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Scott Oldenburg deposited A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty and the Household in Shakespeare’s London in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoWilliam Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and…[Read more]
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Scott Oldenburg deposited Thomas Tusser and the Poetics of the Plow in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis essay argues that Thomas Tusser’s popular book of georgic verse, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, offered a counter to developments in courtly poetry under Elizabeth I. Critics have long disparaged Tusser’s poetry as naïvely rustic, but Tusser was not an uneducated peasant who happened to pick up enough literacy to pen a book of poem…[Read more]
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Rosanna Cantavella deposited Aproximació als pronoms adverbials i personals febles de l’Espill in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoAn overall view of the use of personal and adverbial pronouns in a 15-c. long text in verse witten in Catalan, “Espill” by Jaume Roig. Personal and adverbial pronouns are studied by themselves as well as in combination.
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Marie Tanner deposited April 2021 Renaissance Quarterly review of “Sublime Truth and the Senses Titian’s Poesie for King Philip II of Spain” in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago“Tanner weaves a compelling scholarly narrative, spellbinding in its encyclopedic circumference….her text provides comprehensive historical and ideological context to comprehend the paintings as they would have been understood by their highly educated sixteenth-century patron and Renaissance humanist viewers.” Renaissance Quarterly, Volume…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago*Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies,* Edited by Cristina León Alfar and Emily G. Sherwood, Routledge 2021, The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. “Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne tells the story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and her ongoing di…[Read more]
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Paul W. Nash deposited A note on Peter Schoeffer’s book-list of ‘1470’ in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoPeter Shoeffer’s book-list is usually dated to the year 1470. The author challenges this dating, however, supplying a detailed analysis of the content of the list and suggested when it was printed and under what circumstances.
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Marie Tanner deposited Titian’s Mythological Paintings for KIng Philip II of Spain in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe 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]
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Jeremy Fradkin deposited Protestant Unity and Anti-Catholicism: The Irenicism and Philo-Semitism of John Dury in Context in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis 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]
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Marianne Groep-Foncke deposited Water’s worth. Urban society and subsidiarity in seventeenth-century Holland in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoBy 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]
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Maya Maskarinec deposited Nuns as ‘Sponsae Christi’: The Legal Status of the Medieval Oblates of Tor de’ Specchi in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFrancesca Romana
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Thomas Barrows started the topic New Perspectives in Castle Studies in the discussion
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoPlease see the CfP for a new virtual conference this Spring:
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Raf Van Rooy deposited The early adopters of Neo-Latin dialectus – overview of sources in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis 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.
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Poëzieweek 2021—Een homerisch welkom: Erasmus groet Filips de Schone (1504) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoWe 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]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Nota’s nemen in 16de-eeuws Leuven: Een database van tekstboeken uit het Drietalencollege in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDe afgelopen twintig jaar heeft het onderzoek naar (studenten)notities in vroegmoderne tekstedities een enorme groei gekend. Hoewel deze recente studies tot belangrijke inzichten in de lespraktijk hebben geleid, blijven het vaak ad hoc-analyses die (1) diepgaandere implicaties over het studieobject achterwege laten en (2) een traditionele…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Accouplement: vicissitudes of an architectural motif in classical France in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoCoupled columns in French architecture and the reaction to their use from the Renaissance up to the classical rationalism of the early twentieth century hinged on the debates regarding the relation- ship between structural stability and visual delight, over the backdrop of the search for a national classical tradition. This architectural motif was…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited Unterseeboot in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMarco Heiles, Unterseeboot, in: Peter Glasner, Sebastian Winkelsträter und Birgit Zacke (Hg.), Abecedarium. Erzählte Dinge im Mittelalter, Berlin 2019, S. 244–254.
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Raf Van Rooy deposited De Grieken, babbelziek volk! Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), lidwoordhater in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHet Latijn heeft geen lidwoord zoals bijvoorbeeld het Nederlands (de, het) of het Oudgrieks (ho, hē, tó), en dat vond de 16de-eeuwse humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger prima. De grootse taal van Rome kon het makkelijk stellen zonder dat pietluttige woordje. Toegegeven, het kan soms nuttig zijn om aan te geven dat je een specifiek object op het oog h…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Wanneer Latijn niet volstaat: John Palsgrave, schrijver van het eerste handboek Frans (1530), en het Grieks in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHet Latijn, de taal van de Romeinen, heeft lange tijd zijn stempel gedrukt op de taalkunde en taalbeschrijving, niet alleen in de oudheid, maar ook in de middeleeuwen en de Renaissance, wanneer men de talige diversiteit van de wereld gestaag ontdekte. De meest uiteenlopende talen werden met wisselend succes gegoten in de mal van het Latijnse…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Vakantie in eigen land: Manneken Pis à la grecque in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMet de wereld op stelten is het tegenwoordig niet evident om van de mediterrane zon te genieten, al moet het weer in de Lage Landen de laatste jaren niet veel meer onderdoen. Mocht je toch snakken naar een zweempje Griekenland deze zomer, dan biedt de dichter van Gentse origine Daniël Heinsius (1580–1655) misschien een tegengif.
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