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This Census of Rabelais Copies reflects the digital revolution in library cataloguing, incorporating a complete rechecking for early Rabelais copies, notably in the Worldcat database. Every copy recorded has been further verified in the catalogues of the individual...
Upon the death of Jacopo Antonio Marcello’s eight-year-old son Valerio on the first of January 1461, prominent humanists produced consoling letters, essays, and poems. The most important of these writings was the Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii...
Focusing on a little studied miscellany by Claude Fauchet (1530-1602), this book reveals the role of the medieval in crafting an image of French modernity during the Renaissance. Designed to confront the Pléiade with the rich legacy of medieval French, the Veilles...
In 1544 appeared Calvin’s Antidote to the 1542 articles of faith of the Theological Faculty of Paris. Alongside a refutation of the articles he also gives, in a satirical way, a defense of those articles.In short, all the battle points of his days pass in revue.In...
Forty years after the publication of Bibliography of French Bibles. Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century French-Language Editions of the Scriptures, the present supplement serves as an update of the original work. The Supplement maintains the format of the Bibliography –...
The attention given to Alciato in recent years has been concerned mostly with his “Emblemata”. This term, used originally as the title of a compilation of epigrams describing personal devices, became very soon the name of a new genre of poem and illustration widely used...
The philosopher and humanist Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) has attracted scholarly attention as translator of Plato, the Corpus Hermeticum, Plotinus and other Neoplatonists, and for his complex synthesis of Platonism and Christianity. While most previous studies of...
Falconry has been the pursuit of kings, emperors, emirs, khans, merchants and travellers for over 2000 years. It has provided subjects for literature and art, and been discussed in works of zoology, medicine, and law. The papers in this volume originated in a conference...
Since the nineteenth century, the political thought of the French Catholic League (1585-1595) has been considered to be mere plagiarism of Calvinist monarchomach texts written after the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572). Based on the original manuscript of the most...
SommaireFOREWORDACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONHistorical SettingCalvin and the Liturgical Year The ManuscriptThe Biblical Text The Scribes The Edition AbbreviationsSelect BibliographySERMONS ON ACTS 1 TO 71 25 August 1549 Acts 1:1-2 2 22 December 1549 Acts 2:36-383 29...
The Calvinist Reformation is characterized above all by a focus on church discipline enforced by church courts known as consistories.The Geneva consistory served as the model and mother institution throughout the Calvinist world. In this book, Robert M. Kingdon surveys...
Heiko A. Oberman dedicated the last fifteen years of his scholarly career to the study of John Calvin and the pan-European movement he launched, described by Oberman as the "Reformation of the Refugees". In the eight essays collected here, Oberman assesses a...
This text, written by Jean Calvin in defence of the execution of Michael Servetus in October 1553, provoked widespread controversy and reaction. It was published in Geneva by Robert Etienne in 1554. It is a composite text. Calvin reproduces many original documents...
Calvin encouraged female education and, with other reformers, positively reevaluated marriage. This study focuses on the place of women in his exegesis, both Old and New Testament, comparing it with that of his predecessors, especially Augustine, Chrysostom and the...
Miss McKee's book is not only an historical portrayal of Calvin's doctrine of the diaconate but also a study of the links that existed between Calvin's teaching and social welfare and the practices in liturgy.
This is the third and final volume of a series of books devoted to design of Rabelais's Pantagrueline epics. It completes the project begun in The Design of Rabelais's Pantagruel and continued in The Design of Rabelais's Tiers Livre de Pantagruel. Its subject is...
A little known philosopher and scholar of the French Humanism : Charles de Bovelles, gains throught this penetrating study the consideration and interest he and his works deserve.
Montaigne submitted his Essais to papal censure. This book examines his reaction to the constructive criticism made and the modification he brought to bear on his work.
Cette étude jette une lumière nouvelle sur les relations de Joachim du Bellay avec le fameux et omniprésent cardinal de Lorraine. En appendice, des poèmes latins de Du Bellay inédits à ce jour, les Xenia.
Unveiling some aspects of Venetian government hidden by legend; on electoral corruption and its repression, and on the punishment of malpractices among officials.
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