... of the Christians’ “law”; the Christian replies that the Philosopher’s respectful words seem to “clash impudently” [impudenter dissonare] with his earlier declaration: “how can you now expect instruction in truth from those you have found insane?”35 In the context, this is not a complaint but a question...

... of pastoral intervention.68 A blush, the outer sign of shame, is one indicator of shame at work. Gregory mentions that some people are impudent (impudenti) whereas others feel shame (verecunda) too easily. Impudent people do not even blush, indicating they should be rebuked harshly by many pastors in order...

... was prompted by Boniface’s concerns for “the dangerous and abominable situation of certain nuns, who, casting off the reins of respectability and impudently abandoning nunnish modesty and the natural bashfulness of their sex” not only went roving about, but also knowingly admitted secular persons...

..., to the point of bringing to church these mirrors of corruption hanging from the belly. Were one to read all the histories—divine, human, and profane—it would never be found that impudent and meretricious women had worn mirrors in public until this day, when the devil is set...

..., where units with what might be called “boasting names” (e.g., “the fero- cious” [ feroces], “the impudent” [petulantes], “the undefeated” [invicti]) are also concentrated.28 These armies also contain units with animal names: 22 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 34.1 / 2004 “Lions...

... with their “impudent tricks” go to “the Taylor or Mercer” to swindle more “suites” from them.60 In 1621, Robert Sanderson derides London’s Gallants, who live in no settled course of life, but spend half the day in sleeping, half the night in gaming, and the rest of their time in other...

..., a work seething with anger at the destructive force of the impudently advancing Chris- tianity; and Averil Cameron’s Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire (Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 1991), 121–29, 220–29, which is scrupulously conscious of the methodological perils...

....” Celestina’s retort is similarly striking for its ada- mant dismissal of the arrases as somehow depraved and threatening: Impudence, I know’t. I will have fresher and more rich, not wrought With faces that may scandalize a Christian, With Jewish stories stuffed with corn...

..., and to break the union / and holly league between the Provinces” (4.5.2402–4). Barnavelt continues in “impudence,” however, retorting “Now, when you please Condempne me, / I will not use one sillable for your mercy, / to have mine age renewd, and once again / to see a second triumph of my glories” (4.5.2391...

... letting such Fire- brands, and most impudent malicious Schmismaticks go unpunish t, doth not tend to the subversion of all Gov- ernment. Dirt Wip t Off; or, A Manifest Discovery of the Gross Ignorance, Erroneous- ness and Most Unchristian Wicked Spirit of One John Bunyan, Lay- Preacher in Bedford (London...