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Review: Broadside Ballads Online
No full textBroadside Ballads Online (Bodleian Libraries, 1999 -). Online. <http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/>
Review: Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History
No full textJoseph A. Dane, Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). Print. 228 pp. US$65.00. ISBN: 9780812245493
Review: The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
No full textDavid Hawkes and Richard G. Newhauser, eds., The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013). Print, xxvi + 322 pp., 19 b/w ill., ISBN: 9782503549217
Review: Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia, c.1000-1800
No full textJón Viđar Sigurđssom, and Thomas Småberg, eds, Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia, c.1000-1800 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013). Hardback. 310 pp, 3 b/w ill. ISBN: 9782503542485
Peasant Anger and Violence in the Writings of Orderic Vitalis
Get PDFThis paper examines the representation of peasant anger in the writings of Orderic Vitalis. In his texts, Orderic often associates peasant anger with divine vengeance and just violence. Peasants are propelled to act because there are no other agents to help restore order; faced with the unrestrained violence of bad lords, Orderic describes peasants using their anger to ensure justice. Moreover, the low status of peasants ensures an appropriately ignoble death for such lords. Understanding the customary norms around peasant anger reflected in Orderic's work, then, is an important part of understanding medieval models of honourable violence.
Review: Shame and Honour: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter
No full textStephanie Trigg, Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Print, 322 pp., $55.00, ISBN: 9780812243918
‘L’orage des passions’: Expressing Emotion on the Eighteenth-Century French Single-action Harp
Get PDFThe single-action harp was introduced to France in the mid-eighteenth century. The instrument’s popularity reached its zenith in pre-revolutionary Paris as evidenced by the large number of method books and original compositions published for the instrument during this time. One of the first published references to this instrument was an entry in Diderot’s iconic Encyclopédie (1751-1772) where the author states that the instrument is ‘most suited to expressing tenderness and pain than the other emotions of the soul’. Through reading across key contemporaneous pedagogical, literary and musical sources, with a particular focus on those of influential harpist, writer and pedagogue Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis (née Du Crest 1746-1830), this paper interrogates how these emotions were performed and expressed on the single-action harp. Recent scholarship has focused on the instrument’s social and gender role, in particular its radical feminisation, in which Genlis has been positioned as a major influence. This article builds upon this research to consider the gendered nature of emotions as expressed on the single-action harp as well as contextualising the instrument’s unique mode of musical-emotional expression within the new musical aesthetic of the late eighteenth century, the Galant and Empfindsamer styles
‘In No Respect Can Contraries be True’: Passion and Reason in Marlowe’s Edward II
Get PDFIn Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II the relationship between passion and reason becomes powerfully relevant to the factional strife between the king and his barons. As the conflict escalates, one character exclaims that ‘in no respect can contraries be true’ (I. 4. 249), yet the play as a whole seems to refute this claim. While Edward has the right to claim the loyalty that his kingship entails and put down the revolt of his barons, the barons express a similar duty to remove the king’s favourite, Gaveston, for the benefit of the state. Both positions are true, and this presents a problem for the audience who seek to comprehend which faction they should support. In Marlowe’s view, contrariety is not so much a theory as an experience: and the audience is led to experience doubt. The play highlights the monstrous excesses of extreme passion and extreme reason as problematic attempts to make sense of the confusion of the play. In this paper, I will argue that Marlowe structures his play to first evoke and then actively question traditional representations of the relationship between passion and reason.
The Physics of Melting in Early Modern Love Poetry
Get PDFMelting is a familiar trope in early modern erotic poetry, where it can signify the desire to transform the beloved from icy chastity through the warmth of the lover’s passion. However, this Petrarchan convention can be defamiliarised by thinking about the experiences of freezing and melting in this period. Examining melting in the discourses of early modern meteorology, medicine, proverb, scientific experiments, and preservative technologies, as well as weather of the Little Ice Age and the exploration of frozen hinterlands, this essay shows that our understanding of seeming constants – whether they be the physical properties of water or the passions of love – can be modulated through attention to the specific histories of cognition and of embodiment.