I. THE CONSTANTLY CHANGING CONTINUUM -- 1. Continuity and Change in Italian Universities Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Paul F. Grendler -- 2. What Counted as an "Antiquity" in the Renaissance? / Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood -- 3. Leone Ebreo's Appropriation of Boccaccio's De genealogia deorum gentiliumn / James Nelson Novoa -- 4. The Fables of Bidpai from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / Donald Beecher -- 5. Shakespeare's Reformed Virgin / Gary Waller -- II. APPROPRIATING FOR CURRENT PURPOSES -- 6. Self-Fashioning in the Mediterranean Contact Zone: Giovanni Battista Salvago and His Africa Overo Barbaria (1625) / Natalie Rothman -- 7. Joan of Arc and the Crusade: Memorising Medieval Examples to Improve a Renaissance King / Lidia Radi -- 8. Carnivalising Apocalyptic History in John Bale's KingJohan and Three Laws / Brian Gourley -- 9. The Puzzle of Pucelle or Pussel: Shakespeare's Joan of Arc Compared With Two Antecedents / Philippa Sheppard -- 10. A Vale of Tears: Early Modern Women's Writing and the Lamentory Style / Linda Vecchi -- III. BUILDING UPON THE PAST -- 11. Medieval Philosophy in the Late Renaissance: The Case of Internal and External Time in Scotist Metaphysics / Michael Edwards -- 12. Medieval Geography in the Age of Exploration:The Fardle of Facions in its English Context / Richard Raiswell -- 13. "Now I will believe that there are unicorns":The Existence of Fabulous Beasts in Renaissance Historiae Naturales / Hans Peter Broedel -- 14. Medieval Universes and Early Modern Worlds: Conceptions of the Cosmos in Johannes Kepler's Somnium / Gabrielle Sugar -- 15. Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652):The Relation Between Antiquarianism and Science in Seventeenth-Century England / Vittoria Feola.