Knowledge Commons | Renaissance / Early Modern Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Renaissance / Early Modern Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:08:13 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8b34632df8b320903afc1736e431282d Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:35:22 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on "Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire" that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for more details. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 638e7e0117ad13579f2e48d1d9b07b13 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:05:25 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> b8379afe605651c33052960cab24f839 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-9/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:42:10 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 979feb4f497ce72fafae4925b086f1b4 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891475/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:26 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fcf8064a2c01347aca265f94f847b8 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891472/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:10 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 5374a10a192da8a5a86362dfcf2a1d43 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889652/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:00 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 28366b3b6babbc3a1c665997332d6ec3 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Kemp y Juan Rana: reconstrucción e implicaciones culturales del gesto dancístico en la Inglaterra y España de la modernidad temprana in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887548/ Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:06 -0400 Comparative study examining the dance of Will Kemp (England) and Juan Rana (Spain), in the theatrical context of early modern Europe.

]]> 0 353e3276aeb475fee839c03ed58b4f2e Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886884/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:19:23 -0400 692aa0918ce4eb45edb644e6ba5bcf89 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886883/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:18:17 -0400 0c9a16de8c5dcbc1aa0a7de81e0da6a8 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886480/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:22 -0400 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ac8895aba3324b69cfcda7aa22d6ff Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881705/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:04 -0400 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4969cb67a3019b37d641bf56026afb8 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Reconstructing Relationships of Desire: Homosexuality in Spanish Golden Age Theater in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874118/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:04:59 -0500 The figure of the marión, maricón or puto—the male homosexual—appears in many Spanish Golden Age plays. The critical approaches to this dramatic type have centered on thematic and textual issues, ignoring the performative cues inscribed on the character. For this reason, this paper reconstructs the acting of male homoeroticism in the comed…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a56710a3e462cba3905ca47e3aae13b Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Superhero Segismundo: Uncovering the Politics of Angry Gestures in the 2018 Graphic Novel Adaptation of La vida es sueño in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871309/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:00:37 -0500 The comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]

]]> 0 085832a14c7e6f2f0937d52730bc339e Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865830/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:00:15 -0500 According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 f88890b56addb291db769c325765c4d3 Jeremy Fradkin deposited Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862463/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 03:00:07 -0400 This article shows how English supporters of Jewish immigration in the 1650s articulated a universal model of Christian hospitality for all foreigners fleeing religious persecution, regardless of whether they adhered to the Protestant faith of their English hosts. It thus urges a reconsideration of the widespread assumption that European…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9388f332d689899dede8ff32d2cfb70 Christopher Crosbie deposited Publicizing the Science of God: Milton's Raphael and the Boundaries of Knowledge in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859610/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:25 -0400 This essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]

]]> 0 78328ca5455964c48418e28faa4de8b7 Christopher Crosbie deposited Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859608/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:10 -0400 This article examines how Thomas Hughes's "The Misfortunes of Arthur" pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.

]]> 0 fd4f994f707175fb94c7a6b7a21e56aa Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858430/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:06:27 -0400 From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7889b4220743f92692f7a1f87100e403 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "Explorando la presencia de personajes femeninos en la comedia en tiempos de Lope de Vega desde las Humanidades Digitales" (Hipogrifo 11.1, 2023) pp. 39-54 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856823/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:08:38 -0400 Este artículo visibiliza el uso que se le puede dar a una serie de proyectos de Humanidades Digitales, como son las bases de datos de Rolecall, DICAT y CATCOM o la biblioteca digital EMOTHE, a la hora de analizar las dinámicas escenográficas en el teatro español de finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII, coincidiendo con las déc…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c699252eda54ba4b52e6d1e3afa7ae6 Christopher Crosbie deposited Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855433/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:44 -0400 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d29f07309eca519883dc5faa2febed9 Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853082/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:27 -0400 Historians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f63bf7eba945b2cb15fe3ba120c96f1 Luca Zenobi started the topic CfP: Listing the World before the Age of Print (IMC sessions, Leeds 2024) in the discussion Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-listing-the-world-before-the-age-of-print-imc-sessions-leeds-2024-4/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:29:07 -0400 We all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order…[Read more]

]]> 18d5bd67f67140b1f3b1eb96fbc202fb Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849985/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:24:06 -0400 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]

]]> 0 181da490155d7cc606929f21b1b565fc Pragya Ranjan deposited Cave of Spleen - a feminist perspective: Status of women in early 18th century England in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848164/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:24:45 -0400 "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
effect can be seen on the writers of those…[Read more]

]]> 0 627cf0637a267b3333b7bfff4597400c Christopher Crosbie deposited Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845034/ Wed, 10 May 2023 02:23:42 -0400 Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener's son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fdb90ba4e2fd9e5a29d7e449ad0400 Christopher Crosbie deposited “The Comedy of Errors, Haecceity, and the Metaphysics of Individuation” in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843571/ Thu, 04 May 2023 02:23:44 -0400 Examines Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the epistemological challenges of differentiating twins in light of Aristotle's Metaphysics, specifically his theories of substance and individuation.

]]> 0 607f70bdc1d802079ea1382112f7b528 Christopher Crosbie deposited Refashioning Fable through the Baconian Essay: De sapientia veterum and Mythologies of the Early Modern Natural Philosopher in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842936/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 02:24:33 -0400 Shortly after publishing the first edition of his Essays in 1597, Francis Bacon drafted De sapientia veterum, a series of unpublished essays designed to re-read classical mythology as indicative of political and scientific truths. An early, if partial, expression of Bacon’s project to facilitate mastery over the natural order, De sapientia has c…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cf5858e02b977c73541d04edab46b52 Christopher Crosbie deposited “'Strange Serious Wantoning:' Early Modern Chess Manuals and the Ethics of Virtuous Subterfuge in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842217/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:23:38 -0400 This essay examines English Renaissance chess manuals in order to understand why chess, a game that encourages subterfuge and stratagem, was nonetheless figured as the paradigmatic example of a virtuous pastime. Particular attention is given to da Odenara Damiano’s The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts (1564), Arthur Saul’s The Famous Gam…[Read more]

]]> 0 6de060e5dac6451e47181f53d829374d Elizabeth B. Davis deposited "Woman, Why Weepest Thou?" Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835738/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:24:07 -0500 This article examines Mary Magdalene's biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or "re-visioning" (Adrienne Rich's term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1fe765e1e64649cc9f5568fbefccbf7 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Iglesia, mar y Casa Real: Imaginario de la odisea en la épica del Siglo de Oro in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834642/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:25:13 -0500 In this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or "mejora" is always contingent…[Read more]

]]> 0 58442bcab0e084387bf527976449c956 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited La promesa del náufrago: el motivo marinero del ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834637/ Fri, 17 Feb 2023 02:24:33 -0500 The nautical motif of the ex-voto (votive offering) is a lyric genre that reflects poetically the possible experience of a shipwreck survivor. Paradoxically, many of the poets who evoke the perils of sea travel never left Spain or, at most, sailed only the waters of the Mediterranean. Their writing of the sea remained consistently codified in…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4230cd544ebdb29dfbd3f442d701a30 Paulino Capdepon deposited Josquin Des Prez: Un legado culminante del Renacimiento in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834315/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:34:26 -0500 The biographical trajectory of the Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez can be described as exciting and his musical contribution as transcendent in an era of sublime creativity that coincided with the artistic and intellectual rediscovery of the values of classical Greco-Latin antiquity. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo,…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7f80a0d4320d8fa4eece9d0e6815aba Christopher Crosbie deposited Aristotelian Time, Ethics, and the Art of Persuasion in Shakespeare’s Henry V in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834289/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:38 -0500 In his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]

]]> 0 25145e18988a01659d471c9e13d795e0 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Un soneto de Quevedo al nacimiento de Cristo: ¿ortodoxo o astrológico? in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834276/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:27:53 -0500 In this early article, written in the wake of the publication of Alessandro Martinengo's _La astrología en la obra de Quevedo_ (Madrid: Alhambra, 1983), Dr. Davis focuses on the astrological tropes in a Quevedo sonnet on the nativity of Christ to see whether this poetic text can shed additional light on the poet's documented penchant for…[Read more]

]]> 0 08aca0ce4c1e8eaea70dcb971033517b Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834273/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:27:27 -0500 Professor Davis's early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.

]]> 0 9f3e401814b8f21bf86274cb86215927 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Hagiographic Jest in Quevedo: Tradition and Departure in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834268/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:26:43 -0500 Several of Francisco de Quevedo's hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that "la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;" indeed, the writer's particular blend of "las burlas con las veras" has attracted attention s…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3bffbb7dfd27bae005f02b5e9954c48 Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Quevedo and the Rending of the Rocks in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834259/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:25:46 -0500 This essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ's death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.

]]> 0 d04210ebb8926de985c64dc86a1e9e0d Raf Van Rooy deposited Results of automatic language identification of works by Erasmus and Aleandro in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818249/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 02:25:50 -0400 Results of automatic language identification in Erasmus' Praise of Folly, Aleandro's diaries, and a 1512 letter from Aleandro to Erasmus

]]> 0 db1912fcf417f2e1d3328b094db70580 Devin Chaloux deposited Tonality and Tonal Structures in the Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria: A Case Study for Analyzing Tonal Phenomenology in Renaissance Polyphony in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794716/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 02:23:45 -0400 This dissertation develops a methodology for understanding tonality and tonal structures in Renaissance polyphony by exploring the ways that the modern-day analyst and listener experience tonal phenomena in this music through a historically-informed lens. Regarded as one of the most important composers of the late-sixteenth century, Tomás Luis de…[Read more]

]]> 0 130e38f93f6cb61e2458e14897c876a7 Adelina Modesti deposited CFP- AIWAC 2022 Women’s Legacies in Nature Studies, Health and Liberal Arts in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783150/ Fri, 03 Jun 2022 02:23:54 -0400 CFP - AIWAC 2nd edition Rome 2022

]]> 0 3d4d2c1759d1d96c13d172507bb82600 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited A Bicephalic Melancholiac: Acting a Royal Pathology in Spanish Golden Age Drama in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781024/ Sun, 08 May 2022 02:23:53 -0400 This study presents a reconstruction of the performance of the melancholic character in Golden Age theater. It argues that critics have overlooked the way this character type was acted on the original stage. Using Lope’s El Príncipe melancólico [The Melancholic Prince] as a case-study to speculate on the actor’s paralinguistic gestures and movem…[Read more]

]]> 0 61d9b4d2cb431e66ff07a7ee80452a51 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited The Tangible/Intangible Dialectic in La dama duende: A Critical Appreciation of the CNTC's 2017 Production in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781020/ Sun, 08 May 2022 02:23:41 -0400 The CNTC’s 2017 production of La dama duende presented the transition between the two main characters’ rooms in the third jornada using two illuminated windows at the rear wall of the stage. The comparison between this rendition and other modern productions reveals two problems in adaptation: the fidelity with the original and the und…[Read more]

]]> 0 753d55aed9f184dadfffc48f3fc47d44 Raf Van Rooy deposited Baldo Martorelli as Latin annotator of BNF, grec 2509 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1780612/ Wed, 04 May 2022 02:24:25 -0400 This paleographic comparison serves to support my argument in the following publication:

Van Rooy, Raf. Accepted. “Ippolita Maria Sforza, student and patroness of Greek in Milan (ca. 1465).” Renaissance Quarterly.

]]> 0 49e9adc7d3c63dff0c4d5c70726a4937 Ann E Mullaney deposited GB Folengo Samples: Psalm 51, March 21 2022 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775718/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 02:33:29 -0400 GB Folengo Commentry on Psalm 51, translated into English with brief annotations

]]> 0 9fcc7a9dcc1ca2c3d49b7e65302c4f59 Jonas Richter deposited Höllfahren: Ein Überblick in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773686/ Thu, 03 Mar 2022 02:24:02 -0500 overview on the history of the card game "Höllfahren" or "in die Höll"

]]> 0 87f69b8b817c6209f23c807d3acdc646 Thomas Dabbs posted an update in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies: This is a talk with David Sterling Brown, currently an […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765704/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 23:39:38 -0500 This is a talk with David Sterling Brown, currently an ACLS/Mellon Scholars and Society Fellow with The Racial Imaginary Institute. This conversation includes a look at recent initiatives that explore whiteness and modern racial conflict through the performance and study of Shakespeare: https://youtu.be/UJnSVBz9ujg.

]]> 0 25df04bc02d1c7e00b32f82980068eec Luís Henriques deposited Two mid-sixteenth-century Cecilian parody masses in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759573/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 02:23:39 -0500 Musical celebrations of the feast of St Cecilia were common in Europe since the fifteenth century and throughout the sixteenth century. Of the many composers who wrote music for this festivity we find four mid-sixteenth-century compositions by French composers. Two motets Cantantibus orgnis and Cecilia virgo gloriosa - by Pierre Certon which…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c997c37edbcf8e8e339847d3ce957f9 Ann E Mullaney deposited Dialogi quos Pomiliones vocat (Dialogs he Calls Short Pieces) in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758476/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:25:28 -0500 The first section of the text of the unusual 1533 volume published by both Giovanni Battista and Teofilo Folengo: dialogues and prose pieces, inclduing the first of the Psalms commentaries published, together with a translation into English and annotations.

]]> 0 3c564df4f80790448a8d1769a39955b5 Ann E Mullaney deposited GB Folengo 1555 Commentaries on Letters of the Apostles, James, Peter and John (1546) in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758472/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:24:53 -0500 Surprising volume of what looks like biblical commentary but is parody and erotica

]]> 0 e3e4c576c6095845446c87fd9bddbe12 Ann E Mullaney deposited GB Folengo Commentary on the Psalms 1543 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758468/ Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:24:15 -0500 Oversized volume of biblical commentary published in 1543 (and again in 1549, 1557, 1585, 1594) that is actually a parody which features the erotic lexicon popular in its day

]]> 0