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... of that original inven- tory survives.14 But the surviving fragment includes only a small portion of Elena’s dowry and omits entirely the other gifts that were given to the groom. Martin / Gifts for the Bride  123 By chance, two later copies of the complete...

... engaged medical, theological, and legal evidence and the views of many lay people as well: the legless groom and the child-bride. The legless groom In 1798 the tailor Barthold Ernst, then living in the small town of Jerxheim in what is today Lower Saxony...

..., 2024. 296 pp., 28 illus. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [On the way marital travels of princely brides and grooms operated on a grand scale as diplomatic events.] Rothman, E. Natalie. The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism . Sustainable History Monograph...

... vow, or a calculated attempt to adopt the styles of eastern Mediterranean courts.43 Regardless of Pero Tafur’s intentions behind this alleged lapse in grooming, his defense of shaving puts him at odds with the emperor, who has played an important role in the Spanish knight’s self-­presentation...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.3 / 2003 Macrina; indeed, he has made her his bride. Stung by the needle, Macrina is also stung by her mortality: for it is death that delivers the promise of the godly writing, as she rushes to meet her holy groom. “T ruly, her race was toward the Beloved...

... Secretary and Master of Wards, the unruly earl was groomed close to the center of power, but he was also involved in dangerous activities, even reckoned among those friendly to the Ridolfi plot to supplant Queen Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots.35 De Vere carefully marked many passages in red...

... or 3rd cent. House of Silenus, El Djem; Great Hunt Mosaic, 4th cent. Piazza Armerina; Mosaic of the black camel riders, 4th cent. Thuburbo Maius; Mosaic fragment with black grooms, 6th or 7th cent. Gafsa: Image of the Black, vol. 1, pt. 1...

... in velvet and gold or silk embroidery, and they are accompanied by a large number of pages, grooms and servants, all dressed in livery. (258r/310) Vecellio invites a comparison of these grandiose public appearances with the simpler dress of earlier times in his print and description...

... through gift-giving and other systems of exchange; possession rituals that personalize the goods; grooming rituals that coax attributes out of perishable goods such as clothes, make-up, or hairproducts, and attach them to the consumer; and divestment rituals that either allow the new owner...

... in Jonson's poem, the servants aren't in on the game; they're its objects:  For thou no Porter keep'st who strikes. No commer to thy Roofe his Guest-rite wants;  Or staying there is scourg'd with taunts Of some rough Groom, who (yirkt with Corns) sayes, Sir  Y'ave dipt too long i'th’ Vinegar...

... are subsumed into the speaker’s relationship with Christ the Bride- groom. And yet Schweitzer notes that the binary is not fixed. Taylor’s posi- tions, as she puts it, “imitate the cross-­gendered positions of Christ” — both seeking and dominating, submissive and authoritative.43 Taylor is often split...

... blacklist, driving Jacob to the Netherlands in the 1610s where he became even more preoccupied with exploring new ecclesiastical terrain. 21 This provided Jacob Jr. with the opportunity to study with the Arabist Thomas Erpenius in Leiden and immerse himself in philological study, grooming him to fall...

... arbre bien l’espace de dix destres.] (I.1:139) This passage reveals, paradoxically, that the forest through which Perce­ forest opens paths in fact needs no paths: it is beautiful and groomed, easy and pleasant to ride through because of its lack of underbrush, and con- tains explicit...

... of allegorizing the bride and groom of the Song of Songs as the human soul and Christ. 5 On Wisdom’s use of liturgical symbolism in its costuming, see Ann Eljenholm Nich- ols, “Costume in the Moralities: The Evidence of East Anglian Art,” Comparative Drama 20 (1986 – 87): 305 –14. 6 Milla...

... solemnized at All Saints between 1654 and 1715, at least one partner was from elsewhere, and in more than one in twenty cases both the bride and groom were outsiders. Of the 107 migrants, a significant proportion (40 from Nuneaton and 13 from Bedworth) came from adjacent parishes, but courtship horizons...

... noting how meticulously cocks in Bali are fed, groomed, and handled by their keepers, Geertz adds the following note: A man who has a passion for cocks, an enthusiast in the literal sense of the term, can spend most of his life with them, and even those, the overwhelming...

... sermons directly address the sensuality of the biblical account and the explicitly sen- sual excitement aroused by the bride’s body and her union with the bride- groom. He immediately displaces physical desire, however, through the 20 Journal of Medieval and Early...

... with the sinful earth, she departs for heaven, leaving Artegall her iron groom Talus, who represents the lex talionis, the law of rigorous retali- ation (5.1.11 – 12). Canto 2 offers a two-part allegory for capitalist Protestantism in sixteenth-century England. Although the Faerie Queene usually views...