...C. F. S. Creasy A review of Cole Andrew , The Birth of Theory ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 ). Cited in the text as bt . Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Out of the Spirit of the Medieval Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory c. f. s. creasy A review...

...Bernardo Sarmiento Hinojosa A review of Katharine Breen , Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Nicolette Zeeman , The Arts of Disruption: Allegory and “Piers Plowman” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Cited...

...Kathleen Biddick Abstract Centered on the opening scene of reading staged by Giorgio Agamben in his study of reading machines, The Open: Man and Animal , this article considers how Agamben’s own messianic reading of an illuminated page from a medieval Ashkenazi Bible (Biblioteca Ambrosiana MSS B 30...

... of the black eunuch slave in medieval Persian history. The difficulty of the historicity of race produces and involves crises of origins that manifest in traumatic encounters with trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slavery that explode the scalar coherence made possible by established narratives of racial...

... enclosure and the trace of a transcendent outside? What might arise if immanence is severed from its link with secularity, if it ceases to be merely another conceptual support in secularism’s metaphysical armature? To pursue these questions, the essay engages a variety of materials, including medieval...

... the intertwined discourses of technology and spiritualism, the focus has almost solely been on the nineteenth century and later, on the age of electric and electronic telecommunications. The medieval ghost poem, as an exemplary case, complicates this account, showing how poetry has long served...

.... But one should go beyond drawing parallels, as Fischer does, and attempt a systematic exploration of differences. For this rea- son, my own research over the past few years has been concerned with detailed anthropological analyses of monastic ritual, the sac- rament of confession and the medieval...

... and obsesses over its dangers to a degree that modernity does not. Where modernity views sorrow by and large as a problem to be fi xed, even as premodern, and/or the inverse, as its own general condition, medieval culture typi- cally understood sorrow as a task to be faced, a work...

... Press, 2005). Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002). Muhammad Ali Khalidi, ed., Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Julia Kristeva, Murder in Byzantium...

... Ages marked not an intensification of ancient metaphysics, but its dismantling. In this essay, Blumenberg shows how medieval thinkers were unable to reconcile Aristotelian notions of the regularity and finitude of the cosmos, which continued to carry metaphysical weight, with Chris- tian...

... of a community. For such debates in Buddhism, as well as Islam and medieval Christianity, in relation to the concepts of “rule,” “law,” and “ritual,” see Abeysekara, Colors of the Robe ; Salgado, “Tradition, Power, and Community” ; Scott, “Ends and Strategy of Yaktovil” ; Agrama, Questioning Secularism...

..., and the relation of literature to culture. 510: Medieval English Literature (covers wide range of narra- tive of exile, misery, and longing from Margery Kempe to Chaucer). 560: Early American Literature and Cultures—a historical course on American colonial...

... affected and absorbed by the image of Christ in the form of the seraph. The stigmata are the exemplary figure of the effect of the con- templated image and, I would add, an example of a particular form of medieval devotional practice that makes the image the founda...

... of the aesthetic itself. r. d. perry is a doctoral candidate in English and medieval studies with a designated emphasis in critical theory at the University of Cal- ifornia, Berkeley. He is currently completing a dissertation on coterie poetry and the construction of the Chaucerian...

... (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Jean-Luc Nancy, The Speculative Remark: One of Hegel's Bons Mots (Cultural Memory in the Present), trans. Celine Surprenant (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Nicholas Orne, Medieval Children (New...

... and a coedited volume titled Speculative Medievalisms. jean-michel rabaté is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the founders and curators of the Slought Foundation and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has authored...

...). BOOKS RECEIVED 153 Julia Kristeva, Murder in Byzantium, C. Jon Delogu, trans. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). Erin Felicia Labbie, Lacan's Medievalism, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book...

... and The Castle, both published by Hachette in 2000. judith a. peraino is professor of music at Cornell University. Her pub- lications include articles on medieval secular songs and motets, the rock artists PJ Harvey and Blondie, synthpop groups of the late 1970s and ear...

... in critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. nicola masciandaro is professor of English at Brooklyn Col- lege (cuny) and a specialist in medieval literature. Some principal themes of his work are mysticism, commentary, and decapitation. Recent publications...

..., 1999). Geoffrey Bennington, Interrupting Derrida (New York: Routledge, 2000). Kalman P. Bland, The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modem Affirmations and Denials of the Visual (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). Qui Parle Vol. 12, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2001 222...