...Chandler Fry While much criticism on the fourteenth‐century English scribe and politician Thomas Usk characterizes him as a self‐interested partisan whose Appeal and Testament of Love lay bare his hopes for material reward from London's rulers, this article argues that Usk's two texts offer...

... Turner / Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages  85 and blurs the boundaries between laborer, writer, and doctor. Compare Thomas Usk’s comment on writers’ “great swetande [sweating] travayle” and his use of agri- cultural imagery: writers “planten” meaning using “sythes...

... sentence of death or imprisonment by political régimes, both revolutionary and reactionary. One thinks of Ovid, Boethius, Thomas Usk, Thomas More, Anne Askew, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, John Bunyan, and James Naylor, to name a tiny few; the full list is very long and contains many twentieth...

.... Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2014. x, 270 pp. Paper $159.95. Justice, Steven. Adam Usk’s Secret. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 224 pp. $49.95. [An exploration of the secretive voice in Usk’s chronicle in light of literary and historical theo...

... poem attributed to James I Stewart (1394 – ­1437).30 Although Middle English lit- erature boasts a handful of examples of Boethian prison writing (Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love, the English lyrics of Charles d’Orléans, and George Ashby’s Prisoner’s Reflections), The Kingis Quair is critical...

... and Autorität, vol. 30. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. viii, 290 pp. eur 112.00. 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. ix, 254 pp. $40.00. Jouanno, Corinne, ed. Figures...

... Usk, Thomas. Testament of Love: A Critical Edition. Edited by Gary W. Shawver. Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. ix, 354 pp. $125.00. Van Arsdall, Anne, ed. and trans. Medieval Herbal Remedies: The “Old English Herbarium” and Anglo-Saxon Medicine...

..., Usk, and Hoccleve (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). 40 John Brewer, A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Farrar and Giroux, 2004). 41 Stanislas Dehaene, Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Inven- tion (New...