... childe” strives to understand sin, guilt, and culpability within the constraints of humanity’s limited self- knowledge. Julian both works within and transcends established scriptural and penitential traditions of representing childhood, childlikeness, and the related quality of meekness, a key virtue...

... mother’s pity,” and states that “she prays piteously” and calls out to “Christ’s mother meek and kind” for help (Prioress’s Tale, 211). The representation of Cristóbal’s mother, on the other hand, is extraordinary for its almost com- plete lack of such suffering.52 Vegas represents her not only as un...

.... Anglo-­Italian Renaissance Studies. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011. xv, 321 pp.; 6 illus. $124.95. Meek, Richard, Jane Rickard, and Richard Wilson, eds. Shakespeare’s Book: Essays in Reading, Writing, and Reception. Manchester: Manchester Univer- sity Press, (2008) 2011. x, 273 pp. Paper £14.99...

...] to this acorde, Bowynge down my face with all benyngnyté [meekness]. So here the handmayden of oure Lorde. Aftyr thi worde, be it don to me. (109, ll. 285–­88) This moment in the play brings to life Luke 1:38, “Dixit autem Maria, ‘Ecce ancilla Domini; fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum...