1-20 of 139 Search Results for

fight

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 309–338.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Kirilka Stavreva © by Duke University Press 2000 Fighting Words: Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docu-fiction Kirilka Stavreva St. Ambrose University...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
... University Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Some time in 1607, George Wilson, vicar at Wretton in Norfolk, published a cockfighting manifesto titled The Commendation of Cockes, and Cock- fighting. Wherein is shewed, that Cocke-fighting was before the comming of Christ...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 13–31.
Published: 01 January 2020
...: Early Modern Soldiers as Information- Gatherers Nina Lamal Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium Before setting off to the Low Countries to fight in the Habsburg army in 1584, the twenty- two- year- old Roman nobleman Pietro Caetani received a letter of instruction.1...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Knight’s assurances that he did not come to fight, and Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47:2, May 2017 DOI 10.1215/10829636-3846323  © 2017 by Duke University Press the holly branch he carries that signifies peace, the form his body takes com- municates its...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of their perfunctory dialogue and formulaic plots, they often drop out of theater history. One dramatic fragment especially sheds light on the violence and sexuality in The Raven's Almanac . In it, Robin Hood climbs onto Friar Tuck's back to cross a stream and is thrown into the water. They then fight three bouts...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 147–166.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Dubois and his companion evidently ended up in one of these multipurpose establishments. An argument with the brothel-­ keeper over the money owed by Dubois and his friend for drinks and sexual service led to a fight in which the brothel-­keeper was wounded. She expired sometime later, leaving...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 633–657.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., I could change courts to camps, in fields to dwell. Tis a brave life; methinks it best becomes A Prince to march thus, between guns and drums! My fellow soldiers I dare swear you ll fight, To the last man, your Captain being in sight. (5.3.8 13) Titania speaks the muscular language of chivalry...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2001
... as an indication of an exotic and distant land. Roman artists included blacks as necessary to create “authentic” Egyptian landscapes. Nilotic scenes of black pygmies fighting crocodiles were common in late Roman art.11 A first-century mosaic from Palestrina of the annual Nile...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 373–391.
Published: 01 May 2007
...; Lancelot himself kills three as one of his first acts upon being knighted. In the prose Tristan we learn that Lancelot’s cousin Boors of Gaunes had to seek out and kill a giant because his cousin Anchises had challenged the giant and been defeated in a fight to the death Tristan( 2, 1:147 – 51).12...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 January 2002
... imperial ambitions and that the Britons were fighting simply to hold on to their homeland. The appropriation of Stonehenge occurs after years of war between the Saxons and the Britons, when Aurelius Ambrosius finally succeeds in winning the throne for the Britons. This war damaged the British sense...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 121–144.
Published: 01 January 2013
... itself” (4.3.103, 106 – 7). While the snake slith- ers away when Orlando approaches, another wild animal comes into view, waiting to attack: a female lion “Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch / When that the sleeping man should stir” (4.3.113 – 15). Citing the fight of Hercules...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 249–272.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., and Henry and Philip were engaged in skirmishes in disputed parts of the Auvergne and Berry.6 By August both kings had made their way back north and, despite ongoing fighting on the borders of Normandy and the Ile de France, met near Gisors to discuss peace. Several versions of the story...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (1): 103–118.
Published: 01 January 2008
... patience comes close to being a calculated display. The notion of the patient heart evokes the “haut cœur” with which, according to Estienne Pasquier, Catherine was “armed”; her “haut cœur” dedicated her to fight the passions that stained the kingdom with blood from blows of “hatred...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 January 2011
... with the Trinidadians, and Mary Fuller notes, “Ralegh will present himself to the inhabitants of Trini- dad and Guiana not as an invader but as offering a relationship of tutelage and p rotection.”8 Yet Ralegh also reminds his readers of England’s role in fighting Spanish imperialism in Europe. Ralegh forms...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 573–597.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to the middling sort’s taste for tales of heroic deeds done by England’s citizen-­tradesmen to rival those of its royals, as depicted in the chronicle histories.3 The Shoemaker’s Holiday might thus be read as a companion piece to Shakespeare’s Henry V (1599), whose “band of brothers” (4.3.60) fight...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 119–145.
Published: 01 January 2022
... in which two armies stand opposed in a large field, observed by a king who sits on a hill above them all. But no apocalyptic confrontation takes place: the king prevents the fight and sends a herald to invite the leaders of each side to present their cases before him, to which they readily agree as members...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 515–539.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Calvinists and Catholic allies to defend their rights and inter- ests, without picking fights they were unlikely to win that might draw Brit- ain into unwanted conflicts. Relations with the Huguenots coreligionist allies within a Catholic kingdom that was also an ally demanded especially careful handling...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 405–432.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to such sinnes, and sleepe securely therein, Gods fatherly anger ariseth against them. . . . [F]or the Crowne of life is not set upon the head of any but those, who have fought a good fight, and have finished their course in faith, and holinesse. He is therfore unfit to obtain this Crowne, whosoever as yet...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 659–670.
Published: 01 September 2020
... against a lawful sovereign, for example, James sought to pacify English relations with Spain, since his predecessor had openly encouraged the rebellion of its Dutch subjects. But that was not the end of the story. As Smuts points out, James still authorized two thousand Scottish troops to fight...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 January 2009
... that only a moment earlier was scarcely differentiated from his redoubt. Fleeing, Malengin turns him- self into a goat, a fox, a bush, a bird, a stone, a hedgehog, and a snake, the shapes of resistance that in other settings continually fooled his pursuers into fighting the wrong battle. The end...