... • Asceticism, Dissent, and the Tudor State: Richard Whitford’s Rule for Lay Householders Amy Appleford Boston University Boston, Massachusetts Richard Whitford...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman Mourning the death of a friend posed a problem for late Anglo-Saxon monasticism. Newly reformed under the authority of the Benedictine Rule and the Regularis Concordia , religious were precluded from developing personal friendships so as to protect a world in which all things...

... as her substantive arguments. The larger aim of the essay is to establish ground rules for engagement in the rapidly developing field of Trans-Reformation cultural studies. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a The Reformation of Scholarship...

... elements of female cloistered life. In 1517, Fox (1448–1528), then bishop of Winchester in England, chose to rewrite the Benedictine Rule in a format specifically addressed to women, adapting its principles more directly to the needs of female religious. A comparison of these two texts, their authors...

...? Spenser's thinking on this issue is conditioned by his participation in a way of figuring empire through the palus , or the wooden stake that marks the boundary of civil society in a colonial setting, often under English rule. The alternative way of figuring imperial power on the landscape during...

... of the contemporary Spanish source, Don Quijote , and, moreover, that the field systematically overlooks the translatio from Spanish prose to English drama. I offer a reading of Fletcher's Rule a Wife and Have a Wife as an example of how we might recover the ideological vectors between the two corpora. © 2009...

... Scots, especially the king, James VI, who embarked on his personal rule after the execution of the last regent in 1581. Walsingham’s keen interest in Anglo-Scottish diplomacy was partly occasioned by his office, but more importantly by his own concerns about the implications a weak or hostile Scotland...

... Poma de Ayala, a citizen of Tawantinsuyu living under Spanish rule in the viceroyalty of Peru, who finished his Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno by 1616 (during the middle years of the De Bry enterprise). This essay considers an important element of the “silenced half” of the story of Spanish...

...Marla Carlson In 1425, Parisians under Anglo-Burgundian rule during the Hundred Years War enjoyed the spectacle of blind men in armor attempting to club a pig to death, in the process clubbing one another. Marginal images in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264, a Flemish Romance of Alexander...

... to observing the canonical hours. Personal breviaries enabled friars to merge conventual and itinerant ideals, adhering to the Dominican order's rule. While serving friars’ personal use, breviaries also marked collective identity, distinguishing Dominicans from other religious professionals and fostering...

... of the contemporary quest for certainty and proof in a context in which the very meaning and status of truth was being destabilized by the English Civil Wars and the Interregnum experiment in republican rule. It also shows that contemporaries themselves wrote histories of “experience” and developed a distinctive...

... in this way, the King James translators also received an official set of instructions or “rules” further specifying how the new translation was to be undertaken.6 Richard Bancroft (1544 – 1610), then bishop of London, has been credited with being the formulator of the rules, though this attribution...

... conventual life by organizing their house according to a monastic rule. They successfully assimilated spiritual models of feminine penance circulating in the late Middle Ages, and they fostered their temporals (worldly goods and proper- ties) just as did nuns from regular orders.1 Evidence...

..., that this massive volume constitutes the exception rather than the rule.5 One can find, however, similar positions to the ones Patterson rightly finds constitutive of Holinshed’s Chronicles in much earlier texts, as in John Rastell’s important but neglected The Pastyme of People (1529).6 Like Thomas More’s...

... and the next, where the reader moves from a focus on one nation or one empire to another. These junctions often make both textual and iconographic ref- erence to other moments in history — not only the periods just before and just after the junction — often to the Incarnation or the concurrent rule...

... of Charles d’Orléans, and George Ashby’s Prisoner’s Reflections), The Kingis Quair is critical to our under- standing of the multiple ideologies of royal imprisonment in premodern England and Scotland.31 For in rewriting the Boethian model of liberty as self-­rule and imprisonment as inordinate...

... I’s imperial rule (963–73).3 During the decade of Hrotsvit’s most active literary pro- ductivity, the Saxon ruler increased the centralization of royal power by sub- duing and unifying dukes ruling over other Germanic tribes. Otto I also reversed the ecclesiastical politics of his father Heinrich...

... of the presbyterian movement want an equality of authority amongst ministers and “honour and dignity distributed according to the excellency of gifts,” because they persuade themselves that thereby “the chiefty would light on your own neck.” They seek equality, then, not because they would not rule...

..., and are incapable of ruling over others. Whereas the natives of Asia are intelligent and inventive, but they are wanting in spirit and therefore they are always in a state of subjection and slavery. But the Hellenic race [genos] which is situated...