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...Shayne Aaron Legassie In spite of its violent origins, medieval chivalry provided rich imaginative resources for bridging ethnic, religious, and linguistic divisions. Pero Tafur’s Andanças (ca. 1453) relates the travels of one Castilian knight through the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Tafur’s...

...Patricia Clare Ingham Engaged with insights from trauma theory, this essay offers a reading of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale as a profound meditation on catastrophe and survival. This account refocuses the Knight's Tale 's famous oscillation between consolation and devastation, philosophy...

...Hannah Weaver Telling the story of the exceptional penance of an Irish knight, the twelfthcentury Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii contends that it was possible to go on a bodily pilgrimage to purgatory. The Cistercian monk H. of Saltrey wrote his Tractatus at a historical moment when...

...Jeffrey Todd Knight This essay explores the long genealogy of sewing in books from the stab-stitched quartos and octavos in early modern bookshops to the sewn-in corrections, repairs, and embellishments of manuscript pages in the Middle Ages. Broadening the default chronology of book and literary...

...Rhonda Knight © by Duke University Press 2002 a Stealing Stonehenge: Translation, Appropriation, and Cultural Identity in Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s...

... of these genres were standard reading for fifteenth-century English readers ranging from gentry to royal families. Even if they were not knights, many in this audience saw themselves in knightly terms, making it useful to pair these texts to consider how knightly bodies were represented to such an audience. Long...

... Collected by … Sir Dudly Digges Knight, late Master of the Rolls.” However, this survey of seventeen of the twenty-six or more extant manuscripts containing the same material raises questions about the work’s connection with Digges. The article shows how the printed book derived from letters that had been...

...Siobhain Bly Calkin This article analyzes an English miracle narrative in which a portion of the Holy Cross is implanted within a knight's body in the Holy Land and is translated to Cornwall. The text raises important questions about what implantation means for the relic and human matters so...

... by its superior historical self-awareness. This essay reassesses these themes through a reading of Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634). This is a play of knighthood and chivalric spectacle, adapted from Chaucer's Knight's Tale , which brings Chaucer on stage in the play's prologue...

... the sounds of violence. Such depictions use violence against animals to ennoble a privileged few. While some hunters explicitly praise this aestheticized violence, hunting was considered a vice, not only for clergy but sometimes also for courtiers. Indeed, the poets of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir...

... 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...

... to their knighting in the cathedral: “to persuade, direct and guide in the ways of reason and the customs of this country [England]” [pour eux introduire et amener à l’usage de ceux d’Angleterre] (Brereton, trans., 411; Buchon, ed., 239). Two days before the ceremony, the earl...

... Heywood sides with a small-producing plowman and a humanist philosopher against a knight and a merchant. Late Tudor “aristo-capitalism” integrated an imperial and capitalist aristoc- racy with its non-noble functionaries and the laborers they aimed to exploit more systematically, leaving little...

...,   This Epitaph read if you can; ’Twill tell you a Tombe onc’t stood in this roome,   Of a braue spirited man. Iohn Mandeuill by name, a knight of great fame,   Borne in this honoured Towne. Before him was none that euer was knowne,   For trauaile of so high...

... figs. $85.00. Aurell, Martin. Excalibur, Durendal, Joyeuse: La force de l'épée . Hors Collection. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2021. 324 pp. Paper eur 22.00. Baldwin, John W. Knights, Lords, and Ladies: In Search of Aristocrats in the Paris Region, 1180–1220 . Foreword...

... Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Chaucer’s Wife of Bath opens her tale with a rape narrative. She introduces a “lusty bacheler,” a knight in King Arthur’s court who encounters a lone maiden and assaults her: On a day [he] cam ridynge from ryver, And happed that, allone as he was born, He...

... to find this code affecting the way in which the Empire was run,” Girouard goes on to state: Imperialists, however much the ideals of chivalry lay at the back of their thinking, were not often compared to knights, or even described...

... witnessed this scene; during the second Des- mond rebellion, he served a post as secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Arthur Grey of Wilton. Memorialized as Artegall, the knight of justice in Book 5 of The Faerie Queene, Grey was responsible for the execution of hun- dreds of Spanish and Italian...

... powers that the Algerians and the Dulcignotti filled so ably with the Ottoman Turks was also carried out on the Christian side by the aggressive corsairs of Malta and Livorno. In 1530 Malta was given in fief by Charles V to the recently displaced Order of the Knights of Saint John, who promptly...