...Ardis Butterfield Johnson Eleanor , Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 ), 264 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Dzon Mary , The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2017 ), 408 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Stuart Clark Robert Bartlett, The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 170 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Brigitte Le Juez, Beckett before Beckett...

...Stuart Clark; Jeffrey M. Perl Bartlett Robert , The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008 ), 170 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 432 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation...

...Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Gossman Lionel , The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler ( Cambridge : Open Book , 2013 ), 416 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...Sari Nusseibeh Tyerman Christopher , How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages . ( London : Allen Lane , 2015 ), 400 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... Christian Middle Ages. Bynum's claim has been that medieval asceticism is best understood not as an upshot of dualism — of the soul and body understood as in opposition — but as “an effort to plumb and realize all the possibilities of the flesh.” Drawing on underused religious sources, analyzing...

...Ardis Butterfield Vernacular language use in England throughout the later Middle Ages was a complex negotiation between English and French; that is, between the languages of English and French and the political identities of two peoples engaged in a long war. Clifford Geertz's famous analysis...

... gives us a fresh way of approaching primary questions about poetry and the literary. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 6 FUZZINESS AND PERCEPTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Part 3: Translating Fuzziness: Countertexts...

... Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 4 FUZZINESS AND PERCEPTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Part 2: Collective Fuzziness: Three Treaties and a Funeral Ardis Butterfield The blurry boundaries between languages in the Middle Ages were of acute political as well as linguistic and cultural...

...Simone Roberts Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar, eds., Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008), 734 pp. Duke University Press 2009...

...Ruth Morse Duke University Press 2011 Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman, Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), 445 pp. LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New...

...Jeffrey F. Hamburger Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Keene Bryan C. , ed., Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts ( Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum , 2019 ), 296 pp. C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 11 4 Bryan C. Keene, ed...

...Ardis Butterfield Chaganti Seeta , Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Later Middle Ages ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 ), 304 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Li tt le R ev ie w s 11 7Peter Mack, Reading Old Books: Writing...

... Christian’s attitudes during the Middle Ages. The analysis considers what qualifies as an expression of love for Muslims, the distinction between positive regard for Islam and positive regard for Muslims, and whether Islamophilia essentializes Muslims in the same way that Islamophobia does. The author argues...

... by Pope Francis in the Middle East. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 peacemaking ritual self-humiliation thumos Greco-Latin psychology PEACE BY OTHER MEANS Symposium on the Role of Ethnography and the Humanities in the Understanding...

.... If disenchantment is the price of victory over absolute evil, few would doubt that it was worth paying—within the framework of the tales. For the far future of Middle-Earth, however, the implications are less benign. The Elves accept their fate and either dwindle or depart. But the orcs, personifying disenchantment...

...Frederick S. Paxton A contribution to a set of case studies, titled “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay describes a course on the deep history of Italy developed for a “semester abroad” program in Perugia during the spring of 2016. It describes, in particular, two class meetings in the middle...

... in the Middle East — so, too, did Irwin ignore more worldly German Orientalists such as Max von Oppenheim and Curt Prüfer, whose covert activities on behalf of Berlin did not fit his own counterthesis that Orientalism, pace Said, “in its most important aspect was founded upon academic drudgery.” The “hack...