... testimony about posthumous penance. This article uncovers how the Latin Tractatus engages the worries of its audience about the feasibility of the knight’s embodied visit to the afterlife by marshaling familiar narrative patterns from vernacular genres, including chansons de geste and romance. It shows...

...: the heretic and the saint. In medieval thought, the saint and the heretic remained closely connected with each other right into the afterlife. Examining the practice of dissection in Renaissance Italy, Katha- rine Park has argued for “the continuing association of the criminal and the saintly body...

...James Simpson This essay is a rebuttal to Debora Shuger’s 2008 essay, “The Reformation of Penance,” in which she takes aim at revisionist Reformation scholarship, and in particular at James Simpson’s Reform and Cultural Revolution , published in 2002, as exemplary of the error of the revisionists...

... culture, much of which is repeated in the much more extended analysis of Hamlet in Purgatory, which examines the inheritance and abo- lition of purgatory. Since both the Eucharist and purgatory are a vital and component part of the larger inheritance of the sacrament of penance and its transformation...

... for imagining England not as a realm — that is, as the body politic of the king — but as a more horizontal form of community, a concep- tual shift crucial to premodern ideas of England as a “nation.” In order to see this, however, we need to think about the Henry VI plays not as the afterlife...

...: The Problems and Pleasures of Doubt . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ix, 270 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Sherman, Donovan. The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama . Rethinking the Early Modern. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2022. viii, 195 pp...

... Directorium to be copied for her nuns by an English secular priest, Edmund Hargat.20 Though Peryn’s book was so much a product of its moment, it had a substantial afterlife. A. G. Dickens noticed that it was part of the York martyr Margaret Clitheroe’s reading in the 1580s.21 Augustine Baker...