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... the covenant was itself understood as a marriage. Focusing especially on poems by two canonical Puritan poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, this essay argues that this fascination with the interplay between freedom and restraint — manifest in the form as well as the content of their poetry — produced...

...Jennifer Hillman This article explores the cognitive struggle against “doubt” that impeded the conversion of the female aristocrat Anne de Gonzague, princesse Palatine, in seventeenth-century France. Anne's conversion came only after a life-long intellectual battle that climaxed when she held...

...Jaime Goodrich This essay considers how two Benedictine writers, Claude Estiennot (1639–1699) and Anne Neville (1605–1689), engaged with the generic conventions of historical writing, specifically the subgenre of monastic history. In an attempt to complicate critical narratives about early modern...

...Anne F. Harris The devotional complex of the chapel of Saint-Fiacre in Brittany offers an exceptional opportunity to consider the role of the natural world in the construction of the sacred in the late Middle Ages. Interactions between landscape, architecture, and ritual, this essay argues, created...

..., rather than its immediate source. Being largely stripped of her agency was hardly a good development for the reputation of the queen of France. In many ways a replay of the foreign queen and her foreign favorite, the regency of Marie’s daughter-in-law, Anne of Austria, added a crucial...

... essay, Josephine Roberts explicitly considers examples of misattribution to early modern women writers, examining texts that circu- lated under the signatures of Anne Vavasour, Constantia Munda, and Mary Frith within the category of works of uncertain authorship. She points to the difficulties...

... VIII has broken with Rome in order to divorce Katherine of Aragon and marry her pregnant for- mer gentlewoman, Anne Boleyn, the dying Katherine is shown in retreat at Kimbolton castle, attended only by her waiting women and her servant, Griffith. Ill and weak, she falls asleep and has...

... describes herself as “the person that I believe of all the world grieved most for her death,” and “soon after,” she reports, “I had a very violent fit of sicknesse.” The death of Ann Fanshawe’s father caused such intense grief that she was ill for six months “almost to death”; and another woman...

..., Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. xxii, 417 pp. $29.95. [Latin texts with facing-­page English translations.] Virey, Jean de. Tragédies. Edited by Anne-­Marie Le Baillif. Textes Littéraires de la Renaissance, vol. 14. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2013. 447 pp. Paper eur 97.38. [Includes La...

... Christian Origins  95 – 112 Gayk, Shannon, and Robyn Malo The Sacred Object  457 – 467 Gibson, Gail McMurray Manuscript as Sacred Object: Robert Hegge’s N-­Town Plays  503 – 529 Harris, Anne F. Water and Wood: Ecomateriality and Sacred Objects at the Chapel of Saint-­Fiacre, Le Faouët...

... for containing her anxiety.12 Within just a few lines of the first prefatory poem, for instance, the poet acknowledges the unusual situation of “that which is seldome seene, / A Womans writing of divinest things,” but meekly hopes that Queen Anne of Denmark will take the poet under her protection...

... to move forward with his plans to divorce Katharine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. The newly solid relationship between the English and French monarchs got the pope's attention, as Henry desired. 8 Although the pope did officially command Henry, under pain of excommunication, to end his relationship...

... and Cather- ine Des Roches belonged to what Ann Rosalind Jones has called “gendered interventions into shared public languages.”23 Catherine Des Roches’s capitulation to Pasquier’s demand for a poem based on the bloodsucking parasite on her breast might be mistaken for her passive yielding...

... Michael Cornett, Managing Editor Duke University Press Durham, North Carolina 2012 Volume 42 Index Aers, David Langland on the Church and the End of the Cardinal Virtues  59 – 81 Astell, Ann W. Heroic Virtue...

... Inglis’s books as a means to approach people of rank both in Scotland and in England, including the Essex and Sidney circles, and those associated with the courts of Anne of Denmark and Prince Henry.9 It is possible to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding one par- ticular book of Inglis’s...

..., on a large scale, a personally cut and curated com- monplace book. In a published funeral sermon for the death of Lady Anne Clifford, Edward Rainbowe describes how she would frequently bring out of the rich Store-­house of her Memory, things new and old, Sentences, or Sayings of remark...

...Figure 2 . Caliari, Nativity of the Virgin Mary, detail of Saint Anne, right side. © Jutta Sperling. ...

... and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. x, 174 pp.; 1 illus. $40.00. Barnes, Barnabe. The Devil’s Charter: A Tragedy Containing the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Sixth. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. Globe Quartos. New York: Theatre Arts Books...