Patricia Demers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5395426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Demers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Demers |
| SIGNATURE | DEMERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tails of Cross-Channel Comets
This article explores the diverse materialities of texts created by three female luminaries that expand our understanding of translation and transformation in early modern Europe. Lady Anne Cooke Bacon’s translation of Bishop Jewel’s Apologia was praised as the official text of the Elizabethan Settlement and printed without change for the edification of both English readers and Continental sceptics. Yet despite its centrality in the vitriolic con…
Women’s Writing in Canada
An Apology or Answer in Defence of the Church of England
Bacon, Lady Anne. An Apology or Answer in Defence of the Church of England: Lady Anne Bacon’s Translation of Bishop John Jewel’s Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Ed. Patricia Demers. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit
God may open more than man maye vnderstande”
Bien que l’oeuvre de Lady Margaret Beaufort, première femme anglaise à être publiée, ait été le plus souvent négligée au profit de ses talents de stratège du camp des Lancastre ou de son rôle de fondatrice de la dynastie des Tudor, les analyses de Brenda Hosington et de Stephanie Morley ont récemment mis en lumière l’importance et la singularité de son cas. Dans la continuité de ces travaux, j’examine ici les stratégies à l’oeuvre dans sa traduct…
Shakespeare’s Freedom
Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-selling Will in the World, shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of f…
Women as Translators in Early Modern England
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The King James Bible after 400 Years
Hamlin, Hannibal and Norman W. Jones (eds.). The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Variétés Bibliographiques), on Érudit
Horizon of Possibilities
This article documents the planning and results of a major international conference on the Humanities sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in collaboration with the University of Toronto, York University and Ryerson Polytechnic University. The conference took the pulse of the research community; as a diagnostic it indicated the vigorous health of humanities disciplines at the centre of an ever-widening cultur…
The Seymour Sisters
History has forgotten the Seymour sisters. Although they were important as potential marriage partners, used by their father to broker alliances, they also created a stir among the members of La Pleiade with their publication of 104 Latin distichs paying tribute to the recently deceased Marguerite de Navarre. The sophisticated word plays and allusions of their Hecatodistichon (1550) show a close familiarity with the writing of the Protestant-symp…
On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides
This essay explores the text of Lady Jane Lumley's Tudor translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis in an attempt to see the mind of an erudite, privileged young woman at work. By braiding domestic and political contexts in Lumley's adroitly oblique allusions to her time, it attends to her interest in the moral issues of government and authority. The translation subtly subverts commonplaces about a woman's negligible worth
The World of Hannah More
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
see in his revolt how honour's flood Ebbs into air, when men are great, not good Charles de Gontaut, Duke of Byron, is no reincarnation of Bussy D'Ambois. The super- ficial similarities he bears to Chapman's earlier hero only serve to outline more clearly the distance between them. The Prologue awards him the status of an autumnal star (1. 12) and a fanfare of loud music (I. ii) announces his entranceso unlike the posthumous stellification and qu…
Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
In all successes Fortune and the day To me alike are; I am fix'd, be she Never so fickle; . . . . n a world where man is insignificant "unless he be a politician" (I. ii. 141), Clermont D'Ambois, the most reluctant and unlikely of avengers, devotes himself quite assiduously to being "no politician" and "no lawyer" (IV. i. 48, 57). However, his significance is not to be doubted. He does not suffer for being no "great and politicke man . . . [who] …
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The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
see in his revolt how honour's flood Ebbs into air, when men are great, not good Charles de Gontaut, Duke of Byron, is no reincarnation of Bussy D'Ambois. The super- ficial similarities he bears to Chapman's earlier hero only serve to outline more clearly the distance between them. The Prologue awards him the status of an autumnal star (1. 12) and a fanfare of loud music (I. ii) announces his entranceso unlike the posthumous stellification and qu…
Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
In all successes Fortune and the day To me alike are; I am fix'd, be she Never so fickle; . . . . n a world where man is insignificant "unless he be a politician" (I. ii. 141), Clermont D'Ambois, the most reluctant and unlikely of avengers, devotes himself quite assiduously to being "no politician" and "no lawyer" (IV. i. 48, 57). However, his significance is not to be doubted. He does not suffer for being no "great and politicke man . . . [who] …
The World of Hannah More
The Seymour Sisters
History has forgotten the Seymour sisters. Although they were important as potential marriage partners, used by their father to broker alliances, they also created a stir among the members of La Pleiade with their publication of 104 Latin distichs paying tribute to the recently deceased Marguerite de Navarre. The sophisticated word plays and allusions of their Hecatodistichon (1550) show a close familiarity with the writing of the Protestant-symp…
On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides
This essay explores the text of Lady Jane Lumley's Tudor translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis in an attempt to see the mind of an erudite, privileged young woman at work. By braiding domestic and political contexts in Lumley's adroitly oblique allusions to her time, it attends to her interest in the moral issues of government and authority. The translation subtly subverts commonplaces about a woman's negligible worth
Horizon of Possibilities
This article documents the planning and results of a major international conference on the Humanities sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in collaboration with the University of Toronto, York University and Ryerson Polytechnic University. The conference took the pulse of the research community; as a diagnostic it indicated the vigorous health of humanities disciplines at the centre of an ever-widening cultur…
The King James Bible after 400 Years
Hamlin, Hannibal and Norman W. Jones (eds.). The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Variétés Bibliographiques), on Érudit
God may open more than man maye vnderstande”
Bien que l’oeuvre de Lady Margaret Beaufort, première femme anglaise à être publiée, ait été le plus souvent négligée au profit de ses talents de stratège du camp des Lancastre ou de son rôle de fondatrice de la dynastie des Tudor, les analyses de Brenda Hosington et de Stephanie Morley ont récemment mis en lumière l’importance et la singularité de son cas. Dans la continuité de ces travaux, j’examine ici les stratégies à l’oeuvre dans sa traduct…
Shakespeare’s Freedom
Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-selling Will in the World, shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of f…
Women as Translators in Early Modern England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Apology or Answer in Defence of the Church of England
Bacon, Lady Anne. An Apology or Answer in Defence of the Church of England: Lady Anne Bacon’s Translation of Bishop John Jewel’s Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Ed. Patricia Demers. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit
Women’s Writing in Canada
Tails of Cross-Channel Comets
This article explores the diverse materialities of texts created by three female luminaries that expand our understanding of translation and transformation in early modern Europe. Lady Anne Cooke Bacon’s translation of Bishop Jewel’s Apologia was praised as the official text of the Elizabethan Settlement and printed without change for the edification of both English readers and Continental sceptics. Yet despite its centrality in the vitriolic con…
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