Chaucer’s Bibles: Late Medieval Biblicism and Compilational Form

The use of the Bible in fourteenth-century English secular literature has been surprisingly neglected in the last two decades, largely in response to postwar scholarship carried out under the banner of Robertsonianism and championing allegorical modes of interpretation. Robertsonian exegetics remains (as Lee Patterson said) the "great unfinished business" of medieval literary studies. This essay argues for the rejection of Robertsonianism as an inadequately historicist approach to the medieval Bible, and, by focusing on formal details of the biblical manuscripts evoked in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, it argues that interpretations of the Bible dependent on these codicological forms are more germane to the understanding of Chaucer's text than Robertsonian hermeneutics. Attention to three kinds of manuscript compilations that include biblical material illustrate some of the ways a medieval poet could harness the material forms of books to achieve specific literary ends.

Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/3/437?rss=1

The Royal Provenance and Tudor Courtly Reading of a Wycliffite Bible

This analysis of Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.2.15 indicates some ways in which the English Bible may have been read by social elites during the mid-Tudor period. The presence of the Cambridge manuscript within the royal collection followed a precedent set by several of Edward VI's predecessors, who owned manuscript copies of the Wycliffite Bible. The exclusive status of the Middle English scriptural text changed after printed English bibles became more available, beginning with William Tyndale's New Testament edition in 1526. Despite this proliferation of printed versions of the Bible in English, however, the Cambridge manuscript indicates that privileged readers showed a readiness to adapt older manuscript copies of the text for their use.

Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/3/587?rss=1

Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 217-219
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2017.1373148?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Assisted Reproduction across Borders: Feminist Perspectives on Normalization, Disruptions and Transmissions

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 220-223
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2017.1378259?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Working for Change: Projectified Politics and Gender Equality

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 163-178
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2017.1370011?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Norway as an Example in the UK Women’s Suffrage Campaign

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 195-210
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2017.1378258?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

What Mothers Do: Motherhood as a Resource for Negotiating Sick-Leave Legitimacy in Swedish Sickness Insurance Interactions

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 179-194
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2017.1380698?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 223-225
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2017.1378260?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Editorial

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 161-162
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2017.1379175?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Norwegian Equality and Anti-discrimination Reform in an Individualist and Market-oriented Context

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 211-216
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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2017.1378263?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R