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“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, 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, 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, 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, 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.

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.1, 2014

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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The Medieval Hortus Conclusus: Revisiting The Pleasure Garden, Liz Herbert Mcavoy

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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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

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A Handbook Of Anglo-Saxon Studies, Tracey-Anne Cooper

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, And The Queerness Of Time, Christine E. Kozikowski

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Fashioning Change: The Trope Of Clothing In High- And Late-Medieval England, Laura Diener

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Exhortations To Women And To Others If They Please, Lyn Blanchfield

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages, Sara M. Butler

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Married Women And The Law In Premodern Northwest Europe, Sarah E. Hanson

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Nuns Literacies In Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, Claire Taylor Jones

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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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

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Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.1, 2014

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures Of Desire In The Canterbury Tales, Christopher Flavin

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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"Flourish Like A Garden": Pain, Purgatory And Salvation In The Writing Of Medieval Religious Women, Liz Herbert Mcavoy

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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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

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