...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Madeline Lesser This article addresses Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder , an epic, twenty-canto retelling of Genesis. Scholars have often considered Hutchinson’s poem an inferior version of Paradise Lost insofar as it does not transgress biblical narrative. Attending...

... and early modern poetic prophecies often list local manifestations of disorder and exclude the cosmic frame of divine order, making poems like Wynnere and Wastoure , which draws heavily on the tradition of poetic prophecy, seem not particularly apocalyptic. But the list-like passages in Wynnere and Wastoure...

..., their inability to contain what they aim to express. This collection of essays thus reflects on how forms not only represent but also embody catastrophe's continuities and discontinuities, its rhythms and ruptures, its order and disorder, and its anxieties, uncertainties, and possibilities. Copyright © 2022...

... this symptom arises from Donne's inability to order the events of his illness, he is able to recreate it within readers by likewise disordering the Devotions ' narrative. By sharing this contemplative “torment” with readers, the Devotions democratizes Donne's difficult path toward spiritual revelation...

... terms. Sermons and devotional texts instructed believers to restrain their grief, fear, and anxiety in order to demonstrate a lack of despair and an acceptance of God’s will. Immoderate sorrow signified an attachment to worldly things, although sanctified emotions such as pity could assist devo...

... it provokes from the nation’s men. In this reading of the uncontrollable women that populate Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, I thus contend that the clergy’s use of misog- ynist and antimarital discourse is successful in undermining patriarchal order in Scotland’s domestic...

.... Elizabeth Salter set the terms for this critical shift shortly after Muscatine's reading, and by the 1980s Robert Hanning would read Chaucer as localizing “the conflict between order and disorder as a reflection of the Knight's particular perspective on life,” while David Aers suggested that the tale...

... in the social order.39 Indeed, discursive accounts of political disorder that require rigorous inter- Healy / Medicine, Metaphor, and “Crisis” in the Social Body  131 vention to return the social organism to homeostasis imaginatively think in terms of bodily pathologies and thus...

... of the Visitandine order, took a staunch antimystical position because these kinds of spiritual experiences invited fanciful behaviors such as fakery and self-­deception. According to Chantal, young and involuntary nuns fell prey to these temptations most often. “Some of them disfigure their bodies...

... “temporal disorder” or Hill's diffuseness, Christ III fills each catastrophic moment with past, present, and future so that these extreme moments of suffering and destruction take on purpose and even, ultimately, the hope of a recreated world. This temporal fullness itself orders the poem—not necessarily...

... to be resolved in order to conclude that such representations are fundamentally either positive or negative. Rather, these stereotypes are nec- essarily ambivalent forms of knowledge that justify a social hierarchy main- taining Mudejar subjects in positions of subordination...

...- logical literature was read in order to learn about the causes and cures of women’s diseases, new readers brought new habits of reading to these texts in the later Middle Ages. Concerned less with alleviating women’s suffering than with learning how the female body works...

... identity of the Order of Preachers. This message would have been reinforced by the setting, a monastic environment clearly marked as Dominican by the pres- ence of berobed friars and a polychrome tondo of Saint Dominic above the arch. As an illustration of a saintly miracle, then, the Modena...

... Samient discloses that the knights are already “nigh to the place” where power dwells, that is, Mercilla’s palace (V.9.20.5). The parodic articulation between civil order and barbaric disorder in Malengin’s erection of his own mock-palace, which echoes Limahong’s redoubt on the Agno, is returned...

...-sized morsels that give order to an unmanageable fecundity, as Fussell might maintain, or a type of unmanaged and purposeless fecundity, as Smith implies. But I also mean to show the couplet's challenge to even this formal conundrum—division between order and disorder that abets management's own vision...

... a political vision organized around what he and his culture regarded as a virtue: rational obedience to political authority. In his Appeal , the explosive text that was written for the trial of London's mayor in 1384, Usk makes use of charged language tied to the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in order to depict...

.... As Kenneth Burke writes, “mortification is the exercising in one- self of ‘virtue’; it is a systematic way of saying no to disorder, or obediently saying yes to order.”32 In its dire performance of the universal need to live abstemiously, the Daunce of Poulys reaches toward a comprehensive descrip...

...- thetical thinking of the era, defined the institutions of God’s order and the monarch’s by providing their negative image.4 In the period’s language of “con- trariety,” which defined good through evil, order through disorder, soul through body, male through female, and the ordered commonwealth through...

...), and has fifty gold initials, mostly infilled with flower motifs in color, at the beginning of each book of the Bible.1 Cosin was Master of Peterhouse from 1635 until his ejection by order of Parliament in March 1644. He had returned to Cambridge by June 1660, resuming the mastership until November...

... between healthy and unhealthy excreta in order to be on guard at the first warning of disorder, the 1909 edition of Fletcher’s New Glutton or Epicure (first edition, 1899) included one doctor’s report on a writer with remark- ably thorough digestion.59 The writer worked ten- to fourteen-hour days...