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The Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies at Victoria University in the University of Toronto is a research and teaching centre. The CRRS is a library devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700; supervises an undergraduate program in Renaissance Studies; organizes lectures and seminars; and maintains a series of publications. [...]
New at CRRS
English Women Staging Islam, 1696-1707 (0)
4/25/12 •
Edited and Introduced by Bernadette Andrea. Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix were among the groundbreaking “female wits” who debuted their original plays for the public stage in 1695–1696. Two of these plays contain explicitly Islamicate themes: Manley’s The Royal Mischief expands on The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia (1686) and Pix’s Ibrahim draws [...]
Letters to Francesco Datini by Margherita Datini (0)
3/23/12 •
Translated by Carolyn James & Antonio Pagliaro The letters of Margherita Datini (1360-1423) to her husband Francesco, here translated in English for the first time, provide a wealth of information about the societies of Prato and Florence, between which the Datinis divided their time.Even more remarkably, the letters tell us a great deal about Margherita [...]
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