... by Mind, Will, and Understanding. Singing verses from the Holy Thursday liturgy (996 s.d the mights (who have become increasingly disjointed and conflictive as the play has progressed) are now coordinated in procession and song. Paul Connerton has described how liturgical language and action serve...

...A. W. Strouse Christian writers have often conceptualized reading and writing in terms of uncircumcision. This study begins to uncover that long-standing literary-theoretical tradition. It describes how early Christian theologians, following Saint Paul, discussed allegory with metaphors...

...Thomas Robisheaux In November 2015, a group of practicing microhistorians was brought to the Duke University campus to engage in a public roundtable discussion on their craft of historical writing. The participants—Peter Arnade, Thomas V. Cohen, Paul Edward Dutton, Jonathan Gebhardt, Sara...

... of discernment in some prominent trials to examine female visionaries for sanctity or heresy. In these instances, discernment offers a medieval analogue to what critics such as Rita Felski, following Paul Ricoeur, have termed paranoid reading practices or the “hermeneutics of suspicion,” premised on demystifying...

...Stephen Yeager This essay applies the concept of postimperial melancholia, taken from the work of Paul Gilroy, to describe the affective undercurrents of medieval text editing in the latter half of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first through an example from Beowulf...

... and Thomas Nashe. Special attention is given to the sermons preached at Paul's Cross to show how the complex social space surrounding the pulpit was crucial in enabling preachers to express the critique against excesses in apparel. Duke University Press 2009...

...Paul C. H. Lim In The Unintended Reformation , Brad Gregory answers a number of questions regarding the doctrinal diversity and hermeneutical pluralism that resulted from the fissiparous tendency noticeable among the Protestants, particularly thanks to their emphasis on sola scriptura. This essay...

...Paul Edward Dutton How small can microhistorians go? The article proposes the advantages of “particle history,” the intense investigation of small, often isolated and dislocated fragments, and how they connect to the worlds to which they once belonged. To demonstrate the method, the article takes...

...Paul A. Kottman Shakespeare’s career moves from an explicit concern with theatrical drama to an increasing concern with what John Vyvyan called “the science of life.” This article argues that this increased concern with ethics led Shakespeare to stop writing tragedies. Shakespeare’s plays indeed...

...Jean E. Howard; Paul Strohm Duke University Press 2007 a The Imaginary “Commons” Jean E. Howard and Paul Strohm Columbia University New York, New...

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... and the display of foreign apparel: the Monsieur “must prove / The new French tailor’s motion, monthly made, / Daily to turn in Paul’s, and help the trade” (15–16). By parading through Paul’s Walk, the middle aisle of St. Paul’s Church and London’s early modern catwalk for the fashionable, the Englishman...

..., by John Carpenter, the common clerk of London, and painted on panels hung on the inside walls of the cloister enclosing the cemetery known as the Pardon Churchyard, on the northwest side of St. Paul’s Cathedral (see fig. 1). Both the cloister and the motif of the Dance of Death itself were recent...

... resonance—its too apt capacity to mark and simulta- neously divide multiple sites of distinction and difference—from St. Paul and the aftershocks of Pauline commentary that followed the Protestant Reformation.23 Paul’s precise meaning and intentions are still a matter of debate among New Testament...

... and Paul Yachnin. Broadview Shakespeare Series. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2021. 220 pp. Paper $13.95. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth . Edited by Jan H. Blits. Indianapolis, Ind.: Focus, Hacket Publishing, 2021. xxiv, 225 pp., 1 map. Paper $16.00. Smith, Trevor Russell...

... of his last sermons preached at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1628, Donne takes as his prooftext an isolated part of Acts 28:6: “They changed their minds, and said that he was a God” (Sermons, 8:312). The “he” refer- enced here is Paul, and the sermon is a meditation and celebration of Paul’s conversion...

... from the inhabited world became truly mythic. In the process, the desert myth linked up with the themes of the edges of the earth so common to ancient geography. 28 Jerome, for example, in an apparent effort to “outdistance” Athana- sius, fashioned the story of the monk Paul, who lived deep...

..., drapery, and hair. The figure of Paul on the left in the Allegory, especially the drape of his robe, recalls the figures of Hans Leinberger, most likely Dell’s teacher. Christ’s figure may derive from northern Italian engravings, and the monsters hark back to German book illustration.49...

... pp. Paper $15.00. Benner, Erica. Machiavelli’s Ethics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. xvi, 527 pp. $75.00, paper $35.00. Blum, Paul Richard. Philosophers of the Renaissance. Translated from the German by Brian McNeil. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America...