... Bestul, Satire and Allegory in “Wynnere and Wastoure” (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974), 43; Britton J. Harwood, “The Displacement of Labor in Winner and Waster ,” in The Middle Ages at Work: Practicing Labor in Late Medieval England , ed. Kellie Robertson and Michael Uebel (New York...

.... Finally, a select few were presented to the ruler, from whom he made his choice, giving the winner a ring and ceremonial kerchief.38 The initial suggestion for a bride show appears to have come from Iurii Trakhaniotov, a Greek who had come to Muscovy in the entourage of Ivan III’s second...

... 2 the winner by a very large margin. Why? Author 2 loves to point out failure. The following cultural forma- tions were and are failures: medieval Christendom (not its “ideal” doctrine, but all its failing Christians); the Reformation; confessionalized Europe; and Western modernity...

... a highly religious tone when deriding those who are preoccupied with clothing, it does have some important commonalities with more heavily moralizing secular texts and sermons. Indeed, the conventions of formal verse satire are at the core of many moralistic texts. Verse satire, as Jack D. Winner...

... Literature of Medieval France . Faux Titre: Études de Langue et Littérature Françaises, vol. 455. Leiden: Brill, 2022. viii, 362 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Ormrod, W. Mark. “Winner and Waster” and Its Contexts: Chivalry, Law, and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England . Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2021. xi...

... that William Rhodes identifies in overtly apocalyptic poems like Winner and Waster . 39 Not chaos, not only a world turned upside down, but something, to borrow the words of Valerie Allen in a different context, that “incants rather than describes.” 40 Formally, the images are partial snapshots...

... has the favorite running out an easy winner. It is this mood of celebration that inspires Langland to Christ’s great speech on salvation, to which I now return, having provided I hope the necessary context for understanding it better (there are, to be frank, few accounts of important...

... served as important points for the transmission and sharing of religious knowledge. Amiens owed its wealth to the cloth indus- try, and some of its artisans were highly literate, as is illustrated by goldsmith Jehan Poisson, the 1441 winner of the poetry competition of the brother- hood of Notre...

... that draws attention to his skillful use of violence to assert his will. Just before the story of the laurel, the poem describes Apollo’s slaying of the python with his bow and arrow and the subsequent establishment of the Pythian Games to commemorate this action. Winners in boxing and racing “would...

... modern readers. Rhetorically, the goodwife R. is the winner in the exchange with the tentative, ironic schoolmaster. He backs out of the argument, allegedly exasperated with her willfulness, but also, I sus- pect, awed by the echoes of witch-speak in her verbal attack. The mass production...

... been highly valued.52 What Schleusener has described as an “overly stringent balance of contradictory positions” leads us to expect that this particular debate “must have a winner” as well as disappoints or confuses when, in the end, it does not.53 Our sense that this owl and this nightingale...

... offer or attempt a final gambit of usurpation. The eyes of “al po pat per-in sete” (575) are upon him. The fickle courtiers will side with the winner. The stew- ard makes his choice: better delayed gratification than the danger of none at all. “Ouer & ouer pe bord he prewe” (578), dramatizing his...

... with the winners of history; they were themselves always acknowledged as partisan—and as more true pre- cisely because of their alliance with the “right” side. Neither the scientific nor the legal were clearly separable from the religious arena of controversy; all were...

... sixteenth-century lyric, but the Horatian intertext anchors it still in the domain of the ancient masters. The winner obviously is Ronsard himself, as he transforms the triumphant end- ing of Horace’s ode into a triumph for himself. Horace writes: This is all your gift, That I am pointed...

... —“that the cockfight is a thinly disguised symbolic homoerotic masturbatory phallic duel, with the winner emasculating the loser through castration and feminization”— serves also as a corrective cri- tique to what he views as the missteps and misreadings of anthropologists (from Geertz forward) whose “bias...