... problematic in Elizabethan England. This essay analyzes the engagements of Stephen Batman and an anonymous ecclesiastical annotator with the Pricking of Love , a deeply affective late fourteenth-century devotional treatise. The medieval text, infused with fervent Christological and Marian piety, would seem...

... to take the Staffordian Lot, that is, to practise in their lives the first Page Chance shall direct them to, in the opening of it; since there is not one in this Worke which containes not some lovely Vertue or other of that deare Lord deceased: by enlarging of whose Fame, I...

... and symbolic, rather than practical: Ralph, who specializes in the technique, proudly boasts, “These true-­love knots I pricked” (14.47). Eyre’s claim that Ralph’s skill at “pricking” will be easily translated into martial prowess on the battlefield (14.167 – 68) is undermined, however, when Ralph...

..., is instructive in this respect.14 Here the tattoo serves rhetorically to negotiate the con ictual orders of gender and class that comically inect the erotic exchange between one Bitinna and her male slave and lover Gastron. Enraged by the discovery of Gastron’s faithlessness in love, his...

..., such as Robert Grosseteste’s Chateau d’Amour and its influential English translation, the Castle of Love, as well as in the Gospel of Nicodemus, Mandeville’s Travels, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich.7 Origen’s doctrine of apocatastasis, a Neoplatonic fantasy of alternating purgation and ascent...

...” is troubled by another matter, incompletely addressed during her most recent visit to the imprisoned Bradford. Since his life now stands in “great danger” he is anxious to write something that will stand “both [as] a monument of the kind of my love, and also a help, or at the least an occasion for you...

... to write original poetry. Slips of paper circulate throughout Renaissance literature as embodied emotions, particularly as love’s despair. In As You Like It, a lovesick Orlando papers the Forest of Arden with poems, hanging verse from the branches. “These trees shall be my books,” he solilo- 512...

..., that I am lost because of my love for Ahmad. He has eyes that slay me with his rejection. I have kept this love hidden in my heart, but my tears reveal my secret.] 4. Han revelado los lloros del enamorado la pasión / para quien su...

..., lower area of Titian’s so-called Sacred and Profane Love is a visual allusion to marital “watering” in a painting commis- sioned around 1514 to celebrate a wedding. The putti with poppy capsules (fig. 5) tend the seed pods by both fertilizing and watering them, in anticipa- tion of male offspring...

... and Catherine Des Roches, defining that relation- ship in the sexual vocabulary of seduction and conquest. Competing with courtly address, Pasquier finds himself in unfamiliar terrain. The barrister struggled to master the love lyric, the humanist rhetoric of a courtly culture in the process of being...

...” in the blood dropping from Amoret's dying heart “perforce to make her” love him, or Oberon exploiting Titania's sexuality in order to steal the Indian child, squeezing the aphrodisiac of the love-in-idleness into her eyes, so that “the next thing then she waking looks upon . . . She shall pursue...

... of affective piety does not position “heart knowledge” ( sapientia ) and “head knowledge” ( scientia ) as mutually exclusive. Instead, A Christian Mannes Bileeve fuses reason (“skil”) with affect (“kyndenesse”), generating a reasonable love borne from gratitude for God that arises from knowing the Apostles...

... Meanwhile, at least since Aquinas, attempts had been made to steer some kind of middle course between these two positions (to follow the Law or not; to circumcise or not);27 a succinct example is provided by Milton in his early poem, “Upon the Circumcision”: O more exceeding love or law more...

.... a Shakespeare’s Theater Games Tom Bishop University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand Il faut entrer le jeu; il ne supporte pas le scepticisme. — Paul Valéry All hid, all hid; an old infant play. — Love’s Labour’s...

... be embarrassing to the still vibrant tradition that aligns Protestant theology and the liberated, liberty-loving, decentralized agency of the liberal tradition. 2 However that may be, my claim about the absolutism of Reformation theology is, in fact, uncontentious in its broad force. Liberalism, which claims...

... the self: “To love our selves, to be satisfied in our selves, to finde an omnisufficiency in our selves, is an intrusion, an usurpation upon God.”36 Of course, Reformers across the sectarian spectrum did not simply abandon the demand for repentance: indeed, insofar as it was understood...

... Revelation of Love of Christ commending her for her “servys . . . and namely of [her] youth,” she leaves the specific content of that youthful service delib- erately opaque. There is no list of action verbs to tell us what counts as “servys” for her in this early part of the Revelation.22 By contrast...

... readers that he is above their sway (137).39 He speaks too eloquently of their “flaring frounzed Periwigs lowe dangled downe with love-locks” (140). His description of the bare-bosom style of women’s gowns — “theyr breasts they embuske up on hie, and theyr round Roseate buds immodestly lay foorth...

... Eckstein’s “Concilium” and “Rychsztag.” Edited and translated by Nigel Har- ris and Joel Love. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. 497 pp. Paper $100.95. [Ger- man verse texts with facing-­page English prose translations.] Egbert, of Liège. The Well-­Laden Ship: Egbert of Liège. Translated and edited by Robert...

... seems good for you] (Bodley 779, fol. 206r, 25). Margaret replies the she “þinkeþ þese pinus so swete so child doþ melkus strem” [thinks these pains as sweet as a child thinks a stream of milk] (fol. 206r, 31). Here, Margaret describes her pain in terms of a child’s love of milk. The image...