Renaissance Quarterly

A recent addition to the series Mirabilia Italiae has made the riches of the Vatican Galleria delle carte geografiche much more accessible than they were hitherto.(1) The Galleria, a vast, vaulted corridor, one hundred twenty meters long by six meters...

Over the last fifty years, the usefulness of the terms "Reformation and Counter Reformation has been examined by historians, who point to the over-simplification inherent in the words' explicit binary opposition.(1) The need to reconsider these two denominators...

Few theological issues troubled Church fathers more deeply than the question of whether the source of sin lay in the body or in the soul. Early desert monks like Anthony and John Climacus seemed to suspect that it was the flesh that initially disturbed...

One of the most dramatic changes in Renaissance studies over the past ten or fifteen years has been the reshaping of the canon to include works by women writers who had been neglected for many years. Virginia Woolf's famous elegy for the missing works...