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...: Knighthood in Fifteenth-­Century England Steven Bruso Fordham University Bronx, New York In what is perhaps one of the most memorable scenes of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the poet...

... France and England Jeffrey Jerome Cohen George Washington University Washington, D.C. Living with the other, with the foreigner, confronts us with the possibility...

...Catherine Sanok © by Duke University Press 2002 a Performing Feminine Sanctity in Late Medieval England: Parish Guilds, Saints’ Plays, and the Second...

...Victor I. Scherb © by Duke University Press 2002 a Assimilating Giants: The Appropriation of Gog and Magog in Medieval and Early Modern England...

...Andrew Gordon © by Duke University Press 2002 a The Act of Libel: Conscripting Civic Space in Early Modern England Andrew Gordon University...

...Patricia Fumerton © by Duke University Press 2002 Not Home: Alehouses, Ballads, and the Vagrant Husband in Early Modern England Patricia Fumerton...

...Nigel Smith © by Duke University Press 2003 Elegy for a Grindletonian: Poetry and Heresy in Northern England, 1615–1640 Nigel Smith...

...Nicholas Howe © by Duke University Press 2004 Rome: Capital of Anglo-Saxon England Nicholas Howe University of California, Berkeley...

...Marina Brownlee “Intricate Alliances” is a phrase that calls attention to the inevitability of contrastive referencing by which the two imperial powers of early modern Europe–Spain and England–have all too often been regarded. This special issue explores in a more nuanced manner, and from a variety...

... a Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England Barbara F. Weissberger University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Minneapolis, Minnesota Accusations of Spanish religious persecution...

... a The “Scriene” and the Channel: England and Spain in Book V of The Faerie Queene Roland Greene Stanford University Stanford, California This essay concerns Edmund...

... a Windmills over Oxford: Quixotic and Other Subversive Spanish Narratives in England, 1606 – 1654 Nigel Smith Princeton University...

... and Remaking a Bishops’ Bible in Seventeenth-Century­ England Adam G. Hooks University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa The Bishops’ Bible, first published in 1568...

... problematic in Elizabethan England. This essay analyzes the engagements of Stephen Batman and an anonymous ecclesiastical annotator with the Pricking of Love , a deeply affective late fourteenth-century devotional treatise. The medieval text, infused with fervent Christological and Marian piety, would seem...

...David J. Davis This essay reconsiders the place of divine revelation in late medieval and early modern England. It explores the language of ravishment and divine “raptus” as a ritualized discourse to describe divine revelation present in mystical texts, by figures like Julian of Norwich and Walter...

... • • “A Tomb Once Stood in This Room”: Memorials to Memorials in Early Modern England Philip Schwyzer University of Exeter Exeter...

...Katherine Hunt Change-ringing, a new way of ringing existing church bells based on a series of mathematical permutations, was extremely popular in seventeenth-century England and continues today. The close relationship between change-ringing and contemporary cultures of combination is established...

...Lee Manion This essay addresses questions about genre, periodization, and conversion in early modern England by examining changes to the crusading romance. Despite their perceived Catholic leanings, the crusading romance and the romance in general were subsumed into a larger set of “heroical...

... in early modern England noninheriting younger son politics of envy history of emotions Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Sonja Drimmer Chronicles of fifteenth-century England teem with severed heads. Frequently, these texts focus less on the event of decapitation than on its enduring result: namely, the modified and adorned head of the deceased, spiked and exhibited in a prominent public...