Monastic Prisons And Torture Chambers: Crime And Punishment In Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800, 2015 Marquette University
Monastic Prisons And Torture Chambers: Crime And Punishment In Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800, Ulrich Lehner
Ulrich L. Lehner
Following the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic religious orders underwent substantial reform. Nevertheless, on occasion monks and nuns had to be disciplined and—if they had committed a crime—punished. Consequently, many religious orders relied on sophisticated criminal law traditions that included torture, physical punishment, and prison sentences. Ulrich L. Lehner provides for the first time an overview of how monasteries in central Europe prosecuted crime and punished their members, and thus introduces a host of new questions for anyone interested in state-church relations, gender questions, the history of violence, or the development of modern monasticism.
The Knights Of The Front: Medieval History’S Influence On Great War Propaganda, 2015 Kansas State University
The Knights Of The Front: Medieval History’S Influence On Great War Propaganda, Haley E. Claxton
Crossing Borders: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship
Spanning a number of academic areas, “Knights of the Front: Medieval History’s Influence on Great War Propaganda” focuses on the emergence of medieval imagery in the First World War propaganda. Examining several specific uses of medieval symbolism in propaganda posters from both Central and Allied powers, the article provides insight into the narrative of war, both politically and culturally constructed. The paper begins with an overview of the psychology behind visual persuasion and the history behind Europe’s cultural affinity for “chivalry,” then continues into specific case studies of period propaganda posters that hold not only themes of military glory and …
Milton’S Inward Liberty: A Reading Of Christian Liberty From The Prose To Paradise Lost, By Filippo Falcone., 2015 Messiah College
Milton’S Inward Liberty: A Reading Of Christian Liberty From The Prose To Paradise Lost, By Filippo Falcone., Samuel Smith
English Faculty Scholarship
When this book arrived from the Milton Quarterly office, I nearly decided to return it with the afternoon mail after my first cursory look at it. That would have been a mistake. My initial response flouted the old cliché: don’t judge a book by its cover. The cover photo—misty woodland and mountain landscape with luminous autumn foliage, location unidentified, and the author’s name in cursive font under the subtitle—had me suspecting, and expecting, something more like a devotional book than a work of scholarship. And both the author and the publisher were utterly unknown to me (Falcone is an Italian …
“For It Acordeth Noght To Kinde”: Remediating Gower’S Confessio Amantis In Machinima, 2015 University of Rochester, NY
“For It Acordeth Noght To Kinde”: Remediating Gower’S Confessio Amantis In Machinima, Sarah L. Higley
Accessus
Visual adaptation of a medieval text, as tempting as it is in film of any kind, is never an easy conversion, and all the more so if the original is as formally structured as John Gower’s Confessio Amantis. This essay examines the philosophy and difficulties of making a “medieval motion picture” (animated and narrated by the author) reflect the message of three of Gower’s tales (“The Travelers and the Angel,” “Canace and Machaire,” “Florent”) as well as the multimedia properties of the manuscripts that house them, their illuminations beckoning us into colorful virtual worlds. In referencing theories of adaptation, …
Preface, 2015 Westminster College
Preface, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury
Accessus
Co-editors Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury are delighted to feature the work of medievalist and machinimatographer Sarah L. Higley in this issue of Accessus. In a machinima production that debuted during the Third International Congress of the John Gower Society at the University of Rochester (30 June through 3 July, 2014), Higley refashions three tales from the Confessio Amantis for her film The Lover's Confession. In this issue of Accessus, we present the film and Higley's commentary on the intersections between her creative work with machinima and scholarly issues surrounding "The Tale of the Travelers and the …
Buddhism As Performing Art: Visualizing Music In The Tibetan Sacred Ritual Music Liturgies, 2015 University of Calgary
Buddhism As Performing Art: Visualizing Music In The Tibetan Sacred Ritual Music Liturgies, Jeffrey W. Cupchik
Yale Journal of Music & Religion
The eleventh-century Tibetan female ascetic, Machik Labdrön (1055-1153), developed a Vajrayāna (Tantric) Buddhist meditation method called Chöd (Tib. gCod, Eng. “to cut”) and associated ritual practices as a means of eliminating “self-grasping,” which is defined as the mistaken instinct of regarding one’s “self” and all phenomena as intrinsically, or independently, existent. Her musical-meditation method became renowned across Central Asia during her lifetime, and Chödritual practices and liturgies have been transmitted from teacher to disciple in unbroken lineages until today. The ritual is now well known globally, with Tibetan Lamas, nuns, and empowered exponents teaching widely, across a transnational …
Orphic Powers In J.R.R. Tolkien's Legend Of Beren And Lúthien, 2015 University of California, Davis
Orphic Powers In J.R.R. Tolkien's Legend Of Beren And Lúthien, Jane Beal Phd
Journal of Tolkien Research
In “Orphic Powers in Tolkien’s Legend of Beren and Lúthien,” I consider three interrelated strands that influenced the development of Tolkien’s most precious story: Tolkien’s own life experience, sources from classical mythology and medieval literature, and the hope inherent to the Christian faith, especially for resurrection and eternal life, as symbolized in the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. This study suggests that Tolkien’s relationship to his wife, Edith, inspires the legend and renders it a psychological allegory. Three Ovidian tales from classical mythology that were later re-told in medieval literature also influence it: the rape of Philomela, the …
Demon Possession In Anglo-Saxon England, 2015 Penn State Mont Alto
Demon Possession In Anglo-Saxon England, Peter Dendle
Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Anglo-Saxon England was a society governed by the competing discourses of illness, spirituality, power, and community. The concepts of demon possession and exorcism, introduced by Christian missionaries, provided a potential outlet for expressing the psychological, biological, and sociopolitical dysfunctions of a society that was at the center of multiple conflicting cultural dimensions.
Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England is a reexamination of the available sources describing the possessed and a study of the currently recognized medical and psychiatric conditions that may be relevant to and resemble medieval possession.
Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures Of Desire In The Canterbury Tales, 2015 Northeastern State University
Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures Of Desire In The Canterbury Tales, Christopher Flavin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Policing The Queer: Narratives Of Dissent And Containment In Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, 2015 Swansea University
Policing The Queer: Narratives Of Dissent And Containment In Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Roberta Magnani
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Medieval Hortus Conclusus: Revisiting The Pleasure Garden, 2015 Swansea University
The Medieval Hortus Conclusus: Revisiting The Pleasure Garden, Liz Herbert Mcavoy
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Virgin In The Hortus Conclusus: Healing The Body And Healing The Soul, 2015 Shizuoka University
The Virgin In The Hortus Conclusus: Healing The Body And Healing The Soul, Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Beguine, The Angel, And The Inquisitor: The Trials Of Marguerite Porete And Guiard Of Cressonessart, 2015 Western Michigan University
The Beguine, The Angel, And The Inquisitor: The Trials Of Marguerite Porete And Guiard Of Cressonessart, Tanya Stabler Miller
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Exhortations To Women And To Others If They Please, 2015 SUNY-Oswego
Exhortations To Women And To Others If They Please, Lyn Blanchfield
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
A Handbook Of Anglo-Saxon Studies, 2015 St. John's University
A Handbook Of Anglo-Saxon Studies, Tracey-Anne Cooper
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages, 2015 Loyola University New Orleans
Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages, Sara M. Butler
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Nuns Literacies In Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, 2015 University of Notre Dame
Nuns Literacies In Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, Claire Taylor Jones
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Exchanges In Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage And The Making Of The Mediterranean In Old French Romance, 2015 Saint Joseph's University
Exchanges In Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage And The Making Of The Mediterranean In Old French Romance, Kristin Burr
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Rethinking Chaucer's Legend Of Good Women, 2015 Northeastern State University
Rethinking Chaucer's Legend Of Good Women, Christopher Flavin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.1, 2014, 2015 Western Michigan University
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.1, 2014
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.