A survey of the Centre's record over the past five years has confirmed what everyone associated with the CRRS had suspected: during a period ruled by cutbacks and diminished expectations, the CRRS has flourished, expanding in the resources it offers and steadily gaining a reputation among scholars across Canada and abroad. Use of the library has consistently increased, rising to almost 1800 user visits in 1993-94. With the help of generous funding from Victoria University, six awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and numerous private donations, we continue to build one of the finest research libraries in the country for multidisciplinary work in the Renaissance and Reformation. Since 1990, 23 scholars from across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Japan have spent all or part of their leave at the CRRS.
Our visitors are themselves among our more valuable resources, and over the past five years the Centre has offered over 70 public lectures and seminars, many by internationally eminent scholars. We have during the same period organized 7 major conferences, and have continued to provide extensive local service to the University of Toronto and the Toronto community. Some of the initiatives developed at the CRRS since 1990 include the creation of the electronic bulletin board FICINO, which now has over 500 members; the introduction of Visiting Graduate Student Fellowships; the establishment of an International Advisory Board; and the introduction of a new publication series, "Tudor and Stuart Texts."
The CRRS distinguished visiting scholar for 1995 is Margaret King (Brooklyn College, City University of New York). Professor King, the author of The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (1994), Women of the Renaissance (1991), Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (1986), and Her Immaculate Hand; Selected Works by and about the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy (1983), will present two seminars: "Family Values Back in the Renaissance" on Tuesday, Feb. 21 and "The Other and Us" on Thursday, Feb. 23. Both presentations are at 4:00, in Alumni Hall, Victoria College. Professor King will also be available for consultation at the Centre during her stay.
Upcoming presentations co-sponsored by the CRRS and the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium include: Hilmar Pabel (Simon Fraser), "Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pastoral Ministry" on 28 February; Michael Heath (King's College, University of London), "The Bachelor and the Cuckolds: Erasmus on Love, Marriage, and Sex" on 7 March; Anne Hutchison (PIMS, Toronto), "Elizabethan Recusancy: The Case of the Brigettine Nuns" on 16 March; and Maryanne Horowitz (Occidental College, Los Angeles), "The Erasmus-Luther Debate Reinterpreted" on 6 April. All talks begin at 4:00 in the Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall, Victoria College.
On 28 March, the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society and the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium present Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London): "Pen Friends and Patria: Erasmian Pedagogy and the Republic of Letters." 4:00, Alumni Hall, Victoria College.
Aug 2-9, 1995. The CRRS and the Records of Early English Drama host the 8th Triennial Congress of the Socit Internationale du Thtre Mdival. The week-long congress includes seminars, presentations, a drama festival, and other entertainments. Inquiries to REED, Victoria College, 150 Charles St West, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7; (416) 585-4504 or e-mail sitmt@epas.utoronto.ca.
Mar 7-10, 1996. The CRRS hosts De-Centring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective 1350-1700. This conference questions traditional historical concepts of periodization, with papers covering a variety of aspects of life in the territory we now know as Canada. Featured speakers include Natalie Zemon Davis, Olive Dickason, Selma Barkham, Luca Codignola, and Gilles Thrien, and other presentations include a six-person team of scientists from the Smithsonian Institute who will speak on the 16th-century Frobisher expedition to Baffin Island. Inquiries to Germaine Warkentin, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7; fax: (416) 585-4584; e-mail warkent@epas.utoronto.ca.
CRRS NEWSLETTER is published three times per year (January, April and September), and distributed free of charge by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Victoria University in the University of Toronto). Editor: Joseph Black. Phone: (416) 585-4484. Fax: (416) 585-4591. E-mail: crrs@epas.utoronto.ca. To be placed on the mailing list, or to submit notices for inclusion in the Newsletter, write: Editor, CRRS Newsletter, 71 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7, Canada. Items will be considered for inclusion based on available space, and are subject to editing.
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