Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Giovanni Della Casa

A Renaissance Treatise on Manners

Galateo

Sir Nicholas Throckmorton

The Trial of Nicholas Throckmorton

Erika Rummel

Milton Kooistra

Except perhaps for Wittenberg, no place in the German Empire played a greater role in the early Reformation than the free imperial city of Strasbourg. This volume presents the results of a workshop on the correspondence of a major figure in the Strasbourg Reformation, Wolfgang Capito. The collection includes interpretive essays, text editions of two Capito works and documents of a lawsuit that affected his establishment in the city, as well as studies of the problems of producing modern editions of Capito himself and his contemporaries Erasmus, Bucer, Bullinger, and Beza. Readers will find fresh insights into the intellectual, religious, and political world of southwestern Germany in the early sixteenth century.

The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and His Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland

Reformation Sources

K. Eisenbichler

K.R. Bartlett

N.L. Adamson

Humanist Editions of the Classics at the C.R.R.S. (Centre For Reformation and Renaissance Studies).

Johannes Brenz

Johannes Brenz and the Establishment of the Lutheran Territorial Church in Germany, 1524-1559

Godly Magistrates and Church Order

Girolamo Savonarola

On 23 May 1498 Girolamo Savonarola, one of the most spell-binding figures of the Italian Renaissance, was publicly burned at the stake on the main piazza of Florence on trumped-up charges of heresy and sedition. Thus ended the friar's meteoric rise to power and his unprecedented influence over Florentine society. Though his ashes were unceremoniously dumped into the River Arno the moment the cinders had died away, the fire of his teachings could not be extinguished, nor could Florentines forget the rivetting preacher from Ferrara who, in four short years, had turned their city upside down. Neither could Italians nor, more generally, European reformers, for they soon turned Savonarola into a prophet of renewal and into a symbol of the struggle against corruption. Whether he was one or the other or neither, is still very much under debate. This collection of texts from Savonarola's extensive body of works seeks to provide the English reader with a variety of entry points into this controversial figure. With samples from his letters to his poems, from his sermons to his pastoral works, it more than doubles the number of Savonarola's works currently available in English. In so doing, it makes his teachings that much more accessible to wide range of scholars and students alike.

A Guide to Righteous Living and Other Works

Early Stuart Pastoral

Donald Beecher

Thomas Lodge

Henry D. Janzen

A Margarite of America (1596)

Paola Lanaro (économiste.)

The articles in this volume position Venice and her economy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century in relation to the larger European and Mediterranean context. In so doing, they engage firmly in a debate with recent historiographical discussions about European peripheries, the role of craft guilds and rural industries, the impact of fashion and demand-driven markets in the process of production specialization, and the emergence of regional markets and proto-industrial districts.

Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and on the Venetian Mainland (1400-1800)

At the Centre of the Old World

Jacqueline Glomski

Annotated Catalogue of Early Editions of Erasmus at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto

The nineteenth century witnessed rapid economic and social developments, profound political and intellectual upheaval, and startling innovations in art and literature. As Europeans peered into an uncertain future, they drew upon the Renaissance for meaning, precedents, and identity. Many claimed to find inspiration or models in the Renaissance, but as we move across the continent's borders and through the century's decades, we find that the Renaissance was many different things to many different people. This collection brings together the work of sixteen authors who examine the many Renaissances conceived by European novelists and poets, artists and composers, architects and city planners, political theorists and politicians, businessmen and advertisers. The essays fall into three groups: "Aesthetic Recoveries of Strategic Pasts"; "The Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars"; and "Material Culture and Manufactured Memories."

The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century

The Queen's Majesty's Passage & Related Documents

Youth in Society, 1150-1650

The Premodern Teenager

Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650)

Shell Games

James I (King of England)

And, Basilikon Doron

The True Law of Free Monarchies

Matteo Bandello

Pierre Boaistuau

Luigi Da Porto

Four Early Stories of Star-crossed Love

Romeo and Juliet Before Shakespeare

Jean Bodin

On the Demon-mania of Witches

For medieval and early modern Europeans, contemporary culture was often refracted through the legend of Troy, arguably the most important set of stories outside the Bible for centuries of western European history. These stories were transmitted in dozens of competing versions, and contemporary local events were habitually understood in the context of a pagan legend whose origins were remote and whose mandate was ambiguous. The fifteen essays in this volume offer compelling new treatments of these now-evaporated fantasies of Troy, which were central to the European social imaginary. The essays consider texts and performances of Troy across a wide generic range, from learned court poetry to burlesque, from treatises on linguistic history to public spectacles.

Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Fantasies of Troy

William J. Connell

Giles Constable

In Florence, in the summer of 1501, a man named Antonio Rinaldeschi was arrested and hanged after throwing horse dung at an outdoor painting of the Virgin Mary. His punishment was severe, even for the times, and the crimes with which he was formally charged, gambling, blasphemy and attempted suicide, did not normally warrant the death penalty. Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence unveils a series of newly discovered sources concerning this striking episode. The authors show how the political and religious context of Renaissance Florence resulted both in Rinaldeschi's death sentence and in the creation by the followers of Savonarola of a new religious devotion, in the heart of the city, commemorating the event. -- Amazon.com.

The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi

Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence

The essays in this collection explore conflict and continuity across the spectrum of political, legal, and spiritual traditions from late medieval Umbria and Tuscany to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, Rome, and Castile. They point to a shared tradition of dispute and resolution in both ecclesiastical/spiritual and state/secular matters, whether of private conscience or public policy. Continuity of ideals, problems, and modes of resolution suggest that breaks in legal, political, or religious ideals and behavior were not as frequent or sharp as historians have argued. These continuities emerge from common methodological approaches grounded in close, careful reading of key texts and their polyvalent terms. Whether those were the terms of civil or canon law, spirituality, or astrology, each author has had to grapple with multiple possibilities, contexts, customs, and practices that reveal the shifts and continuities in their possible meanings. -- Amazon.com.

Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain

A Renaissance of Conflicts

Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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