...Christina M. Fitzgerald The Croxton Play of the Sacrament paradoxically enacts anxieties about the propriety of Passion drama. Framing the play's central action—the Jews' testing of the Communion wafer in a parody of the Passion—with the story of a Christian merchant who enables or even sponsors...

... and the charges against him as a rapist? This essay argues that long before Lambe gives those around him a basis for violence, he triggers anxieties about what he is, and that these anxieties play a role in the violence against him. The text of A Briefe Description demonstrates the way mechanisms of justice...

... the macabre narrative in very different ways. Beyond this iconographic instability, this essay argues that the unsettled status of the narrative—in both text and picture—enabled its use as a malleable vessel for articulating and projecting certain social anxieties. The Erri version, the primary focus...

..., 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. Rather than...

..., the poem contains its existential anxiety within the strict metrical forms of the alliterative long line. Its structure balances assorted visions of death with images of joy, but traditional Old English formulas afford very specific ideas of joy that describe an idealized heroic male world. By reading...

... consisted of more than sexual intromission or inhibiting anxiety, and visual metaphors presented manliness in ways that were often humorous, usually public, and always assertive. Duke University Press 2009 a Manliness and the Visual...

... and Peru, to find an animal Viagra-equivalent in that expanse of lands where marvels were contained. The duke's discreet fantasy of resurrecting the flesh, anchored in male anxiety, narcissistic excess, and a peculiar dream of domination, occupies hardly a footnote in the multinational project...

... that such practices worked to displace fundamental anxieties generated by the “sacramental cannibalism” of the eucharistic feast, in which the body and blood of Christ were fused with those of communicants through the process of ingestion. The medieval counternarrative mythologizing lepers, women, and Jews as would...

...Paroma Chatterjee This study offers a close reading of the processes involved in crafting a Byzantine holy portrait by focusing on certain episodes in the Life of Nikon and the Life of Irene of Chrysobalanton , hagiographies dated to the eleventh century. The article argues that the anxieties...

... concretely a number of pervasive social and cultural anxieties about masculine self-presentation in Bruno's time. This essay brings together literary and cultural history within the broader context of gender and body studies of Renaissance Italy, in particular, and, more generally, of the European...

...Donovan Sherman This essay reads Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as a manifestation of early modern England’s anxiety over the soul. As something both essential and unrepresentable, the soul existed in the popular imagination as potentially monstrous or divine, distanced from both the body...

... there. The effect is to strand Gotti in mid-­bluster, a pathetic figure who wants to refute but can only fume. What Gotti wants to think a response to Spinoza is something Israel assumes we can recognize as a symptom of his anxiety and helplessness, his unwitting admission that he has nothing with which...

... and cold clammy sweats.4 Although Thoresby believed that his emotional response to Ibbetson’s death was the ultimate source of his ill health, he viewed the process within the frame of financial anxiety rather than sorrow. Moreover, Thoresby’s grief did not spark an instant physical transformation...

... memorialization, it seems there is more at stake. The energies devoted to the censure and attempted correction of per- ceived errors in responding to the material environment suggest a consider- able measure of anxiety over the implications of unrestrained and unsuper- vised readings. In such a context...

... it is obstructed, the whole frame is soon disordered.”7 Not so long ago, doctors and patients were haunted by anxieties that they now can scarcely comprehend. I wish to speak of a strange amnesia. I wish to explore how firm and longstanding convictions have mysteriously faded from memory, with- out...

...- sional, these stone pleurants express a terrible anxiety: that the living might cease their prayers for the dead duke, leaving him in torment indefinitely. The care with which each figure has been individualized, endowed with his own task, makes it just possible to imagine that together...

..., I argue, is symptomatic of larger fifteenth-century anxieties about the sovereign gaze.13 For it was not only (as I suggest above) that there was something about the ruler that remained out of view of his subjects—something that made him different from other men; it was the ability of the ruler...

... to their predecessors, their actions deafen their own words, as is the case with manuscript copies of texts that travel alongside their own authorial retraction, such as instances of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , Lydgate's Testament , or Jean de Meun's continuation of The Romance of the Rose . 17 The anxiety...

... 1995.54 The short verse acknowledges even as it also deflects some of its probable first readers’ deeply rooted anxiety about economic and social vulnerability, which, to borrow again from Smith, is “not just the anxiety that one’s social order is passing away . . . but an anxiety that is deeply...

..., possibly to quiet her anxiety about the work she had undertaken. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47:3, September 2017 DOI 10.1215/10829636-4200080  © 2017 by Duke University Press Lanyer alludes to the widow’s mite in complex ways on the thresh- old of her...