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.... In such a context, it becomes possible for contemporary Christians to shift their attention from resenting the fact that Christianity no longer provides the West a shared cultural background and teleology to a more productive task: that of identifying proximate common goods and constructing piecemeal shared...

... for it, pursue it — I think this is common to all human beings. . . . For the good person is good for this very reason, to become blessed. And the bad person would not be bad unless he hoped that he could be blessed from being bad.13 And in De Trinitate (bk. 13, par. 7...

... to the common good are those moments in which avarice is exceeded by envy. Where envy moves beyond a desire to possess an object enjoyed by another to the desire to destroy the neighbor’s very capacity for enjoyment, envy reveals itself as preeminently dangerous.22 Gower’s Genius accordingly refers...

... between proximate and ultimate ends and the way this distinction allows him to recognize a genuine virtue aimed at the proximate end of the earthly common good even in the absence of any knowledge of Christ or divine grace. It seems possible to harmonize these two interpretations only if we affirm...

... of meaning. In both cases, historical agents are understood to play a significant role in delimiting the interpretive possibilities for manuscripts they produce. The two versions of codicological intentionalism are complementary whenever originary authors play a direct or proximate role in the production...

.... ¶ For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skinne, and the bones in the flesh and the harte in the bowke [trunk] so ar we, soule and body cladde and enclosydde in the goodness of god. It is this theological understanding that accounts for the proximity of ideas of vertical...

..., Winter 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-013  © 2009 by Duke University Press actors making their own interested observations, we tend to find common- places and telling differences rather than any insuperable boundary between epic poetry and the writings of diplomacy, empire, and war. I...

... 2010 a Good King Henry and the Genealogy of Shakespeare’s First History Plays Catherine Sanok University of Michigan...

... practice that is predicated on a different idea of authorship and textual authority? Spearing argues that for medieval readers “the textual I was (what we would call) a proximal deictic, and they did not distinguish between its possible fictional and autobiographical referents.” 21 When John...

... in the manuscript’s capacious margins. Certainly someone in the household knows about the value of good pen- manship; written more carefully on 76r [93] is the phrase “Iff you wyst what a profytable thyng it were to wryght you wold lyerne.” The execution is neater than that of the writer who uses a reddish crayon...

..., figures of what Giorgio Agamben might call “bare life,” seems to highlight Spenser’s imaginative indulgence.4 Even Eudoxus replies to this account with a near delightful, “It is a wonder that you tell” (102). For good reason, many critics of A View, like Said, have interpreted passages like...

... and self- narratives as they emerge and develop over the course of the seventeenth century. Even if Gentileschi is her own most proximate model, the process of painting her- self requires an intense level of fixation on the physical self, in this instance compounded by the necessity of using a mirror...

.... Instead, they rep- resent something like the apotheosis of both royal feminine goodness and, more specifically, the political authority of Catherine and the Tudor family about to welcome her in marriage. The saints can stand for that political authority, I would argue, only because their function...

... peoples with a generous admixture of Jews.2 These perspectives describe the consequence of convivencia (cohab- itation) but they rarely address the question of how such cultural diversity occurred. Convivencia is a loose term that suggests that by virtue of living in close proximity the people...

... and witty invective into the expression of religious didacticism. The perva- sive use of elaborate figurative language and insulting polemic, common in public sermons, suggests the extent to which popular literature had seeped into religious discourse. As we shall see, sermons that emphasize the sin...

... of all things French (273, 275, 277, 279). Despite Brunhild’s faults, Catherine is worse, the author insists, and the proof is that she invited her enemies — good French nobles all — to her daughter’s wedding in order to arrange for Prot- estants and Catholics to kill each other.3 Interspersing...

..., January 2018 DOI 10.1215/10829636-4280873  © 2018 by Duke University Press The body up close The yearning for proximity, for direct contact, and for firsthand experi- ence that constitutes one of the epistemological pillars of the scientific rev- olution in the sixteenth century can...

... identifiable location of occupation, then we enter, it seems to me, a satisfyingly “geographical” and experiential realm of understanding, as opposed to a philosophical one. Now, some while ago Catherine Belsey showed that “common sense” views on our sense of place in relation to texts and history...

... as chymistry, these writers probe the boundaries of art and nature, the mechanical and liberal arts, and the ordinary and alchemical. Further, because of readers’ familiarity and proximity to linen and paper, the material book offered proof of chymistry's usefulness, grounded in the tacit knowledge of daily...

... relatively independent. Hill notes an agreement of 1587 by which freeholders and copyholders in Grindleton enclosed and divided a common. As such, they were effectively Diggers within the terms of the law, using common land for cultivation by common people. The Diggers denied private property, whereas...