Sixteenth Century Journal

Journal Volumes

Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Innovation: Valverde Reconsidered

The Forgotten Best Seller of the Confessional Age: The Many Lives of Luis de Granada’s Libro de la oración y meditación

Printing the Body of the Prince: Henri IV and Royal Portraiture

Liberating Speech: Confession and Dialogue in Marguerite de Navarre’s Les Prisons

“Means of Persuasion”: The Material Culture and Oppositional Politics of Two Counter-Reformation Female Agents, Jane Dormer and Luisa de Carvajal

Learned without Book: English Grammar Schools and the Place of Textbooks in Early Modern Education

Remembrance in a Gentry Family, ca. 1534–92

Lost and Found Accounts of a Tudor House: Inventories of Chesworth, Sussex, 1547 and 1549

The Kindness of Strangers: New Testament Imagery and the Restoration of the Monarchy in the Chirk Cabinet

“Furnaces of all letcherousness”: Narratives of Sexual Depravity and the Dissolution of the English Monasteries

Mannered Gender: A Hermaphroditic Blason in the Miroir de Jhesus Christ crucifié

What the Emperor Knew: Natural History in the Tafel-Reden of Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–64)

Michelangelo’s Minerva Christ: The Medieval Man of Sorrows and Eucharistic Piety in the Early Sixteenth Century

Between Faculty Psychology and Moral Philosophy: Juan Luis Vives on Phantasia and the Education of the Prince

The Accidental Worthy: Guy of Warwick and the Influence of Gerard Legh’s Accedens of Armory (1562–1612)

Gendering Political Relationships in Genoese Ceremonial Entries

“All mens eyes are fixed vpon you”: Dedications of Printed Works to the Earl of Essex and the Creation of Essex’s Public Persona

The Cross and the Lotus Flower: Reinventing Christian Art in Early Modern India

“Slimy Kempes Ill Smelling of the Mud:” The Terroir of Poetry and the Desire for Change in Barclay’s Eclogues

Climbing the Ladder: Hieronymus Bosch and the Vision of Hell

Implementing Royal Policy in Castile: The Council of the Cruzada and Monastic Discounts in the Ecclesiastical Subsidy, 1534–58

Reformation Studies in China over Seventy Years, 1949–2019

Adorning Masculinities? The Commissioning and Wearing of Hat Badges during the Habsburg-Valois Italian Wars

Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves

“But Who Can Assure Himselfe Not To Be Deceived in Matters Concerning Spirits?” Discernment as Antidemonology in Late Sixteenth-Century Europe

Untranslatable Huacas: The Languages of Cultural Appropriation in Early Modern Spanish Chronicles in Peru (1550–1615)

Bedding Agostino Chigi: Sodoma’s Marriage of Alexander and Roxanne in the Villa Farnesina

The Means to Rebuild the Church: Franco-Italian Networks, Lay Piety, and Religious Patronage in Counter-Reformation France

The Language of Consolation: The Spiritual Exercises and Jesuit Legibility in the Early Modern Mission Field

The Birth of a Martyr: The Metamorphosis of Hosokawa Tama Gracia

Monastic Reform and State-Building: Fontevraud and Origins of Bourbon France (1491–1589)

The Lady Vanishes: Religious Conflict and Premortem Enshrinement in Sixteenth-Century China

The Late Medieval City and Its Peri-Urban Sacred Landscape: The Case of Biberach an der Riß

Perseverance of the Eagle-Jaguar Military Ethos in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

“A Purgation Worse Than the First Offense”: An Annotated Version of Knox’s Letter of Apology to Elizabeth I

Richard Jones’s Tamburlaine the Great, or How to Print an Early Modern Play and Sequel

Secret Cabinets, Scribal Publication, and the Satyrique: François Maynard and Libertine Poetry in Public and Private Spaces

The Historia vom Leiden, Sterben, Aufferstehung vnd Himelfart Christi of Margarethe, Princess of Anhalt (1473–1530)

The Knight with No Horse: Defining Nobility in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile

Archive Wars: Record Destruction and the Memory of the French Wars of Religion in Montpellier

Manueline Marriages: Marriage, Wardship, and the Assimilation of Cristãos Novos in Portugal, 1497–1507

Of Pastorals and Partisans: Nationalist Variations on the Myth of Rural Virtue in Sixteenth-Century Anti-Protestant Polemics

Calling for Peace, Preparing for War: The Revolutionary Voice of Saint Genevieve during the Fronde

Picturing Time and Eternity in Sebastiano del Piombo’s Viterbo Pietà

Political Medicine in Early Modern Spain, or How Physicians Counsel the King

Religion or Rebellion? Justifying the French Wars of Religion and Dutch Revolt to German Protestants

A Question of Tradition: Catholic Reformers on Gregory the Great’s Beard

The Areopagus in New Spain

The Witches’ Accomplice: Toads in Early Modern Navarre

Matters Worthy of Men of State: Ethnography and Diplomatic Reporting in Sixteenth-Century Venice

Reigning in the Highest Places: The Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I in Its Roman and Spanish Contexts

Lodovico Capponi and Florentine Funerary Politics

Between Remembrance and Oblivion: Negotiating Civic Identity after the Sacks of Mechelen (1572, 1580)

Dinner with the Greatest Man on Earth, or, Erasmus’s Sword and d’Alviano’s Pen

English Publications of German Protestantism during the Reign of Elizabeth I

Preposterous Glossing: Queer Editing and Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender

Anno Domini-Dated Coins in Europe, 1450–1600: Numismatics and Early Modern Political Culture

The Dais and the Artistic Objects in the Proxy Marriage of Infanta Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy: Textiles, Ceremony, and Dissimilarity

Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies: A Special Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of The Sixteenth Century Journal

Special Issue Part I: The Past

Special Issue Part II: The Present

Special Issue Part III: The Future

Blood Kinetics and Narrative Performance in Early Modern Devotions to the Shroud of Turin

The Piety of Female Friendship: Convent and Court in Sixteenth-Century Mantua

The Mémoire of the Advocate David and the Discrediting of the Guises

Noisy Soundscapes and Women’s Institutions in Early Modern Florence

The Dispersal of Francis Walsingham’s Papers

Sibylline Voices: Prophecy and Power at the Medici Theater

Discharging Pistols at the Sky: Violence and Its Failures in Arden of Faversham

The Politics of Pedagogy: Jesuit Education as Political Threat in the Late Sixteenth-Century Venetian Republic

Louis Guyon’s Wolf-Boy of the Ardennes: Motherhood and Magic in Early Modern France

Religious Refugees and the Search for Public Worship in Frankfurt am Main, 1554–1608

The Infant Christ at the Spanish Court: Sor Margarita de la Cruz (1567–1633) and Sacred Material Culture

Challenging Confinement: The Redress of Captivity in La gran sultana

Baldassarre Peruzzi and the Architecture of Painting

The Artist as Visionary in Francisco de Zurbarán’s Crucifixion with a Painter

Relocating the Spanish Renaissance: Charles V, the Torre de la Estufa in the Alhambra, and the Islamic Past

The Witch and the Weather: Fear of Weather Magic in German Sixteenth-Century Neue Zeitungen

What Was Thomas Lodge's Josephus in Early Modern England

Hearing Difference in Calvin's Geneva: From Margins to Center

Henry VIII, János Szapolyai, and the Struggle for Hungary, 1526–36

The Cranach Workshop and the Prophets of Baal: The Jewish Foil of Early Lutheran Community Building

Lord Have Mercy on Us: Broadsides and London Plague Life

Queen Bees, Queen Bess, and the Gender Politics of Butler’s Feminine Monarchie

Class, Humanism, and Neo-Latin Epitaphs in Early Modern England: The Funerary Inscriptions of Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell

Patrick Finglas’s A Breviat of the Conquest of Ireland and of the Decay of the Same, ca. 1535, and the Tudor Conquest of Ireland

A Model Widow: The Portrait of Vittoria Orsini in Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome

The “Hairy War” (1640–50): Historicizing the Bible in the Dutch Republic on the Eve of Spinoza

Papal Anatomy in the News: Bodies and Politics in the Early Modern Catholic World

Rubens’s Dying Seneca and Masculinity

Travails of the Widow in Law in Florence at the End of the Fifteenth Century: An Illustrative Case

Remembering the Revolt of the Low Countries: Historical Canon Formation in the Dutch Republic and Habsburg Netherlands, 1566–1621

Closing the Painful Book: John Bale among the Elizabethans

Cuthburga and Saint King Henry: Two Royal Cults at Wimborne Minster, Dorset, 1403–1538

“We do not sell them this tolerance”: Grand Duke Ferdinando I’s Protection of Jews in Tuscany and the Case of Jacob Esperiel

Paolo Paruta’s Oratione Funebre and the Just War in Venetian Commemoration of the Battle of Lepanto

“A Pitiful Thing”? The Afterlife of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries in Early Modern Chronicles, ca. 1540–ca. 1640

Richard Hakluyt’s Voyages: Early Modern Print Culture and the Global Reach of Englishness

How to Become a Jesuit Crypto-Jew: The Self-Confessionalization of Giovanni Battista Eliano through the Textual Artifice of Conversion

Lying Sick to Die: Dying, Informal Care and Authority in Scotland, ca. 1600–1660

Mounted Coconuts, Bezoars, Slaves, and Chinese Porcelain: The Material Culture of the Donors of the Misericórdia of Porto (1500–1640)

Saints in Parts: Image of the Sacred Body in an Early Modern Venetian Town

Irreverent Reading: Martin Luther as Annotator of Erasmus

Shakespeare Review Essays

Reawakening the “Old Evangelical Zeal”: The 1617 Reformation Jubilee and Collective Memory in Strasbourg and Ulm

Nuns, Family, and Interfamilial Dynamics of Art Patronage in Post-Tridentine Roman Convents

“Persecutors Under the Cloak of Policy”: Anti-Catholic Vengeance and the Marian Hierarchy in Elizabethan England

“When War Comes They Want to Flee”: Motivation and Combat Effectiveness in the Spanish Infantry During the Italian Wars

Fascinated by Josephus: Early Modern Vernacular Readers and Ibn Daud’s Twelfth-Century Hebrew Epitome of Josippon

Four Hundred Years From Shakespeare

Review Essay: Teaching Women and Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Rethinking St. Peter’s: Papirio Bartoli and the Ship of the Church

Finding Margaret (Pole) in Shakespeare’s Richard III

John Knox, the Scottish Church, and Witchcraft Accusations

Stabat Mater Dolorosa: Mary at the Foot of the Cross

The Precedence Controversy and the Devolution of Ferrara: A Shift in Renaissance Politics

Feminist Forum at the SCSC: Teaching and Activism in a Transformed Landscape

Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Pedagogical is Political: Feminism as a Pedagogical and Political Choice in the Classroom

Some Thoughts on Feminism from an Art Historian

Feminism in the New Millennium: Reflections from a Colonial Classroom

Teaching, Learning, and Feminism: A View from Ireland

Feminist Practices: A View from an English Literature Classroom

The Wrath of Martin Luther: Anger and Charisma in the Reformer

Setting Luther into His Historical Place: My Quarrels with the German Orthodoxy in Luther Research

A Closer Look: How I Changed My Mind about Luther and the Reformation during the Last Decade

The Word-Prophet Martin Luther

Reflections on Events that Marked the Anniversary of the Reformation

Slippery Listening: Anxious Clergy and Lay Listeners’ Power in Early Modern England

Teaching Ignatian Spirituality to Rich and Poor Girls Through Dramatic Performance in Seventeenth-Century Florence

“Into that Geere the Rope”: Notes on the Early Modern Halter

The Wayward Priest of Atondo: Clerical Misbehavior, Local Community, and the Limits of Tridentine Reform

Izaak Walton’s “Holy War”: The Compleat Angler in Polemical Context

“They Say …”: Indian Talk Back as Indiaspeak in Ralph Fitch’s Account of India in 1583

Bones of Contention: The Decision to Amputate in Early Modern Germany

The Reformation and the Resurrection of the Dead

An Emperor’s Heraldry, a Pope’s Portrait, and the Cortés Map of Tenochtitlan: The Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii as an Evangelical

Singers and Lutes, Lutes and Singers: Musical Performance and Poetic Discourse in Early Modern Songs

Lorenzo “Spirito” Gualtieri’s Libro delle Sorti in Renaissance Perugia

Marguerite de Navarre and Ambiguous Deceit

Ministry in the Margins: Thomas Swalwell, OSB, and His Marginal Notes for Preaching on the Clergy

Courtesy, Cultivation, and the Ethics of Discernment in Book 6 of The Faerie Queene

Frobisher’s Bells: Commodities or Gifts?

An Unlikely Christian Humanist: How Bess of Hardwick (ca. 1527–1608) Answered “The Woman Question”

Time, Space, and Devotion: The Madonna della Clemenza and the Cappella Altemps in Rome

From Battlefield to Court: Raimondo Montecuccoli’s Diplomatic Mission to Queen Christina of Sweden after the Thirty Years’ War

Immobile Ambassadors: Gout in Early Modern Diplomacy

“Moving Mortals to Tears and Devotion”: Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, Torquato Tasso, and the Sorrowing Virgin

Politic Magnificence: Deciphering the Performance of the French and Spanish Rivalry during the Entrevue at Bayonne

Where Palace and Convent Met: The Descalzas Reales in Madrid

Ennobling Reform in Tudor Ireland

When the Yellow Emperor Visited Urbino: Lodovico Arrivabene’s Il Magno Vitei (1597)

The Miracles of Spain: Dynastic Attitudes to the Habsburg Succession and the Spanish Succession Crisis (1580–1700)

The Lost Book of the Strasbourg Prophets: Orality, Literacy, and Enactment in Lienhard Jost’s Visions

“I Will Be Master of What Is Mine Own”: Fortune Hunters and Shrews in Early Modern London

The Art of Forgetting the Middle Ages: Cornelius Agrippa’s Rhetoric of Extinction

“Beautiful Serpents” and “Cathedras of Pestilence”: Antitheatrical Traditions, Gendered Decline, and Political Crisis in Early Modern Spain and England

Et aures habentes non auditis: Getting the Message about Images in Sixteenth-Century Amiens

A New Perspective on Islam in Henrician England: The Polemics of Christopher St. German

The Deployment of the Classics in Early Modern Spanish Military Manuals

From Slurs to Silence? Sodomy and Mendicants in the Writings of Catholic Laymen in Early Modern Ghent

The Self-Reflective Gaze: Devotional Art between New Piety and Pietism in Lutheran Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Contingencies of Literary Censorship: Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy and Amadís de Gaula in January 1569

Mixing Canon and Common Law in Religious Prosecutions under Henry VIII and Edward VI: Bishop Bonner, Anne Askew, and Beyond

“The Sisters of Rachel”: Interpreting Dying in Childbed in Early Modern Denmark-Norway

Concord and Toleration in the Thought of Francesco Pucci, 1578–81

Experiential Learning In and Out of the Classroom

“Redditus orbis erat”: The Political Rhetoric of Bernini’s Fountains in Piazza Barberini

Conjuring the Concept of Rome: Alterity and Synecdoche in Peruzzi’s Design for La Calandria

Parental Authority and Freedom of Choice: The Debate on Clandestinity and Parental Consent at the Council of Trent (1545–63)

Vergilianism in Early Cinquecento Rome: Egidio Gallo and the Vision of Roman Destiny

People’s Secrets: Towards a Social History of Early Modern Cryptography

De rerum textura: Lucretius, Fracastoro, and the Sense of Touch

Anti-Machiavellianism and Roman Civil Religion in the Princely Literature of Sixteenth-Century Europe

Politics, Monuments, and Venice’s Reclamation of Padua during the Cambrai War

The Fish and the Whale: Animal Symbiosis and Early Modern Posthumanism

Salvation and Community in Seventeenth- Century Dutch Mennonite Portraiture: Egbert van Heemskerck’s Portrait of Jacob Hercules and His Family, 1669

Religion, Household-State Authority, and the Defense of “Collapsed Ladies” in Early Jacobean England

The Emergence of the State in Elizabethan Ireland and England, ca. 1575–99

Marie de Beaulieu and Isabella Andreini: Cross-Cultural Patronage at the French Court

An Anglo-Saxon Psalter and an Early Modern Female Reader

Debating the Literal Sense in England: The Scripture-Learned and the Family of Love

Resurrecting Vivisection: Michelangelo among the Anatomists

A Skeleton in the Closet: Secrecy and Anamorphosis in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron

Writing and Editing Texts for the 21st Century Classroom

Andreas Pevernage’s Cantiones sacrae (1578) as a Counter-Reformation Statement of Confessional Loyalty in the Low Countries

Tanglost of Wales: Magic and Adultery in the Court of Chancery circa 1500

Brother-Sister Correspondence in the Spinelli Family and the Forming of Family Networks in Sixteenth-Century Italy

“For the maintenance of the true religion”: Calvinism and the Directors of the Dutch West India Company

The Crusading State: The Expedition for the Cruzada Indulgence from Trent to Lepanto

From Incense to Idolatry: The Reformation of Olfaction in Late Medieval German Ritual

“Did the Pastor Buy You a Drink?” Religious Choice, Clerical Persuasion, and Confessional Elections in the Village of Goumoëns

The Rhetoric of Domestic Morality in Last Wills and Testaments in Sixteenth-Century Prague

The Conclaves of 1590 to 1592: An Electoral Crisis of the Early Modern Papacy?

After Iconoclasm: Reconciliation and Resacralization in the Southern Netherlands, ca. 1566–85

Despots, Emperors, and Balkan Identity in Exile

Papal Power and University Control in Early Modern Italy: Bologna and Gregory XIII

Presenting the “Poor Miserable Savage” to French Urban Elites: Commentary on North American Living Conditions in Early Jesuit Relations

Low Dowries, Absent Parents: Marrying for Love in an Early Modern French Town

(No) News from the Western Front: The Weekly Press of the Low Countries and the Making of Atlantic News

A Roman Poet in the Venetian Republic: The Reception of Horace in Sixteenth-Century Bergamo

“Nager entre deux eaux”: The Princes and the Ambiguities of French Protestantism

Vasari and the Etruscan Manner

From Thought to Action: Gilbert, Davis, And Dee’s Theories behind the Search for the Northwest Passage

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Witchcraft: A Reappraisal

Gendering the Borderlands: Conquistadors, Women, and Colonialism in Sixteenth-Century Florida

Camilla Peretti, Sixtus V, and the Construction of Peretti Family Identity in Counter-Reformation Rome

The Tudor Genesis of Edward Coke’s Immemorial Common Law

Suor Domenica da Paradiso as alter Christus: Portraits of a Renaissance Mystic

Cultivating Prudence: Robert Dallington’s Aphorismes Civill and Militarie

Orthography and National Identity in the Sixteenth Century

Anthony Copley and the Politics of Catholic Loyalty 1590– 1604

The Plague Cures of Caspar Kegler: Print, Alchemy, and Medical Marketing in Sixteenth-Century Germany

St. Clare Expelling the Saracens from Assisi: Religious Confrontation in Word and Image

Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young

“Those sanctified places where our Sauiours feete had trode”: Jerusalem in Early Modern English Travel Narratives

New Light on Antiparacelsianism (c. 1570– 1610): The Medical Republic of Letters and the Idea of Progress in Science

The Case of Thomas Gataker: Confronting Superstition in Seventeenth-Century England

Ulisse Aldrovandi, Antiquities, and the Roman Inquisition

Faith in the Language: Biblical Authority and the Meaning of English in More-Tyndale Polemics

In the Book of Life: Manuscript, Memoria, and Community in Eduard de Dene’s Testament Rhetoricael

On the Front Lines of Coexistence: Courthézon’s Consistory in the Early Seventeenth Century

Pluralism, Liturgy, and the Paradoxes of Reform: A Reforming Pluralist in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome

Traversing Borders—Defining Boundaries: Cosmopolitan Harmonies and Confessional Theology in Georg Rhau’s Liturgical Publications

In Memoriam: Robert McCune Kingdon

Heraldry and Collective Memory: A Lawsuit of Emperor Charles V against Reinoud III of Brederode

“This is no prophecy”: Robert Crowley, Piers Plowman, and Kett’s Rebellion

Puritan Conciliarism: Why Walter Travers Read Bullinger’s De Conciliis

The Coverture of Widowhood: Heterodox Female Publishers in Antwerp, 1530–1580

“Uncouth language to a Princes ears”: Archibald Armstrong, Court Jester, and Early Stuart Politics

Castiglione’s Francescopaedia: Pope Julius II and Francesco Maria della Rovere in The Book of the Courtier

Anatomia Antichristi: Form and Content of the Papal Antichrist

Witchcraft, Spiritualism, and Medicine: The Religious Convictions of Johan Wier

Bartolomeo Ammannati: Moving Stones, Managing Waterways, and Building an Empire for Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici

“El Papa non verrà”: The Failed Triumphal Entry of Leo X de’ Medici into Siena

From Illegitimate Son to Legal Citizen: Noble Bastards in Early Modern Venice

Botticelli’s Return of Persephone: On the Source and Subject of the Primavera

Confession, Contention, and Confusion: The Last Words of Robert Barnes and the Shaping of Theological Identity

Vasari, Leonardo, and il vero ritratto del tradimento et inumanità

“Selling stories and many other things in and through the city”: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice

Political Pamphlets in Early Seventeenth-Century France: The Propaganda War between Louis XIII and His Mother, 1619–20

From Sin to Insanity? Suicide Trials in the Spanish Netherlands, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Constitutional Thought and Practice in Early Sixteenth-Century France: Revisiting the Legacy of Ernst Kantorowicz

Empire and Medieval Simulacrum: A Political Project of Mercurino di Gattinara, Grand Chancellor of Charles V

“The field of finance”: War and Taxation in Holland, Flanders, and Brabant, 1572–85

Civic Charity, Civic Virtue: The Master of Alkmaar’s Seven Works of Mercy

Tradition and Innovation in Spanish Medicine: Bartolomé Hidalgo de Agüero and the Vía Particular

Gender, Obedience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Women’s Letters

Between the Hall and the Market: William Clowes and Surgical Self-Fashioning in Elizabethan London

Thomas Preston and English Catholic Loyalism: Elements of an International Affair

John Calvin after Five Hundred Years: Texts and Teachings

John Calvin after Five Hundred Years: Life and Impact

Fatal Lovesickness in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron

Strange Things Out of Hair: Baldness and Masculinity in Early Modern England

“Under Felt Hats and Worsted Stockings”: The Uses of Conscience in Early Modern English Coroners’ Inquests

Between Venice and Rome: The Dilemma of Involuntary Nuns

Calvin’s Mosaic Harmony: Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Legal History

Love Magic and the Inquisition: A Case from Seventeenth-Century Italy

Epistolary Negotiations: Mary the French Queen and the Politics of Letter-Writing

Disciplining Jews: The Papal Inquisition of Modena, 1598–1630

Vows, Oaths, and the Propagation of a Subversive Discourse

Imagining Esther in Early Modern France

Menno and Muhammad: Anabaptists and Mennonites Reconsider Islam, 1525–1657

Shooting for England: Configuring the Book and the Bow in Roger Ascham’s Toxophilus

Demographic Dimensions of the Mid-Tudor Crisis

Venerating the Virgin Martyrs: The Cult of the Virgines Capitales in Art, Literature, and Popular Piety

A History of the Sixteenth Century Journal and Conference

Rubies and Pearls: An Introduction to Forty Personal Reflections on the Discipline

Political Ambiguity and Confessional Diversity in the Funeral Processions of Stadholders in the Dutch Republic

The Reception of Evangelicae Historiae Imagines in Late Ming China: Visualizing Holy Topography in Jesuit Spirituality and Pure Land Buddhism

Monstrous Births and Counter-Reformation Visual Polemics: Johann Nas and the 1569 Ecclesia Militans

Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: European Jews and Reformation Narratives

The Strange Silence of Prolocutor Twisse: Predestination and Politics in the Westminster Assembly’s Debate over Justification

Female Voice, Male Authority: A Nun’s Narrative of the Regularization of a Female Franciscan House in Borgo San Sepolcro in 1500

Memory, Orality, and Life Records: Proofs of Age in Tudor England

Protestants as Agents of the Counter-Reformation in the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg

Medicine and Nonsense in French Renaissance Mock Prescriptions

Giovanni Bellini’s Feast of the Gods and Banquets of the Ancient Ritual Calendar

Governance and Empire during the Reign of Charles V: A Review Essay

Domesticating the Counter-Reformation: Bridging the Bardic and Catholic Traditions in Geoffrey Keating’s The Three Shafts of Death

Jesuit Encounters with Confucianism in Early Modern Japan

Creating a Usable Past: Vernacular Roman Histories in Renaissance Germany

A Tale as Yet Untold: Salamone Rossi in Venice, 1622

Reformation and the Muscovite Czar: Anti-Protestant Polemic in the Writings of Ivan the Terrible

Turning Dutch: Historical Myths in Early Modern Netherlands

Treason or Travesty: The Martin Cortes Conspiracy Reexamined

A Hotter Sort of Protestantism? Comparisons between French and Scottish Calvinisms

The Slippery Truth of George Buchanan’s Autobiography

Predatory Protectors? Conflict and Cooperation in the Suppression of the German Peasants’ Revolt of 1525

Caught between King, Religion, and Social Ambition: Marc-Antoine Marreau de Boisguérin and His Family (ca. 1560–1680)

Noble Widows and Estate Management during the French Wars of Religion

The Economics of Marriage: Dotal Strategies in Bologna in the Age of Catholic Reform

Marriage and Consent in Pre-Tridentine Venice: Between Lay Conception and Ecclesiastical Conception, 1420–1545

“Synne and Sedition”: Peter Martyr Vermigli’s “Sermon concernynge the tyme of rebellion” in the Parker Library

Beggars at the Gates: Banishment and Exclusion in Sixteenth-Century Ulm

Jews and Jesuits in a Confessional Age: Heinrich Heshusius and the Boundaries of Community in Hildesheim

Taking It to the Streets: Hucksters and Huckstering in Early Modern Southampton, circa 1550–1652

“The Greatest Man in Wales”: James ap Gruffydd ap Hywel and the International Opposition to Henry VIII

Multiconfessional Celebration of the Eucharist in Sixteenth-Century Wesel

“The folly of the swinish, brutish, mutinous, fickle, many-headed rabble”: Social Order in the Theology of Sebastian Franck

Art Patronage and Piety in Electoral Saxony: Frederick the Wise Promotes the Veneration of His Patron, St. Bartholomew

“I can indeed respond”: Lay Confessions of Faith in Late Sixteenth-Century Central Germany

Thomas More and Margaret More Roper: A Case for Rethinking Women’s Participation in the Early Modern Public Sphere

Capell nuncapato Jherusalem noviter Brugis: The Adornes Family of Bruges and Holy Land Devotion

The Case Against Thomas More

The agony of the Virgin: The Swoons and Crucifixion of Mary in Sixteenth Century Castilian Passion Treatises

Crown, County, and Corporation in Early Seventeenth-Century Essex

Learning and Masculinity in Manuscripts of Ritual Magic of the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

“They have taken away my Lord”: Mary Magdalene, Christ’s Missing Body, and the Mass in Reformation England

Paulus Melissus and Jacobus Falckenburgius: Two German Protestant Humanists at the Court of Queen Elizabeth

Writing the Wrongs of the Past: Vengeance, Humanism, and the Assassination of Alessandro de’ Medici

Doing Without Precedent: Applied Typology and the Execution of Charles I in Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

Puritans, Politics, and Lunacy: The Copinger-Hacket Conspiracy as the Apotheosis of Elizabethan Presbyterianism

The Mindelaltheim Affair: High Justice, Ius Reformandi, and the Rural Reformation in Eastern Swabia (1542–46)

Savonarolan Witnesses: The Nuns of San Jacopo and the Piagnone Movement in Sixteenth-Century Florence

Teaching Elizabeth Tudor with Movies: Film, Historical Thinking, and the Classroom

Tales of Two Bishop Saints: Zenobius and Antoninus in Florentine Renaissance Art and History

Philosemitism in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Iberia: Refracted Judeophobia?

Art and Reform: Correggio’s Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine with St. Sebastian

Axel Oxenstierna and Books

“Surrender and Regrant” in the Historiography of Sixteenth-Century Ireland

Inventing the British Republic: Richard Beacon’s Solon His Follie (1594) and the Rhetoric of Civilization

“Admitted to the Heavenly School”: Consolation, Instruction, and Admonition in Aegidius Hunnius’s Academic Funeral Sermons

The Political Repercussions of the Five Articles of Perth: A Reassessment of James VI and I’s Religious Policies in Scotland

The Spanish Reformation: Institutional Reform, Taxation, and the Secularization of Ecclesiastical Properties under Charles V

Spanish Celebrations in Seventeenth-Century Naples

The Guises, the Body of Christ, and the Body Politic

Ceremony versus Consent: Courtship, Illegitimacy, and Reputation in Northwest England, 1560–1610

The Early Modern Portuguese Empire: A Commentary on Recent Studies

Niccolò Liburnio on the Boundaries of Portraiture in the Early Cinquecento

Child Monuments in Renaissance Poland

The Spanish Hieronymites and the Reformed Texts of the Council of Trent

Marie Dentiere: An Outspoken Reformer Enters the French Literary Canon

The Family of Love and Its Enemies

Horsing Around: Framing Alchemy in the Manuscript Illustrations of the Splendor Solis

Presenting the Spectators as the Show: The Piazza degli Uffizi as Theater and Stage

St. Teresa and Olivares: Patron Sainthood, Royal Favorites, and the Politics of Plurality in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Englishing the Globe: Molyneux’s Globes and Shakespeare’s Theatrical Career

Women’s Reading Practices in Seventeenth-Century England: Margaret Fell’s Women’s Speaking Justified

Holy Restraint: Religious Reform and Nuns’ Music in Early Modern Rome

Filius Perditionis: The Propagandistic Use of a Biblical Motif in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Evangelical Bible Translations

Brotherhood and Sisterhood in the Chambers of Rhetoric in the Southern Low Countries

“To Oblige My Brethren”: The Reformed Funeral Sermons of Johann Brandmüller

The First Parliament of Mary, Queen of Scots

The Miraculous Body of Evidence: Visionary Experience, Medical Discourse, and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Melanchthon’s Doctrinal Last Will and Testament: The Responsiones ad articulos Bavaricae inquisitionis as His Final Confession of Faith

Friedrich Förner, the Catholic Reformation, and Witch-Hunting in Bamberg

Anthonius Margaritha—Honest Reporter?

Social Control and Its Limits: Sodomy, Local Sexual Economies, and Inquisitors during Spain’s Golden Age

Book Burning in Tudor and Stuart England

Appealing to the Senses: The Forty Hours Celebrations in the Duchy of Chablais, 1597–98

Humanistic Self-Representation in Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Della Fisonomia Dell’uomo: Antecedents and Innovation

“For Caesar’s I am”: Henrician Diplomacy and Representations of King and Country in Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry

Visualizing Devotion in Early Modern Seville: Velázquez’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

Drawing Lives and Memories from the Everyday Words of the Early Modern Era

“Neither dumb, deaf, nor destitute of understanding”: Women as Guardians in Early Modern Spain

Community of the Texts: Producing the First and Second Editions of Acts and Monuments

A Marriage Commemorated in the Stairway of Fools

When Male Characters Pass as Women: Theatrical Play and Social Practice in the Italian Renaissance

Making Use of God’s Remedies: Negotiating the Material Care of Children in Reformation Geneva

Faith and Forgiveness: Lessons in Statecraft for Queen Mary Tudor

Concerning Sex Changes: The Cultural Significance of a Renaissance Medical Polemic

“Our Particular Cloister”: Ursulines and Female Education in Seventeenth-Century Parma and Piacenza

Armchair Travelers and the Venetian Discovery of the New World

Private Confession and the Lutheranization of Sixteenth-Century Nördlingen

The Welfare of Pregnant and Birthing Women as a Concern for Male and Female Rulers: A Case Study

Anti-Puritanism, Anti-Popery, and Gallows Rhetoric in Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller

Called to Be a Pastor: Issues of Vocation in the Early Modern Period

The Magdeburg Cathedral Pastor Siegfried Saccus and Development of the Lutheran Funeral Biography

An Antiquarian Scholar between Text and Image? Justus Lipsius, Humanist Education, and the Visualization of Ancient Rome

Wolsey, More, and the Unity of Christendom

Gender and the Rhetoric of Martyrdom in Jean Crespin’s Histoire des vrays tesmoins

Manifest Humbleness: Self-Commemoration in the Time of the Catholic Reform

Francisco de Sotomayor and Nascent Urbanism in Sixteenth-Century Madrid

The Michael Wood Mystery: William Cecil and the Lincolnshire Printing of John Day

Thomas Dempster, Royal Historian to James I, and Classical Scholarship in Early Stuart England

Court and Convent: The Infanta Isabella and Her Franciscan Confessor Andrés de Soto

Michelangelo’s Signature

The Presence and Participation of Laypeople in the Congrégations of the Company of Pastors in Geneva

The Character of an Antipuritan

Change in Continuity: Post-Tridentine Rural and Township Parish Life in the Cracow Diocese

Persevering in the Faith: Catholic Worship and Communal Identity in the Wake of the Edict of Nantes

Breaking the Ice to Invention: Henry Peacham’s The Art of Drawing (1606)

Early Modern Literary Communities: Madeleine Des Roches’s City of Women

The Bresse Clergy Assembly and Tithe Grants, 1560–80

Skin, Bones, and Dust: Self-Portraits in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment

Januensis ergo mercator: Trust and Enforcement in the Business Correspondence of the Brignole Family

Justice in the Age of Lordship: A Feudal Court in Tuscany during the Medici Era (1619–66)

Gospelling Sisters “goinge up and downe”: John Foxe and Disorderly Women

Providence, Fortune, and the Experience of Combat: English Printed Battlefield Reports, circa 1570–1637

Women, Honor, and Violence in a Castilian Town, 1600–1650

The Supreme Court of the Holy Roman Empire: The State of Research and the Outlook

John Owen's Interpretation of Hebrews 6:4-6: Eternal Perseverance of the Saints in Puritan Exegesis

The Demons Reaction to Sodomy: Witchcraft and Homosexuality in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's Strix

"In the Christian City of Wittenberg": Karlstadt's Tract on Images and Begging

The Book of Sir Thomas More and Laughter of the Heart

Arbitration of Neighborhood Ties and Honor: Building and Property Disputes before the Six-Man Council of Prague, 1547-1611

"These So-Called Early Modern Women Writers": Strategies for Integrating Women Writers into English Department Curriculum

Marriage in Early Modern Europe

Incest and Lust in Luther's Marriage: Theology and Morality in Reformation Polemics

"A Godly Wyfe Is an Helper": Matthew Parker and the Defense of Clerical Marriage

Heinrich Bullinger, Marriage, and the English Reformation: The Christen state of Matrimonye in England, 1540-53

Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre on Sixteenth-Century Views of Clandestine Marriage

Mutations of the Androgyne: Its Functions in Early Modern French Literature

Seduction by Promise of Marriage: Law, Sex, and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Spain

A Painting, a Poem, and a Controversy about Women and Love in Paris in the 1530s

"Mio malinchonico, o vero ... mi? pazzo": Michelangelo, Vasari, and the Problem of Artists' Melancholy in Sixteenth-Century Italy

"We do not have it, and we do not want it": Women, Power, and Convent Reform in Florence

Bastards in the German Nobility in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Evidence of the Zimmerische Chronik

Ornamental Flourishes in Giordano Bruno's Geometry

Linguistic "Xenohomophobia" in Sixteenth-Century France: The Case of Henri Estienne

Schooling in Renaissance Pistoia: Community and Civic Humanism in Small-Town Tuscany

Brawling in Church: Noise and the Rhetoric of Lay Behavior in Early Modern England

Genealogy and the Limits of Panegyric: Turks and Huns in Fifteenth-Century Epithalamia

Jewish History, Catholic Argument: Thomas Lodge's Workes of Josephus as a Catholic Text

"A work in which the angels are wont to rejoice": Lucas Cranach's Schneeberg Altarpiece

Stephen Gardiner and the Making of a Protestant Villain

After Nebrija: Academic Reformers and the Teaching of Latin in Sixteenth-Century Salamanca