...Sarah Beckwith This article explores the virtue tradition in the English theatrical tradition of morality theater and its fortunes on the professional stage. It explores questions of recognition in allegorical drama by examining “mankind” and “mercy” in the morality play Mankind , the appropriation...

...Sarah Hogan Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland is one of the most notorious works in the imperial archive, yet its fantasy of annihilating reform, or what might now be called “creative destruction,” schemes a highly specific kind of colonial project driven by novel kinds...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith © by Duke University Press 2001 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. a Introduction David Aers...

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...Sarah Beckwith © by Duke University Press 2003 Stephen Greenblatt’s Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion Sarah Beckwith Duke University...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith In its most basic sense, the term conversion (Latin conversio ) signifies a reversal, a change of direction. Yet the change or turnaround that is conversion has meant many different things in different cultures and across a wide range of discourses from logic to lyric...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith “Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.” So wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde . But how compatible are the forms and ideas of tragedy with Christian tradition, its theology and liturgy? What are the relations between medieval and early modern discourses...

...Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This volume explores new ways of understanding medieval and early modern conceptualizations of nature in light of current developments in critical animal studies, ecocriticism, new materialism, as well as our expanding knowledge of premodern...

...Sarah Connell; Julia Flanders Reading has received renewed scrutiny in the digital age, a result of the defamiliarization of the medium that has also brought about a rethinking of what is meant by “text,” “book,” and “author.” Fascination with large-scale data analysis has shifted attention toward...

...Sarah Mayo This article analyzes the ability of archival resources to make the especially transient and unstable performances of early modern mountebanks accessible and meaningful for performance studies research. Because mountebanks were itinerant performers and medical practitioners whose...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith The tradition of the virtues was the model for moral practice from Aristotle to Luther. This tradition framed practices of living well in relation to visions of the good, and in its later Christian version, of God. One became good through practice, just as a harpist might...

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...Sarah Beckwith; James Simpson The deepest periodic division in English literary history is between the “medieval” and the “early modern,” not least because the cultural investments in maintaining that division are exceptionally powerful. Narratives of national and religious identity and freedom...

... and attributed to Amma Sarah, one of the very few named female anchorites in the apoph- thegmata, indicate that some male monks did not accept female colleagues and were even openly hostile to them. 8 There were, then, good practical rea- sons for women who wished to pursue the eremitical life in the desert...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Johannes Wolf This article takes a new approach to the conflicts represented in the thirteenth- century saints’ lives of the Katherine Group. Identifying saints and idols as contrasting poles in these conflicts, it argues that the category of sentience is a key...

... in Blessed Raymond of Capua’s Life of Catherine of Siena  35 – 57 Beckwith, Sarah Language Goes on Holiday: English Allegorical Drama and the Virtue Tradition  107 – 130 Bennett, Judith M. Death and the Maiden  269 – 305 Celenza, Christopher S. Lorenzo Valla’s Radical Philology: The “Preface...

... such as this, is nonsensical. Much recent criticism (my own included) has been devoted to a relentless demystification of the courtly lyric. Thus, for example, Sarah Kay comments on these same stanzas of lyric that Gaunt / A Martyr to Love 479 stanza V’s...

... Tragedy: Fortunes of a Genre, Medieval and Early Modern Edited by David Aers and Sarah Beckwith Volume 49 / Number 1 / January 2019 “Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.” So wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde. But how compatible are the forms and ideas of tragedy with Christian...

... object in medieval and premodern culture. Some, like Caroline Walker Bynum and Sarah Beckwith, have productively examined how bodies signify, or like Keith Thomas and Alexandra Walsham, have focused on the shifting mean- ings of medieval religious practices.17 Other scholars of the premodern have...