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... Tudor court courtly reading • • The Royal Provenance and Tudor Courtly Reading of a Wycliffite Bible Mark Rankin...

... of courtly rhetoric as a tactic 280  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.2 / 2016 to get women into bed, a script we see in multiple Old French pastourelles, as the man’s desperate threat to drown himself is what finally convinces the woman to sleep with him. We could read...

... ladies is as much a desire for their social status as it is for their bodies. Courtly poetry therefore mediates a desire that for Köhler is primar- ily social, and therefore, one may infer, “secular” in that images and gestures such as those in the stanzas I have just quoted are read by him...

.... See also Clare F. James, “The Kingis Quair: The Plight of the Courtly Lover,” in New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems, ed. David Chamberlain (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1993), 96 – 118. 35 Lois A. Ebin, “Boethius, Chaucer, and The Kingis Quair,” Philological...

... debates. Reassessing the evidence of both a listening and reading reception in courtly literature, he argues that some men outside of the clergy—specifically knights and rulers— could in fact read. See D. H. Green...

..., East and West, it is also a literary form that figures such polarities in complex ways that differ from clerical polemic. See E. Jane Burns, Courtly Love Undressed: Reading through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Philadelphia: Univer- sity of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 181 – 229...

... of the Dame Loyale’s fiction — its frame narrative, its deployment of courtly personifications, its (mis)reading of Chartier — the Cruelle Femme highlights the fineness of the line between juridical discourse and sheer chicanery. Though the Dame Loyale’s exculpa- tion of the lady might have seemed...

... During the seven- teenth century, in the aftermath of the breakdown of the respublica christi­ ana, the office of the ambassador fragmented into a spectrum of functions and images: the “honest spy” deciphering political secrets, the negotiator, the informer, the consummate interpreter of courtly...

... the indiscretion of participating in his own dia- logue” (Courtly Performance, 53  –  54), any more than it does Berger’s reading of loss; it only asserts that Castiglione’s absence is both formally and structurally motivated at another level: as a matter of professional concern. 4 See...

... become tree-like. A reading of these visions suggests an ecology of kingship, in which proper governance, land management, and licit sexuality are all interconnected. At the same time, the visions resonate with recent strains of ecological thought, notably dark ecology and queer ecology. Encountering...

... the outer body is transformed according to the perfected inner body manifest in the visions. As the visions progress, the way Hadewijch reads and understands the inner body informs the nature and experience of the outer material body. Embodiment is thus inextricable from reading, interpreting...

..., 177; Hennings, Russia and Courtly Europe, 98 99. 66 Iuzefovich, Put posla, 53 54. 67 Tolstoy, First Forty Years, 289; Stateinyi spisok, 5. 68 Tolstoy, First Forty Years, 220; SIRIO, 38:83. 69 Fletcher to Lord Burghley, 368. Sokolov / Reading Diplomacy across the Archives 607 70 Stateinyi spisok, 3...

..., and, on occasion, refusing diplomatic gifts.4 The New Diplomatic History has reinvigorated the study of writers like Wyatt and Sidney by bringing their seemingly tangential diplomatic careers to the center of new readings of their literary corpus.5 It has also remapped and expanded our grasp of diplomatic space...

... — as is expressed in her first speech to Parliament — is examined in parallel with detailed close readings of fifteenth-­century plays about the Virgin Mary and a play contemporary with Elizabeth I about rebellion and the threat to suc- cession. Petrosillo’s analysis proceeds in a way similar to Guido...

..., the English romance narrative wandered from locus to locus, in this case from manuscript to manuscript, with each encounter inscribing on it a different identity with characteristics influenced by local cultural values. Stemmatics' analogy of the family tree thus enforces an artificially unified reading...

... would read the Arthurian tales as a didactic story. Malory takes a somewhat different tack, replacing his sources’ emphasis on Guenevere’s dissatisfaction with Arthur with the people’s dissatisfaction with their king. This symbolic leak- age between the body of the queen and the body of the people...

... and romance Andrews, Walter G., and Mehmet Kalpakli. The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xiii, 425 pp.; 14 illus. Paper $24.95. Burns, E. Jane. Courtly Love Undressed: Reading through Clothes...

... of ships across liminal spaces of the sea, had arrived in the realm of an imagined monarch, its amorphous meanings were modified by concerns that occupied the regions where it was read. This is nowhere more evident than in written accounts of travelers themselves. In what follows, I focus on the less...

... interpretive questions and different modes of textual engagement. It first presents a brief survey of books catalogued as Wycliffite bibles, highlighting the diverse forms in which Wycliffite translation appears. It then shows common patterns of reading, evident across a range of books, that seek to integrate...

... and his dependency on the salon structure. Pasquier’s mockery of the heroic male as parasitical flea who pur- sues and seduces the female can be understood as a resentful parody of the Parisian who is dependent upon the woman at the center of the provincial salon (as a satellite of feminized courtly...