Newsletter
January 1998 (No. 50)

News

Reformation Book Fund
The CRRS is pleased to announce the creation of the Professor James M. Estes Reformation Fund. The Fund has been established to commemorate the long years of service to the CRRS by Professor Estes and to recognize his contribution to the development of the Reformation side of our collection. The Fund will be used to purchase books and other research materials on the Reformation. Items thus acquired will be deposited into the CRRS with a nameplate indicating they were a gift from the James M. Estes Reformation Fund. And the pleasure of selecting items for purchase will be given to Professor Estes himself, who will thus be able to continue to shape the development of our collection in this very important area. Several donations towards the Fund have already been received from friends and colleagues of Professor Estes. Further donations are very much welcomed. All donors will receive a receipt for income-tax purposes. Friends and colleagues who wish to make a contribution are invited to make out their cheques to "Victoria University" and mail them to the CRRS, 71 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7; please indicate that the donation is for the "Estes Fund".

Iter
Iter continues to grow very quickly. The online bibliography now holds over 100,000 records for articles taken from almost 300 journals. In the near future, some 30,000 records for book reviews will be added, and the bibliography of books will be expanded and revised. Beginning in mid January, access to these bibliographies will be limited to individual and institutional subscribers who have passwords; non- subscribers will be able to look at a sample of the bibliography of articles. See http://www.itergateway.org.

Donations
The Centre has received several significant monetary gifts and book donations. Professor emeritus David Hoeniger (founding director of the CRRS) recently donated three rare books by Chaucer, Erasmus and Cecchi (est. value $4500). Professor Paul Grendler donated several books from his library on the occasion of his retirement this year. Professor Aldo Bernardo (SUNY, Binghamton) has recently donated a valuable collection of 450 offprints by some of the most eminent Italianisti of this century, including: Thomas Bergin, Giorgio Billanovich, Umberto Bosco, Vittore Branca, Walter Bullock, Charles H. Grandgent, Domenico Vittorini, Hans Baron, Carlo Calcaterra, Bruno Nardi, Bodo Richter, Cecil Grayson, Ramiro Ortiz, Charles S. Singleton, Roberto Weiss, E.H. Wilkins. Many of these offprints bear autograph dedications to E.H. Wilkins himself (from whom the collection originates). The entire collection is to be valued not only for the high scholarship it contains, but also for the direct personal connections it illustrates between certain major scholars of this century. The collection will now be deposited into the CRRS where it will find a ready and welcoming home. We are profoundly grateful to Professor Bernardo for having thought of us as the most suitable home for this treasure.

Special Book Offer
Dovehouse Editions is celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 1998. To mark the occasion, they are offering readers of the CRRS Newsletter, whether individuals or institutions, a 50% discount on the following items (the prices listed are the reduced prices):

To order, please list the desired title(s) by number and the price. For postage, include $3.00 for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book. Send your order directly to Dovehouse Editions, 1890 Fairmeadow Cres., Ottawa Canada K1H 7B9. Prepayment is welcomed by cheque (on any Canadian or U.S. bank), by money order or by VISA. Prices are in U.S. dollars.

Note cards
The CRRS has republished some of its more popular note cards--the elegant Aldus anchor, the "Petrarch in the laurel grove," and the amusing "Scholars at work." And it has published a new card: "Lady Prudence" from the printer's device of Giovita Rapirio (the image is taken from his edition of Boccaccio's Il Filocopo, Venice 1551). Cards (with envelopes) are available in packages of 10 from the CRRS at a modest $6 per package. Pick some up next time you're in!

Local Events

Conference
The CRRS is pleased to announce for this Spring: "Motives, pretexts, speeches and events," an interdisciplinary conference on the relationship between history and literature in early modern Europe. Over forty papers, to be delivered by scholars from Canada, the US and farther afield, have been selected from a large pool of excellent proposals. The presenters, both graduate students and faculty, will address a larger community of early modernists on 13 and 14 March, at Victoria College. For specific information contact Stephen Pender at spender@chass.utoronto.ca.

Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Each year a senior scholar of international distinction joins the Centre for a week to lecture and to meet with students and faculty. This year Richard McCoy, professor of English (Queen's College, CUNY), will be with us from 23 to 27 February. On Tuesday (the 24th) and Wednesday (the 25th), at 4:15 pm in Alumni Hall, he will deliver public lectures entitled: "The real presence and royal absence in Hamlet"; and "Enduring civil idolatry: Charles I and the regicides". For further information call 585-4468.

Public Lectures
The CRRS in cooperation with the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium has organized public lectures this Spring by Larissa Taylor (Colby College, Maine), Jonathan Pearl (Univ. of Toronto), and Michael Keefer (Univ. of Guelph). For details see below in the Calendar of Events.

Friday Workshops
The CRRS continues to host bi-weekly workshops for its fellows and faculty to present current research in a seminar setting, this term from Prof. Ann Russell (Wilfrid Laurier University); Prof. David Galbraith (University of Toronto); Dr. Chris Nighman (Wilfred Laurier University); Dr. Michael McClintock (Centennial College); and Dylan Reid (CRRS fellow). For details see below in the Calendar of Events.

Chapter Reading Seminar
Two graduate students, who are participating in a seminar organized by Michael Milway for doctoral candidates in the last stages of their research and writing, have successfully defended their dissertations this month: Margaret McGlynn (UofT, history, director Kenneth Bartlett), "The King and the Law: Prerogativa regis in early Tudor England;" and Megan Armstrong (UofT, history, director Jane Abray), "Franciscans in Sixteenth-Century Paris." Ad augusta per angusta! Victor Thiessen will defend his dissertation this Spring (Queen's Univ., history, director James Stayer), "The Noble's Reformation: Patronage and Church Reform." Confidentia et eloquentia vobiscum.

Stammtisch
Our tradition (since May) of meeting Friday evenings for relaxed conversation and lubricated collegiality continues with steady enthusiasm. We meet for a beer and a chance to talk with other scholars in early modern studies, at the Duke of York, after 5pm.

WebSite Face-Lift
See the new CRRS webpage designed by Laura Hunt at: http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/crrs/Index.html

Calendar of Events

Fri. 16 Jan. Friday Workshop. Ann Russell, (Wilfrid Laurier Univ.), "Poetical Miscellanies and Literary Communities: Aphra Behn as Editor." Pratt Library, 323, 2:10pm.

Thurs. 22 Jan. Public Lecture. Larissa Taylor (Colby College, Maine), "Sister, Whore, Apostle, Preacher: Images of Mary Magdalene in the Sermons and Art of the Late Middle Ages and Reformation." Senior Common Room, Victoria, 4:10pm.

Fri. 30 Jan. Friday Workshop. David Galbraith (Univ. of Toronto), "Erasmus' Miscellaneous Jumble." Pratt Library, 323, 2:10pm.

Tues.-Fri., 24-27 Feb. The CRRS 16th Annual Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Richard McCoy (Queen's College, CUNY). Public lectures are scheduled for Tues. 24 ("The real presence and royal absence in Hamlet") and Wed. 25 Feb. ("Enduring civil idolatry: Charles I and the regicides") at 4:10 pm in Alumni Hall, Victoria College. Info: 585- 4468

Fri. 27 Feb. Friday Workshop. Chris Nighman (Wilfrid Laurier Univ.), "Plague, Politics and the Pulpit: English Eulogies at the Council of Constance." Pratt Library, 323, 2:10pm.

Fri. 6 March. Friday Workshop (postponed from Fri. 13 Feb.). Michael McClintock (Centennial College), "Early English Dramatic Books and Early English Readers." Pratt Library, 323, 2:10pm.

Thurs. 19 March. Public Lecture. Jonathan Pearl (Univ. of Toronto), "Justice and Demonology in Early Modern France: Pierre de Lancre and the Basque Witch Crises of 1609." Senior Common Room, Victoria, 4:10pm.

Fri. 27 March. Friday Workshop. Dylan Reid (CRRS Fellow 97-98), "The Literature of the Conards: 'Popular' Texts in Sixteenth-Century Rouen." Pratt Library, 323, 2:10pm.

27 Feb.-1 March, and 6-8 March. "The Joy of Sachs" -- Three one-act plays by Hans Sachs staged by the PLS: The Wandering Scholar from Paradise (directed by Linda Phillips); The Doctor with the Big Nose (directed by Scott Moore); The Stolen Shrovetide Cock (directed by John Cartwright). Evening performances at 8:00, Sunday matinees at 2:30. Emmanuel College Lecture Hall. $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors. For information call the PLS at 978-5096.

Wed. 1 April. Public Lecture. Michael Keefer (Univ. of Guelph), "Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller as an Anatomy of Abjection." Senior Common Room, Victoria, 4:10pm.

Fri. 24 April 1998. The first annual Emilio Goggio Lecture will be delivered by Olga Pugliese (Professor and Chair, Italian Studies, Univ. of Toronto) on the topic "Castiglione's Book of the Courtier: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow." Alumni Hall, Victoria College at 4:00pm. A reception will follow at 5:00pm.

19-21 June 1998. York Cycle Plays and Symposium organized by the Poculi Ludique Societas. Victoria College, University of Toronto. Fri. 19th, Academic Symposium; Sat. 20th, Performance; Sun. 21 Discussion of the performance. Info: phone the PLS at (416) 978-5096 or visit their web site at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~medieval/www/pls/

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