... contemporary critics a new perspective on what it is to give a disease a meaning. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 medieval Belle Dame sans Mercy debate illness narratives medical metaphor Achille Caulier Cruelle Femme en Amour and Hôpital d'Amour...

..., “The Turn to Religion in Early Modern Stud- ies,” Criticism 46, no. 1 (2004): 167 – 90; and the essays in Jackson and Marotti, eds., Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011). 6 In The Unintended...

... of eucharistic theol- ogy and its relation to notions of community and polity include David Aers, Sancti- fying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), chaps. 1– 3; Sarah Beckwith, Christ’s Body: Identity...

... of sullied heroines in her Cité des dames (ca. 1405, printed in English translation by Henry Pepwell in 1521), the exceptionalism of female worthies remained a distinctive feature of con- duct books incorporating such idealized narratives. Christine features the deeds of strong pagan and Christian...

...- tificals” (diss., University of Notre Dame, 1993). The text of the SherborneRules is available in the following editions: Brotanek, Texte und Untersuchungen, 2 7   –   2 8 ; M a x Förster, “Die altenglischen Texte der Paris National-­Bibliothek,” Englischen Studien 62 (1927): 113...

... downs” in which Lancelot, “lost in fancy, lost his way.”16 Another widespread depiction of the forest is as the seductive, destructive, and feminized faery world, as in Keats’s “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” or in John Melhuish Strudwick’s 1888 painting...

...,  Scribner, Popular Culture and Popular Movements,  Robert Barrett, Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, – (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press,  See the first chapter of Barrett’s Against All England, “From Cloister to Corporation,” esp...

..., the Chronicle poems, and The Battle of Maldon. See, for example, David Chamberlain, “Judith: A Fragmentary and Political Poem,” in Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Apprecia- tion for John C. McGalliard, ed. Lewis E. Nicholson and Dolores Warwick Frese (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame...