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Archiv für Mai 2012
Lorenzo Valla’s Radical Philology: The "Preface" to the Annotations to the New Testament in Context
The last fifty years of scholarly research have revealed the fifteenth-century thinker Lorenzo Valla as a powerfully original intellect, difficult to shoehorn into contemporary disciplinary divisions. One of the most interesting areas of his work conc…
Utopia, Ireland, and the Tudor Shock Doctrine: Spenser’s Vision of Capitalist Imperialism
Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland is one of the most notorious works in the imperial archive, yet its fantasy of annihilating reform, or what might now be called „creative destruction,“ schemes a highly specific kind of col…
Julian of Norwich’s Art of Interpretation
The relationship between a base text and its analysis in the Middle Ages is often considered tenuous or downright fanciful, an issue that this article addresses with primary reference to Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love. It argues that Jul…
Jargon and the Matter of Medicine in Middle English
When the men and women of late medieval Britain began to read and produce medical writings on a scale unprecedented in earlier centuries, they faced the problem of jargon—that is, how to negotiate the interface between knowledge and nonsense in …
Eucharistic Miracle and Eucharistic Doubt
Scholarship has routinely assumed that the many medieval eucharistic miracle stories about hosts witnessed as discernibly the body of Christ — newborn, bloody, crucified, or dismembered — were designed to quell doubts in the doctrine of th…
New Books across the Disciplines
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Death and the Maiden
The partnership of death and maidenhood—found in many cultures, present as well as past, east as well as west—is examined here in the particular context of late medieval England, when mortality was exceptionally high and maidens unusually …
The Reformation of Scholarship: A Reply to Debora Shuger
This essay is a rebuttal to Debora Shuger’s 2008 essay, „The Reformation of Penance,“ in which she takes aim at revisionist Reformation scholarship, and in particular at James Simpson’s Reform and Cultural Revolution, published in 2002, as…
Balaam to Bottom: Artifact and Theatrical Translation in the Sixteenth Century
This essay proposes a sixteenth-century provenance for the ass’s head in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a history that includes orthodox liturgies and festivals, mid-century Reformed polemics, and above all provincial mystery plays. What would…