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Archiv für Mai 2016
Performance Anxiety and the Passion in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
The Croxton Play of the Sacrament paradoxically enacts anxieties about the propriety of Passion drama. Framing the play’s central action—the Jews‘ testing of the Communion wafer in a parody of the Passion—with the story of a Christian merc…
Bent Speech and Borrowed Selves: Substitutionary Logic and Intercessory Acts in Measure for Measure
This essay explores how Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure investigates the possibilities of intercessory speech and action. Intercession was a crucial and diversely realized component to many forms of late medieval religious expression, in which a per…
Spiritual Suffering and Physical Protection in Childbirth in the South English Legendary Lives of Saint Margaret
This essay argues that the South English Legendary’s life of Saint Margaret, patron saint of childbirth, reflects the devotional practice of imitatio Christi when it represents labor pains not as the shameful curse of Eve but as a miraculous moment in…
Visualizing Sacred History: Peter Dell’s Resurrection and Lutheran Image Theology
In 1529, Peter Dell the Elder (1490–1552) made a relief sculpture of the Resurrection for Duke Heinrich of Saxony. At this time, Heinrich was shifting toward his wife Katharina’s Lutheranism despite his elder brother Georg’s disapproval. The rel…
Rape Narratives, Courtly Critique, and the Pedagogy of Sexual Negotiation in the Middle English Pastourelle
This essay focuses on Middle English pastourelles, a popular but understudied medieval lyric genre centrally concerned with women’s experiences of the threat of sexual violence. This genre offers contemporary audiences a rich and valuable resource for…
New Books across the Disciplines
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The King’s Tree Body: The Taming of the Wilderness and the Ecology of Kingship in Perceforest
The fifteenth-century French prose romance Perceforest portrays the relationship between the king and his forests in terms of both control and intimacy. The king’s legitimacy arises from his ability to civilize the forests and regulate their resources…
Language and Metaphysics Rejoined: Thomas Linacre and Grammar beyond the Sign
Recent scholarship has asserted that Renaissance humanists adopted an effectively poststructuralist view of language as a sign system independent of extramental reality. But language involves more than signs, and this scholarly position squares poorly…
Asceticism, Dissent, and the Tudor State: Richard Whitford’s Rule for Lay Householders
Richard Whitford’s A Work for Householders constructs a model of household governance organized around the contemplative life of the lay householder and his pastoral command over his familia. A Work for Householder’s companion text, A Daily Exercise o…