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