... to avoid the violence unleashed by early modern religion. The book's weakness, then, is ethical. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The Unintended Reformation Reformation historiography modernity ethical and moral criticism • Brad...

... of excellence, an ethics of embodied endurance strong enough to withstand repeated acts of injustice. Like medieval poets, Shakespeare returns to the scene of Cressida’s destruction in order to dramatize the cultural conditions that script her moral evacuation. Taking a long view of Cressida’s downfall reveals...

..., none of which can win out over the others on neutral grounds. Virtue and “the good” “Subjectivizing Morality,” the chapter devoted specifically to ethics, leans very heavily on the influential narrative offered by Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue.4 Essentially, Gregory argues...

....2 There are, accordingly, many moderni; the effort to locate them is always a conceptual as much as a chronological task. If, however, premodernity is not, most persuasively, a chronological category, is it therefore an ethical or moral category, an ethical disposition assumed...

... for a modern engagement with that ethics. a Jesus in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas Joseph Wawrykow University of Notre Dame...

... 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Milton A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle virtue ethics and politics temperance moral education Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy • The “Holy Dictate of Spare...

... Durham, North Carolina Words are deeds. — Ludwig Wittgenstein In her brilliant book, Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices, Jennifer Herdt gives a helpful picture of the moral agent as depicted in Aris- totle’s Nicomachean Ethics: The fully virtuous agent . . . is one...

..., and Aquinas brokered rapprochements between Aristotelian virtue ethics and Abrahamic monotheism. 7 Espousing a heightened Augustinianism, Luther would jettison this settlement by reasserting the debilitating condition of original sin against the self-perfecting yearnings of the virtues. Critical...

...-8219530 © 2020 by Duke University Press Our Inner Custodian: Shame and Moral Agency in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Ritva Palmén University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland Shame is currently a subject of close study, especially in the areas of medical and psychiatric science, literary criticism...

... Irwin / Luther’s Attack on Self-Love­   149 grace. But the possibility of moral virtue implies the falsity of eudaemonism. Hence moral virtue depends on grace. Luther, Scotus, and eudaemonism Luther’s criticism of pagan virtue was condemned by the Council of Trent. The Council’s Canons...

... in an emphasis on a conception of the ethical life particularly conducive to narrative and in Milton’s own idiosyncratic view of himself as an inspired author. Milton’s strength and his heart lie not in systematic moral philoso- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:1...

... incarceration. If it was the captivity by desire that impelled her to commit adultery and murder, then this courtly imprisonment of love can be interpreted in moral terms, as a bondage of sin. Indeed, the neo-­Stoic ethical ideal of a carefully regulated emotional self provides Ane Detectioun...

... to natural philosophy that place an emphasis on the moral or religious formation of its practitioners. Bacon was highly critical of the unprofitableness of past schemes of natural philosophy, and he is often understood as having insisted that the success of natural philosophy be gauged purely...

... in virtue; the egg is the collapse of the shared morality of medieval Christianity that, in turn, hatches the chicken, capitalism — not the other way around.26 Moreover, despite his late, understated reference to “some intellectually sophisticated postmodern critics who are religious believers” (385...

....” This Spenser is an “instru- ment” of the morally dubious policies of his superiors, the poet as propa- gandist for the state.1 With more charity to the poet, Thomas H. Cain and others attribute the darkness of the 1596 Faerie Queene to Spenser’s grow- ing...

.... But this does not simply explain in dif- ferent terms the coercion or moral blackmail that feminist critics have seen in the dynamic of the courtly canso.25 For Derrida, the “gift of death” is also the very foundation of responsibility and ethical discourse in the Jewish and Christian faiths. As he...

... commonwealth writers, a notably cross-sectarian group.67 We can best understand commonwealth writing as a creative and critical anachronism — as the survival of Scholastic moral and social phi- losophy into an era of agrarian capitalism, driven forward by active print- ing, a humanist or gospelling...

..., with significant implications for what is usually called biographical criticism. They suggest an ethics of writing in the performative negotiations between an author and the disembodied voices that carry the divided singularity of his or her signature. In his study of promises in Shakespeare...

... of this work will reveal a consistency of ethical and political ideas that have been ignored by literary critics, but which draw together the seemingly disparate pieces of Usk's fraught life and challenging texts. Toward the beginning of The Testament of Love , Usk's teacher Lady Love maintains...

...”; and if “philosophy has dramatically failed” that is merely an epiphenomenon of the overall “failure of confessional Europe . . . to cre- ate moral communities free of religious dissent.”2 Even a rather strong critic of contemporary liberal-­secular social theory and practice (as I take myself...