Convents, Courts and Colleges: The Prioress and the Second Nun
Pilgrimage, after Whitby, and before Vatican II, was a secular activity, a performance of piety by the laity, not by the clergy; although there were a few exceptions.7 Chaucer’s Monk, Friar, Prioress, Nun, Priest, Summoner, Pardoner and Parson ought not to be here. Their presence is outrageous comedy. Inns were forbidden to the cloistered clergy who, if they had to travel, were enjoined to stay in other monastic establishments along their route.
Fairytale Characteristics in Medieval Romances
It is the contention of this thesis that the link between fairytale and romance which I previously mentioned as disparaging to romance is in fact a strength of romance.
Old MacDonald had a Fyrm, eo, eo, y: two marginal developments of < eo > in Old and Middle English
It is widely accepted that the Old English diphthong /e(:)o/ generally monophthongized, around the eleventh century, to the central rounded /ø(:)/.
Seduction, Abandonment, and Sorcery in Middle English Lyrics
My purpose in writing this article is to expose a different view of romantic relationships that exist in medieval literature, a view that is in opposition to courtly love.
Trojan Wars: Genre and the Politics of Authorship in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
In the Middle Ages, Troy was not ancient history. As a living myth that continued to evolve along with the English nation, Troy functioned as a site for examining England’s cultural and political questions.
The Winter Solstice Season and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Does the season of the dark and the increasing day correspond to our own journeys into the dark and a celebration of light with new understanding and strengthened connectedness? Perhaps there is more than a bit of Pluto symbolism in our activities of the winter solstice.
Producing the Middle English Corpus: Confession and Medieval Bodies
In Producing the Middle English Corpus: Confession and Medieval Bodies, I argue that confessional discourse played an important role in the creation of the Middle English canon.
Lovesickness in “Troilus”
The history of lovesickness in the Middle Ages is the record of physicians’ attempts to understand what happens to the body and the mind when passion renders a lover a patient.
A Chivalrous Man is Not a Gentleman: A Look at Chivalry in the Age of Chaucer
The concept of knighthood began as a military strategy used to supply men to fight kings’ wars, but it gradually developed into the glamorized ideal of chivalry and became associated with virtuous behavior expected during times of both war and peace.
‘It’s a Magical World’: The Page in Comics and Medieval Manuscripts
In this essay I examine the location in the material world that calls forth that cognitive frontier: the page.
Indecent bodies: gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature
Indecent bodies: gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature Oswald, Dana Morgan Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English, (2005) Abstract While…
The Æðelen of Engle: Constructing Ethnic and Regional Identities in Laȝamon’s Brut
The Æðelen of Engle: Constructing Ethnic and Regional Identities in Laȝamon’s Brut Kleinman, Scott (California State University — Northridge) Exemplaria: A Journal of…
Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in
Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in Pre-Reformation Scotland Fitch, Audrey-Beth Women in Scotland : C.1100 – c.1750, edited by…
“Of Fish and Flesh and Tender Breede / Of Win Both White and Reede”: Eating and Drinking in Middle English Narrative Texts
It is the aim of this study to take a look at some examples of the reflection in Middle English narrative texts of the remaining physiological necessity – eating and drinking – in an attempt to analyse and evaluate the ways in which these all too human activities are exploited for literary purposes in the period with which are concerned
The Romance of England: Richard Coer De Lyon, Saracens, Jews, and the Politics of Race and Nation
The Romance of England: Richard Coer De Lyon, Saracens, Jews, and the Politics of Race and Nation By Geraldine Heng The Postcolonial Middle…
Sir Launfal: A Portrait of a Knight in Fourteenth Century England
Sir Launfal may follow the footsteps of its ancestor, but probably with a different intent.
The Danes in Medieval Romance: Myth, Memory, Identity
The Danes in Medieval Romance: Myth, Memory, Identity By Daniel Wollenberg Paper given at the Vagantes: Medieval Graduate Student Conference, held at the…
Casting Light on Clandestine Marriage in Il Filostrato
Various studies in recent years have illuminated the almost pandemic nature of clandestine marriage in late-medieval Europe – the Church considered it to be a pernicious social problem,
Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin
Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin Fabry, Irene Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract…
Models of Winning in the B-text of Piers Plowman and Wynnere and Wastoure
Models of Winning in the B-text of Piers Plowman andWynnere and Wastoure Roberts, Ruth R. Marginalia, Vol. 4, (2005-2006) Cambridge Yearbook Abstract In…
‘On Englyssh Tunge Out of Frankys’: Translation and ‘Tourning’ in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne
‘On Englyssh Tunge Out of Frankys’: Translation and ‘Tourning’ in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne Dearnley, Elizabeth Marginalia, Vol. 4, (2005-2006) Cambridge Yearbook Abstract…
Reading and Believing: Covenant in the Poems of the Pearl Manuscript
Reading and Believing: Covenant in the Poems of the Pearl Manuscript Bates, Linda R. Marginalia, Vol. 4, (2005-2006) Cambridge Yearbook Abstract The narrator…
A King, A Ghost, Two Wives, and the Triumph of Love: Romance, Confession and Penance in Sir Orfeo and The Gast of Gy
A King, A Ghost, Two Wives, and the Triumph of Love: Romance, Confession and Penance in Sir Orfeo and The Gastof Gy Noone, Kristin…
Seduction, Abandonment, and Sorcery in Middle English Lyrics
My purpose in writing this article is to expose a different view of romantic relationships that exist in medieval literature, a view that is in opposition to courtly love.
The Lord’s Prayer in Circles and Squares: An Identification of some Analogues of the Vernon Manuscript’s Pater Noster Table
The Lord’s Prayer in Circles and Squares: An Identification of some Analogues of the Vernon Manuscript’s Pater Noster Table Gottschall, Anna Marginalia, vol. 7…