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Expanding The Archive: An Art Historical Perspective, Jennifer Borland Dec 2005

Expanding The Archive: An Art Historical Perspective, Jennifer Borland

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Medieval Feminist Forum Bibliography Summer 2005, Chris Africa Jun 2005

Medieval Feminist Forum Bibliography Summer 2005, Chris Africa

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives Feb 2005

John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives

Maine History

In this article folklorist Edward D. Ives traces the life and work of journeyman-poet John Mitchell, who moved from job to job in northern Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century. Ives uses oral history and a few extant poems to give us a glimpse at the life of the common laborer on the raw northern Maine frontier. Mitchell was a wanderer, but he knew the world of the ordinary working man from the inside out, and his poems express the hopes, fears, humor and irony of daily life as he saw it. “Sandy” Ives is professor emeritus from …


Fame And The Making Of Marriage In Northwest England, 1560-1640, Jennifer Mcnabb Jan 2005

Fame And The Making Of Marriage In Northwest England, 1560-1640, Jennifer Mcnabb

Quidditas

Because England did not enact a comprehensive reform of its medieval marital law until Lord Hardwicke’s Act in 1753, it was possible to construct a binding marriage outside the authority of the Church of England during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Marriages created by the exchange of present-tense consent, even if they failed to follow the church’s suggested rules concerning time and place, its emphasis on clerical presence, and its stress on publicity (through three readings of the banns or the procurement of a marriage license), were considered spiritually legitimate throughout the eight decades prior to the civil wars. An …


Romancing The Chronicles: 1 Henry Iv And The Rewriting Of Medieval History, Bradley Greenburg Jan 2005

Romancing The Chronicles: 1 Henry Iv And The Rewriting Of Medieval History, Bradley Greenburg

Quidditas

This essay explores the ways Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV deploys Welshness as a counterforce to English national stability. I argue that the critical habit of equating the genre of romance with untruthfulness or silliness does not pay close enough attention to what Shakespeare does in his history plays. The Hal he gives us, whose youth and military training in Wales he suppresses, is, generically, a romance character. But, instead of a knight in his father’s service (where his adventures would be securely in the service of the realm), or knight errant, he is an errant haunter of bad company, an …


Full Issue Jan 2005

Full Issue

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The Mind Of The South, Ellen Bragdon Jan 2005

The Mind Of The South, Ellen Bragdon

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 151-154