The publication of my book, Sublime Truth and the Senses: Titian’s Poesie for King Philip II of Spain, ( Harvey Miller: 2019), with a new reading of the heightened meaning of ecstatic imagery for the Hapsburg court, coincides with the exhibition of Titian’s magnificent mythological paintings that are reassembled for the first time since 1704 a…[Read more]

This article examines the religious and political worldview of the Scottish minister John Dury during the English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century. It argues that Dury’s activities as an irenicist and philo-semite must be understood as interrelated aspects of an expansionist Protestant cause that included Britain, Ireland, continental…[Read more]

By taking water as a viewpoint, this dissertation reveals that the urban communities of seventeenth-century Holland were highly subsidiary in nature. Individual townspeople, men and women alike, knew how to fend for themselves, incidentally having recourse to other inhabitants, businessmen, corporations or magistrates. Together, they constituted a…[Read more]

Francesca Romana

Four themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]

The idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse in London in 1599. Performances of Shakespeare not only create channels between geographic spaces but also connect different time periods. Divided into two major sections, Shakespeare and World Cultures and Shakespeare and Genres, the…[Read more]

This file contains an overview of the early adopters of the Neo-Latin term dialectus, together with sample passages in which the term features as well as information on the publication data of the works in which the term appears. The overview also offers information on the social, geographical, and scholarly background of the early adopters.

We schrijven Brussel. 6 januari 1504. De Rotterdamse humanist Desiderius Erasmus staat op het spreekgestoelte en heeft zojuist de lof van de Bourgondische prins Filips de Schone (1478–1506) gezongen. In het Latijn, natuurlijk: dat was toen de cultuurtaal bij uitstek. Maar Erasmus heeft nog een toemaatje voor Filips in petto: hij rondt zijn l…[Read more]

Hylomorphism is a recent term in the history of philosophy and the sciences. What was used from Antiquity to the early modern period was the terminological couple “matter” and “form.” According to the Aristotelian physics, matter and form are indissociable principles which constitute the elements and preside over the generation and destruc…[Read more]