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Universal Writing Systems: Philosophical Languages And Humanist Rhetoric In Seventeenth-Century England, Grant M. Boswell Jan 1990

Universal Writing Systems: Philosophical Languages And Humanist Rhetoric In Seventeenth-Century England, Grant M. Boswell

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The early Renaissance, like the Hellenic Age and the Golden Age of Roman literature, was epistemologically oriented to the discursory practices of rhetoric rather than to the rational methods of philosophy. This preference resulted from the widespread adoption of linguistic presuppositions upon which humanist rhetoric is based. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the underlying principles of humanism had been replaced. The discursory competence that humanism had sought to develop had become devalued, and in its place other epistemological systems had arisen. Francis Bacon, the Royal Society, René Descartes, Isaac Newton, and John Locke all offered epistemological principles …


Review Essay: George M. Logan And Gordon Teskey, Eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays On Renaissance Romance, David Freeman Jan 1990

Review Essay: George M. Logan And Gordon Teskey, Eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays On Renaissance Romance, David Freeman

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George M. Logan and Gordono Teskey, eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance, Cornell University Press, 1989.


Full Issue Jan 1990

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Intertextuality In The Anglo-Norman Lyric, Carol J. Harvey Jan 1989

Intertextuality In The Anglo-Norman Lyric, Carol J. Harvey

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The rhetorical formulae that permeate the poetry of the Middle Ages are not always used in a conventional or consistent manner. On the fringes of the main literary movements are works that raise doubts as to the very nature of medieval poetics. Some texts challenge accepted criteria with respect to genre, tone, or interpretation; others appear unfamiliar and heterogeneous in comparison with accepted poetic concepts; still others use the language and imagery of established poetics as a polemic strategy. Such problematic texts are found among the lyric poems composed in England during the Anglo-Norman era, particularly among the macaronics. These …


Treasonous Criticisms Of Henry Iv: The Loyal Poet Of Richard The Redeless And Mum And The Sothsegger, Diane A. Facinelli Jan 1989

Treasonous Criticisms Of Henry Iv: The Loyal Poet Of Richard The Redeless And Mum And The Sothsegger, Diane A. Facinelli

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The merit of the Middle English alliterative poems Richard the Redelesss and Mum and the Sothsegger can be judged accurately only if they are approached as individual compositions. Ever since the Early English Text Society published the Mabel Day and Robert Steele edition of Mum and the Sothsegger in 1936, most scholars have uncritically accepted the single-poem theory these editors posited, regardless of how this adversely affected their analyses of the works. The argument for regarding Richard and Mum as fragments of one composition, begun in 1299 and finished sometime between 1403 and 1406, is, however, far less conclusive than …


Sir Thomas Heneage Of Hainton: A Henrician Gentleman, Narasingha P. Sil Jan 1989

Sir Thomas Heneage Of Hainton: A Henrician Gentleman, Narasingha P. Sil

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The obscurity of Sir Thomas Heneage (c. 1480-1553) in early Tudor history presents a sharp contrast to the relative prominence of his nephew and namesake who served Queen Elizabeth as the vice-chamberlain of her household. Sir Thomas Heneage the Younger (c. 1532-1595), who left a fuller record of his activities, has naturally been given a more extensive treatment in the Dictionary of National Biography, which devotes less than half a column to the senior Heneage. The uncle can further boast of one printed page in Rev. Mr. Oates's account of the Heneage family. One of his letters was published …


Review Essay: Julia Boffey, Manuscripts Of English Courtly Lyrics In The Later Middle Ages, Carol J. Harvey Jan 1989

Review Essay: Julia Boffey, Manuscripts Of English Courtly Lyrics In The Later Middle Ages, Carol J. Harvey

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Julia Boffey, Manuscripts of English Courtly Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages, Boydell & Brewer, 1987.


Review Essay: Mary Erler And Maryanne Kowaleski, Eds., Women And Power In The Middle Ages, Joan M. West Jan 1989

Review Essay: Mary Erler And Maryanne Kowaleski, Eds., Women And Power In The Middle Ages, Joan M. West

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Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds., Women and Power in the Middle Ages, University of Georgia Press, 1988.


Review Essay: Christopher Harper-Bill And Ruth Harvey, Eds., The Ideals And Practice Of Medieval Knighthood: Papers From The First And Second Strawberry Hill Conferences, Kenneth G. Madison Jan 1989

Review Essay: Christopher Harper-Bill And Ruth Harvey, Eds., The Ideals And Practice Of Medieval Knighthood: Papers From The First And Second Strawberry Hill Conferences, Kenneth G. Madison

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Christopher Harper-Bill and Ruth Harvey, eds., The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood: Papers from the First and Second Strawberry Hill Conferences, Boydell Press, 1986.


Review Essay: Douglas Gray, Ed., The Collected Papers Of Nevill Coghill: Shakespearean And Medievalist, Paul R. Thomas Jan 1989

Review Essay: Douglas Gray, Ed., The Collected Papers Of Nevill Coghill: Shakespearean And Medievalist, Paul R. Thomas

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Douglas Gray, ed., The Collected Papers of Nevill Coghill: Shakespearean and Medievalist, St. Martin's Press, 1988.


Emergence From The Dark: Female Epistolary Literature In The Middle Ages, Albrecht Classen Jan 1989

Emergence From The Dark: Female Epistolary Literature In The Middle Ages, Albrecht Classen

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German medieval literary scholarship has always been dominated by male-oriented views, since research in this field has been traditionally carried out by men. Because of this, the role of women in medieval literature has been of only marginal interest to most scholars. Recent publications, however, have changed this situation, since an increasing number of women scholars have not only acquired a profile in medieval literary research but have also focused particularly on the life and culture of women in the Middle Ages. Thus the image of the medieval woman is slowly emerging from the dark, although most of our knowledge …


Review Essay: Peter V. Davies And Angus J. Kennedy, Eds. Rewards And Punishments In The Arthurian Romance And Lyric Poetry Of Medieval France, Alexandra Hennessey Olsen Jan 1989

Review Essay: Peter V. Davies And Angus J. Kennedy, Eds. Rewards And Punishments In The Arthurian Romance And Lyric Poetry Of Medieval France, Alexandra Hennessey Olsen

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Peter V. Davies and Angus J. Kennedy, eds., Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romance and Lyric Poetry of Medieval France, Boydell & Brewer, 1987.


Review Essay: Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds Of Early Christianity, Wilson G. Baroody Jan 1989

Review Essay: Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds Of Early Christianity, Wilson G. Baroody

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Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity, Erdman's Publishing Co., 1987.


Review Essay: Narasingha P. Sil, William, Lord Herbert Of Pembroke (C. 1507-1570), Politique And Patriot, F. Jeffrey Platt Jan 1989

Review Essay: Narasingha P. Sil, William, Lord Herbert Of Pembroke (C. 1507-1570), Politique And Patriot, F. Jeffrey Platt

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Narasingha P. Sil, William, Lord Herbert of Pembroke (c. 1507-1570), Politique and Patriot, Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.


Review Essay: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Before Columbus: Exploration And Colonization From The Mediterranean To The Atlantic, 1229-1492, De Lamar Jensen Jan 1989

Review Essay: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Before Columbus: Exploration And Colonization From The Mediterranean To The Atlantic, 1229-1492, De Lamar Jensen

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.


Review Essay: Kathryn L. Lynch, The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, And Literary Form, Lois Roney Jan 1989

Review Essay: Kathryn L. Lynch, The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, And Literary Form, Lois Roney

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Kathryn L. Lynch, The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form, Stanford University Press, 1988.


Review Essay: J. D. Pickles And J. L. Dawson, Eds., A Concordance To John Gower's "Confessio Amantis", Katharine S. Gittes Jan 1989

Review Essay: J. D. Pickles And J. L. Dawson, Eds., A Concordance To John Gower's "Confessio Amantis", Katharine S. Gittes

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J. D. Pickles and J. L. Dawson, eds., A Concordance to John Gower's "Confessio amantis," D. S. Brewer, 1987.


Review Essay: Robert Dan, Ed., De Falsa Et Vera Unius Dei Patris, Filii Et Spiritus Sancti Cognitioone Libri Duo, Janine Marie Idziak Jan 1989

Review Essay: Robert Dan, Ed., De Falsa Et Vera Unius Dei Patris, Filii Et Spiritus Sancti Cognitioone Libri Duo, Janine Marie Idziak

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Robert Dan, ed., De falsa et vera unius Dei Patris, Filii et Spiritus Sancti cognitione libri duo, Biblioteca Unitariorum, 1988.


Review Essay: Leonard Tennenhouse, Power On Display: The Politics Of Shakespeare's Genres, Peggy Muñoz Simonds Jan 1989

Review Essay: Leonard Tennenhouse, Power On Display: The Politics Of Shakespeare's Genres, Peggy Muñoz Simonds

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Leonaard Tennenhouse, Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres, Methuen, 1986.


Review Essay: Derek Cohen, Shakespearean Motives, Peggy Muñoz Simonds Jan 1989

Review Essay: Derek Cohen, Shakespearean Motives, Peggy Muñoz Simonds

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Derek Cohen, Shakespearean Motives, St. Martin's Press, 1988.


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 Jan 1989

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 Jan 1989

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 Jan 1989

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.


Full Issue Jan 1989

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Review Essay: Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church And Monarchy From The Ninth And Twelfth Century, Glenn W. Olsen Jan 1989

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 Jan 1989

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 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.