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... of interlocking discourses are analyzed: the imagery of a ruler imprisoned by passions found in Boethius’s Consolatio ; a courtly love allegory in which royal eros submits to the bondage of legal constraint in The Kingis Quair ; and the figurations of limited monarchy as royal incarceration in the Anglo-Scots...

... involved in conceptualizing female eros in religious terms without tainting it with excess. Does not a title like Vita sanctae Pelagiae, Meretricis state both sides of a contradiction at once? Yet this designation, meretrix, contains a hint of the “master princi- ple” that the harlot-saint...

...- gory’s recognition of his sister’s complex and fractured identity and thereby “becomes the site of a locational memory , a place from which to remember the departed Macrina.”3 At this point, however, a question arises: IfGregory punningly equates Odysseus’s scarred “thigh ” ( m¯erós...

... (Paris, 1583), n.p. All translations in the essay are mine unless otherwise noted. 2 Anne Rosalind Jones, The Currency of Eros: Women’s Love Lyric in Europe, 1540–1620 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990); Cathy Yandell, “Of Lice and Women: Rhetoric and Gender in La Puce de...

... University Press, 2016. xiv, 199 pp. $110.00, paper $28.00. Falque, Emmanuel. The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist. Translated from the French by George Hughes. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. xxviii, 300 pp.; 3 figs...

... Bartsch, Shadi, and Thomas Bartscherer, eds. Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 338 pp.; 16 illus. $29.00. Dollimore, Jonathan. Sex, Literature, and Censorship. Cambridge: Polity Press, (2001) 2005. xii, 206 pp. Paper $28.95. Freccero, Carla...

... that the absolute distinction between giver and recipient be maintained in order to identify self-sacrifice as such. Agape thereby appears to exclude eros, the desire of the giver to be with the recipient. Distance must be preserved. Furthermore, a breach is opened between charity and justice—justice...

... of affection, completely enflamed by concupiscence: (rather brutish than humane) but a sweet compounde of both, religion and nature,” which is “properly called marriage love.”22 Here the stark distinctions between eros and agape, often cited as essential to a true understanding of Christian love, gives...

.... Hardcover, ebook. Beusterien, John, and Ana María Laguna, eds. Goodbye Eros: Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes . Toronto Iberic, vol. 48. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. vii, 381 pp., 17 illus. Hardcover, ebook. DeVun, Leah. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender...

..., 2009); Ann Rosalind Jones, Currency of Eros: Women’s Love Lyric in Europe, 1540  –  1620 (Bloom- ington: Indiana University Press, 1990); Jones, “Maidservants of London: Sisterhoods of Kinship and Labor,” in Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early...

.... Monson, Don A. Eros and Noesis: A Cognitive Approach to the Courtly Love Literature of Medieval France . Faux Titre: Études de Langue et Littérature Françaises, vol. 455. Leiden: Brill, 2022. viii, 362 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Ormrod, W. Mark. “Winner and Waster” and Its Contexts: Chivalry, Law...

... or entirely translated it.12 Trained as a medical doctor and surgeon, Colmen- ero had served the Jesuit mission in Mexico. His book introducing the hot beverage known as chocolate, whose medical potential inspired his admira- tion, offers the first recipe circulated in Europe, complete with directions...

... Culture. Columbus: Ohio State Univer- sity Press, 2014. ix, 242 pp. $64.95. Targoff, Ramie. Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xiii, 243 pp. $40.00. Traub, Valerie. Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns. Philadelphia: Univer...

... important trope for Bernard than Eros, like- wise inhabits the abstracted domain of spiritual meaning through a similar sequence of reversals, overlays, and cancellations. The contours of Bernard’s technique perhaps take shape more clearly in the insistent iterations...

.... Hanegraaff, Wouter J., and Jeffrey J. Kripal, eds. Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism. New York: Fordham University Press, (2008) 2011. xxii, 544 pp.; 13 illus. Paper $37.00. Levy, Allison, ed. Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Per- version...

.... Boccaccio’s Naked Muse: Eros, Culture, and the Mytho- poeic Imagination. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xi, 369 pp. $65.00. Greene, Virginie, ed. The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. New York: Palgrave Mac- millan, 2006. xiii, 268 pp...

... and Persecution of Homosexuals in the Middle Ages. Translated by John Phillips. London: Free Association Books, 2001. vii, 170 pp. Paper $25.00. Keller, Hildegard Elisabeth. My Secret is Mine: Studies on Religion and Eros in the German Middle Ages. Studies in Spirituality, vol. 4. Leuven: Peeters, 2000. viii...

... Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity (New York: New Directions, 1947), 226–33. 29 D. Martin Luthers Werke Kritische Gesamtausgabe, ed. J. C. F. Knaake, et al. (Weimar, 1883), 40:404; quoted in Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros, trans. Philip S. Watson (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1969), 702...

... del mondo fixi heredi zentilomeni de quele chaxade donde ero insido.” The “ca’ Borro- meo” mentioned by Bartolomeo was not a patrician house. It is not clear why he con- sidered leaving bequests to kinsmen a sign of contempt for worldly things. The verses he composed are slightly...