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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 149–175.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Daniel Davies Abstract Scholars often claim that medieval writers use Britain and England interchangeably, but Britain was a contested term throughout the period. One persistent issue was how Scotland fit within Anglocentric visions of the island it shared with England and Wales. This article...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 380–383.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Seth Lerer Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . By Bruce W. Holsinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 472 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 380 MLQ September 2003...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 272–274.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Fiona Somerset Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England . By Catherine Sanok. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xvii + 256 pp. University of Washington 2009 Fiona Somerset is associate professor of English at Duke...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 479–482.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Masha Raskolnikov Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions .By Jody Enders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxiii + 285 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Mark Miller Abstract The inevitable emerges in this issue as a name for the troubled intersection of agency and structural necessity. The most prominent medieval name for that intersection is sin. Far from grounding the medieval subject in a set of theological norms that give it stable coordinates...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 449–451.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Virginie Greene In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France . By Peggy McCracken . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . x + 217 pp . Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Our relation with animals is mostly lived and thought...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 100–103.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Benjamin A. Saltzman saltzman@uchicago.edu Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England . By Mary Kate Hurley . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2021 . xii + 212 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Translation entails...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 386–389.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Chelsea Silva chelsea.silva@okstate.edu The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships . By Newman Barbara . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 372 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Barbara Newman’s book begins...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (4): 502–503.
Published: 01 December 1946
... remarks probe to the heart of Germany’s present tragedy. A. CLOSS University of Bristol, England Mysteries’ End: An Investigation of the Last Days of the Medieval Stage. By HAROLDC. GARDINER, S. J. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1946. Pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 437–453.
Published: 01 December 1943
...Josiah C. Russell Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL BIOGRAPHY By JOSIAH C. RUSSELL Although the study of the problems of medieval biography is a very old subject, it has...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 500–502.
Published: 01 December 1943
... become a valuable contri- bution to the study of the German mind in the last four decades, leaves his many questions unanswered. ARPADSTEINER Hunter College The Medieval Ft.t.ii~h“Roman d’Alexandre.” By E. C. ARMSTRONG and ALFREDFOULET. Vol...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (1): 64–66.
Published: 01 March 1989
...EDGAR SCHELL S. Spinrad Phoebe. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987. xii + 334 pp. $30.00. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 REVIEWS The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage. By PHOEBES...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 660–662.
Published: 01 December 1941
... Colum’s penetrating study, and he might have been inspired by it to a more judicious analysis. The author did not see fit to add either a selected bibliography or an index. SOPHUSKEITH WINTHER University of Washington Some Studies of Medieval...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 342–349.
Published: 01 December 1963
...Michael S. Batts Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 NUMBERS AND NUMBER SYMBOLISM IN MEDIEVAL GERMAN POETRY By MICHAELS. BATTS macht sich von Zeit zu Zeit eine krankhafte Sucht geltend, um jeden Preis zu glauben...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 March 1964
... gratitude. MORTONY JACOBS University of Washington A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives. By D. W. ROBERT- SON, JR. Princeton University Press, 1962. Pp. xvii + 519; 118 plates. $10.00. The response of critics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (1): 203–227.
Published: 01 March 1965
...Rachel Bromwich Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 THE CELTIC INHERITANCE OF MEDIEVAL LITERATURE By RACHELBROMWICH Each language, as it has become the medium for artistic expression, has evolved an individual tradition in prose and verse...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 73–82.
Published: 01 March 1960
...John A. Yunck Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 MEDIEVAL FRENCH MONEY SATIRE By JOHN A. YUNCK “Ge sai le flabel de Denier,” says one of the jongleurs in the fabliau of the Dew bordeors ribaus, when he is detailing his repertory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 83–85.
Published: 01 March 1960
.... 406. $6.50. John Speirs’s new book possesses the same virtues and the same defects that critics have noted in his earlier Chuucer the Makerf and also in his essays on medieval literature published in Scrutiny throughout the life of that journal. Several of the latter are in substance...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 498–499.
Published: 01 December 1950
...Francis Lee Utley Roger Sherman Loomis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Pp. 32. $0.60. Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 REVIEWS Introduction to Medieval Literature Chiefly in England: A Reading List and Bibliography. Second...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (2): 208–210.
Published: 01 June 1991
...A. S. G. Edwards Mary J. Carruthers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 10, 1990. xiv + 393 pp. $54.50. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 REVIEWS The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medimal...