Archiv für Januar 2016

Turkish–Syrian relations in the wake of the Syrian conflict: back to securitization?

10.1080/09557571.2015.1117922<br/>Cenap Çakmak

The Attlee government and welfare state reforms in post-war Italian Socialism (1945–51): Between universalism and class policies

10.1080/0023656X.2015.1116811<br/>Michele Mioni

British Communists and the 1932 turn to the trade unions

10.1080/0023656X.2015.1116789<br/>John McIlroy

Interpreting EU–Israel relations: a contextual analysis of the EU’s Special Privileged Partnership proposal

10.1080/09557571.2015.1117921<br/>Bruno Oliveira Martins

Into the IRIS: a model for analyzing identity dynamics in conflict

10.1080/14608944.2015.1113239<br/>Landon E. Hancock

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Penal and Palliative Discourses in the Debate of the Belle Dame sans Mercy: Achille Caulier’s Cruelle Femme en Amour and Hopital d’Amour

From the time of its composition through the early 1460s, Alain Chartier’s Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424) elicited a series of responses, including two continuations by Achille Caulier. This pair of closely related texts invites an exploration of the th…

„O Multiplied Misery!“: The Disordered Medical Narrative of John Donne’s Devotions

John Donne composed his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) to share a revelatory experience of illness with readers. Yet, in the book’s final chapter, Donne himself indicates that bodily pain is nearly incommunicable. This raises a question: How…

Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve

Thinkers such as Elaine Scarry and Kathlyn Conway have written about the problems of master narratives of illness: pain can mark the limits of what narrative can do. This essay argues that late medieval writers not only had an understanding of the imp…

Medicine, Metaphor, and „Crisis“ in the Early Modern Social Body

In the political turmoil of mid-seventeenth-century England, both socio-political utopias and dystopias were repeatedly imagined through corporeal images and medical metaphors and narratives. The new iatrochemistry—Paracelsian and subsequently H…