...Lindsay Diggelmann In 1188, an eye-catching display of royal anger resulted in the destruction of the ancient elm tree at Gisors by Philip II of France. Building on recent reappraisals of anger and other emotions in the medieval context, this essay seeks to understand how contemporary observers may...

...Susanna Elm © by Duke University Press 2003 Hellenism and Historiography: Gregory of Nazianzus and Julian in Dialogue Susanna Elm University...

... of contemporary constructions of the past. The contributors’ common concern with social practice is manifest despite the distinctive categories of their subjects—gender (Brakke, Burrus, and Miller), asceticism (Goehring and Hunter), and historiography (Cameron, Elm, and Trout). These categories...

... into something positive, and patterns of social dependence symbolized by such markings, including slavery, may be transformed to represent ultimate authority—not despite, but because of their negative associations,” notes Susanna Elm. 9 As Jane Caplan hints, the recent “tattoo renaissance” in Europe...

... homme.34 [Robert made and wrote this much. Because he is called “de l’Omme,” he made here a man being born from an elm.] Findley / The King’s Tree Body  247 Figure 1. Man born from an elm tree (13th cent Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-­Geneviève...

... and the Byzantine sociology of knowledge, self-perpetuating constructions that helped to formulate thought and underpin social norms. 89 484Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.3 / 2003 Notes 1Hence one is grateful for the welcome collection edited by S. Elm, E. Rébillard...

... of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection , rev. ed. (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1984), 213. For the evidence that Sisoes’ saying “represents more an ideal than an accurate description of reality,” see Susanna Elm, “Virgins of God”: The Making of Asceticism in Late...

.... Elm, Susanna. Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome. Transformation of the Classi- cal Heritage, vol. 49. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xx, 553 pp.; 1 map. $75.00. Gallagher, Lowell, ed. Redrawing the Map of Early...

..., desire, and correct female roles. There is a huge literature: see, e.g., Peter R. L. Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (London: Faber, 1988); Kate Cooper, The Virgin and the Bride; Susanna Elm, Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism...

...-­e.org/lindgren/ (accessed Apr. 18, 2012); Jeffrey Hamburger, The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998). 4 For an overview of the Observant reform and its history in the various orders, see Kaspar Elm, ed...