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Balaam to Bottom: Artifact and Theatrical Translation in the Sixteenth Century
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 421–459.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Kurt Schreyer This essay proposes a sixteenth-century provenance for the ass’s head in A Midsummer Night’s Dream , a history that includes orthodox liturgies and festivals, mid-century Reformed polemics, and above all provincial mystery plays. What would it mean if this famous prop was inspired...
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Language Goes on Holiday: English Allegorical Drama and the Virtue Tradition
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of this tradition by the forces of commerce in The Three Ladies of London and The Three Lords and Ladies of London , and Jonson’s hilarious use of the tradition in The Devil Is An Ass . Ordinary language philosophy helps to reveal what is at stake in this verbal drama of recognition. © 2012 by Duke University...
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Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art: The Case of the Main Narthex Portal at Vézelay
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 657–698.
Published: 01 September 2012
... by the faithful ox and ass below Indeed, the English monk
Bede explains this symbolism of the two peoples, in one of his Christmas
homilies, in a manner remarkably evocative of the Nativity in the Galba
Psalter, with its altarlike crib:
It was on account of the preeminent sacrament that, when...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 447–451.
Published: 01 September 2007
... manuscript circulation among Samuel
Hartlib’s circle as a sign of incomplete “transition” to early modern print
culture. At the University of Pennsylvania, Kurt Schreyer observed Shake-
speare fashioning drama from a medieval remnant (the ass’s head); Jon Hsy
considered the complex urban temporalities...
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Faith and Hermeneutics: Pragmatism versus Pragmatism
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 215–239.
Published: 01 May 2003
... / $2.00.
Abraham signifies God the Father, and Isaac Christ. The
mountain, on which he was to be sacrificed, expresses the height
of the Lord’s charity. The two young men waiting with the ass
designate the gentiles and the infidel Jews consenting in the death
of the Lord...
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Aesop, Authorship, and the Aesthetic Imagination
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of the nurs-
ery, in simple and restrained language and subsequently to set down this
paraphrase in writing with the same simplicity of style (stilo Compare this
advice with a remarkable scene from the Golden Ass of Apuleius, composed
less than a century later. Having heard a fantastic story by a crazy...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 669–679.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., ebook. Smithies, Kathryn L. Introducing the Medieval Ass . Medieval Animals. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020. xiv, 163 pp., 7 illus. Paperback, ebook. Videen, Hana. The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2024. 341 pp., 30 illus. Hardcover...
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Windmills over Oxford: Quixotic and Other Subversive Spanish Narratives in England, 1606–1654
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., and saddle me for the Asse;
that is, take me, and lay me upon thy Asse, better be a burthen
then lie here for old Phoberon. (69)
Sexual travesty is never far away:
And burnt all those excommunicated Books.] Some books more
than others incline men to madnesse...
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The Life of Love and Resistance to Clerical Authority in Book to a Mother and Middle English Lollard Writing
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 215–240.
Published: 01 May 2021
... þe King and þe Quene erliche here dyner ne sopers, but a simple carpenter and his pore wif, fer fro hom[e] in a straunge contre—þei nadde but simple cloþis at hom[e], and so simple here—þe child in þe stalle bifore oxe and asse; and þis is a simple household, to rikene al ifere. (49.15–25) [And look...
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Penal and Palliative Discourses in the Debate of the Belle Dame sans Mercy : Achille Caulier's Cruelle Femme en Amour and Hôpital d'Amour
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 89–115.
Published: 01 January 2016
... briefly visits
une cymentiere
Ou estoyent les trespassés;
Par les tombes congneux assés
Ceux qui gisoient en la terre,
Qui onques ne furent lassés
D’amer loyaulment sans meffaire. (27.211 – 16)
[a cemetery where the dead lay; from the tombs...
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“Al the town in a rore”: Authority, Revolt, and Rational Obedience in Thomas Usk's Appeal and Testament of Love
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 2022
... soon discovers asses who have cast aside their “former usefulness” and are now “braying” continually “hee-haw,” pursuing the “more tasty food” reserved for Gower and the ruling elite. These asses recruit other beasts to help them “conquer Nature's laws,” and so the revolt begins. 17 While lacking...
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Collaborating across Generations: Thomas Heywood, Richard Brome, and the Production of The Late Lancashire Witches
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 339–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
... comically. In The Devil Is an Ass
(1616), for instance, Ben Jonson capitalizes on a popular association of
Lancashire with occultism in order to emphasize the “real” evil of London.
When the naive devil Pug asks to be sent to the city to practice his tricks,
Satan simply scoffs at the request, telling...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 179–198.
Published: 01 January 2023
... University Press, 2021. 220 pp. Hardcover, paperback. Watson, Nicholas. Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology before the English Reformation, Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250 . The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 640 pp., 5 tables. Hardcover, ebook...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 401–420.
Published: 01 May 2010
... 29.00.
Ellis, Roger, ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol-
ume 1: To 1550. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 485 pp. $190.00.
Gaisser, Julia Haig. The Fortunes of Apuleius and the “Golden Ass”: A Study
in Transmission and Reception. Martin Classical Lectures...
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The Chester Cycle in Sixteenth-Century Religious Culture
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 531–547.
Published: 01 September 2007
... capacity to intervene purposefully
in the human world, furnishes another arena for negotiation of these differ-
ences. Noah’s rainbow, Balaam’s talking ass, the Magi’s star, and Octavian’s
vision of the Virgin and Child constitute the most spectacular examples of
such intervention; the healing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 431–448.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Ages as at times barbaric,
brutish (“I’m gonna get medieval on your ass”) and at other times as the haven of
“simpler times.” A recent use of this second version of The Middle Ages (often
conflated with aspects of the Renaissance Faire) was the topic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2008
... philosophie de la Renais-
sance et de l’Âge Classique. Bibliothèque Philosophie de Louvain, vol. 64.
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Editions de l’Institut Superieur de Philoso-
phie; Leuven, Belgium: Editions Peeters, 2005. 246 pp.; 1 table. Paper
$39.00.
Hobgood-Oster, Laura. Holy Dogs and Asses: Animals...
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Treasonous Textiles: Foreign Cloth and the Construction of Englishness
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 543–570.
Published: 01 September 2002
... life in favor of one of ostenta-
tion—and debt:
A clownes sonne must be clapt in a velvet pantophle, and a velvet
breech, though the presumptuous asse be drownd in the Mercers
booke, & make a conney of all his lands to the usurer for com-
modities: yea the fop must goe like...
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Marginal Performances by Late Medieval Pigs and Blind Men
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Romance of Alexander and its miniatures, Alexander first encounters the Indian king Porus after visiting the ocean's depths. Below his bathysphere descent illustrated on fol. 50r, the lower margin features on the left boys tilting, mounted on an ass and a dog, and a cockfight on the right, presaging...
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Beyond Monstrosity: Natural Hybridity in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
...=nlm:nlmuid-9413026-bk , image no. 572 (on this page appears the onocenthaurus or onocentaur, which has a head like an ass and a body like a man and is walking beside a giraffe); image no. 535 (this page shows a cynocephalus, or dog-headed man, interacting with a lion). 12 Fortunio Liceti, De...
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