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

... problematic in Elizabethan England. This essay analyzes the engagements of Stephen Batman and an anonymous ecclesiastical annotator with the Pricking of Love , a deeply affective late fourteenth-century devotional treatise. The medieval text, infused with fervent Christological and Marian piety, would seem...

..., in relationship to a number of contemporary works, including Lollard writings, Stephen Hawes's The Conversion of the Swearers , the anonymous The Passion of Christ , and A sermon concernynge certayne heretickes by John Fisher. Within this context, it is possible to see that Tyndale was not a Lollard, and yet his...

...Stephen Yeager This essay applies the concept of postimperial melancholia, taken from the work of Paul Gilroy, to describe the affective undercurrents of medieval text editing in the latter half of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first through an example from Beowulf...

...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...

...Stephen Gaukroger One of most surprising aspects of the shift from scholastic natural philosophy to the new mechanist natural philosophies in the early decades of the seventeenth century is the retention of a doctrinal conception of knowledge. There was an assumption not only among scholastics...

...Stephen H. Rigby © by Duke University Press 2004 Historical Materialism: Social Structure and Social Change in the Middle Ages Stephen H. Rigby...

...Stephen J. Campbell © by Duke University Press 2005 ...

... unrepentant for the part Jews played in the Passion. Judas’s story becomes more complicated, however, when he reveals that his own family is descended from a group of Jews (including the pro- tomartyr Stephen) who resisted the crucifiers of Jesus and, what’s more, were crypto-Christians themselves...

... figure of Robert Hegge of Durham who was born in about 1597, who died in 1629, and whose signatures and owner- ship inscriptions in the manuscript make him the earliest known owner of the text. Indeed, as Stephen Spector summed up work on the manuscript’s provenance, “the sole area of scholarly...

... psalmi 14 qui est de puritate taber- naculi sive ecclesiae christianae.] Feiss, Hugh, OSB, Maureen M. O’Brien, and Ronald Pepin, trans. and ed. Robert of La Chaise-­Dieu and Stephen of Obazine. The Lives of Monastic Reformers, vol. 1. Cistercian Studies Series, vol. 222. Trappist, Ky.: Cister...

... the waters with his blood.34 As recent studies by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Walter Stephens have sug- gested, Geoffrey’s characterization of Goemagog’s defeat has implications for cultural politics. The contest itself is preeminently a spectacle staged in order to demonstrate Trojan/British superiority...

... A tendency to categorize The Temple in these ways emerged as early as the 1650s, when advertisements by the book- sellers Philemon Stephens and William London emphasized one or another dimension of The Temple s genre. In a period in which booksellers made the choice between selling The Temple as a literary...

...., 11 illus. $115.00, paper $39.95. Brylowe, Thora, and Stephen Yeager, eds. Old Media and the Medieval Concept: Media Ecologies before Early Modernity . Media before 1800. Montreal: Concordia University Press, 2021. xiv, 250 pp., 8 figs. Paper $59.95. [Brings the field of media studies...

...: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xv, 183 pp.; 4 figs. $80.00. Barber, C. L. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom. Foreword by Stephen Greenblatt. New edi- tion. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. xviii, 301 pp. Paper $24.95...

... by René Weis. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. xviii, 451 pp.; 18 illus. $100.00, paper $13.95. Stephen de Exonia. The “Annals of Multyfarnham”: Roscommon and Con- nacht Provenance. Edited and translated by Bernadette Williams. Dublin: Four Courts Press...

...- ing older forms of English drama. More recently, Clifford Davidson and Stephen Greenblatt have read the craftsmen- actors of Dream in the con- text of the “traditional plays” the boy Shakespeare might have witnessed in Coventry. Louis Montrose argues that the mechanicals not only recall...

... important studies of the play by Stephen Longstaffe and Stephen Schillinger have departed from convention by focusing on its sympathetic treatment of the rebels.7 In his edition of Jack Straw, Longstaffe depicts the comic vio- lence associated with the revolt as a carnivalesque alternative...

...  617 – 643 Campbell, Mary Baine Gender, Colonialism, and the Queerness of Dreams: Seventeenth-­Century Dreamwork  187 – 213 Cornett, Michael New Books across the Disciplines  215 – 236, 429 – 451, 645 – 666 Gaukroger, Stephen The Early Modern Idea of Scientific Doctrine and Its Early...

.... Dictionary of Theologians to 1308. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., 2010. 588 pp. Paper $123.00. Hiscock, Andrew, and Stephen Longstaffe, eds.Th e Shakespeare Handbook. Literature and Culture Handbooks. London: Continuum, 2010. xviii, 261 pp. $120.00, paper $29.95. Hopkins, Lisa, ed. ’Tis Pity She’s...