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More Revisionist Legerdemain And The Book Of Mormon, Louis Midgley

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture (1990), edited by Dan Vogel.

Front Matter

Inscape

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A Modern Malleus Maleficarum, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Best Kept Secrets in the Book of Mormon (1988), by Loftes Tryk.

Meta M. Hedemann: From 1878

The Bridge

I have often been asked, "Why did you and your husband leave Denmark and go so far away . .. adventuring?" We did not go adventuring. My husband was offered a position with a Mr. Unna, an old friend of his father's, who owned a sugar plantation on the island of Maui, one of the Sandwich Islands, as Hawaii was called at that time. Mr. Unna wanted to improve, rearrange, or maybe even build a new sugar factory. He had heard much about a very big, modem sugar mill on one of the islands of the West Indies, which had …

In A Strange Light, Tryn Elva Paxton

Inscape

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Rediscovering The Book Of Mormon: Insights That You May Have Missed Before, John L. Sorenson, Melvin J. Thorne

Maxwell Institute Publications

This book shares the exciting results of scholarly research on the Book of Mormon undertaken during the 1980s. As an ancient religious text and cultural artifact, the Book of Mormon rewards close analysis along many lines of inquiry. Twenty-three essays by prominent LDS scholars cover such topics as warfare, repentance, Exodus motifs, Hebraisms, kingship, politics, Isaiah, Mormon as editor, chiasmus, covenant renewal, and poetry.

These studies aim to demonstrate that the Book of Mormon contains complex patterns not previously recognized—that is, subtle patterns of style, ideas, history, and actions that, once made visible, shed much light on the power and …

Mythological Lovers In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Katherine Heinrichs

Quidditas

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is often criticized by modern scholars for the abruptness of its epilogue rejecting earthly love. Paull Baum objects that the moral of the epilogue is not, in fact, the moral of the tale and suggests that Chaucer might better have concluded in the manner of the stilnovisti, with Criseyde as a transfigured "gloriosa donna." J. S. P. Tatlock protests that "the feeling of the Epilog is in no way foreshadowed at the beginning or elsewhere; it does not illumine or modify; it contradicts. The heartfelt worldly tale is interpreted in an unworldly sense." He is …

Marginality As Women's Freedom: The Case Of Floripe, Marian Rothstein

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When Jean Bagnyon chose to rewrite Fierabras for his contemporaries at the dawn of the printed book, strong fictional women who participated in their own name in the world, women not limited to domestic, advisory, or intercessory functions, were rare. Their scarcity did not end then. The interest of what follows must lie, at least in part, beyond Bagnyon's text and beyond Floripe herself. The purpose of subjecting the case of Floripe (sister of Fierabras) to close reading is in part to understand how this example of an active woman functions. My scrutiny of this text is also intended to …

From Campus To Campus: English University Life And The Renaissance Pastoral, Gary M. Bouchard

Quidditas

Literary critics have relied increasingly upon what we know of the particular goings-on at the court of Queen Elizabeth to explain all things we call Elizabethan, including a vast corpus of poetry. Pastoral poetry in particular, long regarded as an allegorical embodiment of court politics, is seen now more than ever as a product of social and political power struggles. I argue instead that the pastoral poetry of Renaissance England has to do with the academic world as much as, if not more than, with the ancillary world of the court, it was born of the academy, where Edmund Spenser …

Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.

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Dante Today, ed. Amilcare A. Iannucci, special spring and fall volume of Quaaderni d'italianistica, 10.1-2 (1989).

Review Essay: Luis Garcia-Ballester, Michael R. Mcvaugh, And Agustin Rubio-Vela, Medical Licensing And Learning In Fourteenth-Century Valencia, Kristine T. Utterback

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Luis Garcia-Ballester, Michael R. McVaugh, and Agustin Rubio-Vela, Medical Licensing and Learning in Fourteenth-Century Valencia, American Philosophical Society, 1989, 128 pp., facsim., maps, $15.00.

Review Essay: Robert R. Edwards, The Dream Of Chaucer: Representation And Reflection In The Early Narratives, Sigmund Eisner

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Robert R. Edwards, The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Reflection in the Early Narratives, Duke University Press, 1989, xvi, 192 pp., biblio., $34.95.

Review Essay: Michael Aston, David Austin, And Christopher Dyer, Eds., The Rural Settlements Of Medieval England: Studies Dedicated To Maurice Beresford And John Hurst, Raymond S. Wright Iii

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Michael Aston, David Austin, and Christopher Dyer, eds., The Rural Settlements of Medieval England: Studies Dedicated to Maurice Beresford and John Hurst, Basil Blackwell, 1989, x, 318 pp., ill., maps, index, $65.00.

Review Essay: Roland Bechmann, Trees And Man: The Forest In The Middle Ages, Kelly Devries

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Roland Bechmann, Trees and Man: The Forest in the Middle Ages, trans. Katharyn Dunham, rev. ed., Paragon House, 1990, 319 pp., biblio., index, $24.95.

Review Essay: Theresa Coletti, Naming The Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, And Modern Theory, Frede Jensen

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Theresa Coletti, Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, and Modern Theory, Cornell University Press, 1988, xi, 212 pp., index, $30.00.

Review Essay: Frederic J. Baumgartner, Henry Ii, King Of France: 1547-1559, Paul Solon

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Frederic J. Baumgartner, Henry II, King of France: 1547-1559, Duke University Press, 1988, xiv, 358 pp., biblio., index, $39.95.

Review Essay: Philippa Berry, Of Chastity And Power: Elizabethan Literature And The Unmarried Queen, Jean R. Brink

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Philippa Berry, Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen, Routledge, 1989, 193 pp., xii, ill., biblio., index, $35.00.

Review Essay: Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Wyman H. Herendeen

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Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Twayne Publishers, 1990, xiv, 167 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.

Review Essay: Miguel De Cervantes, The Trials Of Persiles And Sigismunda, A Northern Story, Edward H. Friedman

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Miguel de Cervantes, The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda, A Northern Story, trans. Celia Richmond Weller and Clark A. Colahan, University of California Press, 1989, 395 pp., ill., biblio., $37.50.

Review Essay: John Ogilby, The Entertainment Of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles Ii In His Passage Through The City Of London To His Coronation, Retha M. Warnicke

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John Ogilby, The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II in His Passage through the City of London to His Coronation, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 43, 1988, 192 pp., ill., biblio., index, $30.00.

Review Essay: Philip J. Gallagher, Milton, The Bible, And Misogyny, Clement H. Wyke

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Philip J. Gallagher, Milton, the Bible, and Misogyny, ed. Eugene R. Cunnar and Gail L. Mortimer, University of Missouri Press, 1990, x, 185 pp., biblio., index, $27.50

Review Essay: María Jesús Fuente Pérez, La Ciudad De Palencia En El Siglo Xv: Aportación Al Estudio De Las Ciudades Castellanas En La Baja Eedad Media, J. B. Owens

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María Jesús Fuente Pérez, La ciudad de Palencia en el siglo xv: Aportación al estudio de las ciudades castellanas en la Baja Edad Media, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1989.

Rafael Sánchez Saus, Caballería y linaje en la Sevilla medieval: Estudio genealógico y social, Diputación Provincial de Sevilla and Universidad de Cádiz, 1989, 531 pp., 2500 pesatas esp.

The Effect Of The Rivalry Between Jesse Knight And Thomas Nicholls Taylor On Architecture In Provo, Utah: 1896-1915, Stephen A. Hales

Theses and Dissertations

The development of the downtown business district of Provo, Utah has closely followed the orderly growth envisioned by its founders. However, one early change in the city's layout had a profound effect on the direction of Provo's development. In 1852, Brigham Young moved the site of the Provo tabernacle from its original location in the designated public square to a location on the fringes of the earliest city boundaries. The result of this action was a sometimes heated controversy among residents regarding the city's true public center. As commercial development reached a peak between 1896 and 1915, the controversy erupted …

A Guide To Scriptural Symbols Joseph Fielding Mcconkie And Donald W. Parry, Steven C. Walker

BYU Studies

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Tinkling Cymbals And Sounding Brass: The Art Of Telling Tales About Joseph Smith And Brigham Young, Hugh Nibley

Maxwell Institute Publications

The apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1). Since then, the terms “tinkling cymbals” and “sounding brass” have often been used to signify words of emptiness and confusion – describing perfectly most writings critical of the Latter-day Saints. Trained in history and interested in classical rhetoric, Hugh Nibley brings a broad perspective to his study of anti-Mormon writings.

Hagiographical Parody In The Ysengrimus, Dennis J. Billy

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Considered the first great expression of medieval Latin beast epic, the Ysengrimus, a mid-twelfth-century poem of 6,574 verses, has been hailed as a masterpiece of lampooning monastic parody and wit. Composed by an anonymous author (probably a monk of St. Peter's, Blandigny) in the environs of the then burgeoning Flemish city of Ghent, the poem follows the exploits of Ysengrimus, a ravenous wolf-monk of dubious intelligence whose unruly gastric and sexual appetites make him more often the prey than predator in his sundry endeavors. Until now, one area that has successfully eluded the attention of most Ysengrimus scholars is …

Sir Clyomon And Sir Clamydes: A Revaluation, Peter T. Hadorn

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Long dismissed as an immature play with no intrinsic merit, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (ca. 1570-1583) quite thoroughly debates issues of contemporary political interest. This essay seeks to restore Clyomon from its undistinguished position in Renaissance studies by showing how it dramatically supports Queen Elizabeth's use of chivalry as an ideology of power and order and criticizes military adventurism. By reading this play as a political text, in this essay I employ the methodologies of New Historicism, which identifies literature as only one of many cultural discourses taking part in the negotiation of power. "Representations of the world in …

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Letters Home: The Immigrant View From Nauvoo, Ronald W. Walker, Glen M. Leonard

BYU Studies

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Danish Artists Of The American West: Olaf Seltzer And Olaf Wieghorst, Cecilia Ibsen Larsen

The Bridge

If you mix cowboys, Indians, Danes and paint, you come up with two remarkable artists, Olaf Seltzer and Olaf Wieghorst. These two men came to America from Denmark and, after living and working here for numbers of years, produced art that is as American as American art can get. Their subject was the Old West. Although their trips were 27 years apart, both Seltzer and Wieghorst came to America in their teens. Both worked at other occupations until they had developed the skills necessary to survive as artists. Both chose the West as their subject matter; both were named Olaf; …