Review of Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600-1750;Englishmen Abroad, Being an Account of Their Travels in the Seventeenth Century

Review | Contributeur(s): Kenneth R. Bartlett

Review of L'Amour obscur, poèmes choisis et présentés par Robert Melançon

Review | Contributeur(s): Anna Bettoni

Review of Milton 's Epics and the Book of Psalms

Review | Contributeur(s): Judith Scherer Herz

Leone de' Sommi and Jewish Theatre in Renaissance Mantua

Article | Contributeur(s): Donald Beecher

This is a study of a Renaissance artist and his patrons, but with an added complication, insofar as Leone de' Sommi, the gifted academician and playwright in the employ of the dukes of Mantua in the second half of the sixteenth century, was Jewish and a lifelong promoter and protector of his...

Garnier's Historical Sources in Les Juifves

Article | Contributeur(s): Damon Di Mauro

Robert Garnier's "Les Juifves" (1583) is generally considered to be the crown jewel of the French Renaissance stage. At the close of his prefatory "Argument" to the play, Garnier obligingly furnishes the historical sources from which he has taken the story of the sufferings of Zedekiah and his...

Les opinions politiques d'un avocat parisien sous Henri IV: Antoine Arnauld

Article | Contributeur(s): Michel De Waele

Antoine Arnauld est surtout connu des historiens pour ses attaques virulentes contre les Jésuites. Mais cet avocat parisien a participé à tous les débats qui secouèrent la France durant le règne d'Henri IV. Royaliste convaincu, ardent défenseur des privilèges du parlement, ses opinions politiques...

"Ryse Up Elisa” – Woman Trapped in a Lay: Spenser's "Aprill"

Article | Contributeur(s): Marianne Micros

In Edmund Spenser's "Aprill," Colin Cloute, by creating and controlling an idealized woman, has silenced the source of his own creative power. However, Colin's lay contains hints that Elisa is neither perfect nor passive: complex natural and mythological allusions reveal her vitality and...

Review of Melancholy, Genius and Utopia in the Renaissance

Review | Contributeur(s): Douglas H. Parker

Review of Political Writings

Review | Contributeur(s): Peter Remnant

Review of Montaigne et la Grèce. Actes du colloque de Calamata et de Messène (23-26 septembre 1988)

Review | Contributeur(s): Michel Bideaux

Review of The Soderini and the Medici. Power and Patronage in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Review | Contributeur(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Review of Medieval and Renaissance Drama, V

Review | Contributeur(s): Judith M. Kennedy

Review of Machiavelli in Hell

Review | Contributeur(s): Salvatore Di Maria

Review of Commander of the Armada: The Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia

Review | Contributeur(s): Ronald S. Love

Review of Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth. Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII

Review | Contributeur(s): W. J. Jones

The Pastime of Master F. J.

Article | Contributeur(s): Dale B. Billingsley

Characters in Gascoigne's "Adventures of Master F. J." (1573) use reading as a pastime by which they sort out or complicate their relationships with others; the novel's readers, for their pastime, recreate these relationships as they read the novel. These linguistic, rhetorical and social...

Unica Oblatio Christi: Eucharistic Sacrifice and the first Zürich Disputation

Article | Contributeur(s): Keith D. Lewis

The First Zürich Disputation (January 29th, 1523) between Ulrich Zwingli and Johann Faber was the earliest Reformation-era public debate of the doctrine of the eucharistic sacrifice. While Zwingli was at an early and relatively fluid stage in his rejection of eucharistic sacrifice, Faber's...

The Fall of Nebuchadnezzar

Article | Contributeur(s): Elizabeth Sauer

This paper examines the relationship of verbal expression, political engagement, and historical progress in a poem which has traditionally been labelled undramatic and read as an allegory of Milton's post-revolutionary resignation to quietism. While "Paradise Regained" consists primarily of a...

Marc Lescarbot au pays des Ithyphalles

Article | Contributeur(s): Guy Poirier

L’interprétation de l'oeuvre de Marc Lescarbot hésite le plus souvent entre l'aspect encyclopédique de ses ouvrages et leur dimention créative. Dans le présent article, l'auteur tente de situer le discours dont se réclame l'écrivain au coeur du maniérisme poétique du début du XVIIe siècle. Pour...

Review of La conversation conteuse. Les Nouvelles de Marguerite de Navarre

Review | Contributeur(s): Brenda Dunn-Lardeau