...Grace Hamman In A Revelation of Love , Julian of Norwich employs the similitude of Christ as a mother and the Christian as his child to describe and explore the relationship between God and humanity. Theologians, literary critics, and historians alike have studied the theological...

..., Alexander’s father was Nectanabus, a mage and astrologer who seduced Queen Olympias with an astronomy lesson, deceived her by using animal pelts to disguise himself as a god, and then used his magic arts to retard the child’s birth when his astrological calculations indicated the child would be born a hybrid...

..., child-killing, cannibalism, and, in a broader sense, the inability of men to assert control over the spaces of their domestic world. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 madness and infanticide mothers and children early modern art and visual representation...

... of an eleven-year-old child, a rape which he is convicted of but ultimately pardoned for. Earlier in his career, however, Lambe is indicted for using magic to disable the body of a gentleman as well as for invoking evil spirits. What connection exists between the charges against Lambe as a witch and magician...

... Spain of the converso, a hybrid who blurs the boundaries between Christian and Jew. Using recent psychoanalytic criticism of the Prioress's Tale , Chaucer's sentimentalized representation of the murdered child's mother is contrasted with the very different one in Damián de Vegas's Memoria del Santo...

... of pain among laboring woman, saint, and Christ. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 South English Legendary Life of Saint Margaret child birth suffering spirituality • Spiritual Suffering and Physical...

... as these male poets treat the virtual one, as a source of self- generated pregnancy. The body becomes, in their telling, a material form one has ownership over; the production of the child becomes the source of the mother s agency and authority. Motherhood yields female empower- ment, as the creation of male...

... excavate and transcribe a repertoire of religious beliefs embedded in Mon- tagu’s memorial objects.11 This recovery of an unknown child’s slight tomb reveals “how theology gets ‘incarnated’ ” in a specific moment of local and national religious definition.12 It is symptomatic of our critical tendency...

... often takes the form of a hand. Either the child uses his or her hands for balance or an adult gives the child a hand. Either way, it’s as if a third leg has been added. One can perhaps imagine this most clearly if one thinks of an older child learning first to ride a tricycle and then, disposing...

...—or are defined by others—racially by their blood and ancestry. A child, for exam- ple, whose mother is white and whose father black is labeled as half white, 58 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.1 / 2001 JMEMS31.1-03 Verkerk 2/26/01 6:58 PM Page 59 half...

... will be a male child. Apart from the discussion of the pregnant dog, Vesalius in fact hardly mentions female reproductive anatomy at all in the 1540 lecture except to assure his audience, during the dissection of the male genital organs, that the “the female genital organs were built in the same manner...

....” He asked the congregation to pray for her, at which point she saw that “the consecrated bread . . . looked like a child’s finger, and the consecrated wine in the chalice like clotted blood.” The woman was returned to sound belief, and received in Communion the eucharistic elements that had...

... material bodies issuing forth from the female body — birth — in tandem with, but not as a metaphor for, women’s speech issuing forth from the same source. In the past, a mother, a father, a doctor, a community could not see the child in the womb any more than a thought in the mind before child...

... clergeon learns the antiphon in honor of the Virgin “by rote” and uncomprehendingly reproduces it, so does the Prioress, adopting the persona of “a child of twelf month oold, or lesse” (484), rehearse the widely told story of the clergeon murdered by Jews for his devotion to the Virgin.3 Indeed...

... forgiveness to sinners. Another sacrament, that of baptism, made similar use of the mode of intercessory speaking. In the baptismal ritual, the priest seeks the assent of the child to the church’s fundamental articles of faith. Yet because the child cannot yet offer this assent in his or her own...

... was a Bürger. Far from it. Each man, woman, and child lived suspended within a three-dimensional web woven from the strands of social and political hier- archies. Each enjoyed rights and privileges, but these were in no way equiva- lent, nor was it thought desirable to foster...

... on parenthood, signaling their universality with the opening “Ful oft” and highlighting a lack of human agency with the alliteration linking “þæt gegongeð” and “Godes meahte.” Yet the poem also opens with an act of human creation: the molding and shaping of a child as the ultimate cræft . The power of nature...

..., the “cure” appears frequently in litera- ture.44 In a well-known legend of the Emperor Constantine, for example, Constantine, afflicted with leprosy, is ready to sacrifice over three thousand baptized children in order to “bathe in childes blod” and be made whole again; his conversion to Christianity...

...Figure 6 . Zuane dei Santi, Virgin and Child (1377). Stone sculpture, ca. 150 × 50 cm. Venice, Church of Madonna dell'Orto. Photograph by Dedier Descouens. Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International license. ...