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... narrative, which looked forward to Christ's return as—technically speaking—its catastrophe, when all the confusion and unhappiness of the universal plot would be unravelled and total clarity would reign. The author of the Old English Doomsday poem called Christ III , however, devised an ingenious strategy...

...Evelyn Reynolds The Old English poem Christ III represents the Crucifixion not by focusing on Christ's suffering but by depicting natural disasters. In its representation of creation's upheavals, Christ III establishes an ecopoetics in which language can sketch but never fully fathom either...

... of Richard Plantagenet's extraction from sanctuary at Westminster in The History of Richard III (1557). Moreover, Ford redirects the language of contemporary chroniclers Francis Bacon and Thomas Gainsford in order to emphasize the link between sanctuary and practices of royal pity in the play. By positioning...

...Jeri Smith-Cronin Writing home to King Philip III from the Spanish embassy in London on November 1, 1619, Fray Diego de la Fuente proudly declared his part in suspending a revival of Thomas Dekker’s The Whore of Babylon (1606) due to its “thousands of blasphemies against the pope and Spain.” La...

..., using the example of Mankind , this essay examines how the actor, seen as engaged in both collaborative and competitive play, can illuminate certain strategies in Shakespeare's work. Examples drawn from Richard III, Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing , and King Lear illustrate how different kinds...

...Brett Edward Whalen Under Popes Honorius III, Gregory IX, and Innocent IV, the thirteenth-century papacy opened an unprecedented diplomatic dialogue with the Almohad dynasty in northern Africa. Working in conjunction with members of the new mendicant orders, above all the Franciscans, the Roman...

... a new direction in relations Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:1, Winter 2008 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2007-022  © 2008 by Duke University Press Mariia Ivan III Sofiia Borisovna Paleologa...

... and inves- tigation of the truths of the Catholic faith. It falls into three main parts.2 In the first or Prima Pars (I), Aquinas discusses God and the procession of creatures, including humans, from God as their creative cause. In the third, the Tertia Pars (III), he treats Christ and the sacraments...

... “the definitive medieval liturgical treatise.”6 A work comprised of eight books that synthesizes, interprets, and allegorizes most church laws, customs, and r i t u a l s t h e Rationale spends an entire book on the symbolism of church vestments (Book III), by far the longest sustained discussion...

..., in the uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers, Angevin rule in Sicily was overthrown and power given to Peter III of Aragon, the hus- band of Manfred’s daughter Constance (see table 2).34 Over the next several decades, the Angevins (their rule now confined to the peninsular kingdom of Naples) waged...

... in one moment—even as, thanks to language's mechanics, the reader functionally progresses from item to item. Similarly, the catastrophe itself both exists as a single event or moment and can contain within itself many iterations of disaster, as does Christ III discussed by both Emily Thornbury...

... to exclude her from the regency while Henri III returned from Poland, or it may have been more generally to exclude her from all access to power. The usual claims that women were emotionally and intellectually incapable of ruling were augmented by the assertion that some power bred the desire...

...” and “regard” past the appearances considered as accidents. The faithful (normally represented by the consecrating priest) eat Christ him- self now present under the (miraculously preserved) accidents of bread and wine that they rightly perceive and consume (see, for example, ST III.73–77, 80). Were...

... that belonged to a family “famous from father to son”; they have belonged to a lineage over a long period of time: “before I came unto it; yea, and a hundred yeeres before” [avant moy, et au delà de cent ans] (III.9, 554; 1045). This lineage is not that of one individual life but of a historical period...

... History of King Richard III (ca. 1515) and anticipating Holinshed’s Chronicles, Rastell uses history as a vehicle for dissent, in partic- ular to register his distaste for the domestic results of Henry VIII’s French wars. Rastell’s Pastyme demonstrates that English historical writing did not always...

...–886) and Ailo 6. al-Mundhur (886–888) 7. ‘Abd Allah (888–912) and Durr (Ín˜ga) Muhammad and Muzna 8. ‘Abd al Rahman III (912–961) and Murjana 9. al-Hakam II (961–976...

... Denis Crouzet University of Paris IV-Sorbonne Paris, France A traditional historian might use the letters that Catherine de Medici wrote to her son Henry III between October 1578 and March 1579 to prove that the king had been right...

... is incomplete for it concentrates on how the poet’s gaze is captivated by the lady; he fails to suggest how the gaze might enact a retour sur soi. In fact, as frequently as Bernart speaks of looking at his lady, if not more frequently, he fantasizes about being looked at by her: III. Per melhs...

... find living witnesses to provide direct knowledge of a kinship relation dating so many years before the marriage about to take place? Pope Innocent III realized how important it was for the church to maintain control over marriages. At the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, he issued several...

..., like Sir John Paston II, whose “Grete Boke” contained Vegetius among much else. Sir John served under William, Lord Hastings at Calais and was well-­known in the royal household of King Edward IV. Still other readers and owners were royalty, like Richard III and Edward IV, both of whom...