... 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 King Lear tragedy language of suffering Incarnation of Christ Assumption of Mary ...

...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...

...—most famously Susan Sontag—have commented on the problems inherent in trying to write about suffering and on the limitations of metaphorical language. At the same time, many writers (both premodern and modern) have seen opportunities in the richness, polysemy, and (sometimes) novelty of medical...

... between judicial and penal procedures and the medicalized body. Across Caulier's successive interventions in the querelle , medical language at first complements then ultimately supplants juridical discourse. Unlike the “punitive” metaphors identified by Susan Sontag, medicalized language empowers...

...Jessica Hines Building on recent critical conversations in the history of the emotions, this article examines how the language of compassion came into English culture and how it was deployed for theological and political purposes. It traces the growth of compassion in England in the early fifteenth...

... the poor persons most vulnerable to them, and while those tamed and traumatized by fortune may have no defense against the battery, Edgar's language suggests that this subjugation need not end in submission to suffering. The experience of sorrow is not understood passively, but as an active art, something...

... (“General Prologue,” 1 – 18), linking physical sickness, spiritual suffering, seasonal change, and the liturgical year; poems about love, such as the Book of the Duchess or Troilus and Criseyde, are dominated by the language of illness (love-­sickness) and cure, with the Lady as physician.43 Chaucer...

... sex. That a heroic, Christic, and masculine motif of suffering in love (witnessed especially in the courtly language of her poems) assumes a dominant tone in parts of her work shows how her outer body lives its promise and way of loving. Her experience, desire, and suffer- ing are, however...

... is evident in the way she shifts the language of bodily rupture and integrity used by those around her to describe her suffering. The saint’s redefinition of the torn and intact body is made possible through the crucifixion, as Christ’s wounds on the cross are integral to understanding salvation...

... binaries by repeating the same language when describing them. With regard to her own choosing and regretting, she writes, “Repentyng and wylfulle choyse be two contrarytes, whych I felt both at that tyme” (19/372). Similarly, when she describes the love that leads Jesus to suffer for humankind, she...

..., and of circulating smoothly among medi- cine’s multiple materialities. The concept of jargon holds together two of the limits of language: music and totalization, pure lyric and complete knowl- edge. Medical satire explores what it might mean both to suffer and to sing the material limits of words...

... but rather on the comic satisfaction of seeing transgressors brought under God's justice. And this comic satisfaction is possible, Beard's language suggests, not because these transgressors are the stuff of carnival pageantry or theatrical artifice. These comic sufferers are unreal, insulated from the laws...

... language as empty signs, that is, as idols (Kat- erine 21.1). The pagans respond in kind, tempting the saints with the trap- Wolf / An Old Materialism 277 pings of the material world. Olibrius offers Margaret al thet Ich i wald hah ant am of lauerd [all that I keep in possession and am lord over], while...

...; see also VI.3.4–4.6. 44 For Cromwell in Drogheda and Wexford with attention to the language of holy war, see Ian Gentles, The New Model Army in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1645–1653 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), 357–68; also Austin Woolrych, Britain in Revolution: 1625–1660 (Oxford: Oxford...

... of his own suffering, however, the speaker initially opts for euphemism: “I turne my back to thee, but to receive / Cor- rections.” Authoritarian periphrasis, though, soon gives way to a graphic language which does not flinch from the excruciating pain it implores: “O think mee worth thine anger...

... obscures the term's literary origins, which dominated its early usage. While absent from vernacular languages in the Middle Ages, the term catastrophe is nonetheless present in the medieval lexicon: it occasionally appears in medieval Latin literature where it typically refers to the third part...

... this scientia but invoke its performance — both on the manuscript page and beyond it. How, then, did the performance of science overlap with what we would now call “literary” performance? Can we grasp aspects of early medieval science through literary, particularly poetic, language...

... release from prison.15 Almost all of the private correspondence between physicians and patients in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suffered the same fate. It is for this very reason that any collection of a physician’s private corre- spondence, no matter how small and especially...

... death, he nonetheless sings of his pleasure in suffering and sacri- fice. Thus in one song in which he claims to have suffered more through love than Tristan 45– 46) and in which he “jonh las mas et ador” (58) [puts his hands together and worships], Bernart concludes by talking explic- itly...

... httpmedren.trinity.duke.edu/jmems Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 44:3, Fall 2014 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2792018  © 2014 by Duke University Press Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe Edited by Marion Turner Volume 46 / Number 1 / January 2016 Medical language permeated all...