{"title":"The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature ed. by Stratis Papaioannou (review)","authors":"Lucas McMahon","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48740110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard, and: Artemisia Gentileschi by Sheila Barker (review)","authors":"Yanzhang Cui","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47827637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Shakespeare's comedies of humors, The Taming of the Shrew (ca. 1592–94) and The Winter's Tale (ca. 1609–11), are well known for plots with misogynistic elements. In this paper, I explore the subgenre to which these two plays belong by reading them together, an exercise that yields insight not only into their unique formal structure but also into the discourses of the Renaissance with which they engage. Structurally, they are both comedies that, in their primary plots, depict members of an already-married couple who experience crisis when the wife exhibits characteristics associated with hot, masculine humors. In both plays, the crisis is resolved by a character who assumes the role of a "physician." The physician character in The Taming of the Shrew effects his cure by championing the Aristotelian, naturalistic discourse of humors over the religious or preternatural discourse of demons and devils. The primary physician character in The Winter's Tale effects her cure by championing the Platonist discourses of magic and equality over the natural, hierarchical discourse of humors. Both plays involve the complete psychological transformation of the wayward spouse who undergoes the healing process. Insofar as these two comedies of humors have parallel structures and opposite ideological valences, they can be seen as mirror images of each other.
{"title":"Her Own Humor: Contrasting Philosophical Discourses of Femininity in Shakespeare's Comedies of Humors","authors":"Aviva Farkas","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Shakespeare's comedies of humors, The Taming of the Shrew (ca. 1592–94) and The Winter's Tale (ca. 1609–11), are well known for plots with misogynistic elements. In this paper, I explore the subgenre to which these two plays belong by reading them together, an exercise that yields insight not only into their unique formal structure but also into the discourses of the Renaissance with which they engage. Structurally, they are both comedies that, in their primary plots, depict members of an already-married couple who experience crisis when the wife exhibits characteristics associated with hot, masculine humors. In both plays, the crisis is resolved by a character who assumes the role of a \"physician.\" The physician character in The Taming of the Shrew effects his cure by championing the Aristotelian, naturalistic discourse of humors over the religious or preternatural discourse of demons and devils. The primary physician character in The Winter's Tale effects her cure by championing the Platonist discourses of magic and equality over the natural, hierarchical discourse of humors. Both plays involve the complete psychological transformation of the wayward spouse who undergoes the healing process. Insofar as these two comedies of humors have parallel structures and opposite ideological valences, they can be seen as mirror images of each other.","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46701097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dante's New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature by Martin Eisner (review)","authors":"A. Quaini","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The potential of interracial, interreligious, and intercultural mixing—that is, cultural hybridity—was a frequent source of anxiety in the literature of sixteenth-century England. Following the start of the Tudor conquest of Ireland, contemporary writers and makers of Anglo-Irish policy emphasized that Irish culture, especially its language, laws, and customs, was seen as debilitating to English hegemony and demanded eradication. This article examines Tudor attitudes toward colonialization and cultural hybridity in two texts, Thomas More's Utopia (1516) and Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ire-land (1596), each of which focus on the position of one product of cultural intermarriage, the hybrid child. Through an interrogation of both More's portrayal of an idealized aftermath of colonial enterprise and Spenser's genocidal fantasy of English imperialism in Ire-land, I argue that cultural hybridity is simultaneously rendered integral and dangerous to the former and inherently destructive to the latter due to the ontological liminality of the hybrid child.
{"title":"\"An evill race\": Utopia, Spenser, and the Dangers of Cultural Hybridity","authors":"Kersti Francis","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The potential of interracial, interreligious, and intercultural mixing—that is, cultural hybridity—was a frequent source of anxiety in the literature of sixteenth-century England. Following the start of the Tudor conquest of Ireland, contemporary writers and makers of Anglo-Irish policy emphasized that Irish culture, especially its language, laws, and customs, was seen as debilitating to English hegemony and demanded eradication. This article examines Tudor attitudes toward colonialization and cultural hybridity in two texts, Thomas More's Utopia (1516) and Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ire-land (1596), each of which focus on the position of one product of cultural intermarriage, the hybrid child. Through an interrogation of both More's portrayal of an idealized aftermath of colonial enterprise and Spenser's genocidal fantasy of English imperialism in Ire-land, I argue that cultural hybridity is simultaneously rendered integral and dangerous to the former and inherently destructive to the latter due to the ontological liminality of the hybrid child.","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43550182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities by Carla Nappi (review)","authors":"Elisa Frei","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46995797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robin Hood: Legend and Reality by David Crook (review)","authors":"M. Donaldson","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41517608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book by Elaine Treharne (review)","authors":"Rachel Wilson","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47060270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Through analyzing the close context of a rural parish church and the iconographic program of the mural paintings located inside the building, this paper explores the implications of the patronage of these murals by noble women in the immediate period after the Black Death. Based on strong documentary evidence, I contend that the most plausible date of completion of these paintings, located in the Navarrese village of Ardanaz, was circa 1361–63. The economic crisis created by the pandemic seems to have moved the local rural nobility to seek positions of power in the administrative structure of the kingdom, close to the royal court. Indeed, a relationship between the noble Grez family and the prince is recorded visually in the mural paintings of Ardanaz. This fact plus the presence of noblewomen depicted in the surviving murals suggests female patronage of the work. Probably moved by piousness and fear in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death, the visual program in Ardanaz was designed by their patrons to express the advancement of time toward the Last Judgment and the unavoidable destiny of Christian souls between Heaven or Hell.
{"title":"Buttressing Our Souls for the Last Judgment: Female Artistic Patronage in a Navarrese Parish Church after 1348","authors":"Eneko Tuduri","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Through analyzing the close context of a rural parish church and the iconographic program of the mural paintings located inside the building, this paper explores the implications of the patronage of these murals by noble women in the immediate period after the Black Death. Based on strong documentary evidence, I contend that the most plausible date of completion of these paintings, located in the Navarrese village of Ardanaz, was circa 1361–63. The economic crisis created by the pandemic seems to have moved the local rural nobility to seek positions of power in the administrative structure of the kingdom, close to the royal court. Indeed, a relationship between the noble Grez family and the prince is recorded visually in the mural paintings of Ardanaz. This fact plus the presence of noblewomen depicted in the surviving murals suggests female patronage of the work. Probably moved by piousness and fear in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death, the visual program in Ardanaz was designed by their patrons to express the advancement of time toward the Last Judgment and the unavoidable destiny of Christian souls between Heaven or Hell.","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41363335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages: Literature, Philosophy, Medicine ed. by Gaia Gubbini (review)","authors":"Sarah Friedman","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41615448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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