... University Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Some time in 1607, George Wilson, vicar at Wretton in Norfolk, published a cockfighting manifesto titled The Commendation of Cockes, and Cock- fighting. Wherein is shewed, that Cocke-fighting was before the comming of Christ...

... a tactile, tri-­dimensional human being.7 Thus, touch could be aided by the eye in re-­forming man, and man alone — no longer the Barbary apes, monkeys, dogs, pigs, cows, goats, and cocks of Galen, acting as surrogates for humans — became the touchstone of accuracy in anatomy, as Vesalius repeatedly...

..., and Finucci / Sexual Remedies in the New World  529 similarly shaped foods were consumed to improve the odds of a successful sexual congress. Pigeons, cocks, pigs, and all animals known for their lasciv- iousness were also advocated; similarly seafood like oysters and shrimp were believed to boost...

... / New Books across the Disciplines  233 Van Grieken, Jan, Ger Luijten, and Jan Van der Stock, eds. Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, in association with Illuminare — Centre for the Study of Medieval Art, Leuven, 2013. 413 pp.; 320 color and black-­and-­white...

...) spaces that were used for other kinds of movement: inn yards for the arrival and departure of pedestrians, horses, and coaches making their way from outside to inside; arenas in which dogs baited bears or bulls, in which cocks fought, in which athletes competed in archery, wrestling, and other...

... that the space of England is Edward II’s essential subject. As His- cock reminds us, “Space is not a physical donnée, but constantly developing through social and political action.”53 Edward II exemplifies this political action at work. The final moments of Marlowe’s Edward II send a confusing mes...

... their fakery. The servants Nano and Androgino put on a show in which the soul of Pythagoras himself occupies Androgino’s body. The dialogue is adapted from The Cock, by Lucian, although Jonson gives it an Angli- can twist; Nano asks “how of late thou hast suffered translation, / And shifted...

..., 2007), 501 – 16; Sara F. Matthews-­Grieco, “Satyrs and Sausages: Erotic Strategies and the Print Market in Cinquecento Italy,” in Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy, ed. Matthews-­Grieco (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010), 19 – 60; Alan J. Grieco, “From Roosters to Cocks: Italian...

...,” “cock.” Also refers to “can,” “nose,” “female genitals.” Cf. vol. 5 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1987–93), col. 1552. 2 The document has swester between jr and gewest, probably a scribal error (see the fol- lowing swester...

...). 33 Collinson wryly remarks that “there is, of course, a long tradition, so far as this mat- ter is concerned, of cocking one’s ear for the first cuckoo in spring” (ibid., 141). 34 She claims it earlier in line 98 and the narrator, of course, begins the poem by point- ing this out...

..., diarrhea forced Juana into her yard “after the first sleep but before cock crow”—and described what they had seen. 15 All spoke about what they had done after turning away from the sight of the procession. Likely prompted by Villalpando, as Pedro had been, they all spoke also about their emotional...

... to him; doe the same, when the cock doth crowe, or any bell doth ring.”23 At Antwerp, Mary Frances of St. Teresa (Mary 544  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.3 / 2012 Birkbeck [1674 – 1733]) committed herself “to renew in my memory the pres- ence of God every time I hear...

... the larg- est cup. The Arabian drinker holds his cup knowingly with a delicate grip, his pinky finger conspicuously extended from the vessel. Finally, the body of the Chinese figure in the center faces the viewer, but also holds his cup pro- tectively, arm cocked away from instead of toward the table...

... Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1557–  60, 1566), for it thereby signals the crucially masculine aspect of the Christian Savior.14 The anxiety of the Magus insistently peering at the new- born’s genitals is not readily allayed for viewers, because the child is turned away. Instead, the dog cocks its hind...