... University Press 2019 wounding of Henry V Battle of Shrewsbury bodily disfigurement Lancastrian chronicles politics of trauma ...

... that the strategic battering of marginal beings served to transmit a hierarchically ordered culture while forcefully expelling the Armagnac faction from the hierarchy's highest rank. Within this stark example of public violence that performatively materialized political division, the bodies of pigs and blind men...

...Patricia Clare Ingham Engaged with insights from trauma theory, this essay offers a reading of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale as a profound meditation on catastrophe and survival. This account refocuses the Knight's Tale 's famous oscillation between consolation and devastation, philosophy...

...- focused studies? We invite submissions that address these inquiries. Of particular interest are essays in dialogue with nonliterary disciplines, such as social anthropology, speech act theory, cognitive theory, and theorizations of political activism and performativity. The volume aims to take performance...

... first to ferreting out the irony that underscores much troubadour poetry and then to demystifying the gender politics of courtly love.11 The strategy behind these critical moves was deliberate and largely political. Dissatisfied with the uncritical misogynist and heterosexist assumptions about love...

...Shannon Gayk; Evelyn Reynolds This special issue considers how depictions of premodern catastrophe—environmental, social, political—shape and are shaped by literary form. The issue's introduction explores what form has to do with catastrophe and offers a case study of how form moves in a Middle...

... such trauma by substituting gold for blood, a general equivalent, able to circulate universally, unlike blood, which in con- temporary Ricardian politics, as we have seen, had become a juridical sub- stance used to prohibit exchange between the English and the Irish. The vio...

... political philosophy of John Fortescue and George Buchanan. Much more than a broadly gendered metaphor for queenly submission, this language of royal imprisonment derives its legitimacy from discourses that touch upon the very ideological foundations of English and Scottish monarchy...

... Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2018. xi, 271 pp. $29.95. McGinn, Bernard. Thomas Aquinas s Summa theologiae : A Biography. Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, (2014) 2019. xi, 260 pp. Paper $24.95. Morton, Jonathan. The Roman de la Rose...

... and the Grindletonians in the 1630s was replaced by the much greater trauma of the Civil War in the following decade, but the significance of Grindleton was remembered by some of the 336 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.2 / 2003 church historians of the period, the most important of whom...

... inclined to the view that they were always likely to be supernatural.41 At the same time, Bolton also had a strong sense that the actual, personal bodily chemistry of pious believ- ers could protect them against psychological trauma. “I am persuaded,” he asserts in a work of 1631, that “the very...

... Publications. vii, 151 pp. Paper $13.00. [Caxton’s translation of Jacobus de Cessolis’s thirteenth-century political treatise Liber de mori- bus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scachorum.] 198  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.1 / 2010 Elizabeth I, Queen...

... of the past two decades has been to reorient discussions of form around the historical and political valences that are, and always have been, immanent within them. 8 For current formalist critics, the political is not merely connected to literary form; form and politics are reciprocally constituting. 9...

... studies Camden, Vera J., ed. Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiv, 185 pp. $55.00. [On Bunyan’s life in relation to the contours of the Civil War, Res- toration, and Glorious Revolution.] Cruickshank, Don W. Don...

...- Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines 401 cations for in association with the University of Rochester, 2000. viii, 175 pp. Paper $13.00. Edwards, Richard. The Works of Richard Edwards: Politics, Poetry, and Performance in Sixteenth-Century England. Edited by Ros King. The Revels Plays...

... the communal, political, and judi- cial structures of early modern England. The pamphlet’s popular “texts of horror,” then, intertwined two thrilling stories. In one of these stories, zealous Elizabethan reformers impressed upon their unredeemed popular audiences witchcraft as an inverse model...

... with him. For a medieval audience, Orfeo’s lack of an heir of his flesh effectively undermines all his other achievements.8 To regard the steward as a surrogate son is merely to gloss Orfeo’s personal and political defeat with euphemistic varnish.9 How, then, should this diversion of the royal...

..., that they are in some sense communal and thus may be, as we will see in examples from early modern Huronia and Iroquoia, binding. Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio — which liter- ary dream concludes Cicero’s classic work of Roman political science, De re publica — was canonical from its...

... If these writers look toward the scene of the Passion, however, they do so through squinting eyes amid slumping postures, as if they were glimpsing a trauma too immense for human comprehension. The poems explored in this essay—Donne’s “Goodfriday, 1613,” Herbert’s “Sacrifice” sequence, and Milton’s “Passion...

... that the trauma of the Armada wounded that logic to its heart, and made the figure of Spain return, in its ghostly way, as the overdetermined collapsing of visible signs of difference with invisible ones — of ethnic difference with religious and political difference. On this description, then, the Spanish...