... to show the interrelationship between doctrinal innovation and tradition through an allegorical use of the English language itself. By revealing the strange familiarity existing between Old English and the vernacular that E.K. calls the “mother tonge,” Spenser creates a rhetoric of linguistic estrangement...

...Felisa Baynes-Ross Among vernacular religious manuals composed for women in the fourteenth century, Book to a Mother takes the unusual position of rejecting cloistered life for a widow's emulation and presents an alternative program of reading based on love and imitatio Christi . This essay...

...Denis Crouzet Duke University Press 2008 a “A strong desire to be a mother to all your subjects”: A Rhetorical Experiment by Catherine de Medici...

...D. Fairchild Ruggles © by Duke University Press 2004 Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty: Race, Genealogy, and Acculturation in al-Andalus D. Fairchild...

... Spain of the converso, a hybrid who blurs the boundaries between Christian and Jew. Using recent psychoanalytic criticism of the Prioress's Tale , Chaucer's sentimentalized representation of the murdered child's mother is contrasted with the very different one in Damián de Vegas's Memoria del Santo...

...Maaike van der Lugt; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Medieval discussions about breastfeeding were saturated with moral and social meanings and arguments about how a good mother should behave and what makes for a happy, healthy baby. At the center was the question of who should breastfeed, the mother...

... 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...

...Allison Adair Alberts This essay argues that the South English Legendary 's life of Saint Margaret, patron saint of childbirth, reflects the devotional practice of imitatio Christi when it represents labor pains not as the shameful curse of Eve but as a miraculous moment in which the mother...

...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...

...Danielle Clarke This essay examines the English translations of the autobiographical writings of Teresa de Ávila — The Lyf of the Mother Teresa of Iesus (Antwerp, 1611) and The Flaming Hart (Antwerp, 1642) — to demonstrate the impact of her exemplary spiritual life on the development of early...

...Diana Bullen Presciutti This article examines a miracle, credited to the Dominican saint Vincent Ferrer, in which a “demented” wife and mother butchers and partially cooks her infant son. In the decades following Vincent’s 1455 canonization, artists like Colantonio and the Erri workshop approached...

... obfuscation, which in its solidness muddies (or sullies, to borrow a term from Hamlet himself) what should be the audience’s clear view of the encounter between Hamlet and his mother. Something about the sheer drapes, for Marks, reduces the scene’s salacious appeal: because we have been in a sense...

... as these male poets treat the virtual one, as a source of self- generated pregnancy. The body becomes, in their telling, a material form one has ownership over; the production of the child becomes the source of the mother s agency and authority. Motherhood yields female empower- ment, as the creation of male...

... hesitant than Susanna Wilson, Mother Samuel, the chief suspect in the possession of the Throckmorton children, resorts to witch- speak in order to counter the ardent accusations of various learned members of the Throckmorton family. One such verbal attack against her is launched by the Cambridge...

.... The next year, Nicholas retired from public life to the remote manor his mother had just purchased, the rest of the family soon following. In order to serve the community’s liturgical and spiritual needs, in early 1626 Nicholas was ordained deacon in Westminster Abbey; William Laud, then bishop...

... and women’s minds alike — high infant mortality and a level of risk for the maternal body that made the baby “the modris deedli foo” [the mother’s deadly foe].17 The interconnectedness between “patriarchal anxieties” concerning “female procreation” and the actual “process of childbirth” meant...

..., and entrusted them to the apostle James.8 According to the Lead Books, among the texts that these Arab con- verts translated into their mother tongue was an account of some very spe- cial revelations engraved on tablets of precious stone that Mary had received from God through the angel Gabriel...

... proliferation of Christian spiritual practices. Perhaps the most unusual example of religious innovation in this complex era was the support given by Cardinal Cisneros to Mother Juana de la Cruz – who led her small tertiary house outside of Madrid in its conversion to a Clarissan convent...

... the motif. Having been transported to the town of Poitiers, finding myself at the Grands Jours, I wished to visit the Des Roches’s, mother and daughter, and after having for a long time educated the daughter, one of the most beautiful and wisest in our France, I perceived...