... for understanding the history of vernacular theologies and their experimentation with different rhetorical modes for reshaping belief and practice. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Middle English devotional literature Book to a Mother lollard writings clerical authority female...

... Poetry and Courtly Lyric: The Middle English Pastourelle,” Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 5 (1987): 33 – 61. 28 John W. Conlee discusses the characteristics of these two pastourelle groups in Mid- dle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology (East Lansing, Mich...

... rather than a transparent condition of language) because it was hardly necessary. While the moment when grammatical gender died out in Middle English is open to debate (and this poem’s prominence in the record necessarily confuses the issue), it is generally accepted that the change occurred before...

.... Unlike later medieval defenders of traditional religion, who opposed Wycliffite English translations of the Bible along with denials of transubstantiation, More did not oppose vernacular translation of scripture entirely. In his Dialogue Concerning Heresies , More strenuously criticizes Tyndale's...

... an implicit imperative. It is from here that the poem's demand for spiritual renewal comes. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Middle English dialogue and debate literature pastoral care conversion strategy Piers Plowman Dives and Pauper ...

... as punishment for their sins, and a cure is only possible after repentance. See Penelope Doob, Nebuchadnezzar’s Children: Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1974), 212. 15 Gillian Rose, Love’s Work (London: Vintage, 1997), 71 – 72. She...

... Brantley, “Middle English Drama beyond the Cycle Plays,” Literature Compass 10, no. 4 (2013): 331–42, at 334. 6 Gibson, Theater of Devotion , 112; Douglas Sugano, ed., introduction to The N-Town Plays (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), 1–18; Victor Scherb, Staging Faith...

...Julianne Werlin In England, the period from the late Middle Ages through early modernity was bookended by demographic change. On one edge, there was the Black Death and subsequent plague pandemics, which halved the population, reshaping English society in their wake. On the other...

... and elsewhere, Chaucer, by his name and authorship, becomes the shorthand for a set of assumptions that is present throughout and also beyond his texts, whether he is read as the father of English literature, a laureate, a preceptorial persona in the wisdom tradition, or as the founder of a literary canon. 23...

..., however, provides some additional clues about Pellegrini. The English ambassador to Venice, Harvel, is one of its protagonists. Pellegrini was likely among the “poligrafi” to whom, in the middle of the 1540s, Harvel had opened the doors of his embassy, which soon became an important “center of Protestant...

... materialist with historicist certainties and probabilities; it offers a viable methodology for reconciling textual with authorial objectives. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Middle English manuscript studies codicology textual authority...

... of the mark of London printer Robert Copland, active from 1514 to 1548. She further places the style of that particular mark (used also by Robert’s successor, William Copland) in the years 1523 to 1557. Alto- gether, this conjunction of late Middle English language, mid-­sixteenth-­ century copying...

.... Peters, “Soziokulturelle Voraussetzungen,” 1214–15. 50 For a summary of this debate that supports the latter camp, see Ludwig Wolff, “Überlegungen zur sprachlichen Gestalt der Eneide Heinrichs von Veldeke,” in Dialog: Literatur...

... was writing a dialogue of his own, The Discourse of the Commonweal, from which workers are conspicuous by their absence — his “husbandman” is a yeoman who employs wage laborers. Smith’s work resembles less an estates debate than an exercise in constituting a new English ruling class...

... rst and foremost as a challenge to latinitas. And yet, A Christian Mannes Bileeve places the vernacular in creative dialogue with a Latinate tradition to demonstrate an interlingual relationship that challenges arguments that posit Latin and Middle English as “antonyms Rather than presenting...

... Literature, Volume 2: Tristano Riccardiano. Edited and trans- lated by Regina F. Psaki. Arthurian Archives, vol. 12. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006. xx, 400 pp. $105.00. [Facing-page Italian text and English translation.] Antonio, da Rho. Early Renaissance Invective and the Controversies of Anto- nio...

... to overthrow, making “postcolonial theory,” for example, into yet one more tool of Modern and postmodern colonization of The Middle Ages. To the extent that postcolonial theory itself has been based on models drawn chiefly from the French and English imperial experience and its...

...: A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sources. Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary Series. London: Athlone Press, 2001. x, 528 pp.; 10 illus. $210.00. Lambdin, Laura Cooner, and Robert Thomas Lambdin, eds. A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. xiii, 429 pp. $74.95...

.... Twomey, eds. Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, vol. 6. Leuven: Peeters, 2004. xv, 268 pp.; 2 tables, 3 figs. $50.00. O’Keeffe, Katherine O’Brien, and Andy Orchard, eds.Latin Learning and English Lore...

... Counselling,” ed. Hodgson, 135–72 (137). Further citations are given parenthetically in the text. 52 Nicholas Watson, “The Middle English Mystics,” in The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature , ed. David Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 539–65 (554). 53...