Search Results for appropriation

...Rhonda Knight © by Duke University Press 2002 a Stealing Stonehenge: Translation, Appropriation, and Cultural Identity in Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s...

...Victor I. Scherb © by Duke University Press 2002 a Assimilating Giants: The Appropriation of Gog and Magog in Medieval and Early Modern England...

... of “Appropriation” Kathleen Ashley University of Southern Maine Portland, Maine Véronique Plesch Colby College Waterville, Maine During...

...Claire Sponsler © by Duke University Press 2002 a In Transit: Theorizing Cultural Appropriation in Medieval Europe Claire Sponsler University of Iowa...

... was venerated as a saint. In contrast to Tudor promotion of Henry as a saintly king, the popular cult–which preceded and outlived its political appropriation–celebrated Henry VI for his likeness to ordinary English men and women. This essay explores the resonance between the cult and the plays, especially how...

...Sarah Beckwith This article explores the virtue tradition in the English theatrical tradition of morality theater and its fortunes on the professional stage. It explores questions of recognition in allegorical drama by examining “mankind” and “mercy” in the morality play Mankind , the appropriation...

... and ownership marks in manuscripts and a study of wills and book inventories, a distinct artisanal devotional culture can be reconstructed, as it becomes visible in the ways that artisans combined their social, vocational, and religious identities. This is also testified by the artisans’ appropriation...

... altered by the dissolution: prayer, otium , and withdrawal. As Tudor society sought to reshape or relocate these elements, writers including Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare explored and appropriated them, crafting within their literary texts a place for the monastic impulse. Writers of the period...

... on the province of tragedy. Heinsius, in response, defended the historical and philological accuracy of his tragedy, claiming that Herod’s affects are represented to him in the dream as aspects of familiar mythoi, pagan and Hebrew, not as allegories but as mental personae or noetic characters appropriate...

...Katherine Dauge-Roth Early modern judicial procedure privileged the reading of bodily signs at every stage of investigation. In cases of violent crime, careful reading of the victim's body was essential to reconstituting the events of a crime and determining its gravity and appropriate punishment...

... moment in the arbitration of human affairs. This emphasis, in turn, bespeaks a broader concern over the timing of sacred icons during significant moments in Byzantine history as understood by contemporary chroniclers: namely, their failure to act in appropriate ways at critical moments when the empire...

... appropriation,” and my examination of appropriated Books of Hours will draw on, and I hope contribute to, the current theoretical discussion. Traditional scholar- ship in many fields has regarded appropriation of an extant text or object as implying respect for the meaning or the prestige of the adopted...

... of the insurgents’ presence in the bishop’s apartments. The graffito celebrated the event and expressed its importance: it was worth writing down, and in a special place.5 Graffiti and appropriation Trent’s inscription of the 1407 events elucidates the intimate connection between graffiti-making and what...

... to Luther, with his view that we can be trained in the right behavioral patterns to do the actions appropriate for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:1, Winter 2012 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1473127  © 2012 by Duke University Press virtues. If virtues were only...

... Rollo-Koster University of Rhode Island Kingston, Rhode Island This study investigates cultural appropriation in late medieval Avignon. It is an illustration of how a notoriously disenfranchised group, prostitutes, creatively appropriated...

... linear pro- gression from “old Israel” to “new Israel” or fierce religious conflict between contentious “sister-religions”—both mask the political and social contexts in which Christians “invented” a tractable Jewish past and, indeed, risk repli- cating the very processes of conquest and appropriation...

... and zonal relatives. When adapting T-O and zonal diagrams, annotators omitted labels, appropriated different types of information, or even excised graphic boundary lines. This is especially true of the Thessaly diagram, which annotators may have developed for the Pharsalia , but which numerous annotators...

... must be expressed directly through virtues appropriate to every faculty of the soul, namely, through infused versions of the cardinal virtues.”7 In the final two passus of Piers Plowman, Langland’s thinking at least converges with “Aqui- nas’ terms.”8 But could Langland be describing how God has...

... how and when the nations of early medieval Europe were converted to the Christian faith. In many cases, we are led to believe that the con- version from paganism to Christianity occurred immediately and sponta- neously as Christianity replaced the ancient religions and appropriated sacred spaces...

..., discussing the use of classical pagan sources by Christian authors here, but his account of desiring and appropriating the spoils of cultural war describes equally well Christian exegesis of the Old Testament. Indeed, this very appropriation of the text of Deuteronomy is an example of that same process...