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La Deffence, et illustration de la langue françoyse was a watershed in the poetic and linguistic debates of the mid-sixteenth century. As such, the punctuation, as well as the spelling, of the original have been preserved, in order to convey the...
The Barbier-Mueller Foundation for the study of Italian poetry of the Renaissance has a rich collection of mainly sixteenth-century books. This catalogue gives precise bibliographic descriptions of 452 rare editions, creating a panorama of poetry...
The trauma of the Wars of Religion was still affecting political and religious thought at the time of the Enlightenment. A large body of literature – including official histories, pamphlets, scholarly research, memoirs, novels, and epic poetry – grew...
The question of origins held a particular fascination in the sixteenth century. It is no doubt for this reason – and also because of the opportunity to represent nudes – that the story of Adam and Eve was such a popular subject. Original sin, as...
Having encountered the Anabaptists in Neuchâtel, Guillaume Farel encouraged Calvin to write against them, providing him with information and the French translation of Michael Sattler’s Schleitheim Confession. Calvin was able to make use of some...
From 1544 to 1560, the vogue of the Petrarchan sonnet sequence gave birth to a new French genre: the “Amours”. From Délie and L’Olive to the many Amours by Ronsard, this groundbreaking study delineates for the first time the logics, inner workings...
Childbirth fascinated Renaissance readers. The author charts the successive editions of some thirty obstetric treatises, from the first French translation of Euchaire Rösslin’s birthing manual in 1536 to the pamphlet by the royal midwife, Louise...
The B.I.H.R. is the product of the international cooperation between eighteen countries where the Fédération is represented (for Europe: Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal...