... in early modern England noninheriting younger son politics of envy history of emotions Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

... from its modern reputation as a petty, personal vice, envy was described as not only against the good of charity, but also against all goods, or the good itself.10 Chaucer’s Parson claims that unlike the other sins, which only attack a single virtue, “Envye is agayns alle vertues and agayns...

... of Constantine, for instance, as the triumph of charity over envy; the Christian body politic was founded in exemplary acts of sympathetic identification, and this remains a healing possibility for social life. Gower, a conservative royalist, regards Lollardy as an expression of envy; he does not admit...

... and early modern centuries, marked politically, socially, and economically. While bound up in the economic structure of towns and cities, artisans can be recognized by specific social practices; indeed, these social practices come to constitute artisanal identity as much as labor relations...

..., and the reorganization of commodity production as a result of industrial capitalization in the early modern period on the other. Although there is important variety within the category, artisans were a distinct and readily identifiable group in the late medieval and early modern centuries, marked politically...

... period on the other. Although there is important variety within the category, artisans were a distinct and readily identifiable group in the late medieval and early modern centuries, marked politically, socially, and economically. While bound up in the economic structure of towns and cities...

... a continuous narrative. This pageant clearly complemented the entertainment held a month earlier at Islington by repeating the theme of zeal defeating envy, but it hinted darkly at Sir Thomas’s mismanagement of the New River project’s charter. Whereas Hugh Myddelton had earlier been praised...

... with their hopes, And am content to coin ’em into profit. (1.1.78 – 86)28 Volpone is not so much forsaking a gift economy as he is exposing its mul- tifaceted flexibility. Here his givers become “clients,” and reciprocity is envi- sioned as the return on a good business venture in which investment may...

... shores now appear far more fluid, much less fixed than they did to an earlier generation of scholars. Yet there were precursors to this shift in perspective. As long ago as the late 1940s, for example, Fernand Braudel called attention to the complexity of this envi- ronment in The Mediterranean...

...Lloyd Edward Kermode This essay introduces and assesses the importance of philosophical, geographical, and anthropological understandings of “space” and “place” for literary and dramatic scholars. In the process, it asks its own questions about the political use and control of space, and how we...

... of the sentence, suggesting that this is the burden of the ordinary language philosophy of Wittgenstein and Austin as well as the insight and idiom of the play itself. So what kind of utterance is confession? What is it I can confess? I can confess that I envy that man’s art and this man’s scope...

... disruptive and completely political and disciplinary violence devoid of religious significance.5 While René Girard has connected sacrifice in ancient religions to Brutus’s attempt to ritually sacrifice Caesar, a contemporary transatlantic connection likely known to Shakespeare has not been considered...

... inscriptions, of which the unskilfull rurall people envie us the having” (Brit., 271). Opposition to the removal of these arti- facts is also opposition to their transformation into a narrower form of text, detached from local custom and site. At Mynd Margan in Glamorgan, the mutual hostility between...

... bodily functions are a visceral metaphor for the disordered state of late medieval Scotland. Despite the theatrical power of such misogynistic stereotypes, antifeminism is not actually the endpoint of Lindsay's political satire. Rather, it is the tool through which Lindsay critiques the corrupt Catholic...

... the fact that internal imperial politics were so complex that the treaty was in fact two separate treaties, negotiated by different delegations working in different cities. Even the Thirty Years War, which Westphalia supposedly ended, actually continued for another eleven years as a bilateral war...

... he may fynde” (1197).3 He regards his play as a guide to the machinery of political power and duplicity. The other-­speaking of his play’s allegorical poetics, the enigma that his allegory promises to uncover, is not the occult pattern of the cosmos but rather the secretive pattern...

... in letters to both the Marquis Francesco Gonzaga and Pope Clement VII, and he hoped he could use the office to help bring about positive change in a dangerous, political climate.2 Peace and the good of humankind were as important to him when he was an ambassador in Spain as they had been earlier when...

... that are at once urban, domestic, agrarian, and political-­theological. This framework connects community to cosmos through its social and symbolic work. Hospitality embraces both theatrum and theatrum mundi: because hospitality as a social form involves sumptuary...

...Alexander Samson England and Spain's close ties of kinship had bound the royal houses together stretching back to the thirteenth century. In the later sixteenth century, English interest in Spanish culture, history, and politics had intensified precisely during the period when political relations...

... desire [envie] to laugh during the discussion of religious matters to the feeling of intellectual supe- riority she had toward “personnes fort simples” who believed unquestion- ingly in the “ridiculous and impossible.” Here, Anne was not just mocking the kinds of religious superstition which had...