.... CSATILDEWILSON University of Washington The Heresy of Courtly Love. By ALEXANDERJ. DENOMY. New York : The Declan X. McMullen Company, Inc., 1947. Pp. 92. Father Denomy, who probably knows Andreas Capellanus and his background better than any one else does, has chosen him as the sub- ject...

...Hamlin Hill Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 TWO TWAIN “HERESIES”1 By HAMLINHILL In the preface to Mark Twain, Jackleg Novelist, Robert A. Wiggins warns the reader, as he was warned by a friend, that his book...

...Esei Murakishi Abstract In A Dialogue concerning Heresies (1529) and The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer (1532–33), Thomas More proffers an account of natural language: the writing, speaking collectivity determines the meanings of words, and words picture the contents of the individual...

... of Heterodox Thinking Ruth Shklar For the most part, critics have approached the problem of dissent in The Book of Margery Kempe as something curiously external to its author’s purpose. Either they accept Kempe’s orthodoxy at face value, reading the accusations of heresy...

... of this legislation; see her “Lollardy: The English Heresy?” in Lollards and Their Books (London: Hambledon, 1985), pp. 140-63, esp. pp. 146-49. I cite the English text from the edition of Curt F. Biihler, Medium Rvum, 7 (1938): 170-79, a fuller presentation of the tract than that prepared by Margaret...

... to a visible conversion of the con- secrated elements are ascribed to Gnostic and other heretical teachers, and were thoroughly condemned by the Church Fathers (v. Irenaeus, “Adv. Haer Bk. I, chap. xiii ; Hippolytus, “Refutation of all Heresies chap. xxxiv-xxxv) . Orthodox acceptance...

... it is true that they interrupt only if one does not quite believe them.) Metaphysical Poetry and Propaganda, Art (3) denies the dilemma between propagandist art and the Ivory Tower, and criticizes art-as-propaganda chiefly on the ground that this is the revival of “the didactic heresy,” by those...

..., conservative majority notwithstanding, the rela- tionship between the Albigensian heresy and the poetry of the trouba- dours is closer than most scholars have been willing to admit. It is our contention that traces of this proximity may be found in Aucassin et Nicolette. Our discussion...

... tell a fine story. To Lounsbury, the “long disquisition in which the Pardoner indulges on the evil effects of drunkenness and gaming” was an “in- trusion of irrelevant learning” which “breaks the thread of the tale . . . and adds nothing to its effect.”l0 The heresy is still extant. As late...

... with this part of his story is an attitude which we might call “the Spenserian heresy.” This is the conviction on the part of a poet that there is no sharp dividing line between matter and spirit. When one has conceded that Heaven is a place of refined sensuous pleasures, one need not stick at angels...

... of “heresies” is surely Christian also, and is equally a part of the cultural heritage of Western European and American man.12 The other half of the story has been fully told (whether or not it has been fully read and understood) in nineteenth-century literature, par- ticularly...

... with “twenty-nine distinct damna- tions.” If so, the invention is thoroughly credible. It may be, however, that somewhere in the vast mass of theological literature is a docu- ment that lists exactly twenty-nine errors or heresies founded on a misinterpretation of some text in Galatians...

... the representatives of Zurich, Schaffhausen, Basel, Bern, and Geneva met together and formulated a “Konsensus” which practically repeated the declara- tion of the Dordrecht synod of 1618, but the seeds of heresy had already been sown and the next fifty years brought Switzerland well into line...

... Criticism, 1925-1945 : A Compilation. Brook- lyn: Printed by the Author, 1947. Pp. 9. $1.00. Copies may be ordered from the author, Long Island University, Brooklyn 1, New York. Denomy, Alexander J., C.S.B. The Heresy of Courtly Love. Boston College Candlemas Lectures on Christian...

... dels preyres (The Heresy of the Priests). Mention of the play enables Fontenelle to remark, apparently with pleasure, that the Albigensians and Waldensians established an anti- clerical vogue that the papal legates struggled in vain to stop. As for the theater in France, Fontenelle dates...

..., it is heresy. One of the best sections of the book is Chapter 5, on the reassertion of the more traditional logic and rhetoric somewhat modified by the Ramean interlude. Chapter 6, “New Horizons is a problem for the historian of a single period. Descartes and the Port-Royalists in logic...

... York: Columbia University Press, 1952. Pp. xvi + 274. $4.00. Some high-minded censors have occasionally protested against the “personal heresy” in the study of literature and the excess of biography at the expense of the deeper and more puritanically rigid study of the texts...

... admiration of the man whom he regards as the embodi- ment of all that is best in that people. CSATILDEWILSON University of Washington The Heresy of Courtly Love. By ALEXANDERJ. DENOMY. New York : The Declan X. McMullen Company, Inc., 1947. Pp. 92...

... an alien, wholly transcendent God, the true gnostic heretic veers dangerously toward another heresy-that of the manichean variety. He sets up a “doubly radical dualism”-nian/nature, nature/God-and therefore the necessity of vaulting over the body and nature (p. 214). This bypassing of physical...

.... JOHN C. LAPP Oberlin College Francis Carco: The Career of a Literary Bohenziatr. By SEYhcouR S. WEINER. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. Pp. xvi + 274. $4.00. Some high-minded censors have occasionally protested against the “personal heresy” in the study of literature...