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Review Essay: Edward Grant And John E. Murdock, Eds., Mathematics And Its Applications To Science And Natural Philosophy In The Middle Ages: Essays In Honor Of Marshall Clagett, Harvey W. Becher

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Edward Grant and John E. Murdock, eds., Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Marshall Clagett, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Review Essay: Jeorg O. Fichte, Ed., Chaucer's Frame Tales: The Physical And The Metaphysical, Sigmund Eisner

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Joerg O. Fichte, ed., Chaucer's Frame Tales: The Physical and Metaphysical, Tübinger Beiträge zur Anglistik 9, D. S. Brewer, 1987.

Review Essay: Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex And Marriage In England, 1570-1640, Wm. Kent Hackmann

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Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Review Essay: Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church And Monarchy From The Ninth And Twelfth Century, Glenn W. Olsen

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Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.

Frederick Barbarossa And The Lombard League: Imperial Regalia, Prescriptive Rights, And The Northern Italian Cities, David R. Carr

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The struggle between Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard League illustrates conflicts between not only imperial and municipal ambitions but also regalian and customary rights. The ability of the emperor to assert and to profit from regalian rights reflected the efficacy of imperial power. Conversely, the power of the Lombard city-states lay in the recognition of the validity of customary rights. While this conflict centers on the differing principles of Roman and "Germanic" law, the present study argues that the purported devotion of Barbarossa to Roman law and of the Italian communes to customary law misrepresents their positions. The Lombards' …

Review Essay: Warren Treadgold, The Byzantine Revival: 780-842, W. L. T. Adams

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Warren Treadgold, The Byzantine Revival: 780-842, Stanford University Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Peter W. Edbury And John Gordon Rowe, William Of Tyre: Historian Of The Latin East, Harry Rosenberg

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Peter W. Edbury and John Gordon Rowe, William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Charles M. Radding, The Origins Of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia And Bologna, 850-1150, J. B. Owens

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Charles M. Radding, The Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia and Bologna, 850-1150, Yale University Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Madison U. Sowell, Italian Renaissance Books, 1478-1587: 100 Examples From The Harold B. Lee Library Collections, Ilona Klein

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Madison U. Sowell, Italian Renaissance Books, 1478-1587: 100 Examples from the Harold B. Lee Library Collections, Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1988.

Montaigne's "De L'Amitié" And The Problem Of Communication, Camilla J. Nilles

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In the world of change and becoming revealed by Montaigne's Essais, his friendship with La Boétie stands out as an island of firmness and stability. Montaigne never questions the perfection of their relationship, nor have his readers doubted Montaigne's sincerity. They have taken Montaigne at his word in part because so little is actually known about the two friends' relations, but primarily because La Boétie's friendship is not nearly as important to Montaigne studies as La Boétie's death.

George Eliot Birthday Luncheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory, Margaret Wolfit

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In May 1869 George Eliot received what she described as "a really noble letter from the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe full of admiration of Silas Marner The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede" and although they never met, there seems to have been some deep affinity of feeling between these two eminent women that drew them closely together in spite of diversity of intellectual tastes.

In reply to that first letter George Eliot wrote; - "Letters are necessarily narrow and fragmentary, and when one writes on wide subjects, are likely to create more misunderstanding than illumination. But I …

Westminster Abbey Wreath-Laying- June 18th 1988, Jennifer Uglow

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In June 1856 George and Marian Lewes (for it would not yet be right to call her 'George Eliot') were staying in North Devon. While George was collecting specimens on the beach, Marian was preoccupied with work for the Westminster Review, her 'Belles Letters' column and her famous article on W. H. Riehl, 'The Natural History of German Life', which, she wrote, 'I worked at considerably a contretemps, despairing of its ever being worth anything', But by this day, the 18th June, she was enjoying a splendid sense of freedom and a desire to turn to a different world, as …

Yourcenar's Les Vagues: Changing The Rhythm Of The Waves, Amy L. Cooper

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

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Cradle Of The Copperheads: Education And The Career Of Jesse Stuart, Paul Douglass

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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 …

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 …

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: 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

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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

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Juliet R. V. Barker, The Tournament in England, 1100-1400. Boydell & Brewer, 1986.

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.

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

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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

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Murray Roston, Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Princeton University Press, 1987.

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: 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.

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 …

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. …

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.