Erratum
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Archiv für Mai 2017
A Once and Future King: Sanctuary, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Pity in the Histories of Perkin Warbeck
John Ford’s play Perkin Warbeck uses sanctuary, which bookends the life of the titular pretender to the English throne, as a figure for the tension between justice and mercy. The play associates legal sanctuary with the medieval past, as crystallized …
New Books across the Disciplines
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Alphabetizing the Nation: Medieval British Origins in Thomas Elyot’s Dictionary
Reading Thomas Elyot’s Dictionary, this essay examines the legacy of medieval chronicle and fable for the early modern period. Elyot’s influential work, here considered in its 1542 edition as Bibliotheca Eliotae, contains entries for both „Albion“ and…
Nothing Was Funny in the Late Middle Ages: The „Tale of Ryght Nought“ and British Library, MS Egerton 1995
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1995 is a well-known miscellany of the late Middle Ages, filled like others of its kind with practical and didactic texts meant to assist its readers in their attempts at social, economic, and spiritual self-improve…
Handling Knowledge: Holy Bodies in the Middle English Mystery Plays
The representations of the midwife Salome and the Apostle Thomas in the N-Town and Chester plays complicate the relationship between two modes of knowledge: „clergie“ or male clerical learning, on the one hand, and knowledge derived from sensory exper…
Archiving Ordinary Experience: Small-Format Cartography of the English Renaissance
This essay shows that small-format cartography of the English Renaissance fostered a geographical imagination that placed nonelites at the heart of the nation’s collective identity. Cheap maps, guides, and atlases — a staple of the popular print…
Bodies Hardened for War: Knighthood in Fifteenth-Century England
This essay examines representations of knightly physicality in two fifteenth-century English texts: the Middle English Secreta Secretorum and Knyghthode and Bataile. These neglected texts are examples of mirrors for princes and Vegetian military manua…
Call for Submissions
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Towards the Post-Secular City? London since the 1960s
It is possible to interpret the available statistical evidence to argue that — when the presence of minority traditions is taken into account — the level of religious practice in London in the early twenty-first century was quite similar to that i…