... and social relations, I have gleaned the greatest insight from Craig Muldrew s The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 1998). British Empire English sailors ballads seafaring life family and community ...

... about myself, Relate my experiences, how in days of toil I Have often suffered times of hardship, Endured bitter breast care, Known in the ship many an abode of care. The Seafarer It is commonplace to say that pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the medieval period was no simple undertaking. Premodern...

... is reversed: “the spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life.”11 Positivism might seem to avoid the ethical objections that apply to preemptive allegoresis. It also seems to avoid the strongest rational objection to allegory, which is that such interpretation is circular. The meaning arrived at when...

... in human life, from the celebration in Heorot after Grendel's defeat to the wistful longings of The Wanderer and The Seafarer . 30 Indeed, the “Lay of the Last Survivor” in Beowulf invokes them all: the gold drinking cups, the warriors in armor, the harp, and the hawk. 31 Moreover, those...

...—by the absence which eludes the book,” and because writing is itself “the passion, the patience, the extreme passivity which opens life to dying.” 1 There may be no better Old English example of such “seismic shuddering” than the attempt to represent Christ's Passion in Christ III . 2 Christ III...

.... Mapping space 8. Cities and urban life 9. Architectural space 10. Theater Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45:3, September 2015 DOI 10.1215/10829636-3149284  © 2015 by Duke University Press 1. Editions and translations Black, Joseph, ed...

... with armies and equipment to wage war against him. Thus, (seafaring) is a custom of the inhabitants of both shores of the Mediterra- nean, which was known in ancient as in modern times. (Muqad- dimah, 208 – 9) Ibn Khaldun traces this maritime model of covetousness, ships bearing...

.... Works of St. Bonaventure, Volume X: Writings on the Spiritual Life. Translated by Girard Etzkorn. Edited by F. Edward Cough- lin, OFM. Bonaventure Texts in Translation Series. St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006. xv, 432 pp. Paper $40.00. Bonaventure, Saint. Works of St...

.... If the remote and uncharted islands Odysseus encounters on his way back home are imagi- nary, they are carefully conceived and form a recognizable grouping or archipelago. They provide a scale of the possibilities of human life for the Greek who was ever, as Aristotle defined him in his Politics...

.... Marner, Dominic. St. Cuthbert: His Life and Cult in Medieval Durham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 112 pp.; 15 figs., 46 color 668 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.3 / 2001 plates. $35.00. [Color plates are of the surviving miniatures from Bede’s Life of St. Cuthbert...

... is difficult to stage. This tripartite structure of an individual’s life was also expressed 72  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.1 / 2013 in the popular early modern maxim quoted in this essay’s title, “Quod me nutrit me destruit,” which was used to describe the generative and destruc...