Review of Carpe Corpus. Time and Gender in Early Modern France

Review | Contributeur(s): Jane Couchman

Review of Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

Review | Contributeur(s): Douglas A. Brooks

Review of Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England

Review | Contributeur(s): John Considine

Review of Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet

Review | Contributeur(s): Richard Raiswell

Review of Conversazioni cristiane

Review | Contributeur(s): Jean-Claude Margolin

Review of Reformers on Stage: Popular Drama and Religious Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556

Review | Contributeur(s): Randall Martin

Review of Practicing New Historicism

Review | Contributeur(s): Catherine Gimelli Martin

Review of Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625

Review | Contributeur(s): Alan G. Arthur

Review of Les Jeus poetiques (1610)

Review | Contributeur(s): François Rouget

Review of The Writing of Royalism, 1628-1660

Review | Contributeur(s): Elizabeth Sauer

Review of Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry

Review | Contributeur(s): Brian Patton

Editorial

Article | Contributeur(s): Richard Hillman

Avant-propos

Article | Contributeur(s): Hélène Cazes

Anachronisme et légitimité de la notion d’intellectuel pré-moderne

Article | Contributeur(s): Danièle Letocha

The term intellectuals(s) has been in use for scarcely more than one century. What is its definition? What conditions of possibility govern the emergence of the Modern intellectual? How many of these conditions can be traced to the past? The typological approach used here sets the origin of the...

Portrait de Budé en «intellectuel»: la G. Budæi viri clarissimi Vita de Loys Le Roy (1540)

Article | Contributeur(s): Michel Magnien

Hellenist, philologist, historian, friend and counsellor to the King, mythical founding member of the Collège de France, as well as family man, Guillaume Budé appears to us as a hero of humanism and compels our collective admiration because he could lead simultaneously a contemplative and an...

Érasme, les intellectuels et l’affaire Reuchlin

Article | Contributeur(s): Daniel Ménager

Intellectuals have been more than once accused of not caring about world affairs. Now, Erasmus appears to announce a modern reflection on power and knowledge. An archetype of our contemporary intellectual, he looked at and criticized the society he lived in. As a theologian and a priest, he...

Un homme politique désœoeuvré: Machiavel, historien et penseur politique

Article | Contributeur(s): Gérald Allard

A philosopher who deeply influenced Western history, Machiavelli was, as well, involved in the affairs of his time. This paper aims to analyze the pragmatic context of Machiavelli’s production, for instance, his political exile from Florence. In order to draw the lines of this “praxis,”...

Le «vrai» médecin à la Renaissance

Article | Contributeur(s): Colette Quesnel

According to Erasmus, the true Renaissance physician is also a philosopher. What does that statement really mean? The answer lies in the medical theories that are influenced by the theological, social and philosophical contexts.

L’intellectuel en procès: le cas Robert Estienne

Article | Contributeur(s): Hélène Cazes

The name of Robert Estienne (1501–59), the great French humanist, printer and editor, as well as leading scholar in Latin and Greek studies, is associated with his exile from Catholic France to Calvinist Geneva around 1547. Ever since his departure, the question has been raised whether it was...

Les intellectuelles et l’amour: Marie de Gournay et Marguerite de Valois

Article | Contributeur(s): Richard Hillman

When a woman defined herself as an intellectual in the Renaissance, she could not, even if she wished, detach that role from the cultural expectations conventionally attached to her gender, and most notably from issues of love and sexuality. This point may be illustrated with reference to the...