...Nicole R. Rice This essay considers a critical moment in Chester’s premodern dramatic history. In summer 1578, the Shepherds pageant, formerly produced by the Painters and Glaziers Company within the town’s cycle of religious plays, was revived as part of a three-part civic spectacle honoring Henry...

...Theresa Coletti Duke University Press 2007 a The Chester Cycle in Sixteenth- Century Religious Culture Theresa Coletti University of Maryland...

...Allen J. Frantzen © by Duke University Press 2001 a Tears for Abraham: The Chester Play of Abraham and Isaac and Antisacrifice in Works by Wilfred Owen...

... by or acquired from a Chester guild that had once used it to advertise the artisanal skill of its craftsmen-players? Tracing the ass’s cultural associations implicates long-held views of the medieval/early modern divide and of Shakespeare as an author. For once the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded...

...H. M. Cushman The representations of the midwife Salome and the Apostle Thomas in the N-Town and Chester plays complicate the relationship between two modes of knowledge: “clergie” or male clerical learning, on the one hand, and knowledge derived from sensory experience on the other. The plays...

...William Chester Jordan © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-07 Jordan 2/26/01 7:03 PM Page 165 a Why “Race”? William Chester Jordan...

... of the Cross. Another Beverly guild, the fraternity of St. Mary, had a more elaborate and mimetic procession, with actors representing Mary, with a child in her arms, Joseph, Simeon, and two angels.15 The Chester Assumption play, eventually incorporated into the city’s Corpus Christi cycle, seems...

... their imperial status, accepting the submission of client kings in Britain as part of the package. Edgar’s celebrated and consciously staged acceptance of the submission of six kings on the river at Chester in 973 secured his imperial reputation for later generations in England and on the Continent...

...” would apply here, as well, exposing Passion drama as doubly alien. In that light, the charge of “blasphem[y]” also sounds similar to the words of Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of York, who wrote to the mayor of Chester in 1572 to halt the performance of the traditional Chester Whitsun 328...

... prove especially mobile: the Chester drama cycle, as Theresa Coletti shows, reveals remarkable and unex- pected adaptability across the apparently intractable Catholic/Protestant divide. Unexpectedly, the same forms that appealed to pre-Reformation readers allowed the cycle to be transported...

.... Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio. Translated by Stanley Lombardo. Introduction by Claire E. Honess and Matthew Treherne. Notes and headnotes by Ruth Chester. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2016. xlvi, 423 pp.; 1 dia- gram, 1 chart. $56.00, paper $20.00. [Italian text with facing-­page English...

... earthly industries.16 The Chester Spicers, for instance, staged the gifts of the Magi, the Norwich Spicers staged Adam and Eve in paradise, and the York Spicers staged the Annunciation and Visitation, demonstrating that spice signified the pleasures of paradise and divinity.17 Leather guilds...

... Medieval Literature and Culture. Man- chester: Manchester University Press, 2011. xi, 216 pp. ₤55.00. Seaver, Kirsten A. The Last Vikings: The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyag- ers. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010. xxv, 277 pp.; 15 figs. $30.00. Talbot, Ann. “The Great Ocean of Knowledge”: The Influence...

..., 302 pp.; 7 illus. $95.00. Niayesh, Ladan, ed. A Knight’s Legacy: Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England. Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Man- chester: Manchester University Press, 2011. xi, 216 pp. $75.00. Cornett / New Books across...

.... lxxiv, 254 pp.; 1 chart. $125.00. Baldwin, Elizabeth, Lawrence M. Clopper, and David Mills, eds. Records of Early English Drama: Cheshire including Chester. 2 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the British Library, 2007. ccxxv, 1,231 pp.; 4 maps, 4 illus. $400.00. Bonaventure, Saint...

... to the needs of female reli- gious (the work was intended for the Benedictine nuns at St. Mary’s Win- chester, Romsey, and Wherwell, and the Cistercian nuns at Wintney). A comparison of these two texts, their authors, and the environments in which each wrote facilitates a deeper understanding...

.... In this sense, parishioners served as surrogates of the vicar, extending the work of the church. 26 In other instances, citizens engaged in community beneficence such as that taken by guild members on occasions like the St. George's Day procession in Chester in 1568–69, when the Fletchers’ and Coopers...

....] Jordan, William Chester. Europe in the High Middle Ages . Penguin History of Europe, vol 3. New York: Viking, 2003. xi, 377 pp.; 25 illus., 12 maps. Paper $27.95. Levi, Anthony. Renaissance and Reformation: The Intellectual Genesis . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. xi, 483 pp. $39.95...

... cover their hair. In a Commons petition asked that only daughters of rich men be allowed to wear silk and velvet across their foreheads And in a piece of late but telling legislation, Chester reformers in sought to ensure that headdresses distinguished singlewomen from wives, a practice...

.... Gutenberg. Translated from the German by Peter Lewis. London: Haus Publishing, 2019. 189 pp., 51 color plates. Paper $16.95. Jordan, William Chester. Servant of the Crown and Steward of the Church: The Career of Philippe of Cahors. Medieval Academy Books, vol. 117. Toronto: University of Toronto Press...