...” narratives that bridged different forms. Lord Berners's Huon of Bordeaux (ca. 1515) and Richard Johnson's The Seven Champions of Christendom (1596–97) are popular prose texts that employ crusade discourse's dual sense of conversion as an intensified commitment and as a change in religion in their portrayal...

... of the good and of human flourishing, even if sinful medieval Christians were unable to live up to the ideals of that unified Christendom. Great church, pity about the Christians. In the rush to step off the podium before he’s unceremoni- ously pushed off, Author 1 neglects to mention less attractive...

... of the world. Implicit in the map is a question about Christianity (the religion) and Christendom (the area of the map it controls): If the religion is so right, and its one true God so omnipotent, how does it come about that Christendom itself is so circumscribed, and the areas it fails to control...

... given in advance but as a culture of shared practices overlapping with but not identical to Kinoshita / Alterity, Gender, Nation in the Roland 81 JMEMS31.1-04 Kinoshita 2/26/01 6:59 PM Page 82 Latin Christendom, he describes its...

... to Christendom to destroy Christians.”28 Here, in a characterization of pre-Christian times, the Mandeville-author identifies the Jewish people with Gog and Magog in a manner that fore- shadows their actual estrangement from Western society. Jews had been exiled from late medieval England and were ghettoized...

... and another that, the king resolved to fast without break until Christ provided him with an interpretation of his vision through His servant Sylvester. When he had fasted for seven days, the blessed Sylvester appeared to him in a vision on that seventh night and said to him...

... ground — measured in names, coins, wine, recipes, roof types, fishing lines, corpses. It gets things wet. It constitutes the imaginary boundary between Christendom and Islam; and yet it is posed more often Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:1, Winter 2007  DOI...

....: Marquette University Pres, 2016. 244 pp. Paper $25.00. [Giustiniani and Querini’s Libellus ad Leonem Decimum (1513), presenting their proposals for the reformation of the Catholic Church and Christendom. Latin text with facing-­page English translation.] 640  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern...

... fear of such a threat: 306  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.2 / 2011 Fye on thee Diggon, and all thy foule leasing, Well is knowne that sith the Saxon king, Never was Woolfe seene many nor some, Nor in all Kent nor in Christendome...

..., 2006. viii, 465 pp. eur 38.90. Gouwens, Kenneth, and Sheryl E. Reiss, eds. The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture. Catholic Christendom, 1300 –   1700. Alder- shot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. xxxvi, 437 pp.; 59 plates, 2 figs., 2 graphs, 5 tables. $99.95. Haines...

..., in at least some local settings, prior to the pontificate of Innocent III. In some areas this may have included confession three times a year to one's local priest. Throughout Christendom, in hope and expectation at least, it was always part of the last rites given to the dying. It might well have also been...

... and threatening the corporate integrity of Latin Christendom.36 The Saracen was visualized in the act of eviscerating, impaling, or forcefully circumcising Christian bodies, even though the Christians themselves were fully committed to just such a pro- gram...

... interspersed with eth- nographic information and anecdotes about his missionary experiences, in which he pays particular attention to Islamic beliefs and customs. The text survives in seven manuscripts, the most important one from the fourteenth century, now housed in Berlin. It was copied by an individual...

... History of Heroick Acts also aligns the Arcadia with another tradition that of the shortened prose chivalric romances (such as Guy of Warwick and The Seven Champions of Christendom) that were highly popular from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Margaret Spufford s study of them...