... a pedagogical answer to the question of how to incorporate medieval rhetoric within courses on the history of rhetoric, by providing a close reading of three symmetrical cantos of Dante’s Commedia that are specifically concerned with the ethics of persuasive discourse. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

... . Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor . London : Allen Lane . ———, ed. 2004 . Italy in the Central Middle Ages, 1000–1300 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Essay collection of current research on medieval Italy . Clarke Paula . 2007 . “ The Villani Chronicles .” In Chronicling History...

... . “ On the Margin: Postmodernism, Ironic History, and Medieval Studies .” Speculum 65 : 87 – 108 . Warren Nancy Bradley . 2009 . “ Changes in the Canon .” In The Medieval British Literature Handbook , ed. Kline Daniel T. , 184 – 98 . New York : Continuum . Guest Editors’ Introduction...

...’ and ‘The Adulterous Falmouth Squire’ .” Chrestomathy 10 : 220 – 31 . Lawton David . 1987 . “ Dullness and the Fifteenth Century .” ELH 54 : 761 – 99 . Lerer Seth . 2003 . “ Medieval English Literature and the Idea of the Anthology .” PMLA 118 : 1251 – 67 . Medieval Institute...

...Theodore L. Steinberg Although there is a sizable body of medieval Hebrew poetry, that poetry is almost never included in courses on medieval literature. This neglect creates a misleading picture of the European Middle Ages. This essay attempts to show why and then to demonstrate how this poetry...

...Alex Mueller A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance . Edited by Raluca L. Radulescu and Cory James Rushton. Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 2009 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Work Cited McDonald Nicola . 2004 . “ A Polemical Introduction .” In Pulp Fictions...

...Thomas H. Crofts The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English . Edited by Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker. Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Reviews Handling Medieval Literature...

... selves. By looking at the indeterminancies and contradictions within medieval theories about “professions,” and by examining the queer valences of the first recorded use of the word professionalism (1856), we might open up spaces within our doctoral programs for productively “unprofessional” behavior...

... with multimedia and medieval experiences with manuscripts make that pairing especially useful. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Agathocleous, Tanya, and Jillana Enteen. 2003 . “ `Subject: RE: I absolutely *HATED* Achebe's Things Fall Apart': Teaching World Literature on the World Wide Web...

...Melissa Conway This article outlines a twenty-minute introduction to medieval manuscripts in the age of Dante, using a combination of Internet resources for the study of medieval manuscripts and actual medieval manuscripts. The goal of the lecture is to introduce students to the basics...

...Anne L. Clark Introducing Dante in a course on medieval visuality positioned the Commedia in relation to medieval women’s visionary and mystical literature. This article suggests how a comparison of the Commedia with this literature, particularly the works of Hildegard of Bingen, can illuminate...

... course readings to students’ own lives. Students drew from medieval texts and further research to develop a House name, slogan, core virtues, founding story, description of the residence, and famous graduates. By reviewing and rereading texts with an eye to their own designs, students used recall...

...Jenny C. Bledsoe This article explores how to incorporate medieval materials, such as vellum and goose feather quills, in writing-focused courses. Through reflective writing, students link the tactile experience of medieval materials to their emerging understanding of their own writing processes...

...Harold C. Zimmerman By incorporating the eleventh-century colloquies of Benedictine monk Ælfric Bata into first-semester British Literature survey courses, instructors can efficiently and entertainingly confront and complicate many of the preconceived and reductive views of the medieval period...

...Moira Fitzgibbons The Prik of Conscience is a lengthy and widely distributed medieval poem (more than 9,600 lines, more than 115 surviving manuscripts). But should we call it literature? Spurring vigorous discussions of aesthetic value and providing a vivid introduction to spoken Middle English...

...Matthieu Boyd Recent scholarship has emphasized the multilingualism of the medieval British Isles, but this has yet to translate into a fully integrated teaching practice free of anachronisms or stereotypes, particularly in the treatment of Irish and Welsh literature. This article suggests both...

...Kari Lokke “The Fairy of the Fountains” is one of Letitia Landon's most enigmatic and disturbing poems. It makes for particularly difficult reading because Landon sought in this poem to translate the forms of ballad and medieval lay into her own nineteenth-century poetic idiom. Her replication...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Contributors Andreea Boboc is associate professor of English at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, where she teaches medieval literature, history of the English language and linguistics. She...

... and to contribute to newly emerging fields such as the medical humanities. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Works Cited Amt Emily , ed. 2010 . Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook , 2nd ed. New York : Routledge . Blamirez Alcuin , ed. 1992 . Woman Defamed and Woman...

... .” In Cultures of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation , 64 – 84 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Beckwith Sarah . 1992 . “ Ritual, Church and Theatre: Medieval Dramas of the Sacramental Body .” In Culture and History 1350-1600 , ed. Aers David , 65 – 89...