Publications
Two volumes will appear this fall in the CRRS Tudor and Stuart Texts series.
The first is The Trial of Nicholas Throckmorton, edited by Annabel
Patterson (Karl Young Professor of English at Yale University). This transcript
of one of the most note-worthy trials in English history records an arraignment
for treason in 1554 of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, on the heels of his alleged
participation in Wyatt's Rebellion. Throckmorton conducted his defence with
such spirit and legal acumen that his jury acquitted him, an almost unheard-of
outcome at the time.
The second book includes "The Shepherd's Pipe" and "The Shepherd's Hunting", two early 17th-century collections of pastoral poems by George Wither (the first collection was in collaboration with others), edited by James Doelman (McMaster University). The texts illuminate the literary, social and political milieu of Jacobean London, and will be of interest especially to students of Spenser and Milton.
The editions of the Throckmorton and Wither texts are intended for use not
only by advanced scholars but also by students in senior undergraduate and
graduate courses. The texts are available for CND$15 (or US$12) each; please
order directly from the CRRS at (416) 585-4468 or fax (416) 585-4579.
Iter
Iter, the on-line electronic bibliography, is continuing to grow. At latest
count there are over 100,000 records for articles from 302 journals in the
database. About 40,000 more records for book reviews will be added in the
near future. Visit Iter on the net and, better still, ask your university
to subscribe to it: http://iter.library.utoronto.ca.
The CRRS is one of five key partners in the international project, contributing
significantly to the collection of data. In 1998-99, the CRRS will use a grant
of US$28,800 (ca. CND$43,600) from the Mellon Foundation to hire approximately
30 students (graduate and undergraduate) in Toronto to work on the project.
Recent Acquisition
The CRRS has recently purchased a copy of Onus ecclesiae, an anonymous
book written in 1519. An antiquarian in Holland mis-attributed the book to
Johann Ebser, a bishop who died 100 years before the treatise was written.
In fact, Onus ecclesiae was written by Berthold Pürstinger, a sharp
critic of the church, a respected bishop, and a convinced apocalyptic. It
went through four printings and was quoted favourably by Protestants and Catholics
alike. At the turn of this century, it was called "one of the two most important
pre-Reformation treatises, alongside Reformatio Kaiser Sigismunds".
If that statement smacks of hyperbole, no less remarkable is the scholarly
neglect suffered by Onus ecclesiae since then, a loss that may help
explain why a rare- book dealer was misinformed about the book's real author.
Donations
Since last winter, the Centre has received several valuable rare-book donations,
including:
Boileau, Satyres et oeuvres diverses (Paris, 1765)
Brunschwig, New ... Distillierbuch (Frankfurt, 1597)
Cecchi, Gli incantesimi comedia (Venice, 1585)
Chaucer, The Works... (London, 1602)
Diomedes, Grammatica (Venice, 1522)
Erasmus, Stultitiae laus (Basel, 1674)
Grammatica della lingua latina (Padua, 1734)
Horace, Poema (Freiburg, 1540)
Inscriptiones Athleticae (Rome, 1668)
Juvenal, Satires (Amsterdam, 1648)
Livy, Historiae Romanae (Padua, 1733)
Lucretius, De rerum natura (Leiden, 1695)
Novum Testamentum Graecum (Leipzig, 1733)
Seneque, Les oeuvres (Paris, 1604)
The donations were made by Professor Joe Black, Professors emeriti David
Hoeniger, David de Montmollin, and Harry Secor, and Justice Denis Lane.
New Faces
There are three new faces on CRRS committees this year: Professors Nicholas
Terpstra (History) and Benoît Bolduc (French) have joined
the Managing Committee; while Professor William Robins (English) has
come on board in the Publications Committee. Professor Terpstra is a renowned
scholar of Italian history, especially concerning the social context of lay
religious organizations; his book, Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion
in Renaissance Bologna (Cambridge, 1995), has already become a standard
in the field. Professor Bolduc, a specialist in late-Renaissance theatre,
has a book forthcoming entitled Le mythe de Persée et Andromède
sur les scènes françaises et italiennes au XVIIe siècle.
Professor Robins works on 14th-century English and Italian literature; he
is currently preparing a monograph on Apollonius of Tyre in the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance, and an edition of Antonio Pucci's Reina d'Oriente.
Note Cards
The new note card at the CRRS uses the figure of "Fama" from Matteo Valentini's
printer device. This particular image is taken from a 1606 edition of the
letters of Luigi Groto, the "blind man from Adria," a book in the CRRS rare
book collection. The note cards are available in packages of 10 at a modest
$6 per package. Order some for your December wishes!
Career Moves
The CRRS is fortunate to attract top-notch students as Graduate Fellows and
Assistants. In the past few months, several of them have made significant
career moves.
Megan Armstrong completed her Ph.D. and immediately obtained a tenure-track appointment in the Department of History at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City). Joseph Black, our former Curator, received a tenure-track appointment in English at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Lisa Cevlosky completed her one-year appointment at Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA) and moved to the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) as an Adjunct Professor in English. Mary Watt completed her Ph.D. and accepted a one-year position in Italian Studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
To all of the above, our heart-felt congratulations and best wishes for
continued success!
Next winter, the CRRS is cooperating in a conference on "Theatre and the Visual Art", organised by Professor Giuliana Katz (Italian Studies, Univ. of Toronto). The dates of the conference are 23-25 January.
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For more information
about the CRRS, contact our Assistant to the Director, Dr.
Stephanie Treloar.
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