Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Alberts, A. A.,
Allgemein.
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 which the mother is united with Christ through her pain. Analysis of five late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts reveals that the legend is fashioned as a practical guide to the experience and rituals of childbirth. The legend also suggests that the act of engaging with Margaret's life (whether through prayer, reading, or listening) functions in a way similar to the rite of baptism by evoking the saint's protection of mothers and infants during childbirth. More so than other late medieval versions of her life, the SEL life of Margaret connects bodily and salvific suffering, emphasizing the shared experience of pain among laboring woman, saint, and Christ.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/289?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Nelson, J.,
Allgemein.
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 relief's disjunctive, nonillusionistic appearance resonates with Lutheran image theology. Its maintenance of visual difference exemplifies a faith in sacred history's power to transcend historical difference; the relief depicts Heinrich's conversion as one sacrohistorical event among many. The relief's disjunctive appearance also provides an occasion to propose the general heuristic term "chimerism" to describe a specific kind of visual form: not a hybrid that fuses different visual modes, but a chimera that joins unlike features while preserving their differences.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/339?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Harris, C. M.,
Allgemein.
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 understanding medieval ideas about rape and resistance. The pastourelles closely echo the language of courtly love lyrics and thus function as a critique of courtly ideology, for they expose its violent denial of women's erotic subjectivity. Some pastourelles feature antirape pedagogical methods familiar to modern educators, including peer education models and the use of risk avoidance discourse. The genre's narrative diversity and pedagogical possibilities are particularly evident in a unit of three pastourelles copied in the early sixteenth-century Welles Anthology along with male-voiced poems of courtly love and misogynist vitriol and female-voiced erotic lyrics, demonstrating how the pastourelle can reinforce certain rape myths, authorize women's desire, and challenge courtly paradigms.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/263?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Cornett, M.,
Allgemein.
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Findley, B. H.,
Allgemein.
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, yet in another sense he himself is the forest. Both the eponymous king Perceforest and his great-nephew and heir Gallafur experience dream visions in which their subjectivities appear in vegetal form: Perceforest's depressive mental state manifests itself as an overgrown forest landscape, while Gallafur sees his body become tree-like. A reading of these visions suggests an ecology of kingship, in which proper governance, land management, and licit sexuality are all interconnected. At the same time, the visions resonate with recent strains of ecological thought, notably dark ecology and queer ecology. Encountering himself as a "strange stranger" within the dream landscape, the king experiences his mystical body in vegetal terms.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/233?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Leeds, J.,
Allgemein.
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 with the theory of verbal mood advanced by Thomas Linacre (1460–1524), physician and founding father of English humanism. As grammarian, Linacre adds a sixth mood to the five inherited from Priscian, classifying almost every use of Priscian's subjunctive mood under his new heading, the potential mood. As physician, Linacre translates texts from Galen that show his view of physiology to be thoroughly Aristotelian, grounded as it is on the distinction between actuality and potentiality. On this basis, Linacre rejects the standard rhetorical approach to the moods as "affections of the mind," preferring instead a philosophical view. By shifting the subjunctive functions to his potential mood, Linacre gives us a verbal system in which the indicative and subjunctive moods represent not just dispositions of mind but basic aspects of extramental being, the actual and the potential. In so doing, Linacre asserts a fundamental continuity between grammar and metaphysical reality.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/213?rss=1
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Mai 20, 2016, 2:09 a.m.,
Appleford, A.,
Allgemein.
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 of Death, centers on willed self-negation, teaching the householder monastic ascetic practices that emphasize rejection of the world and direct obedience to God. Together the manuals, which circulated widely during England's violent 1530s, work to interrupt the absorption of the Christian pastorate by secular state power. They do this by describing the household as a distinct locus of spiritual counsel, a self-enclosed unit that has only generalized interactions with other sites of religious authority. Lay piety in these texts does not aim to shelter its audience from the turmoil of surrounding events. Instead, the contemplative turn in Whitford's compilation explicitly absorbs the political, using it as fodder for potentially activist and resistant praxes.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/381?rss=1
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Mai 19, 2016, 8:43 a.m.,
Fernando Molina,
Allgemein.
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Mai 19, 2016, 8:10 a.m.,
The Journal of Economic History - Current Issue,
Allgemein.
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Mai 19, 2016, 8:10 a.m.,
The Journal of Economic History - Current Issue,
Allgemein.
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