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... Oedipus becomes tyrant of Thebes because he answers the riddle of the Sphinx. The riddle is: What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? Oedipus defeats the Sphinx by guess- ing the answer correctly: humans. As babies, they crawl on hands and feet. If all...

...- tions. See AGI, Patronato, leg. 5, in Navarrete, Colección de los viages, 4:302; Rumeu de Armas, Tratado de Tordesillas, 224; and D. A. Blázquez’s introduction to Santa Cruz, Libro de las longitudines, 6. 28 Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall...

... pata (1664 –  1745) y la ciencia moderna en España (Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 2004), 9 –  126. 15 The only surviving letters from this period are those conserved in Archivo Histórico Naciona, Inq., leg. 1505, 1, and Consejos, leg. 5813, 43. In any case, these letters have...

... to a narrowed waist; arms and legs that are powerful and stout; and mighty, broad shoulders beneath a strong neck. In describing the Green Knight in this way, the poet signals the inter- weaving of desire and anxiety in the knightly body, creating, in effect, a dou- ble narrative. On the one hand, he...

... in the theaters of drama and life. Although I have come to affordances from a design perspective, I bounce affordances back against their origins in ecology in order to keep the environmental view in play. Like Gibson’s environments for two-­legged and four-­legged creatures (to which we might add...

... renowne. As the Knights in the Temple, crosse-­legged in marble,   In armour, with sword and with sheeld, So was this Knight grac’t, which time hath defac’t,   That nothing but ruines doth yeeld. His Trauailes being donne, he shines like the Sun, 372  Journal...

...) painted for the Villa Medici in Rome, in which the numerous male-female couples include two infants pissing into a stream, the girl awkwardly plac- ing one leg in the water while lifting the other knee in order to enable an uninterrupted, straight flow of urine.13 The nearby boy instead stands...

... “like a hand,” is flat and light, fitted with sails proportioned to its size. Presenting the sailing Indians in profile from a distance, while two in the background propel flatter rafts in the opposite direction with their legs and fish with a net hung between them, this woodcut leaves...

..., to indicate this however he could, with a movement of his head, his hand, or his foot. But Gaspare neither spoke nor made a meaning- ful gesture, even though, as the report noted, his eyes were still clear enough and he was able to move his arms and legs.65 A servant who spoke Portu- guese also implored...

... leg- end, the human and the arboreal are deeply interconnected, and the Cross exerts its will as a living tree.47 As Adam lay dying, he asks for Seth to seek out a branch from the Tree of Mercy within Eden. Seth makes the journey back and is welcomed into Eden by Gabriel who helps him find...

... of worms” which “grow in the legs” of the indigenes: Raman / Learning from De Bry 23 These worms are like unto lute strings, and about two or three fathoms long, which they must pluck out and wind them about a straw or a pin, every day...

... the hair off my head and entire body, dressed me in a white alb, began the torture, tied my lower legs with a rope and affixed it to the ground with a screw, tied me up with my hands bound together on my back, made me hang like this for an hour or sometimes two, flogged me with large rods so that my entire...

... and a group of women from the town, stood in the way of their happiness, because “[Ernst] was born a cripple, in that he is totally missing both legs and his right arm and in their place has only rough stumps” (StAWf, 111 Neu 2496, fol. 2). The case...

... in books. Thus, in the diffusion of texts on surgery concentrating on legs and bones, printers, editors, and translators were united in provid- ing what Klestinec calls “a visual or virtual archive of the body,” linking anatomy to the functional repair of an injured body. Finally, allying...

... as three isolated points. Instructed by Euclid, we might label them A, B, and C. The diagonal line created by the extended right leg of the mime on the right, a line continued by the spread legs of the mime in the middle and the extended left arm of the tall standing mime on the left, creates...

..., plaid the like part, and away they run bleeding as fast as their legs would carrie them. (E3v–4r) As the fire builds, “it was perceived a farre off,” and “an infinite of other people being devoutly minded to the Nunrie ran thither, and as they went . . . met the fryers running away in their shirts...

.... Cecilia leg- end represents, and comments upon, the public performance of feminine sanctity in ways that may not only help us understand the social meaning of the 1393 London St. Katherine play, but may also account for the abbrevi- ated entry recording it in the city chronicle. Playing...

... of the recipes’ composition. The second recipe calls for this fantastical list of ingre- dients: The gant of ane gray meir, the claik of ane gus, The dram of ane drekters, the douk of ane duke, The gaw of ane grene dow, the leg of ane lows, Fyve unce of ane fle wing, the fyn...