Front Matter, 2023 Brigham Young University
In Memoriam: James H. Forse, 2023 Editor, Quidditas; RMMRA Past President
In Memoriam: James H. Forse, Ginger Smoak, Steven Hrdlicka, Jennifer Mcnabb, Charles Smith, Margaret Harp
Quidditas
This volume is dedicated to Professor James H. Forse who died at the age of 83 on April 24, 2023. He was a longtime member of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, and editor of Quidditas from 2003 to 2023.
A Miracle Through An Ymage: Gautier De Coinci’S Retouched Legend Of Theophile, 2023 University of Utah
A Miracle Through An Ymage: Gautier De Coinci’S Retouched Legend Of Theophile, Isabella Williams
Quidditas
This article examines the use of the Old French word “ymage” in Gautier de Coinci’s early thirteenth-century Legend of Theophile. Gautier is the first author to write a version of the legend that includes an ymage, designating a material representation of the Virgin. Far from a subtle insertion, he mentions the term ten times, during every pivotal moment of the story, when terrestrial and celestial spheres collide. Critics acknowledge the centrality of Gautier in representing this revolutionary French period, during which time attitudes concerning ritualistic images were in a state of flux; yet, Gautier’s repetitive and groundbreaking use of …
Delno C. West Award Winner, 2023 Brigham Young University
Delno C. West Award Winner
Quidditas
The West Award recognizes the most distinguished paper given by a senior scholar at the annual conference.
Recipient of the West Award for 2023
Jane Foster Woodruff
William Jewell College, Emerita
The Imperative Of Student Integration In Faculty Research Projects: A Pedagogical Case Study In Digital History, 2023 University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
The Imperative Of Student Integration In Faculty Research Projects: A Pedagogical Case Study In Digital History, Roger L. Martinez-Davila, Fernando Feliu-Moggi, Sean Wybrant, Ian Torres, Spencer Miles
Quidditas
Traditional pedagogical models, at times, are inadequate for equipping students with real-world skills. A shift towards integrating students into faculty-led research is essential, as demonstrated by the Coronado Muster Roll project. In this project, students use virtual reality technologies to create immersive experiences that explore the complex relationships between Spanish and Indigenous communities during Francisco Vázquez de Coronado’s 1540 expedition. A specific assignment within the course tasks students with developing digital narratives. The muster roll itself is revealed to be more than just a list; it serves as a snapshot capturing the depth and complexities often lost in grand narratives. …
Early-Stuart Funeral Elegies From Manuscript, 2023 Brescia University College
Early-Stuart Funeral Elegies From Manuscript, James Doelman
Brescia School of Humanities Publications
This document is a collection of English funeral elegies from the years 1603 to 1640, which survive in manuscript but were not published, either in their own time or more recently. It served as the basis for James Doelman, The Daring Muse of the Early Stuart Funeral Elegy (Manchester University Press, 2021).
Jewish Presence In The Venetian Empire: A Challenge To Venetian Mythology, 2023 Colby College
Jewish Presence In The Venetian Empire: A Challenge To Venetian Mythology, Avery Rosensweig
Honors Theses
This paper attempts to explain the significance of Jewish presence in the Venetian Empire in the context of the myth of Venice. Jews were officially permitted to settle in Venice in 1516, but their connection with the Venetian Empire goes further back. Jews were important for the success of the Venetian Empire, particularly from the sixteenth century onward. The permanent settlement of the Jews in Venice directly impacted the very ideology of the Venetian Empire.
Although the phrase "myth of Venice" was developed by twentieth-century historians, Venetians perpetuated the myth and wove its ideals into the foundation of the Venetian …
Spanish Modernization And English Translation To "Prefacio Al Lector" In Historia Particular De La Persecucion De Inglaterra, Y De Los Martirios Mas Insignes Que En Ella Ha Auido, Desde El Año Del Señor 1570 : En La Qual Se Descubren Los Efectos Lastimosos De La Heregia, Y Las Mudanças Que Suele Causar En Las Republicas... / Recogida Por El Padre Fray Diego De Yepes...En Madrid : Por Luis Sanchez, 1599., Carmela Mattza
Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Spanish modernization and English translation to "Prefacio al lector" in Historia particular de la persecucion de Inglaterra, y de los martirios mas insignes que en ella ha auido, desde el año del Señor 1570 : en la qual se descubren los efectos lastimosos de la heregia, y las mudanças que suele causar en las Republicas... / recogida por el Padre Fray Diego de Yepes...En Madrid : por Luis Sanchez, 1599.
Slides On Thomas More's Warning To Readers, 2023 Ave Maria University
Slides On Thomas More's Warning To Readers, Travis Curtright
Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Slides on Thomas More's Warning to Readers, from A Treatise on the Passion (1534)
History Of The Book: Arthurian Books And The (Counter-) Reformation, 2023 Augusta University
History Of The Book: Arthurian Books And The (Counter-) Reformation, Blaire Zeiders
Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Syllabus for book history-oriented senior-level course on representations of King Arthur in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
Hands-On Activity: Learning About Literacy In The Early Modern World, 2023 Oakland University
Hands-On Activity: Learning About Literacy In The Early Modern World, Andrea Wenz
Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Lesson plan activity for use in an introductory course on the Reformation or Pre- Modern/Early Modern Europe.
Student Handout: Early Modern Readers And Thomas More’S Treatise On The Passion, 2023 Ave Maria University
Student Handout: Early Modern Readers And Thomas More’S Treatise On The Passion, Travis Curtright
Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Lesson Plan and Handout for Thomas More's Warning to Readers, from his Treatise on the Passion
Lesson Plan: 16th-Century Books Using Anglo-Saxon Type, 2023 North Greenville University
Lesson Plan: 16th-Century Books Using Anglo-Saxon Type, Rachel Roberts
Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450-1650, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Lesson plan for book history / literature course
Art And Power: How The D'Este Family Ruled Renaissance Ferrara, 2023 Harding University
Art And Power: How The D'Este Family Ruled Renaissance Ferrara, Luke Ziegler
Tenor of Our Times
During the Renaissance, the d'Este family ruled the Northern Italian city of Ferrara. To make up for their modest land holdings, the d'Este chose to exert influence and control over Italian politics through artistic patronage. The court of Ferrara became known for its beauty, intelligence, and sophistication. All the dukes of Ferrara contributed to the city's cultural significance, and elevated Ferrara as one of the dominant cities on the Italian peninsula.
Navigating Femininity: Queen Elizabeth I And The Armada Portrait, 2023 Arcadia University
Navigating Femininity: Queen Elizabeth I And The Armada Portrait, Julia Maurer
Capstone Showcase
By analyzing the iconographic program of the Armada Portrait, this essay demonstrates the various visual strategies that Queen Elizabeth I employed in order to navigate certain gendered, cultural barriers present in Early Modern England. I argue throughout this essay that Elizabeth was meticulous in her delicate dance of bolstering her individual authority, while not radically undermining the patriarchal dispensation in which she lived and ruled. In particular, I demonstrate that Queen Elizabeth I effectively utilized the visual arts to control the public perception of her reign in ways unique to female regnants, as she both confirmed and denied her femininity. …
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History And Directing Shakespeare, 2023 Brigham Young University
History And Directing Shakespeare, James H. Forse
Quidditas
In years past I have been asked, “where did you get that idea?”—from those who perused something I wrote concerning the history of Shakespearean theatre, and from those who saw Shakespearean plays I directed for my local community theatre. Sometimes the question was a compliment. Yet the question, I think, points to a sort of symbiosis that academic research and the practical dictates of directing a play can offer to anyone. For it’s truly hard for me to tell whether my research into theatre history has come to affect how I directed Shakespeare, or whether directing Shakespeare’s plays in a …
From Heldris De Cornwall’S Le Roman De Silence To Gian Francesco Straparola’S Le Piacevoli Notti. New Insights Into A Significant Reception Process Across Centuries, Languages, And Genres, 2023 University of Arizona
From Heldris De Cornwall’S Le Roman De Silence To Gian Francesco Straparola’S Le Piacevoli Notti. New Insights Into A Significant Reception Process Across Centuries, Languages, And Genres, Albrecht Classen
Quidditas
Although we assume that the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman romance Roman de Silence by Heldris de Cornwall experienced no reception at all apart from one manuscript containing the text, there is a considerable likelihood that the sixteenth-century Venetian author Gian Francesco Straparola somehow gained access to the medieval text and adapted it for one of the stories contained in his famous collection, Le Piacevoli Notti (1550 and 1553). Even though we cannot yet determine the exact process of reception, the strong similarities between both works go far beyond global archetypal themes. Straparola’s work hence demonstrates that Heldris’s work was known even long …
Langland, Father Of American Literatures, 2023 University of Nevada Las Vegas
Langland, Father Of American Literatures, John M. Bowers
Quidditas
Geoffrey Chaucer’s position as “father of English literature” has been steadily challenged in recent years. This paper both proposes and interrogates the other fourteenth-century English poet William Langland’s possible claims as the origin for the Puritan tradition of New England and, hence, the later traditions of American literatures—in the plural. We know that the first copy of his satirical, theological dream-vision Piers Plowman arrived in New England in 1630 with the father of Anne Bradstreet, and as a result any patriarchal genealogy is already problematic because the first author in the American family-tree was a woman. Rather than the linearity …