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Review Essay: Warren Treadgold, The Byzantine Revival: 780-842, W. L. T. Adams Jan 1989

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 Jan 1989

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 Jan 1989

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 Jan 1989

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 Jan 1989

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.


The Elizabethan Diplomatic Service, F. Jeffrey Platt Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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 Jan 1988

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.


Review Essay: Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast And Holy Fast: The Religious Significance Of Food To Medieval Women, Janine Marie Idziak Jan 1988

Review Essay: Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast And Holy Fast: The Religious Significance Of Food To Medieval Women, Janine Marie Idziak

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Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, University of California Press, 1987.


Review Essay: Katharina M. Wilson, Ed., Women Writers Of The Renaissance And Reformation, James B. Fitzmaurice Jan 1988

Review Essay: Katharina M. Wilson, Ed., Women Writers Of The Renaissance And Reformation, James B. Fitzmaurice

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Katharina M. Wilson, ed., Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, University of Georgia Press, 1987.


Natural Law And Chaucer's Physician's Tale, Jay Ruud Jan 1988

Natural Law And Chaucer's Physician's Tale, Jay Ruud

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Of all the Canterbury Tales, the Physician's Tale may well be the least appreciated. Its subject matter is distasteful in itself–a despicable judge abuses his position of public trust and authority by deliberately setting out to obtain an innocent young virgin as an object of lust, while too frustrate the even the victim's father beheads her after cold-blooded premeditation. But if that were not enough, the tale contains at least two apparently incongruous digressions, and the storyteller appends a moral that must make the reader suspect the Narrator has not been listening to his own story. Perhaps a modern …


Review Essay: Peter Lindembaum, Changing Landscapes: Anti-Pastoral Sentiment In The English Renaissance, Charles L. Squier Jan 1988

Review Essay: Peter Lindembaum, Changing Landscapes: Anti-Pastoral Sentiment In The English Renaissance, Charles L. Squier

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Peter Lindenbaum, Changing Landscapes: Anti-Pastoral Sentiment in the English Renaissance, University of Georgia Press, 1986.


Review Essay: Richard Kieckhefer, Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints And Their Religious Milieu, Glenn W. Olsen Jan 1988

Review Essay: Richard Kieckhefer, Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints And Their Religious Milieu, Glenn W. Olsen

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Richard Kieckhefer, Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu, University of Chicago Press, 1987.


Review Essay: R. Allen Brown, The Normans And The Norman Conquest, Hugh T. Lovin Jan 1988

Review Essay: R. Allen Brown, The Normans And The Norman Conquest, Hugh T. Lovin

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R. Allen Brown, The Normans and the Norman Conquest, Boydell Press, 1985.


Uncovering Women's Writings: Two Early Italian Women Poets, Paola Malpezzi Price Jan 1988

Uncovering Women's Writings: Two Early Italian Women Poets, Paola Malpezzi Price

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If ever there [were] a time which teaches that one must know the history of women to understand the history of literature, it is now.


Full Issue Jan 1988

Full Issue

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Review Essay: Toshiyuki Takamiya And Derek Brewer, Eds., Aspects Of Malory, Sandy Feinstein Jan 1988

Review Essay: Toshiyuki Takamiya And Derek Brewer, Eds., Aspects Of Malory, Sandy Feinstein

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Toshiyuki Takamiya and Derek Brewer, eds., Aspects of Malory, Vol 1: Arthurian Studies, Boydell & Brewer, 1986.


Review Essay: P. R. Cross And S. D. Lloyd, Eds., Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings Of The Newcastle Upon Tyne Conference 1985, Kristine T. Utterback Jan 1988

Review Essay: P. R. Cross And S. D. Lloyd, Eds., Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings Of The Newcastle Upon Tyne Conference 1985, Kristine T. Utterback

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P. R. Cross and S. D. Lloyd, eds., Thirteenth Century England I: Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1985, Boydell Press, [1986].