A Mirror for Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Selected Proceedings of the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2012 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Introduction, by Laura Aydelotte 3 

Turning “wyne into water” The Erasmian Reimagining of the Virgin Mary, by Stephan Bates  5

Ordering Paradise: Structuring the Natural World in the Early Modern French Caribbean, by Andrew Dial  19 

“E che giammai puó far femmina imbelle?” Gendered Politics in Francisco António de Almeida’s La Giuditta, by Danielle Kuntz  27 

Discerning Tears in Early Modern Catholicism, by John W. McCormack  49

To Persuade and Connect: Mary Sidney’s Essential Role in Henry Sidney’s Irish Rule, by Catherine Medici 61

Freedom in Determinism: An Argument Against Reading Spinoza as a Hard Determinist, by Nick Nash 73

Gospel Family Order, Honourable Marriages, and Slavery in Barbados: George Fox’s Response to Quaker Slave Owners and the Question of Marriage Among Slaves, by Kristianna Polder  83

Property and Freedom in the English Revolution, by Lorenzo Sabbadini  95 

Decoding the Florentine Codex: Cultural Negotiation through Image in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, by Jennifer Saracino  105 

Fidelity and the Politics of Appropriation in Sidney Lumet’s The Deadly Affair, by Elizabeth Tavares 119

Harmless Silence? Subjective Agency in Confession and Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy, by Jane Wanninger  133 

Women, Heresy, and Crusade: Toward a Context for Jacques de Vitry’s Relationship to the Early Beguines, by Benjamin A. Wright  149