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Adso And Omen Iii: The Antichrist In The Tenth And Twentieth Centuries, Boyd H. Hill Jr.

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The Seventies are said to have shattered when Johnny Rotten screamed "I am the antichrist!" (Pond 53)

The Trinity Gild Of Coventry And The Royal Affinity, 1392-1413, Douglas Biggs

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Perhaps the principal difficulty that all late-medieval monarchs faced centered on the process by which royal wishes and needs were transformed into governmental reality in local communities throughout the kingdom. This process, long ignored by historians, has in the past forty years received increasing attention. Most of this attention, following K. B. McFarlane's "Bastard Feudal" construct, has focused on personal relationships between the king or a magnate and local gentry.

1996 Allen D. Breck Award Winner: Narration And Quattrocento Annunciation Paintings, Joseph D. Parry

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Quattrocento Annunciation paintings are particularly useful in offering us a better understanding of the nature of narration in Renaissance art. When we describe the narration in Renaissance art. When we describe the narrative construction of the Annunciation in the work of quattrocento painters, a Fra Angelico, a Fra FIlippo Lippi, or a Sandro Botticelli, we know, of course that the Annunciation as a narrative ultimately resides in the language of St. Luke's Gospel; though in being told and retold, it easily takes on a life of its own in oral transmissions, in paraphrasings in sermons, in elaborations in scriptural commentaries, …

Review Essay: Acheson, Katherine, O., Ed. The Diary Of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition, Retha M. Warnicke

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Acheson, Katherine O., ed. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Garland, New York, 1995. 225 pp. $67.00.

Review Essay: Ardolino, Frank. Apocalypse And Armada In Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, Robin B. Barnes

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Ardolino, Frank. Apocalypse and Armada in Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies, 29. Sixteenth-Century Journal Publishers, Kirksville, Mo., 1995. xvi + 187 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Baswell, Christopher. Virgil In Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid From The Twelfth Century To Chaucer, Anita Obermeier

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Baswell, Christopher. Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. xviii + 438 pp. 6 black-and-white facsimile plates. $64.95.

Review Essay: Crockett, Bryan. The Play Of Paradox: Stage And Sermon In Renaissance England, Frederick Kiefer

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Crockett, Bryan. The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1995. xi + 213 pp. $32.95.

Review Essay: Dante Alighieri. Monarchia, Joseph Rosenblum

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Dante Alighieri. Monarchia. Trans. and ed. Prue Shaw. Cambridge University Preess, Cambridge, 1995. 186 pp. $54.95.

Review Essay: De' Medici, Lorenzo. The Autobiography Of Lorenzo De' Medici The Magnificent: A Commentary On My Sonnets, Joseph Rosenblum

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de' Medici, Lorenzo. The Autobiography of Lorenzo de' Medici the Magnificent: A Commentary on My Sonnets. Trans. James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 129. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Binghamton, N.Y., 1995. 289 pp. $28.

Review Essay: Earl, James W. Thinking About Beowulf, Joyce Tally Lionarons

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Earl, James W. Thinking about Beowulf. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1994. xiv + 204 pp. $42.50.

Review Essay: Petrarch, Francesco. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. A Verse Translation By James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Vol. 151, Joseph Rosenblum

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Petrarch, Francesco. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. A Verse Translation by James Wyatt Cook. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 151. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Binghamton, N.Y., 1995. 445 pp. $30.00

Review Essay: Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency Of Eros: Women's Love Lyric In Europe, 1540-1620, Albrecht Classen

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Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1990. xi + 256 pp., illustrated. $29.95/$11.95.

The Rest After The Desert: Ending Confessions, George S. Tate

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Augustine, it seems, ends the Confessions twice: the first time neatly at the conclusion of Book 9; the second, problematically, at the end of Book 13. The first ending is an autobiographical ending, but what of the second? The structural and generic unity of the Confessions is a vexed issue, even though its coherence of theme is increasingly recognized. If the work is unified, is it unified as autobiography? If (as I argue) Augustine had come to find the conversion paradigm of his first ending to be unsatisfactory and had exploded it by adopting a new and dangerous strategy in …

"Pleasing Passages": Style In The Old English Pastoral Care, Ray Moye

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The Old English Pastoral Care, a translation of Gregory the Great's Liber Regula Pastoralis which King Alfred completed sometime in the first few years of the 890s, was the first in a series of translations of Latin Christian works in English that would serve as the foundation of Alfred's program of cultural and educational reform aimed at restoring England's preeminence as a leading Christian intellectual center. This reputation that the land had enjoyed during the glory days of Bede and Alcuin had been lost as a consequence of continual Viking invasions in the eighth and ninth centuries, with the …

Ethics And The Seven Liberal Arts: Another Look At The Liberal Arts Curriculum Of The Twelfth And Thirteenth Centuries, Willard W. Dickerson Iii

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Most modern discussions of the liberal arts curriculum of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries focus their attention rather narrowly on the seven arts subsumed under the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy). This is not without some cause. After all, Thierry of Chartres, in the prologue to his Heptaatheucon, remarked:

For since these are the two principal tools of the philosopher, understanding (intellectus) and the expression (interpretatio) thereof—the quadrivium gives light to understanding and the trivium furnishes the elegant, rational, decorous expression thereof—it is evident that the heptatheucon [i.e., …

Leonardo's Virtuvian Man: A Renaissance Microcosm, Charles Carman

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Human nature is that nature which...elevated above all the works of God...enfolds intellectual and sensible nature...so that the ancients were right in calling it a microcosm, or a small world. Hence, human nature is that nature which, if it were elevated unto a union with Maximality, would be the fullness of all the perfections of each and every thing.

–Nicholas of Cusa

Review Essay: Classen, Albrecht, Ed. Eroticism And Love In The Middle Ages, Anita Obermeier

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Classen, Albrecht, ed. Eroticism and Love in the Middle Ages. Revised and expanded 3d edition. American Heritage Custom Publishing Group, New York, 1995. 500 pp.

The Cavendishes, The Evelyns, And Teasing In Verse And Prose, James Fitzmaurice

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It is often noted by those who study seventeenth-century women writers that Mary Evelyn, wife to the famous diarist, pronounced Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle, "rambling as her books, aiming at science, difficulties, high notions, terminating commonly in nonsense, oaths, and obscenity." Such evidence is sometimes used to show that Margaret Cavendish deserved to be called "Mad Madge of Newcastle," an epithet that frequently made its way into biographical references to her in after ages. Nevertheless, it as easily might be the case Mary Evelyn was merely a little miffed with the attentions her husband, John, paid the not unattractive …

Review Essay: Dunn, Kevin. Pretexts Of Authority: The Rhetoric Of Authorship, Nancy A. Guttierez

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Dunn, Kevin. Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1994. xvi + 198 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Farrell, Thomas J., Ed. Bakhtin And Medieval Voices, Joseph D. Parry

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Farrell, Thomas J., ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices. University of Florida Press, Gainseville, 1995. 240 pp., 9 black & white photographs, 1 figure, 1 table, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.

Review Essay: Groos, Arthur. Romancing The Grail: Genre, Science, And Quest In Wolfram's Parzival, Albrecht Classen

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Groos, Arthur. Romancing the Grail: Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram's Parzival. Cornell University Press, Ithica, N.Y. 1995. xvi + 270 pp. $37.50.

Review Essay: Schoefield, John, And Alan Vince. Medieval Towns: The Archaeology Of Medieval Britain, Vol. 4, Kay Slocum

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Schofield, John, and Alan Vince. Medieval Towns: The Archaeology of Medieval Britain, vol. 4. Leicester University Press, London, 1994. xii + 243 pp. $45.00.

Review Essay: Tanner, John S. Anxiety In Eden: A Kierkegaardian Reading Of Paradise Lost, Robert L. Kindrick

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Tanner, John S. Anxiety in Eden: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Paradise Lost. Oxford University Press, New York, 1992. 224 pp., illustrated. $45.00.

Review Essay: Guerin, Victoria M. The Fall Of Kings And Princes: Structure And Destruction In Arthurian Tragedy, Gina L. Greco

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Guerin, Victoria M. The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy. Figuræ: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1995. xi + 336 pp. $39.50.

Review Essay: Staley, Lynn. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions, Cindy Ho

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Staley, Lynn. Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1994. xiii + 224 pp. $35/$16.95.

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