Selected Proceedings of the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2015 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

- Introduction, by Karen Christianson  3

Culture and the creation of knowledge

- Personae Miserabiles: Implications of Orphanhood in Medieval Biographies of the Prophet, by Jordan Amspacher 5

- Cultural and Linguistic Dispositions of the Nahua Intellectuals in the Making of the Florentine Codex, by Veronica Rodriguez  13

- “The Quintessence of Wit”: Domestic Labor, Science, and Margaret Cavendish‟s Kitchen Fancies, by Samantha Snively 21

- Crater-Pear-Vale: Earth-Moon Analogies in Robert Hooke‟s Micrographia, by Nydia Pineda De Avila  29

Performance and politics

- The Voice of No-Body in Stefano Landi‟s La morte d’Orfeo, by Daniel Rogers 45 

- The Political Theology of the Truce of Altmark, by Edward J. Gray  61

- Silent Songs, Royal Orgies: Listening to the Political Pornography of the French Revolution, by Jenna Harmon 69

Transformations

- Making Mountains from Molehills: Mystery Staging and Conversion in Henry VI, Part 3, by Sheila Coursey 75

- Marriage as Spiritual Partnership in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg: The Case of Lienhard and Ursula Jost, by Christina Moss  83

- Hidden Pilgrimages: Considerations on a Religious Wandering in Miguel de Cervantes‟ “The Illustrious Kitchen Maid,” by José Estrada  95

- "An untimely ague": The Body Politic as Joban Figure in Shakespeare‟s King Henry VIII, by Lise Mae Schlosser.103