http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/renaissance-literature Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 22 May 2026 10:03:34 -0400 Fri, 22 May 2026 10:03:34 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1431/erasmus-and-the-transformation-of-early-modern-political-authority-in-the-education-of-a-christian-prince By Zachary S. Brown - Often called the “prince of the humanists” Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) was one of the most influential European philosophers and theologians of the early modern period. However, today he is often overshadowed by his more radical contemporaries, particularly Niccolò Machiavelli, and regarded as a quixotic moderate. This article seeks to challenge this traditional view of Erasmus by exploring the rhetoric and claims of one of his most famous works, The Education of a Christian Prince (1516), a political advice manual written to the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. An... Sun, 07 Aug 2016 09:35 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1431/erasmus-and-the-transformation-of-early-modern-political-authority-in-the-education-of-a-christian-prince http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/887/exploring-virgilian-structures-in-book-iii-of-spensers-faerie-queene By Vanessa M. Braganza - Contrary to the scintillating promise of its title, Spenser’s Faerie Queene is a far cry from the insubstantial delights of light fantasy fiction. A narrative poem in six books, this hefty labyrinthine work chronicles the quests of the patron knights of six virtues through their perpetual stumblings and successes. Initially upon beholding its very physical bulk as it lies ponderously on the table, one might be excused for believing that there cannot possibly exist syntactic parallels with other works within individual lines of this work. The discovery that Spenser indeed seems to have woven... Sun, 13 Apr 2014 03:37 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/887/exploring-virgilian-structures-in-book-iii-of-spensers-faerie-queene