : 1592–1594 (transcription Ms fr. 10299 et 25004 de la BnF)
Review | Autor(es): Grégoire Holtz
Review of Charles Fontaine. Un humaniste parisien à Lyon
Review of Moria de Erasmo Roterodamo. A Critical Edition of the Early Modern Spanish Translation of Erasmus’s Encomium Moriae
Review | Autor(es): Marie Barral-Baron
Review of Reading and Writing during the Dissolution: Monks, Friars, and Nuns 1530–1558; Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity
Review | Autor(es): Goran Stanivukovic
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