{"id":7451,"date":"2024-10-09T23:44:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T23:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/?page_id=7451"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:33:17","slug":"huntington-library-quarterly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/huntington-library-quarterly\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntington Library Quarterly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n          \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Huntington Library Quarterly\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute is proud to partner with the <em>Huntington Library Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Huntington Library Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0(<em>HLQ<\/em>) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400\u20131800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines.<\/p>\n<p><em>HLQ<\/em>\u2019s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/journals\/journal\/huntington-library-quarterly\/\n    aria-label=\"Read more about Visit the Huntington Library Quarterly's home page, hosted by its publishing partner at University of Pennsylvania Press\"  \n>\n    Visit the Huntington Library Quarterly&#8217;s home page, hosted by its publishing partner at University of Pennsylvania Press \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#000\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">About<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-C5I4f1xaBG\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-C5I4f1xaBG\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8161\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/02\/hlq-board-1-300x169.png\" alt=\"photograph of HLQ board members\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/02\/hlq-board-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/02\/hlq-board-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/02\/hlq-board-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/02\/hlq-board-1-1280x720.png 1280w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2025\/02\/hlq-board-1.png 1430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xxmsonormal\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The editorial board of the\u00a0<i>Huntington Library Quarterly<\/i>\u00a0is staffed by sixteen eminent scholars of early modern art, literature, history, science, medicine, and material culture. They represent the best of what has made the\u00a0<i>HLQ<\/i>\u00a0a highly valued journal among researchers in the US, Britain, and beyond, with more than 150,000 annual article downloads. They also signal a new direction for the\u00a0<i>HLQ<\/i>, which is expanding to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, informed by critical approaches to colonialism and power in the early modern world. As advisors and advocates, they will help guide the journal\u2019s new editor, Brett Rushforth, as he leads the\u00a0<i>HLQ<\/i>\u00a0from its headquarters at\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/huntington.org\/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!oKlIm1VCT1nvHL6V_Ps8VoYJfkIDJaV755jIOKTBYY99rdgDG8k_VbhT8_NCyxo4zTS2axBbdBr4mYnalVSVBw$\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/huntington.org\/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!oKlIm1VCT1nvHL6V_Ps8VoYJfkIDJaV755jIOKTBYY99rdgDG8k_VbhT8_NCyxo4zTS2axBbdBr4mYnalVSVBw$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"13\">The Huntington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xxmsonormal\">For more information about individual board members, click on their names below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chass.usu.edu\/history\/directory\/susan-cogan\"><strong>Susan Cogan<\/strong><\/a>, Utah State University<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/history.princeton.edu\/people\/elizabeth-ellis\"><strong>Elizabeth Ellis<\/strong><\/a>, Princeton University<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/english.rutgers.edu\/people\/faculty-profiles\/profile\/1370-chair-s-office\/6475-festa-lynn.html\"><strong>Lynn Festa<\/strong><\/a>, Rutgers University<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/art.as.virginia.edu\/people\/profile\/2686\"><strong>Douglas Fordham<\/strong><\/a>, University of Virginia<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/research.manchester.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/stefan-han%C3%9F-2\"><strong>Stefan Hanss<\/strong><\/a>, University of Manchester<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk\/people\/katherine-ibbett\"><strong>Katherine Ibbett<\/strong><\/a>, Oxford University<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/peter-mancall\/\"><strong>Peter Mancall<\/strong><\/a>, USC and EMSI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umb.edu\/directory\/shannonmchugh\/\"><strong>Shannon McHugh<\/strong><\/a>, University of Massachusetts, Boston<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/as.nyu.edu\/faculty\/jennifer-morgan.html\"><strong>Jennifer L. Morgan<\/strong><\/a>, New York University<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.utoronto.ca\/people\/directories\/all-faculty\/jennifer-mori\"><strong>Jennifer<\/strong> <strong>Mori<\/strong><\/a>, University of Toronto<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/english.uchicago.edu\/people\/noemie-ndiaye\"><strong>No\u00e9mie Ndiaye<\/strong><\/a>, University of Chicago<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wm.edu\/as\/history\/faculty\/poppernicholas.php\"><strong>Nicholas Popper<\/strong><\/a>, William &amp; Mary and Omohundro Institute<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/history\/about\/people\/nicholas-radburn\"><strong>Nicholas Radburn<\/strong><\/a>, Lancaster University<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/history.ucdavis.edu\/people\/andres-resendez\"><strong>Andr\u00e9s Res\u00e9ndez<\/strong><\/a>, University of California, Davis<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hist.cam.ac.uk\/people\/professor-ulinka-rublack-fba\"><strong>Ulinka Rublack<\/strong><\/a>, Cambridge University<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/english.ucla.edu\/people-faculty\/silva-cristobal\/\"><strong>Cristobal Silva<\/strong><\/a>, University of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Latest Issue<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-C5I4f1xaBG\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-C5I4f1xaBG\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h4>Volume 88, Number 1-2, Spring\/Summer 2025<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9513\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2026\/02\/front_cover-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"front cover of Huntington Library Quarterly\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2026\/02\/front_cover-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2026\/02\/front_cover.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hlq.2025.a983125\">&#8220;New Directions for the HLQ&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Brett Rushforth<\/em>, 1-3<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hlq.2025.a983126\">&#8220;&#8216;The Mysteries of Apalache&#8217;: Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Owen Stanwood<\/em>, 5-38<\/p>\n<p>In 1658, Charles de Rochefort published a description of Apalache, an Indigenous polity located in southeastern North America that had welcomed French and English refugees. Usually dismissed as a tall tale, Rochefort&#8217;s account has never been thoroughly analyzed. The story demonstrates how Europeans in the early period of colonization understood America as a place of wonder and inspiration. In addition, one can learn how information (and misinformation) traveled across the Atlantic. Rochefort probably patched his tale together from various oral sources, including some that came from Indigenous Americans. As a result, Rochefort revealed a lost world of stories and shows the myriad ways Europeans tried to make sense of America.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hlq.2025.a983127\">&#8220;Sun Worship in the Early Modern English Colonial Imagination&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sophie Battell<\/em>, 39-58<\/p>\n<p>This article presents a decolonial analysis of the figure of the Indigenous sun worshipper in early modern literature. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic sources, I show how the sun worshipper emerges as a privileged figure in discussions of Native religious practices. Sun worship was frequently condemned and ridiculed in contemporary discourse, but this analysis of plays such as Shakespeare&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Tempest<\/em>and Fletcher&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Island Princess<\/em>offers a more nuanced view. These texts alert us to the violence of colonial encounter and the literary dispossession of Indigenous practitioners of their spiritual connections to the cosmos and the celestial bodies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hlq.2025.a983128\">&#8220;Escaping Rumor in the Mexican Inquisition&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Daria Berman<\/em>, 59-86<\/p>\n<p>This paper investigates the methodology of analyzing gossip and rumor in the Mexican Inquisition trial of the alleged Judaizer Simon Lopez de Aguarda in the 1640s. Through close reading of witness testimony and arrest orders, I challenge the idea that inquisitors had unquestionable evidence against individuals accused of heresy. Rather, these trials hinged on unreliable fama publica, or village gossip, transformed into what I term a &#8220;legal rumor&#8221;: the selective and often creative synthesis of fama publica supporting in an arrest order. The contributions of Lopez&#8217;s testimony written in his own handwriting is a unique feature of his trial that allows historians to see how the inquisition worked behind the scenes to distort witness testimony to produce a guilty verdict. The study of this trial suggests a new methodology for researching inquisition trials by following how narrative shifted throughout the procedures and how historians can engage with these rich but convoluted sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hlq.2025.a983129\">&#8220;Rhetorical Rebound: Disabling Critique in Richard III&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Pasquale Toscano<\/em>, 87-118<\/p>\n<p>Although the body of Shakespeare&#8217;s Richard III has been a long time object of ableist contempt, disability scholars have, in the twenty-first century, shown it to be far more than symbolic of a villainous mind. Why, then, spend further time on Richard&#8217;s physique? Often, he is still understood as the only disabled\u2013or &#8220;unnatural&#8221;\u2013one in the play, despite the fundamental instability of the category of disability. Many contemporary theorists have stressed just this. The present article argues that Richard anticipates their insights. He turns the rhetoric of somatic aberrance against his accusers, insists that his antagonists are just as unnatural as he, and nabs the English crown for his efforts. Recognizing this strategy shines new light on the play&#8217;s most confusing scenes, as well as its latent political commentary. At a time when polemicists were describing the aged female sovereign as &#8220;unnatural, Shakespeare reveals not only that the flexibility of this label undercuts its usefulness, but also that political discourse reduced to individual bodies unleashes cycles of insult in which only the most shameless calumniators prevail. What is more, attending to these cycles in\u00a0<em>Richard III<\/em>prepares us for their more complicated iterations in Shakespeare&#8217;s later plays\u2013and by extension, his iconoclastic tragic technique.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hlq.2025.a983130\">&#8220;&#8216;A Disposition to Laziness&#8217;: Visions of Cockaigne in the English Atlantic World&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel Johnson<\/em>, 119-148<\/p>\n<p>Originating in medieval Europe, the mythical land of Cockaigne frequently appeared in English literary texts between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Particularly prominent in works on the Americas, images of the medieval folk utopia served a variety of ideological purposes, from lamenting the innate laziness of the masses and encouraging emigration to ridiculing the colonial project as a ruse to fool the credulous. Analysis of these disparate images provides an informative and unique lens through which to explore changing attitudes about human nature and the meaning of work in early modern England and America.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hlq.2025.a983131\">&#8220;How Menocchio&#8217;s Ordeal Began: Clerical Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in the Sixteenth and Twenty-First Centuries&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Virginia Reinburg<\/em>, 149-167<\/p>\n<p>Historians, teachers, and students of early modern Europe and the Reformation know Carlo Ginzburg&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Cheese and the Worms<\/em>(1976), a brilliant account of the heresy trials of Domenico Scandella, called Menocchio, before the Roman Inquisition. Ginzburg drew an unforgettable portrait of one peasant intellectual&#8217;s bold defense of his original ideas before the inquisitors. This essay calls attention to the role of clerical sex abuse in setting Menocchio&#8217;s trial in motion. The essay joins recent work by historians reexamining past events that today would be considered sex abuse. Spotlighting clerical abuse of power, including sexual abuse, sheds light on dynamics of power and resistance in sixteenth-century Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/hlq.2025.a983132\">&#8220;Black Aquatics: Early Modern Past, Present, and Future&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Amanda Herbert and Kevin Dawson<\/em>, 169-198<\/p>\n<p>This article introduces the public humanities project\u00a0<em>Open Water: Histories of Afroaquatics<\/em>, which combines original early modern research with community outreach and education to address contemporary racial inequities in aquatic activity and safety. The authors trace how early modern manuscripts, books, images, and material culture\u2013largely produced by Europeans\u2013both documented and distorted the aquatic expertise of Black communities in Africa and the Americas. Reconstructing these suppressed histories, the authors reveal that early modern Africans were celebrated for their proficiency in swimming, diving, fishing, and boating, as well as for developing sophisticated water-based healing practices. These traditions, rooted in spiritual and medicinal relationships to water, were often appropriated and misrepresented by Europeans to serve the interests of enslavers and colonizers. Over time, these distortions fed inaccurate historical narratives that have reduced Black participation in aquatic activities and increased the risk of Black drowning. Through partnerships with educations, artists, and youth organizations in the U.S. and Britain, the\u00a0<em>Open Water<\/em>\u00a0project reclaims these histories for the communities from which they were taken. By connecting the early modern archive to present-day social justice work, the authors demonstrate how historical scholarship can move beyond recovery toward repair, transforming inherited narratives of exclusion into acts of collective remembrance and revitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Past Issues<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-C5I4f1xaBG\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-C5I4f1xaBG\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Past issues can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journal\/677\">via Project Muse<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Call for Submissions<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-C5I4f1xaBG\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-C5I4f1xaBG\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h4><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b><i>HLQ<\/i>\u00a0Call for Submissions:<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Huntington Library Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0(<em>HLQ<\/em>) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400\u20131800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines.<\/p>\n<p><em>HLQ<\/em>\u2019s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds.<\/p>\n<p><em>HLQ<\/em>\u00a0publishes four types of essays:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><u>Research Articles<\/u>: Standard essays based on original research and interpretation in conversation with current scholarship. (8,000\u201315,000 words, including notes.)<\/li>\n<li><u>Sources:<\/u>\u00a0Short critical editions of previously unpublished textual or visual sources, translated into English when applicable, with a full critical apparatus and interpretive intervention.<\/li>\n<li><u>Assessments and Approaches:<\/u>\u00a0State-of-the-field, methodological, and theoretical essays that assess recent scholarship, reimagine older works from new perspectives, or suggest new directions for research. (3,000 to 10,000 words, including notes.)<\/li>\n<li><u>Early\/Modern Connections:<\/u>\u00a0 Essays presenting original early modern research that has enabled, supported, or shaped a specific public humanities or public interest project. (2,000 to 10,000 words, including notes.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We also publish special issues\u2014similar to edited book volumes\u2014in which a group of essays connected by a common theme, topic, or approach is submitted collectively, with an introduction, by an editor or editors. If the issue is accepted for publication, the submitting editors become guest co-editors of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>HLQ<em>\u00a0is published by The Huntington, a world-leading research center with vast early modern holdings in its Library, Art, and Botanical divisions. Although the journal welcomes submissions that draw directly on these resources, the<\/em><em>\u00a0location of research or source material has no influence on publication decisions.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Call for Submissions: Early\/Modern Connections<\/b><\/h4>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The\u00a0<i>Huntington Library Quarterly\u00a0<\/i>(<i>HLQ<\/i>) invites submissions for a new section of the journal called Early\/Modern Connections. This section will feature peer-reviewed essays that link early modern research to public humanities and the public interest. Although examples will vary widely, all successful submissions will illustrate how previously unpublished research in early modern sources has informed, or continues to inform, a public-facing project. Work benefiting historically underserved or marginalized communities is of particular interest. Essay length will vary significantly by project but will generally not exceed 5,000 words.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">We anticipate submissions highlighting smaller-scale individual work as well as collaborations between scholars and performers, educators, activists, writers, artists, and public-serving institutions. We also anticipate the unanticipated and encourage anyone interested in submitting an Early\/Modern Connections piece to contact the journal\u2019s editor,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/huntington.org\/staff\/brett-rushforth__;!!IBzWLUs!VxGbFi9DmA_TrM4eic33VRpkTZqr9AiGRC3Lw_Y26mww-Znv8xYNVGUZ52In8lgtRzWQ_dgTCr3PBxHexi4Fy7cC$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Brett Rushforth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-5-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-C5I4f1xaBG\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">HLQ News<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-C5I4f1xaBG\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-C5I4f1xaBG\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZypuihewT6\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/blog\/the-huntington-library-quarterly-announces-a-new-editor-in-chief-and-editorial-board\/\">The Huntington Library Quarterly announces a new editor in chief and editorial board<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Huntington Library Quarterly announces a new editor in chief and editorial board&#8221; &#8212; University of Pennsylvania Press\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/blog\/the-huntington-library-quarterly-announces-a-new-editor-in-chief-and-editorial-board\/embed\/#?secret=7UVYi6yPRC#?secret=ZypuihewT6\" data-secret=\"ZypuihewT6\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/huntington.org\/news\/two-distinguished-scholars-join-huntingtons-research-division\">Two Distinguished Scholars Join Huntington&#8217;s Research Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--full-width-image-and-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--full-width-image-and-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2026\/02\/front_cover-507x432.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"front cover of Huntington Library Quarterly\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Huntington Library Quarterly\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Volume 88, Number 1-2, Spring\/Summer 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n      <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Latest Issue\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">New Directions for the HLQ<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-xneuGtzqsl\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-xneuGtzqsl\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Brett Rushforth<\/em>, 1-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">&#8220;The Mysteries of Apalache&#8221;: Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-xneuGtzqsl\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-xneuGtzqsl\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Owen Stanwood<\/em>, 5-38<\/p>\n<p>In 1658, Charles de Rochefort published a description of Apalache, an Indigenous polity located in southeastern North America that had welcomed French and English refugees. Usually dismissed as a tall tale, Rochefort\u2019s account has never been thoroughly analyzed. The story demonstrates how Europeans in the early period of colonization understood America as a place of wonder and inspiration. In addition, one can learn how information (and misinformation) traveled across the Atlantic. Rochefort probably patched his tale together from various oral sources, including some that came from Indigenous Americans. As a result, Rochefort revealed a lost world of stories and shows the myriad ways Europeans tried to make sense of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">&#8220;Sun Worship in the Early Modern Colonial Imagination&#8221;<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-xneuGtzqsl\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-xneuGtzqsl\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Sophie Battell<\/em>, 39-58<\/p>\n<p>This article presents a decolonial analysis of the figure of the Indigenous sun worshipper in early modern literature. Drawing on a wide range of ethnographic sources, I show how the sun worshipper emerges as a privileged figure in discussions of Native religious practices. Sun worship was frequently condemned and ridiculed in contemporary discourse, but this analysis of plays such as Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Tempest<\/em>and Fletcher\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Island Princess<\/em>offers a more nuanced view. These texts alert us to the violence of colonial encounter and the literary dispossession of Indigenous practitioners of their spiritual connections to the cosmos and the celestial bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Escaping Rumor in the Mexican Inquisition<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-xneuGtzqsl\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-xneuGtzqsl\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Daria Berman<\/em>, 59-86<\/p>\n<p>This paper investigates the methodology of analyzing gossip and rumor in the Mexican Inquisition trial of the alleged Judaizer Simon Lopez de Aguarda in the 1640s. Through close reading of witness testimony and arrest orders, I challenge the idea that inquisitors had unquestionable evidence against individuals accused of heresy. Rather, these trials hinged on unreliable fama publica, or village gossip, transformed into what I term a \u201clegal rumor\u201d: the selective and often creative synthesis of fama publica supporting in an arrest order. The contributions of Lopez\u2019s testimony written in his own handwriting is a unique feature of his trial that allows historians to see how the inquisition worked behind the scenes to distort witness testimony to produce a guilty verdict. The study of this trial suggests a new methodology for researching inquisition trials by following how narrative shifted throughout the procedures and how historians can engage with these rich but convoluted sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-5-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Rhetorical Rebound: Disabling Critique in Richard III<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-xneuGtzqsl\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-xneuGtzqsl\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Pasquale Toscano<\/em>, 87-118<\/p>\n<p>Although the body of Shakespeare\u2019s Richard III has been a long time object of ableist contempt, disability scholars have, in the twenty-first century, shown it to be far more than symbolic of a villainous mind. Why, then, spend further time on Richard\u2019s physique? Often, he is still understood as the only disabled\u2013or \u201cunnatural\u201d\u2013one in the play, despite the fundamental instability of the category of disability. Many contemporary theorists have stressed just this. The present article argues that Richard anticipates their insights. He turns the rhetoric of somatic aberrance against his accusers, insists that his antagonists are just as unnatural as he, and nabs the English crown for his efforts. Recognizing this strategy shines new light on the play\u2019s most confusing scenes, as well as its latent political commentary. At a time when polemicists were describing the aged female sovereign as \u201cunnatural, Shakespeare reveals not only that the flexibility of this label undercuts its usefulness, but also that political discourse reduced to individual bodies unleashes cycles of insult in which only the most shameless calumniators prevail. What is more, attending to these cycles in\u00a0<em>Richard III<\/em>prepares us for their more complicated iterations in Shakespeare\u2019s later plays\u2013and by extension, his iconoclastic tragic technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-6-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-controls=\"section-1-6-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">&#8220;A Disposition to Laziness&#8221;: Visions of Cockaigne in the English Atlantic World<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-6-xneuGtzqsl\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-6-xneuGtzqsl\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Daniel Johnson<\/em>, 119-148<\/p>\n<p>Originating in medieval Europe, the mythical land of Cockaigne frequently appeared in English literary texts between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Particularly prominent in works on the Americas, images of the medieval folk utopia served a variety of ideological purposes, from lamenting the innate laziness of the masses and encouraging emigration to ridiculing the colonial project as a ruse to fool the credulous. Analysis of these disparate images provides an informative and unique lens through which to explore changing attitudes about human nature and the meaning of work in early modern England and America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-7-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-controls=\"section-1-7-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">How Menocchio&#8217;s Ordeal Began: Clerical Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in the Sixteenth and Twenty-First Centuries<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-7-xneuGtzqsl\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-7-xneuGtzqsl\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Virginia Reinburg<\/em>, 149-167<\/p>\n<p>Historians, teachers, and students of early modern Europe and the Reformation know Carlo Ginzburg\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Cheese and the Worms<\/em>(1976), a brilliant account of the heresy trials of Domenico Scandella, called Menocchio, before the Roman Inquisition. Ginzburg drew an unforgettable portrait of one peasant intellectual\u2019s bold defense of his original ideas before the inquisitors. This essay calls attention to the role of clerical sex abuse in setting Menocchio\u2019s trial in motion. The essay joins recent work by historians reexamining past events that today would be considered sex abuse. Spotlighting clerical abuse of power, including sexual abuse, sheds light on dynamics of power and resistance in sixteenth-century Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-8-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-controls=\"section-1-8-xneuGtzqsl\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Black Aquatics: Early Modern Past, Present, and Future<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-8-xneuGtzqsl\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-8-xneuGtzqsl\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Amanda Herbert and Kevin Dawson<\/em>, 169-198<\/p>\n<p>This article introduces the public humanities project\u00a0<em>Open Water: Histories of Afroaquatics<\/em>, which combines original early modern research with community outreach and education to address contemporary racial inequities in aquatic activity and safety. The authors trace how early modern manuscripts, books, images, and material culture\u2013largely produced by Europeans\u2013both documented and distorted the aquatic expertise of Black communities in Africa and the Americas. Reconstructing these suppressed histories, the authors reveal that early modern Africans were celebrated for their proficiency in swimming, diving, fishing, and boating, as well as for developing sophisticated water-based healing practices. These traditions, rooted in spiritual and medicinal relationships to water, were often appropriated and misrepresented by Europeans to serve the interests of enslavers and colonizers. Over time, these distortions fed inaccurate historical narratives that have reduced Black participation in aquatic activities and increased the risk of Black drowning. Through partnerships with educations, artists, and youth organizations in the U.S. and Britain, the\u00a0<em>Open Water<\/em>\u00a0project reclaims these histories for the communities from which they were taken. By connecting the early modern archive to present-day social justice work, the authors demonstrate how historical scholarship can move beyond recovery toward repair, transforming inherited narratives of exclusion into acts of collective remembrance and revitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><em>Image: Eunice Hooper, Sampler, c. 1790, Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. 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