{"title":"Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff (review)","authors":"Brenna Rose O'Hara","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"273 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43781505","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":"Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions ed. by Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge (review)","authors":"Sarah Bischoff","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"231 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48062365","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:Forests feature prominently in Middle English romance and serve as uncivilized spaces that test knights on their journeys from boyhood to manhood. In this article, I examine how the forest of Wirral from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight functions as more than just a proving ground for Gawain and instead operates as an active participant in the narrative outcomes of the text. Through the application of ecocriticism and an investigation of medieval attitudes toward the natural world, I argue that Gawain and Bertilak experience two different versions of Wirral. Gawain's adversarial relationship with Wirral contrasts Bertilak's copacetic one, demonstrating how differently the forest reacts to those within its borders. By viewing Wirral as a character rather than a landscape, I expose the seriousness with which the Pearl poet meditated on both the natural world and the effect that humans have on it. Such considerations reveal how Wirral voices its opinions and desires, even if the human actors of the text do not share the same language.
{"title":"Tongueless Whispering: Wirral's Role in Decentering the Human in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight","authors":"Vanessa Jaeger","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Forests feature prominently in Middle English romance and serve as uncivilized spaces that test knights on their journeys from boyhood to manhood. In this article, I examine how the forest of Wirral from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight functions as more than just a proving ground for Gawain and instead operates as an active participant in the narrative outcomes of the text. Through the application of ecocriticism and an investigation of medieval attitudes toward the natural world, I argue that Gawain and Bertilak experience two different versions of Wirral. Gawain's adversarial relationship with Wirral contrasts Bertilak's copacetic one, demonstrating how differently the forest reacts to those within its borders. By viewing Wirral as a character rather than a landscape, I expose the seriousness with which the Pearl poet meditated on both the natural world and the effect that humans have on it. Such considerations reveal how Wirral voices its opinions and desires, even if the human actors of the text do not share the same language.","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"109 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43466357","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":"Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095–1291 by Stephen J. Spencer (review)","authors":"Alexandra Garnhart-Bushakra","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"285 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42032068","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":"Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World ed. by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea (review)","authors":"Dyese Elliott-Newton","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"219 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42058663","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":"Thinking of Nature and the Nature of Thinking: From Eriugena to Emerson by Willemien Otten (review)","authors":"Zackary Kiebach","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"281 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43866176","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":"Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West by Jamie Kreiner (review)","authors":"Mariechristine Garcia","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"271 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45882688","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":"Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Late Medieval Italy by G. Geltner (review)","authors":"Brittany Forniotis","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"261 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48471307","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":"The Medieval Economy of Salvation by Adam J. Davis (review)","authors":"Luca Ughetti","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"244 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42542002","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":"Excalibur, Durendal, Joyeuse: La force de l'épée by Martin Aurell (review)","authors":"Jodie Miller","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"221 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44801340","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}