James M Pearce & Lisandra Estevez 
Renaissance Papers 2023 [PDF ebook] 

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This volume examines the sacred and the profane in the early modern period.


The 2023 volume features essays from the conference held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The opening essay juxtaposes Socratic irony and Hermeticism in its exploration of the Neoplatonic influences in Spenser’s
Faerie Queene. It is followed by three analyses of religious poems; the first demonstrates the ways in which William Baldwin resurrects Edward the sixth in his ‘Funeralles of King Edward’ to promote his own evangelical agenda; the second takes a close look at Herrick’s ‘Rex Tragicus, ‘ arguing that it is a powerful expression of ‘English religious identity.’ The final essay in this group seeks to complicate the history of the early modern female sonneteer. Returning to the secular, the next essay compares a work by Polish writer Andrzej Modrzewski to Sir Thomas More’s
Utopia. Art history is the focus of the following triad of essays, which illuminate the visual cultures of the Netherlands and Spain; they address the collaborative organization of the Spanish sculptor Alonso Berruguete’s workshop, the related phenomenon of fiction, faith, and spectacle in Maarten van Heemskerck’s religious imagery, and the political dimensions of the aesthetics of Habsburg portraiture. The volume concludes with an exuberant analysis of the role of fiction in the art of biographical writing, using the example of Katherine Rundell’s Super
-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne.


Contributors: Sunmin Cha, Ilenia Colón Mendoza, Scott Lucas, Gerardo Rappazzo Amura, Mary Ruth Robinson, Jesse Russell, Paul J. Stapleton, John Wall , Vaclav Zheng.

Tabella dei contenuti

Spenser’s Secret Teaching: Socratic Irony, Ritual Platonism, and the Unveiling of
The Faerie Queene -Jesse Russell

Edwardian Evangelicalism in Queen Elizabeth’s Reign: William Baldwin’s
Funeralles of King Edward The Sixt – Scott Lucas

The Religious Dynamics of Robert Herrick’s ‘Rex Tragicus’ –
Paul J. Stapelton

Rewriting the Psalmist: Form and Gender in
A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner – Mary Ruth Robinson

Renaissance Utopia as Deliberative Monologue: Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Thomas More –
Vaclav Zheng

Alonso Berruguete’s Workshop and the Place of Polychrome Sculpture in the Hierarchy of Arts in Spain –
Ilenia Colón Mendoza

From Scripture to Spectacle: Fiction, Religion, and the Visual in Maarten van Heemskerk’s
Ecce Homo (1544) –
Sunmin Cha

In the Wake of the Emperor: The Depiction of Don Carlos of Austria as
Miles Christi in Juan de Angulo’s Illustrated Manuscript –
Gerardo Rappazzo Amura

Inventing John Donne: Temptations of the Biographer –
John Wall

Circa l’autore

LISANDRA ESTEVEZ teaches Art History at Winston-Salem State University.