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...Caitlin Mahaffy This article investigates two literary works from the premodern era: Mandeville's Travels (composed between 1357 and 1371) and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666) , both of which depict hybrid creatures as natural rather than monstrously unnatural. These two texts...

... creatures at the very center of the political world, as Mélusine and her oddly bodied sons successfully expand the Lusignan territory from familiar lands in Poitou to far distant Armenia. Within this more capacious physical and intellectual arena, hybrid bodies can be politically advanta- geous...

... of the visual, allegorical, and didactic considerations characteristic of these plays, to tell the universal story of a seemingly ordinary woman who struggles again and again to find personal salvation. Both the real Margery Kempe and the “creature” Margery exercise their agency over the narrative...

.... Photo © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford . MS Bodley 264, fol. 74v. Photo © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The poem deepens this resonance beyond the animals’ spatial positioning by depicting Bucephalus as monstrous, a hybrid creature who shares the pig's appetite for human...

... in the case of the Roncesvalles, or hybridity and ambiguity in the case of the Auto. Both texts serve an important purpose in the formation of a national canon. The Roncesvalles is cited as an example of how foreign epic material, that of Roland and Charlemagne, is nationalized...

... an occasion to propose the general heuristic term “chimerism” to describe a specific kind of visual form: not a hybrid that fuses different visual modes, but a chimera that joins unlike features while preserving their differences. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Peter Dell the Elder Resurrection...

...Morgan Ng Taking the case of a late Renaissance treatise on Huguenot architecture, this essay explores the potentials of collage as an expression of confessional contestation in the wake of the French Wars of Religion. The book's hybrid imagery bears a formal language of cutting, removal...

... Spain of the converso, a hybrid who blurs the boundaries between Christian and Jew. Using recent psychoanalytic criticism of the Prioress's Tale , Chaucer's sentimentalized representation of the murdered child's mother is contrasted with the very different one in Damián de Vegas's Memoria del Santo...

... the topography, climate, food resources, markets, and roadways of Mughal India to better understand local abundance, needs, and wants. Travel through food insecure regions in India, interaction with local inhabitants, and encounters with famine created hybrid chorographic modes: forms of writing about travel...

... difference. Any reading of Galeholt must take account not only of his love relationship with Lancelot, but also of what I will call his racial hybridity: a half-human, half-giant knight unlike any other in the Arthurian world. The different versions of Lancelot provide scant information about...

...- ney similar in every detail to Muhammad’s. They describe her as traveling through heaven seated on a “tabernacle of light,” for example, rather than furnishing her with a fantastic steed like Buraq, the hybrid winged creature on which the Prophet rides into the sky. Much of the text even recalls...

...—or (more appropriately) they are sounded —and the resonance that results is the frisson of the “scientific” drive for meaning that the garden as artifice embodies and as “natural” object simultaneously obscures. The frisson of the garden stands as a powerful effect of the garden’s hybridized nature...

... of a political creature after the image of a philosophical creature, or it is an infusion of the soul or faculties of a man into the body of a multitude. (Har- rington, A System of Politics, ca. 1661) For as divers members of our human bodies make but one body perfect; so...

.... . . . . . . . . . . That sagh man never forwit that hore, Sua fraward scapen creature. O thair blac heu it was selcuth, And in thair breistes bar thair moth. . . . . . . . . . . . . Thair muthes wide, thair eien brade...

... settler communities of the Atlantic rim have forged hybrid or compound cultures by tinkering with material offered by both the dominating and dominated source-cultures in ways that the tra- ditional terms for cultural melding, creolization and syncretism, are inade- quate to explain. This ingenious...

...: And demaund besides, what they would passe their time about,” and fur- thermore, “contrary-­wise, if more creatures were borne, then should die; they say, bodies should be in an ill taking, expecting the infusion of their soule, & it would come to passe, that some of them should die, before they had...

... II’s entry pageant of 1550 in Rouen.] Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines  383 5. Animalia Anderson, Virginia DeJohn. Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2004) 2006. xiii, 322 pp.; 2...

... not walk, the Spaniards, to prevent their remaining behind to make war, killed them by burying their swords in their sides or their breasts. It was really a most distressing thing to see the way in which these wretched creatures, naked, tired and lame, were treated...

...”; as an effective devotional manual because its introspection allows “the idiosyncratic and the universal [to] merge”; as a Jesuit meditation in the style of Loyola’s Spiritual Exer- cises; and as an unprecedented hybrid, “part spiritual exercises, part medical journal.” See Evelyn Simpson, A Study...

... – ­86). And their union at the end of the poem receives an equivalent rhetorical treatment: “In lufis [love’s] yok that esy is and sure, / In guerdoun of all my lufis space [As reward for the extent of all my love], / Sche hath me tak, hir humble creature” (1346 – ­48). At the same time...