Knell, Matthew. Sin, Grace and Free Will: A Historical Survey of Christian Thought. Vol. 2, From Anselm to the Reformation

Article | Autor(es): Sheena Jary

Lee, Alexander. Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal of Fourteenth-Century Italy.

Article | Autor(es): Goran Stanivukovic

Lourenço, Miguel Rodrigues. A articulação da periferia: Macau e a Inquisição de Goa (c. 1582–1650)

Article | Autor(es): James Nelson Novoa

Murphy, Peter. The Long Public Life of a Short Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt

Article | Autor(es): Daniel Fischlin

Nelson, Jennifer. Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors

Article | Autor(es): Sheena Jary

Neville, Kristoffer. The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550–1720

Article | Autor(es): Tomasz Grusiecki

Quitslund, Beth, and Nicholas Temperley, eds. The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others; A Critical Edition of the Texts and Tunes

Article | Autor(es): Michael O’Connor

Quiviger, François. Leonardo da Vinci: Self, Art and Nature

Article | Autor(es): Guita Lamsechi

Renck, Anneliese Pollock. Female Authorship, Patronage, and Translation in Late Medieval France from Christine de Pizan to Louise Labé

Article | Autor(es): Hélène Cazes

Rizzi, Andrea. Vernacular Translators in Quattrocento Italy: Scribal Culture, Authority, and Agency

Article | Autor(es): Mohammad Jamali

Romagnino, Roberto. Décrire dans le roman de l’âge baroque (1585–1660). Formes et enjeux de l’ecphrasis

Article | Autor(es): Olivier Séguin-Brault

Vives, Juan Luis. De Europae dissidiis et republica. Ed. and trans. with an intro. by Edward V. George and Gilbert Tournoy

Article | Autor(es): Willis Goth Regier

Waddington, Raymond. Titian’s Aretino: A Contextual Study of All the Portraits

Article | Autor(es): Fabien Lacouture

Wallace, William E. Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

Article | Autor(es): Sally Hickson

Piercing Proverbial Crows’ Eyes: Theft and Publication in Renaissance France

Article | Autor(es): Emma Herdman

The ironic Latin proverb “cornicum oculos configere” was classically illustrated by the example of Gnaeus Flavius, celebrated for his theft and valuable but unauthorized publication of Rome’s legal secrets. Erasmus’s discussion of the proverb in the Adages consequently focuses on the tension...

A Case Study of the Reception of Aristotle in Early Protestantism: The Platonic Idea of the Good in the Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics

Article | Autor(es): 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 Ethics, 1.6. Two theses are illustrated. First, the survey of fourteen commentaries shows clear parallels...

Towards Confessional Reconciliation: The “Protestantization” of Charles V in David Chytraeus’s De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio (1583)

Article | Autor(es): Isabella Walser-Bürgler

In 1583, David Chytraeus (1530–1600), one of the key figures of north German Protestant humanism, published his Latin biographical oration De Carolo Quinto Caesare Augusto Oratio on Emperor Charles V (Holy Roman emperor from 1520 to 1556). Despite the numerous confessional conflicts between the...

Undermining the Elect Nation: King Lear and the Hebrew Patriarchs at the Court of James I

Article | Autor(es): Patrick Timmis

This article examines King Lear’s creative redeployment of the Old Testament stories of the patriarchs, especially the narrative of Jacob and Esau in the book of Genesis. After contextualizing the reliance of the “Gloucester subplot” on this narrative within a broader predestinarian tradition of...

Necessary Leaven: Hypocrisy and the Heptaméron

Article | Autor(es): Emily Butterworth

Hypocrisy is a recurring concern in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, part of the wider dynamic of dissimulation, pretence, and exposure explored in the storytelling project. This article discusses the contexts in which hypocrisy is revealed and debated in the Heptaméron. While clerical and...

“Des responses et rencontres”: Frank Speech and Self-Knowledge in Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées

Article | Autor(es): Luke O’Sullivan

Guillaume Bouchet’s Serées (1584, 1597, 1598) constitute an exercise in commonplacing framed as a collection of tales told around a Poitevin dining table. They engage in a form of quasi-philosophical thinking staged by and for an urban merchant community, the social world in which Bouchet...