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Review Essay: M. Beresford And J. G. Hurst, Eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, R. Bruce Hitchner Jan 1992

Review Essay: M. Beresford And J. G. Hurst, Eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, R. Bruce Hitchner

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M. Beresford and J. G. Hurst, eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, Alan Sutton, 1989, 340 pp., ill., maps, $48.00.


"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain Jan 1992

"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain

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Donne's use of the imperative when addressing God in the Divine Poems is a maneuver designed to resolve a particularly Protestant dilemma, the same dilemma confronted by the speaker of Elegy 19 under another guise. As C. L. barber and Richard P. Wheeler have pointed out, the reformers' dismantling of "much of the Catholic apparatus of worship in order to isolate the individual worshiper in direct rapport with God through faith...put worshippers at risk in new ways. In areas where the Reformation triumphed, extraordinary anxiety could be generated by the absolute importance conferred upon the individual's faith in the grace …


The Mystic As Pilgrim: Margery Kempe And The Tradition Of Nonfictional Travel Narrative, James P. Helfers Jan 1992

The Mystic As Pilgrim: Margery Kempe And The Tradition Of Nonfictional Travel Narrative, James P. Helfers

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Margery Kempe, fifteenth-century pilgrim and female mystic, stirred up controversy in her own day and continues to do so in the present. This controversy, then and now, centers on both Margery's spiritual life and its social expression. While she was alive, her contemporaries disagreed over the validity of her mystical experience and the way that experience manifested itself; now this conflict continues in contemporary critical debates over the nature of her literary and spiritual significance. The Book of Margery Kempe has heretofore been analyzed as autobiography, mystical treatise, devotional manual, and feminist tract. Clarissa Atkinson, for instance, sees the book …


Review Essay: Tarquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione Critica Basata Sulla Seconda Edizione Del 1570 Con Le Varianti Della Princeps (1562), Robert M. Johnston Jan 1992

Review Essay: Tarquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione Critica Basata Sulla Seconda Edizione Del 1570 Con Le Varianti Della Princeps (1562), Robert M. Johnston

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Torquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione critica basata sulla seconda edizione del 1570 con le varianti della princeps (1562), ed. Michael Sherberg, Classici italiani minori 16, Longo Editore, 1990, 332 pp.


Review Essay: Hilda L. Smith And Susan Cardinale, Women And The Literature Of The Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based On Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, Renée Pigeon Jan 1992

Review Essay: Hilda L. Smith And Susan Cardinale, Women And The Literature Of The Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based On Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, Renée Pigeon

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Hilda L. Smith and Susan Cardinale, Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies, No. 10, Greenwood Press, 1990, xxi, 353 pp., $45.00.


Review Essay: Elizabeth D. Harvey And Katherine E. Maus, Eds., Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory And Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, David Freeman Jan 1992

Review Essay: Elizabeth D. Harvey And Katherine E. Maus, Eds., Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory And Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, David Freeman

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Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katherine E. Maus, eds. Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, University of Chicago Press, 1990, 352 pp., $47.50.


The Artist As Entrepreneur: Long-Term Professional Bonds In Quattrocento Florence, Yael Even Jan 1992

The Artist As Entrepreneur: Long-Term Professional Bonds In Quattrocento Florence, Yael Even

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A number of comparatively recent publications on collaboration in Quattrocento art attest to the renewed interest in reassessing the nature of professional exchange among artist. These studies continue to shed more light on the prevalence and extent of collaborative artistic undertakings in Florence during this period. Originating in archival research, the studies reject the romanticized, traditional view of Early Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects as solitary geniuses, suggesting instead that these creative talents operated as entrepreneurs who collaborated to establish profitable careers.


Review Essay: Circa 1492: Art In The Age Of Exploration, Delno West Jan 1992

Review Essay: Circa 1492: Art In The Age Of Exploration, Delno West

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Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, ed. Jay A. Levenson, Yale University Press, 1991, 671 pp., ill., $59.95.


Review Essay: Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy Of Catastrophe: A Study Of Apocalyptic Narrative From Langland To Milton, Clement H. Wyke Jan 1992

Review Essay: Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy Of Catastrophe: A Study Of Apocalyptic Narrative From Langland To Milton, Clement H. Wyke

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Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of Apocalyptic Narrative from Langland to Milton, American University Studies 4, Peter Lang, 1990, 394 pp., biblio., index, $65.00.


Moral Lessons For Women Readers Of Jean Lemaire De Belges's Les Illustrations De Gaule Et Singularitez De Troye, Judy Kem Jan 1992

Moral Lessons For Women Readers Of Jean Lemaire De Belges's Les Illustrations De Gaule Et Singularitez De Troye, Judy Kem

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Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473-1525), poet and historiographer of the French and Burgundian courts of the early Renaissance, wrote his epic history of Troy, Les Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye (1511-1513), at the request of his patron, Margaret of Austria, to offer an "occupation voluptueuse, et non pas inutile" [sensual yet useful occupation] to the ladies of France (1:11). Lemaire dedicated each of the three books of his epic to a different noblewoman. Mercury, who narrates the prologues of all three volumes, identifies each noblewoman with one of the three goddesses of the Judgment of Paris: Margaret of …


Review Essay: David M. Dean And Norman L. Jones, Eds., The Parliaments Of Elizabethan England, F. Jeffrey Platt Jan 1992

Review Essay: David M. Dean And Norman L. Jones, Eds., The Parliaments Of Elizabethan England, F. Jeffrey Platt

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David M. Dean, and Norman L. Jones, eds., The Parliaments of Elizabethan England, Basil Blackwell, 1990, 226 pp., $45.00.


Review Essay: Dorothea Kehler And Susan Baker, In Another Country: Feminist Perspectives On Renaissance Drama, James Fitzmaurice Jan 1992

Review Essay: Dorothea Kehler And Susan Baker, In Another Country: Feminist Perspectives On Renaissance Drama, James Fitzmaurice

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Dorothea Kehler and Susan Baker, In Another Country: Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama, Scarecrow Press, 1991, vi, 345 pp., biblio., index, $37.50.


Review Essay: Marie Therese Flanagan, Irish Society, Anglo-Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship: Interactions In Ireland In The Late Twelfth Century, Emily Zack Tabuteau Jan 1992

Review Essay: Marie Therese Flanagan, Irish Society, Anglo-Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship: Interactions In Ireland In The Late Twelfth Century, Emily Zack Tabuteau

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Marie Therese Flanagan, Irish Society, Anglo-Norman Settlers, Angevin Kingship: Interactions in Ireland in the Late Twelfth Century, Clarendon Press, 1989, ix, 350 pp., biblio., index, $74.00.


Review Essay: Kristine Koozin, The Vanitas Still Lifes Of Harmen Steenwyck: Metaphoric Realism, Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier Jan 1992

Review Essay: Kristine Koozin, The Vanitas Still Lifes Of Harmen Steenwyck: Metaphoric Realism, Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

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Kristine Koozin, The Vanitas Still Lifes of Harmen Steenwyck: Metamorphic Realism, Renaissance Studies 1, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, 128 pp., ill., biblio., $59.95.


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Review Essay: Barry Tharaud, Trans., Beowulf, Anita Obermeier Jan 1992

Review Essay: Barry Tharaud, Trans., Beowulf, Anita Obermeier

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Barry Tharaud, trans., Beowulf, University of Colorado Press, 1990, 187 pp., ill., map, charts, $14.95.


Review Essay: Allen, Hope Emily, Ed., English Writings Of Richard Rolle, Hermit Of Hampole, Gary D. Schmidt Jan 1992

Review Essay: Allen, Hope Emily, Ed., English Writings Of Richard Rolle, Hermit Of Hampole, Gary D. Schmidt

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Allen, Hope Emily, ed., English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, Alan Sutton, 1988, lxiv, 180 pp., $18.00


Review Essay: Sherrin Marshall, Ed., Women In Reformation And Counter-Reformation Europe: Private And Public Worlds, Margery A. Ganz Jan 1992

Review Essay: Sherrin Marshall, Ed., Women In Reformation And Counter-Reformation Europe: Private And Public Worlds, Margery A. Ganz

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Sherrin, Marshall, ed., Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe: Private and Public Worlds, Indiana University Press, 1989, 224 pp., ill., biblio., index, $35.00 (cloth), $10.95 (paperback).


Review Essay: Juan Luis Vives, The Passions Of The Soul: The Third Book Of De Anima Et Vita, Anthony J. Cárdenas Jan 1992

Review Essay: Juan Luis Vives, The Passions Of The Soul: The Third Book Of De Anima Et Vita, Anthony J. Cárdenas

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Juan Luis Vives, The Passions of the Soul: The Third Book of De Anima et Vita, trans. and intro. by Carlos G. Noreña, Studies in Renaissance Literature 4, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, xv, 121 pp., $49.95


Mythological Lovers In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Katherine Heinrichs Jan 1991

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

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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 Jan 1991

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 Jan 1991

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

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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: Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey Of Sanctification, Madison U. Sowell Jan 1991

Review Essay: Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey Of Sanctification, Madison U. Sowell

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Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey of Sanctification, Regnery Gateway, 1990, xiii, 279 pp., ill., biblio., $14.95.


Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr. Jan 1991

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 Jan 1991

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 Jan 1991

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: Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Charles R. Smith Jan 1991

Review Essay: Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Charles R. Smith

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Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Harvard University Press, 1989, xiii, 236 pp., biblio., $29.95.


Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein Jan 1991

Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein

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Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy," Stanford University Press, 1989, vi, 289 pp., biblio., index, $29.50.


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 Jan 1991

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 Jan 1991

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.