...Jean E. Howard; Paul Strohm Duke University Press 2007 a The Imaginary “Commons” Jean E. Howard and Paul Strohm Columbia University New York, New...

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... to systematize hermeneutic eclecticism—here, Aers's “magpie” or mix-and-match approach to theory—Paul Strohm proposes a compatibility test for theoretical models to determine whether they are interoperable and applicable to premodern texts. Strohm lists five criteria of compatibility: the centrality of the text...

... as a sin, see Summa , IIa-IIae.1–3. 69 For Usk's first imprisonment, see Shawver, Testament , 13–14. 70 Turner, Chaucerian Conflict , 119. 71 Strohm, Hochon's Arrow , 153. 72 Strohm, 160. 73 Arendt, “What Is Authority?,” 91. 45 Westminster Chronicle , 314–17...

... dense repository of cultural memory.”4 In a similar vein, Paul Strohm and Jean Howard suggest that literary texts, particularly performed ones, establish “a social imaginary” that sees a culture both preserving and selectively recuper- ating its past. While a taxonomy of period divisions provides...

... married. A severed head that is adorned and exhibited is a head that has been curated. It speaks not for itself but for the individuals responsible for its display. In this case, Richard s head became, according to Paul Strohm, an ironical inversion, in which the claimant is given something he sought...

... in his apartments at Aldgate as witness to the Peasants’ Rebellion. As recent biographer Paul Strohm puts it, Chaucer's writing life involved “a series of high-wire balancing acts, improvisations, and awkward adjustments.” While a powerful bureaucrat in London, he “maintained precarious relations...

... and His Books, ed. Susanna Fein and Michael Johnston (York: York Medieval Press, 2014), 235 – 55, at 252. 22 Lisa H. Cooper, “The Poetics of Practicality,” in Oxford Twenty-First­ Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English, ed. Paul Strohm (Oxford: Oxford University Press...

...- sity of Minnesota Press, 1996), 29 – 62. 11 Davis, ed., Non-Cycle­ Plays, lxxvi – lxxxv. 12 Sebastian, Croxton Play of the Sacrament, 29; Davis, Non-Cycle­ Plays, lxxii and 93 – 94. 13 Atkin, “Printed Playbooks,” 197 – 202. 14 As Paul Strohm writes, “Among other miraculous aspects...

.... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). The epigraph is from 1.438. All citations of Chaucer’s works refer to this edition by fragment and line numbers. 2 See Alexandra Gillespie, Chaucer’s Books (in progress); and her “Books,” in Middle English, ed. Paul Strohm (Oxford: Oxford University...

... the author or narrator as source of intention, is by no means unique to Lawton. In Theory and the Premodern Text , Paul Strohm draws on psychoanalytical concepts and presumes “the existence of a textual unconscious.” 52 Texts contain repressed material, which comes to the fore in gaps or scattered traces...

..., “Ritual, Church, and Theater,” 75; Strohm, “Croxton Play of the Sacrament ,” 41–44. 71 Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 65–71. 70 Philippe de Vignulles, Gedenkbuch des Metzer...

...; it was a kind of political slander that could be, and often was, aimed at one’s enemies.53 In this context, the “Tale of Ryght Nought,” I suggest, serves not only as a form of vernacular, semi-philosophical literary play, but also as part of what Paul Strohm would call the “textual unconscious” of Egerton...

... of the Altars, xxi  –  xxii. Relevant here is Paul Strohm, England’s Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399  –  1422 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998); and Ian Forrest, The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005...

... Troy. She loves Troi- lus, but she also anticipates her isolation in a hostile camp of warrior men. By giving voice to Criseyde’s alienation, Lydgate proposes a direct connection between exemplary virtue and cultural circumstance. Paul Strohm convincingly demonstrates Lydgate’s focus...

...; see, for example, Paul Strohm, England’s Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399–1422 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998). 19 The phrase “a poet’s fable” from which Greenblatt’s first chapter takes its title is from William Tyndale, An Answer...

.... $135.00. Rastall, Richard. Minstrels Playing: Music in Early English Religious Drama, Volume 2. Music in Early English Religious Drama, vol. 2. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001. xxi, 549 pp.; 24 tables, 2 musical examples. $110.00. Strohm, Reinhard, and Bonnie J. Blackburn, eds. Music as Concept...

... and William Chester Jordan. A Princeton Clas- sic Edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xxviii, 114 pp. Paper $14.95. 662  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 36.3 / 2006 Strohm, Paul. Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shake- speare. The Conway...

... of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381,” History Workshop Journal, no. 45 (Spring 1998): 1 – 28, at 15 – 18; and Paul Strohm, Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-­Century Texts (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992), 51 – 55. 8 Longstaffe, “What Is the English...

..., Robert M. Stein, “Multilingualism,” Christopher Bas- well, “Multilingualism on the Page,” and Michelle R. Warren, “Translation,” in 416 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.2 / 2012 Oxford Twenty- first Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English, ed. Paul Strohm...