...John M. Bowers © by Duke University Press 2004 Three Readings of The Knight’s Tale: Sir John Clanvowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and James I of Scotland...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

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

...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...

... racial and ethnic 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...

... instructed for several months in Dublin prior 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...

... Nobylyte (ca. 1525), John 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...

..., Shayne Aaron Chivalric Travel in the Mediterranean: Converts, Kings, and Christian Knights in Pero Tafur’s Andanças  5 1 5  –  4 4 Martin, John Jeffries Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean  459 – 62 Martin, John Jeffries Marranos and Nicodemites in...

... Rethinking the Carmina Burana (I): The Medieval Context and Modern Reception of the Codex Buranus  245 – 286 Knight, Jeffrey Todd Needles and Pens: Sewing in Early English Books  523 – 542 Mann, Jenny C. Pygmalion’s Wax: “Fruitful Knowledge” in Bacon and Montaigne  367 – 393 Martin, John Jeffries...

... 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 renowne. As the Knights in the Temple, crosse-­legged in marble,   In armour, with sword and with sheeld, So was this...

.... In 1530 Malta was given in fief by Charles V to the recently displaced Order of the Knights of Saint John, who promptly set themselves up as the scourge of Islam and, not coincidentally, Christendom’s slaving headquarters. Ideally anchored midway not just between Italy and Barbary but also...

... thereunto apply. (V.8.16 – 18)15 Visible here is the characteristic motion of a Spenserian teleiopoesis: from the indistinct ground on which Samient addresses the two knights, she gestures rhetorically first at a distance (Mercilla “not far hence doth wone [live then at closer range (“a mighty man...

..., however, as in the knight messen- ger’s warning that it is dangerous to display them (130 – 33), the poem opens the issue of status. Given a “bisection of society” into aristocratic and nonar- istocratic, the poem here casts a doubt with these nonheritable arms on the breeding of the would-be...

..., to trace out the recent history of the concept of appropriation as it developed in various fields of study, and then to examine the complex- ity of “cultural process” as revealed by medieval and early modern examples. Our aim is to demonstrate, as Rhonda Knight observes in the conclusion to her...

... 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...

... between Spanish mock-chivalric hero and English poet is the comparison between the destruction of most of Don Quijote’s library and the fire that destroyed Jonson’s library. Gayton also makes a direct connection between Cervantes, the romances, and Jon- son’s Epicoene. Its two fake knights, Daw and...

... that the Essais of Mr. Montaigne, a “for- mer councilor at the Parliament,” might have been different from that of a “knight of the King’s Order”: its walk would have been more stretched, less spontaneous, the style [as Montaigne himself describes] more “lawyerlike...

... plague, the aptly named knight opts to “serve th’whole city with preservative, / Weekly, each house his dose, and at the rate —  / As he that built the waterwork does with water.”12 Fletcher, too, connected the project to the decline of a spatial order that had privileged the common good; in Wit...