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  1. Rethinking "Continuity": Erasmus' Ecclesiastes and the Artes Praedicandi

    Rethinking "Continuity": Erasmus' Ecclesiastes and the Artes Praedicandi

    Article | Contributeur(s): Francis P. Kilcoyne, Margaret Jennings

    Erasmus' "radical orientation towards continuities," coupled with a series of congruent physical and philosophical circumstances, suggests a possible relationship between certain medieval artes praedicandi and the Ecclesiastes sive de Ratione Concionandi. By exploring the parallels between these...

  2. Thomas Phaer and the Assertion of Tudor English

    Thomas Phaer and the Assertion of Tudor English

    Article | Contributeur(s): Rick Bowers

    Thomas Phaer's many printed works, including legal and medical texts, occasional verses, and classical translations, all insist upon - even assert - English as a language suitable for learned consciousness. As a physician, legal theorist, man of letters, and member of Parliament, Phaer represents...

  3. Le retour de Pologne d’Henri III: images alexandrines du roi au Bucentaure

    Le retour de Pologne d’Henri III: images alexandrines du roi au Bucentaure

    Article | Contributeur(s): Guy Poirier

    Si la véritable nature du roi Henri III, celui que Pierre Chevallier dénommait le roi shakespearien, demeure scellée pour l'éternité, les pièces de circonstance écrites pendant les premières années de son règne peuvent en revanche nous renseigner sur les tentatives parfois contradictoires de...

  4. “Things Themselves”: Francis Bacon’s Epistemological Reform and the Maintenance of the State

    “Things Themselves”: Francis Bacon’s Epistemological Reform and the Maintenance of the State

    Article | Contributeur(s): Andrew Barnaby

    This essay attempts to provide a specific cultural context for Francis Bacon's project of natural philosophical reform. Documenting Bacon's earliest understanding of the link between the nature and uses of natural philosophy and what he would call the "care of the commonwealth," it moves from a...

  5. Review of Labour, Science and Technology in France, 1500-1620
  6. Review of La France du XVIe siècle. 1483-1598.

    Review of La France du XVIe siècle. 1483-1598.

    Review | Contributeur(s): Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt

  7. Review of Juste Lipse (1547-1606) en son temps: Actes du colloque de Strasbourg, 1994
  8. Review of Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics.
  9. Review of De Nederlandse Bijbelvertalingen 1522-1545/Dutch Translations of the Bible 1522-1545.
  10. Encyclopedism in Anatomy of Melancholy

    Encyclopedism in Anatomy of Melancholy

    Article | Contributeur(s): Samuel G. Wong

    This paper considers the implications of Burton's "encyclopedism" defined here as the condition of a work where writing is a form of therapy compelled by disease. The notion of encyclopedism suggests the ways in which the encyclopedia serves as a compendious alter-ego to Burton's book. Reading...

  11. "Inter inextricabiles... difficultatum tenebras": Ficino's Pimander and the Gendering of Cartesian Subjectivity

    "Inter inextricabiles... difficultatum tenebras": Ficino's Pimander and the Gendering of Cartesian Subjectivity

    Article | Contributeur(s): Michael Keefer

    After reviewing the evidence that Descartes' philosophical itinerary was to a significant degree shaped by a reading of the Hermetic writings translated by Ficino, this article proposes that, in the Cartesian and Hermetic texts alike, the body from which an emergent autonomous subjectivity seeks...

  12. A défaut de dire tout: dire partout. Étude des modes énonciatifs dans Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet

    A défaut de dire tout: dire partout. Étude des modes énonciatifs dans Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet

    Article | Contributeur(s): Isabelle Lachance

    Poésie maniériste? Baroque? Le mespris de la vie et consolation contre la mort (1594) peut-être le résultat de multiples influences, et chaque situation d'énonciation de ce recueil comporte sa manière propre de structurer les courants idéologiques de l'époque à laquelle il a été écrit, et ce,...

  13. "He took his religion by trust": The Matter of Ben Jonson's Conversion

    "He took his religion by trust": The Matter of Ben Jonson's Conversion

    Article | Contributeur(s): James P. Crowley

    During his imprisonment for the murder of Gabriel Spencer in 1598, Ben Jonson converted to the outlawed Roman Catholic Church, and for the next 12 years made no attempt to conceal his recusant status. Jonson's biography and the historical documents treating conversion and recusancy offer evidence...

  14. Review of Titian's "Venus of Urbino"

    Review of Titian's "Venus of Urbino"

    Review | Contributeur(s): Alexander Nagel

  15. Review of Les Images ou tableaux de platte-peinture de Philostrate

    Review of Les Images ou tableaux de platte-peinture de Philostrate

    Review | Contributeur(s): Raymond Cormier

  16. Review of Conforming to the Word. Herbert, Donne, and the English Church before Laud
  17. Review of Defining Dominion. The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany
  18. Review of Music Discourse from Classical to Early Modern Times. Editing and Translating Texts. Papers Given at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 19-20 October 1990
  19. Review of Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England
  20. Review of Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d'amours

    Review of Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d'amours

    Review | Contributeur(s): William Kemp