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"Hevest Up The Dore": Overcoming Obstacles To Meaning In Chaucer's Miller's Tale, David Fuller
"Hevest Up The Dore": Overcoming Obstacles To Meaning In Chaucer's Miller's Tale, David Fuller
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The tantalizing obliquity E. M. W. Tillyard observes in the Miller's Tale cannot be avoided if we look beyond the popular humor and artistry of the structured plot. It is difficult to accept the Miller's joke as merely Chaucer's joke, especially when Chaucer includes frequent and indeed ambiguous references to "Goddes pryvetee" and repeated remarks that seriousness and harm have been turned into a joke.
Natural Law And Chaucer's Physician's Tale, Jay Ruud
Natural Law And Chaucer's Physician's Tale, Jay Ruud
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Of all the Canterbury Tales, the Physician's Tale may well be the least appreciated. Its subject matter is distasteful in itself–a despicable judge abuses his position of public trust and authority by deliberately setting out to obtain an innocent young virgin as an object of lust, while too frustrate the even the victim's father beheads her after cold-blooded premeditation. But if that were not enough, the tale contains at least two apparently incongruous digressions, and the storyteller appends a moral that must make the reader suspect the Narrator has not been listening to his own story. Perhaps a modern …
The Elizabethan Diplomatic Service, F. Jeffrey Platt
The Elizabethan Diplomatic Service, F. Jeffrey Platt
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The critical early years of Elizabeth's reign witnessed a watershed in European history. The 1559 Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, which ended the long Hapsburg-Valois conflict, resulted in a sudden shift in the focus of international politics from Italy to the uncomfortable proximity of the Low Countries. The arrival there, 30 miles from England's coast, in 1567, of thousands of seasoned Spanish troops presented a military and commercial threat the English queen could not ignore. Moreover, French control of Calais and their growing interest in supplanting the Spanish presence in the Netherlands represented n even greater menace to England's security. Combined with …
Shakespeare's Romance Of Knowing, Maurice Hunt
Shakespeare's Romance Of Knowing, Maurice Hunt
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From time to time literary critics have claimed that Shakespeare's undisputed last plays—Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest—are, to varying degrees, concerned with the main characters' learning experiences. These claim range, for example, from Stephen Orgel's aargument that adversity schools Alonso and Prospero in humility to Northrop Frye's assertion that education provides the means for the protagonists of the last plays to recover some sort of paradise. In other words, critics over the years have claimed in different ways that the last plays are either educational or epistemological romances. And yet no one, to my …
Review Essay: Gillian R. Evans, Alister E. Mcgrath, And Allan D. Galloway, The History Of Christian Theology, Vol. I: The Science Of Theology, Harry Rosenberg
Review Essay: Gillian R. Evans, Alister E. Mcgrath, And Allan D. Galloway, The History Of Christian Theology, Vol. I: The Science Of Theology, Harry Rosenberg
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Gillian R. Evans, Alister E. McGrath, and Allan D. Galloway, The History of Christian Theology, Vol. I: The Science of Theology, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1986.
Review Essay: John F. Wippel, Ed., Studies In Medieval Philosophy, Ivan Boh
Review Essay: John F. Wippel, Ed., Studies In Medieval Philosophy, Ivan Boh
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John F. Wippel, ed., Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Vol 17: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Catholic University Press, 1987.
Review Essay: R. Allen Brown, The Normans And The Norman Conquest, Hugh T. Lovin
Review Essay: R. Allen Brown, The Normans And The Norman Conquest, Hugh T. Lovin
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R. Allen Brown, The Normans and the Norman Conquest, Boydell Press, 1985.
Review Essay: P. R. Cross And S. D. Lloyd, Eds., Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings Of The Newcastle Upon Tyne Conference 1985, Kristine T. Utterback
Review Essay: P. R. Cross And S. D. Lloyd, Eds., Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings Of The Newcastle Upon Tyne Conference 1985, Kristine T. Utterback
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P. R. Cross and S. D. Lloyd, eds., Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1985, Boydell Press, [1986].
Review Essay: Richard Kieckhefer, Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints And Their Religious Milieu, Glenn W. Olsen
Review Essay: Richard Kieckhefer, Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints And Their Religious Milieu, Glenn W. Olsen
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Richard Kieckhefer, Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Review Essay: Umberto Eco, Art And Beauty In The Middle Ages, Martine P. Rey
Review Essay: Umberto Eco, Art And Beauty In The Middle Ages, Martine P. Rey
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Umberto Eco, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, trans. Hugh Bredin, Yale University Press, 1986.
Review Essay: E. A. J. Honigmann, John Weever: A Biography Of A Literary Associate Of Shakespeare And Jonson, Together With A Photographic Facsimile Of Weever's "Epigrammes" (1599), Nancy Gutierrez
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E. A. J. Honigmann, John Weever: A Biography of a Literary Associate of Shakespeare and Jonson, Together with a Photographic Facsimile of Weever's "Epigrammes" (1599), St. Martin's Press, 1987.
Review Essay: Toshiyuki Takamiya And Derek Brewer, Eds., Aspects Of Malory, Sandy Feinstein
Review Essay: Toshiyuki Takamiya And Derek Brewer, Eds., Aspects Of Malory, Sandy Feinstein
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Toshiyuki Takamiya and Derek Brewer, eds., Aspects of Malory, Vol 1: Arthurian Studies, Boydell & Brewer, 1986.
Review Essay: Margaret J. M. Ezell, A Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence And The History Of The Family, Retha Warnicke
Review Essay: Margaret J. M. Ezell, A Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence And The History Of The Family, Retha Warnicke
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Margaret J. M. Ezell, A Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Review Essay: Jane P. Davidson, The Witch In Northern European Art, 1470-1750, John Moffitt
Review Essay: Jane P. Davidson, The Witch In Northern European Art, 1470-1750, John Moffitt
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Jane P. Davidson, The Witch in Northern European Art, 1470-1750, Luca Verlag Freren, 1987.
Review Essay: Graciela S. Daichman, Wayward Nuns In Medieval Literature, Kay Rogers
Review Essay: Graciela S. Daichman, Wayward Nuns In Medieval Literature, Kay Rogers
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Graciela S. Daichman, Wayward Nuns in Medieval Literature, Syracuse University Press, 1986.
Uncovering Women's Writings: Two Early Italian Women Poets, Paola Malpezzi Price
Uncovering Women's Writings: Two Early Italian Women Poets, Paola Malpezzi Price
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If ever there [were] a time which teaches that one must know the history of women to understand the history of literature, it is now.
Dreams, Stress, And Interpretation In Chaucer And His Contemporaries, David G. Hale
Dreams, Stress, And Interpretation In Chaucer And His Contemporaries, David G. Hale
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As is well known, dreams are important components of many works of medieval literature. one or more dreams can be the subject of most of a poem, as in the Roman de la Rose, Pearl, Piers Plowman, the Book of the Duchess, and the House of Fame. Or one or more dreams can be a relatively small yet important part of a work; Dante's Vita nuova and Purgatorio are familiar examples, as are Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, Knight's Tale, and Troilus and Criseyde. In many cases the transitions into or out of these dreams …
Sodom And Gomorrah: The Use Of Mandeville's Travels In Cleanness, Liam O. Purdon
Sodom And Gomorrah: The Use Of Mandeville's Travels In Cleanness, Liam O. Purdon
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The Pearl-Poet's late fourteenth-century appropriation in Cleanness of a mid-fourteenth century work, Mandeville's Travels, has been an established fact since the publication of Robert J. Menner's edition of the poem. The poet uses the Travels as a source for two important episodes: the description of Sodom and Gomorrah's cataclysmic destruction and the description of Belshazzar's brief and idolatrous reign in Babylon. While many points of connection between the Travels and Cleanness in the Sodom and Gomorrah episode have been identified, the poet's dependence on Mandeville in this scene raises two questions that have not yet been satisfactorily answered. …
The Harrowing Of Peter: An Extrabiblical Encounter Between Christ And Peter, Gary D. Schmidt
The Harrowing Of Peter: An Extrabiblical Encounter Between Christ And Peter, Gary D. Schmidt
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Of all the events surrounding the life of Christ, none sees more elaboration and embellishment during the Middle Ages than the Passion. Many of these familiar stories take their place in prayer book miniatures, preacher's manuals, and on the stage. The image on Veronica's veil, the dream of Pilate's wife, the healing of the blind Longinus, the ominous events preceding the harrowing–all show a tendency to surround the simple yet dramatic story of Christ's Passion with corresponding incidents that reflect aspects of the meaning of the Passion and at the same tme aare themselves informed by that Passion.
A Document Of Humanist Education: Erasmus's Commentary On The Disticha Catonis, Louis A. Perraud
A Document Of Humanist Education: Erasmus's Commentary On The Disticha Catonis, Louis A. Perraud
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The part the Disticha (or Dicta) Catonis played in Erasmus's caareer is only one event in the work's long and honorable history. The Cato was composed by an anonymous author during the later Roman principate. As presented in the oldest manuscripts, the work consists of prose sententiae followed by fouor books of hexameter couplets. The whole is ornamented with a prose preface, and the second, third, and fourth books of hexameters have verse prologues of ten, four, and four lines respectively. The "Cato" to whom the work is attributed is probably either that redoubtable critic of Roman morals, Cato …
What The Gardener Knew: Pruning And Power In The Troublesome Raigne Of King John And Richard Ii, Dorothea Kehler
What The Gardener Knew: Pruning And Power In The Troublesome Raigne Of King John And Richard Ii, Dorothea Kehler
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Lack of knowledge is a chief concern of Richard II. Throughout, whaat the audience knows is provocatively matched or exceeded by what it does not know. Information seemingly deferred remains undisclosed in a discourse of permanent deferral. Bolingbroke's purpose in accusing Mowbray, the duration and extent of Bolingbroke's ambition, Richard's reasons for exiling Mobray, Richard's feelings towards him, Richard's sexual predilections, the truth or falsity of Bagot's accusation of Aumerle, York's reasons for demanding Aumerle's death–such questions as these the play refuses to answer. In consequence, from the onset, personal and political motives in Richard II are murky; the …
Review Essay: Leonard Barkan, The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & The Pursuit Of Paganism, Steven Max Miller
Review Essay: Leonard Barkan, The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & The Pursuit Of Paganism, Steven Max Miller
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Leonard Barkan, The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism, Yale University Press, 1986.
Review Essay: Charlotte F. Otten, Ed., A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves In Western Culture, Melanie Shirk
Review Essay: Charlotte F. Otten, Ed., A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves In Western Culture, Melanie Shirk
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Charlotte F. Otten, ed., A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture, Syracuse University Press, 1986.
Review Essay: Philippe Contamine, War In The Middle Ages, K. G. Madison
Review Essay: Philippe Contamine, War In The Middle Ages, K. G. Madison
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Philippe Contamine, War in the Middle Ages, trans. Michael Jones, Basil Blackwell, 1984.
Review Essay: Juliet R. V. Barker, The Tournament In England, 1100-1400, Kelly Robert Devries
Review Essay: Juliet R. V. Barker, The Tournament In England, 1100-1400, Kelly Robert Devries
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Juliet R. V. Barker, The Tournament in England, 1100-1400. Boydell & Brewer, 1986.
Review Essay: Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast And Holy Fast: The Religious Significance Of Food To Medieval Women, Janine Marie Idziak
Review Essay: Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast And Holy Fast: The Religious Significance Of Food To Medieval Women, Janine Marie Idziak
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Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, University of California Press, 1987.
Review Essay: Constance Hoffman Berman, Medieval Agriculture, The Southern French Countryside, And The Early Cistercians: A Study Of Forty-Three Monasteries, Francis X. Hartigan
Review Essay: Constance Hoffman Berman, Medieval Agriculture, The Southern French Countryside, And The Early Cistercians: A Study Of Forty-Three Monasteries, Francis X. Hartigan
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Constance Hoffman Berman, Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians: A Study of Forty-Three Monasteries, Vol. 76, Part 5: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1986.
Review Essay: Alison Adams, Armel H. Diverres, Karen Stern, And Kenneth Varty, Eds., The Changing Face Of Arthurian Romance: Essays In Arthurian Prose Romances In Memory Of Cedric E. Pickford, Alexandra Hennessey Olsen
Review Essay: Alison Adams, Armel H. Diverres, Karen Stern, And Kenneth Varty, Eds., The Changing Face Of Arthurian Romance: Essays In Arthurian Prose Romances In Memory Of Cedric E. Pickford, Alexandra Hennessey Olsen
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Alison Adams, Armel H. Diverres, Karen Stern, and Kenneth Varty, eds., The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance: Essays in Arthurian Prose Romances in Memory of Cedric E. Pickford, Vol. 16: Arthurian Studies, Boydell and Brewer, 1986.
Review Essay: Murray Roston, Renaissance Perspectives In Literature And The Visual Arts, Eugene R. Cunnar
Review Essay: Murray Roston, Renaissance Perspectives In Literature And The Visual Arts, Eugene R. Cunnar
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Murray Roston, Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Princeton University Press, 1987.