...Shigehisa Kuriyama Many patients in Europe and America today think it perfectly plausible that a cure for their insomnia or headaches, say, might be found in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine of Han dynasty China, that approaches to the body conceived in a distant culture, more than two...

... recipient receives only bodily, which is to say not completely — not, in More's terms, virtually. An unvirtuous recipient is not the only means by which the full power of the Eucharist may be compromised. Because the Incarnation and transubstantiation involve transformations of word and bodies into each...

... center on history (i.e., “story”) and theology, but also engage political topics: class, equality, governance, gender, the authority of reason, and conscience vis-à-vis that of tradition, custom, and culture. The essay focuses on these latter issues, that is to say, on the political opinions held...

... churches during episodes of iconoclastic purification. The same pages feature Calvinist Psalms and pious sayings that were once chanted and sung by French Protestants, as well as inscribed and layered in abundance on the walls of their churches and homes. In this mixed verbal-visual form, the medium...

... those questions the author examines the special character and critical tensions of Carolingian monasticism and why the monk chose the lives and sayings of the desert fathers to copy while on campaign. From a single sentence in an obscure manuscript, a world of associations and connections opens...

...Stephen M. Fallon In a famous passage, the Son of God in Paradise Regained dismisses classical philosophers for their ignorance of “how man fell” and for their confidence in human sufficiency to attain virtue. “In themselves,” the Son says dismissively, they “seek virtue.” By putting this argument...

... University Bloomington, Indiana According to a famous monastic saying, the Egyptian desert in Late Antiq- uity was the place where, as in some recent theory about gender in history, “there are no women.”1 To be sure, the desert was Žlled with thoughts of women, memories...

... at straight on: it has remained a phenomenon of the middle range, a medium through which discourse is apprehended; it therefore tends to go without saying, and therefore without being thought about. It is worth thinking about. One instance of it is the readiness of polemicists to decry opponents...

...,” suggests Peter Womack.7 This is a theater with a “rigourously ver- bal base.” It is preoccupied with the conditions of utterance, and with the judgments we make when we call things by name. Like ordinary language philosophy, such theater asks, “What should we say when?”8 I hope to show that ordinary...

.... Pagan works are, he says, like the captive women referred to in Deuteronomy 21:10–14. There we read that if an Israelite soldier should desire a woman captured in war, then he should bring her home to his house, where the woman will “shave her head, and pare her nails.” After a month, the soldier...

... for: Robin, announcing he's stolen one of Faustus's books, says, “Now will I make all the maidens in our parish dance at my pleasure stark naked before me,” and the Clown suggests that if Rafe “has any mind to Nan Spit, our kitchen maid” he use the conjuring book to “turn her and wind her” to his “own use...

... of anyone looking for Valla’s part in the technical history of philology, which is to say the story of the way modern methods of textual editing and original language interpretation were developed over time. Surfaces, however, can be deceiving. Valla, in his “Preface,” does more to undermine...

.... Except that they could not; they knew they could not; and they made use of the fact that they could not. The attempt to say they did washes repeatedly against logical difficulties the stories themselves routinely acknowledge. And in our one instance “in the wild,” the attempt failed: the account...

..., but by the usual criteria — that is to Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40:2, Spring 2010 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2009-027  © 2010 by Duke University Press say, in terms of illocutionary force, perlocutionary effect, and locutionary meaning, situation of address...

... the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries writers emphasized the importance of monastic labor. “ ‘Many do lament the pulling downe of abbayes,’ wrote Francis Trigge, a Lincolnshire cleric, in 1589. ‘They say it was never merie world since.’ ”14 While most commentators do not focus on the “merie world...

.... To find one, I will read, and reading, as Zumthor says, “is a practice, realizing the union of our thought with this thing it accepts, per- haps provisionally, as real.”13 These “things,” for me, here, are the texts of the Latin Middle Ages, in their manuscript and edited...

... and Ideology David Aers and Sarah Beckwith Duke University Durham, North Carolina “Thanks to a chapter on tobacco in my first book, An Empire Nowhere,” says Jeffrey Knapp, “I’ve often been asked whether I smoke...

... indicates. . . . According to him, righteousness follows upon and flows from actions. But, according to God, righteousness precedes works and works result from it. Works and actions do not produce virtue, as Aristotle says, but virtues determine actions, as Christ teaches...

... Penitential Psalms that David supposedly composed to express his contrition for his double sins of adultery and murder. In the above quotation from Piers Plowman, Will designates these seven Penitential Psalms as “tools” that he uses in the labor of intercessory prayer, “saying” them for both the living...

...,” we should remind ourselves, and our daughters — “not that new.” Or — as Adam Smyth’s essay in this volume allows us to say, as it demonstrates that the work done on the Harmonized Gospels at Little Gidding positioned collage as that which “precedes writing as Christianity’s written mode...