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Review Essay: Las Casas, Bartolomé De. The Devastation Of The Indies: A Brief Account, Albrecht Classen

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Las Casas, Bartolomé de. The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account. Trans. from Spanish by Herma Briffault. Intro. Bill M. Donovan. Baltimore–London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 138 pp. $11.95.

Boethius Among The Navajo, Donald F. Duclow

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The title "Boethius among the Navajo" may require some explaining. This essay comes from my teaching of "The Healing Journey," a cross-disciplinary course on suffering and healing. Taking a page from Viktor Frankl, the course centers on the role of meaning in responding to illness and grief and in promoting recovery. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy has represented the classical tradition in the course, and the social science readings included, among others, an essay entitled "Navaho Medicine" by Donald Sandner, a Jungian analyst. In addition, Sandner's book, Navaho Symbols of Healing, provides a detailed, careful study of Navajo medicine men …

"Make Your Proof": Interpretation And Twelfth Night'S Conclusion, Chris Roark

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That it should all depend on there being an indistinguishable twin brother always troubles me when I think about it, though never when I watch the play. Can it be that we enjoy the play so much simply because it is a wish fulfillment so skillfully presented that we do not notice that our hearts are duping our heads?

Review Essay: Bartlett, Kenneth A., Konrad Eisenbichler And Janice Liedl. Love And Death In The Renaissance, Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

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Adelmen, Janet. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest. Routledge, London 1992. xii + 379 pp, note on the text, notes, author index, index to Shakespeare's words, subject index. $49.50 / $15.95.

Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest is reviewed on pp 172-3.

Bartlett, Kenneth A., Konrad Eisenbichler and Janice Liedl. Love and Death in the Renaissance.

Review Essay: Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603, F. Jeffrey Platt

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Haynes, Alan. Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603. St Martin's Press, New York 1992. 1790 pp. $29.95.

Review Essay: Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie Eines Inquistioonsprozesses, Albrecht Classen

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Sebald, Hans. Der Hexenjunge. Fallstudie eines Inquistioonsprozesses. Diagonal-Verlag, Marburg 1992. 115 pp.

Review Essay: Moore, R. I. The Formation Of A Persecuting Society, Donald Sullivan

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Moore, R. I. The Formation of a Persecuting Society. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1990. viii + 168 pp. $42.95 / $21.95.

The Myth Of The Persecuted Female Healer, Jane P. Davidson

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The idea that most women condemned as witches during the classic periods of witch persecution in Europe (between 1500 and 1700) were in actuality unlicensed healers who were suppressed by the male medical establishment arose among feminist writers, historians, and religious leaders. This idea has been around for more than twenty years now and has become a familiar strain in women's studies. It has been presented often as historically valid by scholars of both genders. The theory is that the midwife, the 'cunning woman', and the female folk herbalist were condemned as witches by male physicians in order to keep …

Review Essay: Cole, Penny J. The Preaching Of The Crusades To The Holy Land, 1095-1270, David Harry Miller

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Cole, Penny J. The Preaching of the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1270. Medieval Academy Books no 98. Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, Mass. 1991. xiv + 281 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Riche, Baarnabe. Farewell To Military Profession, Nancy A. Gutierrez

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Riche, Barabe. Farewell to Military Profession. Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society no 1. Ed Donald Beecher. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Vol 91. Binghamton, N.Y. 1992. 336 pp, bib. $28.00 / $12.00.

Review Essay: Heffernan, Thomas. Art And Emblem: Early Seventeenth-Century English Poetry Of Devotion, Thomas Spaulding Willard

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Heffernan, Thomas. Art and Emblem: Early Seventeenth-Century English Poetry of Devotion, Renaissance Monographs no 17. Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo 1991. 123 pp. $38.00 by subscription.

Review Essay: Holt, Mack P., Ed. Society And Institutions In Early Modern France, Raymond A. Mentzer Jr.

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Holt, Mack P., ed. Society and Institutions in Early Modern France. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1991. 242 pp. $35.00 / $15.00.

Review Essay: Rabil, Albert Jr, Ed, Trans. Knowledge, Goodness, And Power: The Debate Over Nobility Among Quattrocento Italian Humanists, De Lamar Jensen

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Rabil, Albert Jr, ed, trans. Knowledge, Goodness, and Power: The Debate over Nobility among Quattrocento Italian Humanists. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Binghamton, N.Y. 1991. 410 pp. $30.00.

Review Essay: Wayne, Valerie, Ed. The Matter Of Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism Of Shakespeare, Peggy Muñoz Simonds

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Wayne, Valerie, ed. The Matter oof Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1991. x + 227 pp. $48.95 / $18.95.

Gajowski, Evelyn. The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies. University of Delaware Press, Newark 1992. 153 pp. $32.50.

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Sheltering The Homeless: Hospitals In Medieval Catalonia, James W. Brodman

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Shelter for the temporarily homeless, whether or not they were needy in the modern sense, was as typical a charity in the tons and villages of medieval Europe as was providing food for the hungry. The Rule of St Benedict, as well as local Hispanic customs, imposed the obligation of hospitality upon monasteries, and likewise the growing towns of the eleventh and twelfth centuries saw the need to provide beds for those who were not householders. Those served were a diverse lot: pilgrims wending their way to shrine like Santiago, clergy and others in town on business, wandering beggars and …

The Experience Of The Black Death In Bologna As Revealed By The Notarial Registers, Shona Kelly Wray

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The Black Death of 1348 has fascinated readers and scholars for centuries. In this century it has been the subject of innumerable debates. Historians have argued back and forth about the demographic effects of the plague, about whether or not it instigated a period of economic depression, or even whether it represented a major event in history. Similarly, disagreement has raged, both inside and outside of the historical discipline, about the medical history and epidemiology of the plague. Fewer studies, however, have focused on the more immediate effects of the plague in localized areas. These scholars have attempted to uncover …

Spenser The Borderer: Boundary, Property, Identity In A View Of The Present State Of Ireland And Book 6 Of The Faerie Queene, Eva Gold

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In 1581[–82], Lodowick Bryskett wrote to Sir Francis Walsingham about giving up his position as an administrator to take up the 'perillous' life of a 'borderer', one who sought social and financial 'securitie' from land on the borders of English settlements in Ireland: 'I meane to make proofe (God willing) whether the lyfe of a borderer in this land be a lyke perillous vnto all men, and to see if a just and honest simple lyfe, may not even among the most Barbarous people of the world breede securitie to him that shall live nere them or emong them'. The …

Inventing The Middle Ages, Glenn W. Olsen

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Norman Cantor seems to have decided, as a kind of perpetual outsider (in spite of his Princeton and Oxford education), that he has nothing to lose by telling it all. Of his Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century (William Morrow and Company, New York 1991), Lee Patterson says accurately on the dust jacket: 'Intriguing, informative, irritating, and vastly entertaining, Inventing the Middle Ages will rattle lots of cages'. I am not sure that this book has raised Cantor's status in the eyes of very many practicing medievalists, and indeed …

Review Essay: Devries, Kelly. Medieval Military Technology, Albert Winkler

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DeVries, Kelly. Medieval Military Technology. Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario 1992. xi + 340 pp. $14.95.

Review Essay: Kiser, Lisa J. Truth And Textuality In Chaucer's Poetry, Katharine S. Gittes

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Kiser, Lisa J. Truth and Textuality in Chaucer's Poetry. University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H. 1991. 201 pp. $35.00.

Hill, John M. Chaucerian Belief: The Poetics of Reverence and Delight. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1991. 204 pp. $27.50.

Review Essay: Kugel, James L., Ed. Poetry And Prophecy: The Beginnings Of A Literary Tradition, Janine Marie Idziak

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Kugel, James L., ed. Poetry and Prophecy: The Beginnings of a Literary Tradition. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1990. 251 pp. $13.95.

Review Essay: Lerer, Seth. Literacy And Power In Anglo-Saxon Literature, Raymond P. Tripp Jr.

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Lerer, Seth. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1991. xii + 268 pp. $35.00.

Review Essay: Cholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape And Writing In The Heptameron Of Marguerite De Navarre, Caroline Mcalister

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Cholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape and Writing in The Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 301 pp. $34.95.

Review Essay: Maccaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I: War And Politics, 1588-1603, F. Jeffrey Platt

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MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1992. 592 pp. $65.00.

Review Essay: Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things And Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology, Richard G. Barlow

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Marshall, Cynthia. Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xv + 142 pp, appendixes, works cited, index. $24.50.

Adelman, Janet. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays: Hamlet to The Tempest. Routledge, London 1992. xii + 379 pp, note on the text, notes, author index, index to Shakespeare's works, subject index. $49.50 / $15.95.

Review Essay: Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide And Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, David Bornstein

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Piccolomini, Manfredi. The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide during the Renaissance. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 142 pp. $24.95.

Review Essay: Wickram, Jörg. The Golden Thread [Der Goldfaden], Ronald W. Walker

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Wickram, Jörg. The Golden Thread [Der Goldfaden]. Trans Pierre Kaufke. University of West Florida Press, Gainsville 1991. xv + 167 pp, bib. $24.95.

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Review Essay: Kastan, David Scott, And Peter Stallybrass, Edd. Staging The Renaissance: Reinterpretation Of Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama, Mac Groves

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Kastan, David Scott, and Peter Stallybrass, edd. Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretation of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. Routledge, London 1991. 293 pp. $45.00 / $14.95.