...David Wallace a Periodizing Women: Mary Ward (1585 – 1645) and the Premodern Canon David Wallace University of Pennsylvania...

...Giovanni Ceccarelli © by Duke University Press 2001 a Risky Business: Theological and Canonical Thought on Insurance from the Thirteenth...

...Anthony P. Espósito © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.3-03.Esposito 9/1/00 5:04 PM Page 463 The Monkey in the Jarcha: Tradition and Canonicity...

...Ann W. Astell Composed at a point of significant transition in the history of hagiography as a genre, due to changes in the canonization process, Raymond of Capua’s Life of Catherine of Siena (1395) endeavors to attest to her heroic virtue by using both traditional discourse and the new scholastic...

... the covenant was itself understood as a marriage. Focusing especially on poems by two canonical Puritan poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, this essay argues that this fascination with the interplay between freedom and restraint — manifest in the form as well as the content of their poetry — produced...

...Mary Raschko The Wycliffite Bible, the first comprehensive translation of the Bible in English, survives in greater numbers than any other Middle English work. Yet the great majority of the more than 250 manuscripts catalogued as Wycliffite bibles do not contain the full canon of scriptures. While...

...Diana Bullen Presciutti This article examines a miracle, credited to the Dominican saint Vincent Ferrer, in which a “demented” wife and mother butchers and partially cooks her infant son. In the decades following Vincent’s 1455 canonization, artists like Colantonio and the Erri workshop approached...

...Whitney Trettien As early efforts to include women in the canon of Renaissance literature give way to gender-oriented research in material culture and book history, it is increasingly the scholar's task to marry the language of ideological negotiation to a more wide-ranging investigation...

... to signify a range of personal and social desires and yet sufficiently mystified to dazzle. Alchemy is both the subject and the overar- ching metaphor of The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale and The Alchemist. In both, the tenor of that metaphor gestures toward a capitalism yet to come...

..., and even pagan cultural background; and to answer questions about genre, canonicity, dating, and authorship. None of the documents bears clearer or fuller witness to this than Bois’s Septuagint. For a start, the very existence and nature of the Septuagint posed fundamental problems...

... it, justifying her case for canonization. 18 Along with Bridget's other supporters, Alphonse hoped that proving the veracity of her revelations would, in turn, substantiate her claim to sainthood. There is an abbreviated Middle English version of the Epistola appended to one of the Middle English...

... of an arbitration regarding Péronne’s plans to build a grange on nineteen bon- niers of wooded land near Nieppe. According to the terms of the agreement, Gilles Barisel and Michel, Dominicans from Lille, and Jean d’Haubourden, a canon of St. Pierre de Lille, were to issue the final decision in the matter...

... to the Bard. No one is interested in discredited apocrypha, also-rans in the contest for canonicity, however fascinating these may prove in their own right. What I am describing will probably strike the reader as nothing Fuchs / Beyond the Missing Cardenio...

... into the material (and sinful) world. According to the symbolic system of the thirteenth-century church, therefore, vestments represented both divine order and mortal disorder. We see in canon 16 of Lateran IV a similar dyadic representation of religious dress: on the one hand, it is a uniform...

..., Astrono- mer, Merchant, Canon, and on again to characters of humble rank, Artisan, Labourer, Child, and finally Hermit. Although the Dance of Death has often been taken as emblematic of late medieval Christian religiosity, Lydgate’s poem has not until recently been closely or creatively...

.... His reordering positions Brigid to resonate with other early modern lives of female saints, especially those women who had been very recently canon- ized, and by doing so to engage with current preoccupations with female sanctity and sexuality. Three of Rochford s headings not only refresh a saint who...

... We are at Neustift, three kilometers north of Brixen (or Bressanone), an establishment of Augustinian canons.4 The area was of strategic importance to German emperors en route to Italy over the eastern Alps.5 In this frontier-­ zone, linked with the north and the south of Europe by a system...

..., that of the Canon Missae, or Canon of the Mass, which comprises the uni- Zysk / The Last Temptation of Faustus  339 form prayers and ritual formulas of the Mass, with the ritual of transubstan- tiation chief among them. We shall explore these features of the missal...

... to local clerical rights against papal incursions. Aquinas, I will show, defends papal primacy, but without associating it with Dionysian hierarchy. Rather, he argues for the pope's right to institute a new ordo praedicatorum on biblical and canonical grounds; he does not, like other thirteenth-century...

...- tory, contemporary readers of George Herbert, later readers of Philip Sid- ney and the nature of unpopularity, and the application of topic modeling to a digital corpus of literary reviews. Embracing canonical and less famil- iar writers, these articles are united by their concern with mediation...