... . The discussion is focalized through the emendations to line 1382a, where an ambiguous series of minims leads to different editorial choices in Klaeber's first three editions of the poem, in his second supplement to the third edition, in the fourth edition produced by R. D. Fulk, Robert D. Bjork, and John D...

... as part of an impressive solar calen- dar.49 Carbon-14 dating of burnt materials found beneath one of the monoliths suggests that the sundial was erected around 1400 50 The church itself was erected along one of the primary alignments of the astro- nomical calendar—the line trending S40°E...

... pointedly pulls away from the Valois line of its patron, the Duke of Berry, replacing paternal lineage with a primary bond between mother and sons. In this instance, Jean de Berry’s claim to Lusignan territory is secured not by documents proving local inheritance but by a flying woman/snake mother who...

..., the poem contains its existential anxiety within the strict metrical forms of the alliterative long line. Its structure balances assorted visions of death with images of joy, but traditional Old English formulas afford very specific ideas of joy that describe an idealized heroic male world. By reading...

...Scott Mandelbrote This article discusses an illuminated copy of the fourth printed edition of the Latin Vulgate (Mainz, 1462), or 48-line Bible, which is now in the Perne Library at Peterhouse, Cambridge. It considers the history of the book in the late sixteenth century, when it passed between two...

... the account of the siege of Antioch in the Gesta Francorum problematic on several levels. The author confuses the time-­line of the battle, repeats several events, and makes no mention of the events of a six-­week period near the conclusion of the siege, starting in April of 1098.3 The conversion...

... a Taking the Measure of Global Space Bruce R. Smith University of Southern California Los Angeles, California First a point, then a line, then a figure, and there you have it: space...

... power.” One important line of argument is that variations in the extent of girl power across Europe carried profound implications for long-term levels of economic performance. Women in the North Sea region, it is argued, were drawn into land and labor markets after the Black Death to a far greater...

... probably had much in common with Beowulf, half central story, half wide digressions, gradually convergent with the main line. The epic mode, perhaps, but the law wanted none of it; its impulses were doggedly linear and its goal was its own synthetic “series of the fact,” a temporal tale at once...

... metoposcopy is detectable in the location of the seven planets. 21 Whereas Hajek places the line of Mercury between the eyebrows and Venus at the basis of the nose, according to Cardano's distribution all planets reside within the space of the forehead. 22 These were two of the main subdivisions present...

... into the representation of music; as can be seen in figure 1 , they fill the space of melisma (a group of notes sung to a single syllable of text), where the stretched vowel sound “i” in “Mar-i-a” is implied by the elongated strapwork knot underlaying the notes at the end of the first line of text, which binds...

..., possessing only one basic metrical template and only one widely prevalent variant. This variant, an extended form of the normal line, is now usually referred to as hypermeter. Hypermetric verse was never freestanding, and there seems to have been no circumstance of content, speaker, genre, or other literary...

...Figure 2. Line measuring the height of Christ. Philadelphia, Redemptorist Archives of the Baltimore Province (no call number, previously Esopus roll). Image (of facsimile) used courtesy of the Redemptorist Archives, Philadelphia. ...

... Ronsard does make one important innovation: while Pindar presents an encomium to lyres in general, with no particular poet associated with its cre- ative power, Ronsard in the third line introduces himself, the “moi.” Ron- sard may start off like Pindar, attributing the lyre “only” to Apollo...

..., qualities that manifest both at the level of the line (meter, alliteration, and rhythmic structure) and in larger units (lists and catalogues, ekphrastic descriptions of ruin or scenes of suffering). On the other, catastrophe welcomes the precarious dance of paradox and contradiction, especially in relation...

... the clothes that his mother was washing asked them if they were the ones who were dividing up the world with the emperor, and when they responded that they were, he raised his shirt, showed his rump, and said, “So plant the line right here in the middle.” This was well...

..., Isaac notices his father’s “heavy cheer,” asks why he is fearful (258–60), and then, sensing danger, asks, “father, yf yt bee your will, / where is the beaste that wee shall kyll?” (261–62). Britten creates a line for Abraham at the 456 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.3 / 2001...