... and religious maxims, this article demonstrates how Herbert’s poems also attracted more nuanced literary engagements. The sale and acquisition of the book in private and public libraries in the late seventeenth century likewise suggest that The Temple held a dual role, sometimes positioned in relation to other...

... and clear meaning. Invoking metempsychosis, or the transmigration of the soul, indexed this insecurity. The essay first considers the implications of the mention of metempsychosis in Merchant , and then surveys literary and theological texts that elaborate the ambivalence it implies. The essay concludes...

...Grace Hamman In A Revelation of Love , Julian of Norwich employs the similitude of Christ as a mother and the Christian as his child to describe and explore the relationship between God and humanity. Theologians, literary critics, and historians alike have studied the theological...

... philosophy, medicine, and encyclopedism. The articles engage numerous disciplines, including philosophy, history of science, history of ideas, and Anglo-Saxon, French, and English literary studies; their approaches represent a broad range of Anglophone and Continental European academic traditions...

... ought to do the things that we are free to do. So even if the nature of language allows us to ignore authorial intention, and even if the purposes of literary scholarship are sometimes served by our so doing, still we should be suspicious of those who claim that this is the only proper way to engage...

.... When engaging with Chaucer, critics need to embrace intention as a key generator in the meaning-making activity of interpretation. eva.voncontzen@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Chaucer studies authorial intention cognitive literary theory...

... with the broader thematic concerns that have come to charac- terize the study of New Diplomatic History, the editors strategic compart- mentalization of the volume into sections on literary engagements, transla- tion, dissemination, and diplomatic texts promotes a careful and coherent assessment of current...

... unnecessarily limits our understanding of form: a narrow focus on poetry would obscure the fact that Catholic women s formal experimentation in a variety of genres offered sites for engagement in broader religious, political, and literary net- works. 3 Early modern women writers of all confessional stripes...

...-­historicist project described here extends far beyond the scope of a single essay: Chaucer could potentially draw on details specific to any of these biblical media (homiletic, dramatic, musical, plastic, etc.) in shaping his literary engagements with Holy Writ.14 To return to where I began...

... for early modern reception studies as they address poetry, romance, letters, history, hagiography, autobiography, and literary reviews. The transnational perspectives that emerge lead from the Low Countries to Italy, Ireland to France and the Spanish Netherlands, Spain to England, and England to France...

... that current debates on cultural identities, terror, postcolonialism, and “globalization” need to engage with a longer temporal framework. I want to revisit several connections and fractures between differ- ent periods and spaces — medieval, early modern, and modern; “East” and “West”; England...

... perhaps no more common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance than they are today, but premodern writers often engaged the world's precarity in strikingly different ways than we might now. This special issue considers how premodern catastrophes—environmental, social, political—shape and are shaped by literary...

... knowledge. The articles that follow, by the roundtable particpants themselves, bring microhistorical methodology to the study of social and cultural history, legal history, the history of crime, gender history (making use of the often overlooked potential in literary texts), and global history...

... of Athens under the reign of Theseus.1 Warton’s comments in his seminal literary history — the first comprehensive account of the English poetic tradition as such — present an early instance of an idea that came to dominate much twentieth-century thinking about the difference between the Middle...

... kinds of texts in premodern Europe, includ- ing legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings; equally medical writings drew on a range of discursive practices, often employing ostentatiously literary narrative techniques. Many mod- ern thinkers, most...

... as her substantive arguments. The larger aim of the essay is to establish ground rules for engagement in the rapidly developing field of Trans-Reformation cultural studies. a The Reformation of Scholarship: A Reply...

... gone to merely sitting. His con- solation prize is the right to tell sad stories, to engage in literary — that is, idle — labor. That what we are witnessing is Richard’s recognition that his new life will be characterized by “doing nothing,” by a kind of monastic idleness — with the prison...

... than of preeminent status gained as a reward for past literary work. Further, the poem's version of literary and artistic tradition requires that poetry must take its place alongside other forms of artistic representation to form a full and complex account of history. Skelton here reconceptualizes...

... Vegio to be “Alter Maro,” another Virgil. 50 By writing nugae , Vegio was not only defending the value of light verse when its composition and existence were being criticized and threatened. He was also fashioning and asserting his own poetic identity, within the literary milieu engaged...

... for judging the success of a work of literary art,” noting later that “judgment of poems is different from the art of producing them.” 34 For the most part, the essay engages with historical authors until, in a crescendo at the close of their argument, the authors turn on T. S. Eliot, then still...