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... necessaria est Sharing risk with insurers, he argues, allows many merchants to start businesses that they would never even have considered because of the dangers of long-distance maritime travel; hence, he goes on to argue, assecuratio is a necessary instru- ment of commerce (“adminiculus a financial...

..., in profile and in similar poses, highlighting pertinent similarities and differences (see fig. 1 ). The griffin (bottom left) is the exception that confirms the rule: “le griffon a .iiii. pies et a la teste et les elles semblables a l'aigle et du remenant du corps il est semblant au lion” (161r...

... the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word. [Cum examinare locutionis vim et eius quod dicitur veritatem et sensum, idem aut fere idem sit; vis enim verbi sensus est; quo si destituatur, sermo cassus et inutilis est et (ut sic dixerim) mortuus; ut quodammodo, sicut corpus ad vitam...

..., and interpretation, had a long history. For Christians since late antiquity, the scriptures seemed philology’s high- est object, on the one hand, and, on the other, somewhat set apart, divinely issued as they were assumed to have been. Saint Jerome had argued as much in his...

... besmirched its own reputation. It was too often a handy way to buff up a lack of inter- est as analytic dismissal, it cultivated the unintelligent conviction that cer- tain kinds of argumentative utterance are predictably pathological, and it allowed whole generations of medievalists to assume...

..., no. 4 (1994): 417; Charles M. A. Caspers, “Meum summum desiderium est te habere: L’eucharistie comme sacrement de la rencontre avec Dieu pour tous les croy- ants (ca. 1200 – ca. 1500 in Fête-­Dieu (1246 – 1996), vol. 1, Actes du Colloque de Liège, 12 – 14 septembre 1996, ed. André...

...: “nemo est dominus membrorum suorum.”49 Crucially, it constitutes one of Casoni’s most powerful arguments against most forms of torture and certainly against the arbitrium of the judge. For, as Casoni adds in the De arte ac ratione — in a passage in which he vehemently denounces judges who...

... to another structure, more readily perceptible to the senses and thus more intuitively measurable — language: Longum carmen est, nam tot uersibus contexitur; longi uersus, nam tot pedibus constant; longi pedes, nam tot syllabis tendun- tur; longa syllaba est, nam dupla est ad...

... was uncircumcision for acceptance in Greco-­Roman society that ancient physicians sometimes even restored the circumcised prepuce with plastic surgery. The ancient anatomist Celsus recommends a certain procedure for men “in quo glans nuda est” [whose glans is nude], adding that men might wish to undertake...

... contradictory descriptions like the following: Reis Corsalis, il est de l’altre part. Barbarins est e mult de males arz. Cil ad parlet a lei de bon vassal: Pur tut l’or Deu ne volt estre cuard. (885–88) [King Corsablis...

... resemblance between the high modern grammar of the Saussurean era and Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46:2, May 2016 DOI 10.1215/10829636-3491774  © 2016 by Duke University Press the premodern grammatical tradition, a resemblance precisely in their weak- est...

... as rulers by taming these savage forests, bringing their resources and inhabitants under royal control. Perceforest’s foundational act, in which he gains his significant name (“For- est Piercer involves putting to rout a race of forest-­dwelling enchanters in order to simultaneously seize control...

... explain to the people in their mother tongue, without any fancifully woven subtleties, the fourteen articles of the faith. [In quorum remedium discriminum statuendo precipimus ut quilibet sacerdos plebi presidens, quater in anno, hoc est, semel in qualibet...

...- ent in his relics” [Qui curat, et uiuit; qui uiuit, in reliquiis est].61 This is the basic idea of the medieval cult of relics: through the material remains of his body the saint, whose soul already resides in heaven in the presence of God, works miracles among the living. He remains really...

... hostiarii. . . . Materia autem huius sacramenti est illud materiale, per cuius traditionem confertur ordo, sicut presbyteratus traditur per col- lationem calicis, et quilibet ordo traditur per collationem illius rei que precipue pertinet ad ministerium illius ordinis. Forma...

... accuracy, its institutio and forma , even citing from Latin liturgy. 54 At the Last Supper, Christ gave his body to the apostles saying, “Accipite et comedite hoc est corpus meum” (Matt. 26:26). Scholars have identified this moment as a “parodic consecration,” with Jonathas as a “grotesque priest...

... into past and future. When it is present it has no duration. [si quid intellegitur temporis, quod in nullas iam vel minutissimas momentorum partes dividi possit, id solum est quod praesens dicatur; quod tamen ita raptim a futuro in praeteritum transvolat...

...: nobis autem cum a natura constantiae, moderationis, temperantiae, verecun- diae partes datae sint. 21 De officiis, 1.96: moderatio et temperantia . . . cum specie quadam liberali ; and 1.93: Una reliqua parte honestum dicendum est, in qua verecundia et quasi ornatum vitae. 22 De officiis, 1.127 29...

... lugere, sed cogit amantem canere languor amoris fletum facit feruescere et vbi est feruor factoris, ibi interdum est sen- sibilis ignis amoris” [The languor of love, then, does not permit the one who 706  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.3 / 2012 languishes to mourn; rather...

... in his discussion of virtues related to divine worship (Christian Doctrine II.3): “humility is the virtue which makes us acknowledge our unworthiness in the sight of God” [humilitas est qua nostram indignitatem coram Deo agnoscimus] (CPW 6:661; Works 17:64). He returns to the idea if not the term...