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Love and Marriage on the Medieval English Stage: Using the English Cycle Plays as Sources for Social History

Medievalists.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:53:04 +0000

Much scholarship concerning the concept of “companionate” marriage traces its origins to the early modern period as clergymen, especially Protestant ones, began to publish “guides” to the relationships and respective duties of husbands and wives in the 1500s and 1600s.

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The Revolution in Writing Styles during the Renaissance

Medievalists.net — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:43:13 +0000

Just as we have our faces, we each should have own writing style - this was the lesson that two leading Renaissance thinkers, Erasmus and Montaigne, gave to their contemporaries in 16th century Europe.

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Desiderius Erasmus, Humanist

Medievalists.net — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 03:39:00 +0000

He was a creative and prolific writer on Humanist topics and translator of Latin and Greek texts and his works were highly publicized in his time.

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‘Cast out into the hellish night’: Pagan Virtue and Pagan Poetics in Lorenzo Valla’s De voluptate

Medievalists.net — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:21:13 +0000

Valla wrote about Epicureanism before the Renaissance rediscovery of classical Epicurean texts. Poggio Bracciolini had not yet circulated his newly-discovered manuscript of first century Epicurean philosopher Lucretius’ De rerum natura, and Valla wrote without access to Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Philosophers, which discussed Epicurus’ teachings in greater detail.

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An Unexpected Audience: Manner Manuals in Renaissance Europe

Medievalists.net — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:01:27 +0000

Translated into twenty-two languages within the first decade of publication, On Civility in Children was the cultural phenomenon of the day

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Unto Philadelphia: The Multiple Genealogies of the Rosenbach Erasmus Novum Testamentum (1519)

Medievalists.net — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:38:03 +0000

The Third Annual Medievalists @ Penn Graduate Student Conference Unto Philadelphia: The Multiple Genealogies of the Rosenbach Erasmus Novum Testamentum (1519) Alexander Devine (University of Pennsylvania) Alexander catalogues medieval manuscripts in Baltimore, Maryland. This paper dealt with the dispersal of the medieval library during the Dissolution of the 16th century and the transfer of Erasmus’s book from […]

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