... with trafficking in the twelfth-­century Ordo representaciones Ade, an astounding Play of Adam that trades in religion openly and undercover. When polemical contestation between Old Law and New leads to figurative encounters between Jews and Christians, their dialogue and disputations make rival claims on who...

..., especially apparent in the intimate relationship between man and nomenclature established in the Bible. Man's function in Judeo-Christian dogma as the namer of things prefigures his purportedly privileged role in producing language and controlling its interpretation: The myth of creation sets forth...

... a beatitudo huius vitae still valid for a Christian Eden, the poet appeals to the text of Ovid’s Fasti through which in many occurrences he is building a harmonic image of human living that, in the shadow of forebears’ sin, only a future intervention of Grace will dispose for Dante’s words. Through exact...

...-thinking. Evangelizers preached messages of social order, with a racial and religious cast, to indigenous peoples living in Peru's countryside, while Peru's Inquisitors determined membership in the elusive, but worldwide, club of "authentic, racially-pure, Old Christian, Spaniards"-Spaniards without...

..., that is, renegades who rejected Christianity and Spanish rule, "standing away" from the imposition of colonial power.2 As Jose Rabasa convincingly argues, apostasy is a unique category of being "without history," for apostates reject their forced incorporation into universal history that Christian baptism...

... exan1ple as the prudent and wise nlonarch of Israel, Blide makes a shift fron1 Seyssel and implicitly allies the identity of the'" Most Christian" king not with the Faculty of Theology of Paris (which he does not mention) but with hU111anisn1 and the bonae literae. The "sacred" qualities of France's...

..., but also from Virgil and the tradition of Christian eloquence. 1 Les Natchez sets the tone with its own version of the Virgilian Arma virumque cano: "A l'ombre des forets americaines, je veux chanter des airs de la solitude tels que n'en ont point encore entendu des oreilles mortelles; je veux raconter vos...

... recensions in which the Buddha is likened to a Christian saint or condemned for idolatry depending upon the translation politics of the recension. Gaunt argues that linguistic openness to the foreign and hybrid within and between Romance dialects is homologous with curiosity about and tolerance for diversity...

... by the Seville cemetery where his valiant foe, Ramiro, lies buried. After Vargas, a brave Christian general who was himself a rival and critic of Ramiro, has escorted him to the grave site, the Moor exclaims in the concluding lines of the book: "Quedad en paz," exclam6, "manes sagrados, manes que el destino...

... period during the Middle Ages, but dismisses the accomplishment of the medieval thinkers for two reasons. First, Muslim scientists did nothing more than translate the ancient Greek texts that the Christian West had forgotten (Renan, Ouverture 18 and "Islanlisln" 204-5). And secondly, those Muslims who...

... states that [REL] is not reducible to any of the institutionalized religions, he nonetheless draws on Christianity to frame and illustrate the workings of this mode of existence: conversion and biblical exegesis offer, respectively, a model for radical transformation through love, and the reprise...

... activities of the Church to control of the French government, wrote several religious works and edited the Bibliothèque des classiques chrétiens latins et grecs, whose publications began in 1852. The aim of this series was to revive interest in Ancient Christian lit­er­a­ture, which had been 316 Thomas Pavel...

... the two kingdoms with his wife Chelinde: they are welcomed at a nearby pagan castle, and Sador becomes its lord. Over the years the couple forget their Christian faith. The enmities instigated by Chelinde’s beauty finally pit Pelias’s son Luce, Canor, and Sador against each other, ending in their deaths...

... as a conflict between these two competing racial groups. 5. Wurmser describes the Union Generale scandal as the model for L'Argent in his introduction to the novel (Zola, L'Argent 10). 6. Karl Marx describes how the Jews have converted the Christians to their worldly god of money (34). 508 MAURICE SAMUELS...

...Christiane Makward Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 Christiane Makward CUT-THROAT OR MOCKING-BIRD: OF CONDE'S RENEWALS A few years ago Maryse Conde declared tongue-in-cheek: "I think I've somewhat lost the power to displease. It's something I miss."1 Pleasing...

... between the individual and his environment. Teresa takes as modus operandi the Christian religious practices of the moment based on the belief that true and ultimate healing is only achieved through religion. Her text encompasses the multidimensional analytical strategies of power, marginalization...

... but abandoning her daughter. The reunited family journeys to Rome, where the pope reconfirms the Fille as a Christian, baptizes her son, and ratifies her marriage to Tiebaus. In due course, she gives birth to two more sons, who become the heirs of Saint Pol and Pontieu. The daughter she leaves behind eventually...

... Simon. (AURELIE RENAUD, Universite Paris 7) Roger-Michel Allemand and Christian Milat, Eds. Le Nouveau Roman en questions, 5 : Une 'Nouvelle Autobiographie' ? Paris-Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard, colI. 'La Revue des lettres modernesl L'Icosatheque 20',2004. Pp. 301. Fittingly, given its topic, Une...

..." Christianity, democracy, socialism, and anarchism-all, in his view, enemies of art and beauty. This interpretation was very close to the writers of the Action Fran(aise's reading of Nietzsche in the later 1890s. For them, Nietzsche served to illustrate all the historical, cultural and racial differences...

... those who deviated from Christian doctrine but also those who should have been more appropriately understood as infidels, that is to say, Muslims, Jews, and pagans. She argues that pagans, in particular, could not be constituted as heretics in good faith, an opinion shared by many charged...