...Shannon McSheffrey St. Martin le Grand, a precinct within the walls of London, was both a sanctuary and a liberty: it offered asylum to accused felons, and it allowed immigrant craftsmen to work and sell within its bounds despite London’s strict restrictions on alien labor. St. Martin’s privileges...

... thousand years ago, might solve their suffering here and now. Yet they wouldn't dream of seeking succor in the works of Galen. Why? How have the beliefs and practices that guided Western medicine up through the eighteenth century come to seem, paradoxically, more alien and distant than ancient Chinese...

... notion of the Crown—by the king’s inability to alien- ate certain rights and properties from himself. This doctrine of inalienability was developed out of the separation of the mortal king from the perpetual Crown, a separation which began in England in the early thirteenth century. Kantorowicz has...

... of loss and alienation. A similar promise undergirds material culture studies’ desire for tactile contact with the past. Like Ralph, this desire adheres to a belief in what Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass term “material memory”: the conviction that memory is materialized...

... other agents within itself. The psychomachia is central to the structure of allegory, and in its medieval developments, especially, the trope depends on acute tensions between the soul’s participation in a larger cosmos of spiritual agents and its alienation from that cosmos. By turning...

... is deliberate. It serves to conceal their chronological proximity and to separate strands in Petrarch's rhetoric of empire which had become entangled in 1351. Then, the polemic of Familiares 1.4 assailed the legitimacy of alien rule in Italy, while the persuasion of Familiares 10.1 sought to motivate Karl...

..., and the gigantic sons of Albina, among others. For many medieval writers, Gog and Magog functioned as typological metaphors, names that could be appropriated to whatever was alien, threat- ening, or actively hostile in a manner that paralleled biblical usage. Since their earliest appearances in written...

... of his Enneads. He stresses to the reader that the soul is separate from the self “not in a spatial way” but rather in its “alienation in relation to the body.”2 Plotinus, in delicately parsing near-­synonyms, is worried that his advice to keep the soul separate could be misinterpreted...

... to be counted and alienes,” E.K. rather cryptically remarks (Epistle, 16). E.K.’s lament for the fact that many Spen- serian readers are estranged from “their owne country and natural speach, which together with their Nources milk they sucked” (17) thus represents, according to Paula Blank, “what seems...

... description of the Essex tippler’s operation suggests, was also radically “other.” Community and family connote familiarity, wholeness, and stability. The alehouse, while partially partaking of these qualities, was at the same time alien, fragmentary, and unsettled: in a word, “vagrant.”12...

... production and the alienation of labor.1 On the one hand, indepen- dent makers of food, clothing, and furniture are reviving small-­scale pro- duction methods and marketing to self-­conscious, mostly urban consumers. In a related development, one sees the term artisan applied to everything from Dunkin...

..., and Mary Douglas’s observations in Natural Symbols (1970) seem highly apposite to this analysis. Stressing that such controversies “flare up and down” and “only become significant when the relation of an alienated sub-­group to the social whole becomes an acute political issue,” and invok...

... with the very landscape that he seeks to control. Perceforest sees his mental illness vividly expressed in a chaotic and unmanaged forest, while Gallafur envisions his own body as an alien assemblage of disparate objects similar to a tree. This essay examines Perceforest’s portrayal of the king...

... account or accurate representation of alien lands and peoples, but it served to mediate and give cultural form to the cross-cultural transactions and alien identities that were affecting the English sense of place during the early modern period. For the inhabitants of London and other English ports...

... confluence of representations: the wild woman, personified vice, and “death itself, la mort, feminized through grammatical gender.”48 Michael Uebel has argued that because Islam was an alien presence at the heart of those lands from which the West traced...

... Pandarus’s entreaties on Troilus’s behalf, for as she subsequently acknowledges, “Men prize the thing ungain’d more than it is” (1.2.294). As Cressida understands, feminine vir- tue makes her vulnerable to masculine fantasies, which, because they ren- der her an abstraction, alienate her from the looks...

... black, mixed, or multiracial. This definition of race according to blood percentage, based on antiquated—and historically pejorative—notions of a “pure type,” was alien to antiquity. Late Roman society would describe this child as decolore “dark” or “swarthy.”4...

...” in the precincts of Blackfriars, specifically for “strangers corvyours” from Spain or the Low Countries. When Henry VIII passed an act in 1513 against alien cordwainers buying uncurried leather, this guild, with whom Charles V stayed during his visit to England in 1522, managed to procure within a year...

... fiction’s swift, sweet, even cloying embrace, is always alien, even alienating. One of microhistory’s eternal lessons is bittersweet failure —  both the writer’s and the reader’s — ever to enter the hearts and bodies of the people we ponder. So our own yearning, and our readers’, is always at once...

... survey of the vicissitudes of the Gog and Magog figures shows how a historical sequence of identities depended on them as referents for the alien or other, against which a group could define itself. Throughout Scherb’s essay, the construction of ethnic identity is para- mount: “Although their role...