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... himself as a “strange stranger” within the dream landscape, the king experiences his mystical body in vegetal terms. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 medieval French romance Perceforest ecocriticism forests kingship • The King’s...

... notions of qi? To understand this strange forgetfulness about the Western past, we must linger on a defining feature of traditional humoralism, often slighted in modern synopses: the haunting fear of excrement. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008...

... to show the interrelationship between doctrinal innovation and tradition through an allegorical use of the English language itself. By revealing the strange familiarity existing between Old English and the vernacular that E.K. calls the “mother tonge,” Spenser creates a rhetoric of linguistic estrangement...

... of walking. The Sphinx makes us see the strangeness of walking. Walking is not a con- stant feature of our lives: we learn to walk with difficulty, if at all, as chil- dren, and we slowly unlearn that ability if we live long enough. Yet when one walks with relative ease, it’s easy to take walking...

... of the Brussels colophon quietly insist on Ellenhart s humility : It was Ellenhart who copied out in his distinctive script the rest of the manuscript, including the Vision of Barontus, a popular early medieval text, but a somewhat strange presence in Ellenhart s manuscript since it is a seventh-century text...

... and strange.6 Nonetheless, for late medieval and early modern men and women, olfaction was a key component of everyday life, including drama. Analyz- ing representations of scent as a dramatic trope within two distinct theat- rical atmospheres — late medieval civic drama and early modern profes...

... setting. But I want to argue in this essay that Skel- ton’s allegorical idiom moves also, and even more powerfully, in a different direction. Magnyfycence is, indeed, not Skelton’s only experiment in allegory. He wrote another: a spare, strange, enigmatic, and remarkably sophisticated magic-­show...

... and the relic to emerge in the sight of local parishioners who have followed the dove to the shoreline. The relic is then divided in two and enshrined in two Cornish churches. This is a very strange tale of Passion relic devotion in which a hybridized relic-human body figures prominently. In its depiction...

... more than feudal inequities in a new guise. The poem invokes the system of three estates—lords spiritual, lords temporal, and commoners—normally identified with feudal social organization, but in a strangely altered form. “I see within my glasse of steel / But foure estates . . . the King...

... by Adam before the Fall.20 Hence, perhaps, the essential importance to his medical schema of the strange essence he called the “Arcanum,” which he described as “incorporeal and immortal . . . the entire virtue of a thing multiplied a thousandfold” (Selected Writings, 148). Van Helmont went...

... with whom the text opens, grotesque though he may be, craves acceptance by the new race that has colonized his homeland. With his strangely confessional riddles, he tries to establish relationships with them on his own terms, seeking out those who can discern and speak openly of the extreme behavior...

... into, but sometimes beyond the master narrative to dimensions of the past cast aside by the big stories we tell our- selves. But why the little, strange, and overlooked?4 In science, the small and strange have always commanded more interest than they do among histori- ans. A tiny irregularity in the orbit...

... the conceptual challenges they pose, so that the question of how to approach such books can be taken quite literally. In other words, where should we go to find strange volumes — not only where do we go to find them in the catalogue, but where do we find them on a map? In what kind of institution might...

... things, made into a play by John Ford, a novel by Mary Wollstonecraft, and a 2003 historical biography by Ann Wroe.2 The present essay focuses on John Ford’s play The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck: A Strange Truth, published in 1634 and performed at intervals thereafter.3 The play uses...

... body is here linked explicitly to the practice of idolatry, a lake [offering] to the devil. Such displays are attempts to saturate the pagan statues themselves with life: they suck life and blood from Maxentius s offerings in a strangely agential man- ner. As Katherine points out, however...

... coming to earth—parallels the ecological suffering that follows the Crucifixion. This repetition of past and future in Christ III 's present both indicts humans for the catastrophe and overshadows their ultimate responsibility with God's transcendent sovereignty and creation's strange self-determination...

... a week to go,” like rams In the old time of war, would shake the press, And make ’em reel before ’em. No man living Could say “This is my wife” there, all were woven So strangely in one piece. (4.1.78 – 83) Yet even though this noisy...

..., and the allies of the emperor of Constantinople prominently featured blacks.38 Strange and exotic warriors in chivalric romances sometimes acquired their own arms adorned with black faces, as did the opponents of Godfrey of Boulogne and Alexander the Great.39...

... not require charters or letters sealed by a king or count. Neither does it follow bloodlines or derive from marital affili- ation. This alternative lineage, guaranteed by a vernacular romance traicte, is authorized instead by wonders of the unknown world: the marvelous and the strange, whether fairies...

... selves now to live in the dayes of King Henry the seventh of famous memory, and the strange report of a West Indies, or a new world abounding with great treasure should entice us to beleeve it: perhaps it might be imputed for some blame to the gravity of wise men, lightly...