...Stanley Chojnacki This essay examines the social orientation of married and widowed Venetian patricians in the fifteenth century as expressed in their election of final resting places. Comparing the choices of women and men reveals sharp contrasts by gender in burial patronage of lineage...

...Margaret F. Rosenthal The album amicorum , or album of friends, is a singular visual example of early modern travelers' fascination with swiftly changing fashions, regional customs, family lineage, and manuscript decoration. A type of souvenir scrapbook, the album amicorum preserves in its pages...

... 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...

... that two notions equivalent to that of colonial racial purity crystallized in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Castile and León: the aristocratic notion of agnatic lineage and the ecclesiastical theory of apostolic succes- sion. I shall further argue that the equivalence...

... extensively on the universal chronicle of Orosius, Seven Books of History against the Pagans; they both highlight the role of Tro- jan lineage in the construction of French national identity; they both con- ceive a special role for Flanders in the unfolding of imperial power; and they share an interest...

... any ordinary knight or giant. His extraordinary lineage has produced a formidable phy- sique and a charismatic intensity that make him literally unstoppable: “Il est plus granz demi pié que chevalier que l’an saiche, si est li hom del monde plus amez de sa gent et cil qui plus a conquiz de son...

... of page upon page of graphically described temptations.30 The second task, involving the same sword, is to exorcise the evil spirits of the enchanter Darnant’s lineage from a number of haunted places in the forest; since these spirits are the ghosts of the enchanters Perceforest killed when he...

... could have familiarized himself in his years of captiv- ity in Algiers as well as in Spain—the prodigious pen that prepared the Quixote bears a close relationship to the “Supreme Pen” or al-qalam al-a≈l≤ of the Koran (68:1). Cide’s pen, necessarily Arabic given the lineage...

... the preeminence of that social group that had provided the manpower to make Renaissance diplomacy possible — the aristocracy. Talent began to challenge lineage. The Dutch diplomat Abraham van Wicquefort discussed the topic in his influential handbook L’ambassadeur et ses fonctions (first published in 1681...

... Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey What is the purpose of giving the name race to a set of descriptors (lan- guage, law, customs, and lineage) that medieval writers attributed to con- temporary social groups?1 What payoff...

... have made visible the long and complex lineages of these contemporary polarizations, arguing that cul- ture wars of the premodern world are indeed the precursors of colonial and postcolonial divisions, while others have preferred to illuminate an equally long history of porous boundaries between...

... that belonged to a family “famous from father to son”; they have belonged to a lineage over a long period of time: “before I came unto it; yea, and a hundred yeeres before” [avant moy, et au delà de cent ans] (III.9, 554; 1045). This lineage is not that of one individual life but of a historical period...

... that both Fortescue and Buchanan, implicitly invoking Boethian philosophy, also make contingent upon emotional temperance. Tracing these ultimately Boethian lineages of sovereign captivity dispersed across the discourses of ethics, courtly love, and political philosophy, I argue that, coalescing...

... be kept in jars. This practice intriguingly comes to light these days as body parts of the Medici family are discovered in various sites in Tuscany and are reunited by paleopathologists bent on reconstructing not only the lineage’s health status but also the occasional scandals that the sudden...

... and ornament of all chaste souls” [solus / Sponsus castarum necnon decus est animarum] (Agnes 23–24; 211). In return for the exchange, the bridegroom not only offers the bride assurance of a noble lineage, but also existential security in the form of wealth, shelter, and food, the latter evoking...

... proliferated; there was an increased attention to heraldry, genealogy, and lineage narratives; and controversies raged over the conferral of noble status on conversos, Jewish converts to Christianity.1 The rise of the Inquisition pro- moted the infamous link between nobility and limpieza de sangre...

... to establish Spain’s claim to a superior status over England. Cartagena was interested in four qualities of nobility; “nobleza de linaje” [nobility of lineage], “antiguedad de tiempo” [antiquity of time], “alteza de dignidad” [elevatedness of dignity], and “memoria de benefiçios” [memory of services...

... favored by no less an authority than the Virgin Mary. And if Arabs were among the original Christians, as the Lead Books declared, then Moriscos themselves could claim a distinguished and pure lineage stretching back to the apostolic era, an ethnic heritage that made them more than the equal of so...

... “contamination.” By displacing this model of normativity and deviance, Kay convincingly shows how integrally women figure in the epic’s preoccupations of warfare, lineage, feudal loyalty, and crusade.38 This stunning critical reassessment, however, leaves the Roland untouched...

... to secure a male heir. In this context, non-Latinate traditions were obviously useful for constructing an alternative religious lineage to the Church of Rome. It was convenient for the king to include the leading Hebrew scholar, Robert Wakefield, in his team of theological experts. Wakefield famously...