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Alison Langdon deposited “The More Things Change: Maria Edgeworth’s ‘The Modern Griselda’” on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
At a pivotal moment in Maria Edgeworth’s 1805 novella “The Modern Griselda,” a party gathers for a reading of “The Clerk’s Tale” at the home of the eponymous character and her husband. In response to Griselda’s vehement indignation at her medieval counterpart’s example, one member of the party comments that perhaps, “if Chaucer had lived in our…[Read more]
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Alison Langdon's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Alison Langdon deposited “Na Maria, pretz e fina valors”: A New Argument for Female Authorship on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
The canso attributed to Bietris de Roman participates in conventions that readily accommodate the language of desire within the exchange of political and social fidelity, offering another means by which to reconcile female authorship with a female object of courtly devotion.
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Alison Langdon deposited “The Nose Knows: Encountering the Canine in ‘Bisclavret'” on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
Readers are often left baffled by the bizarre retribution Marie de France’s werewolf protagonist inflicts upon his treacherous wife: why bite off her nose, specifically? Though critics have offered a range of interpretations for the wife’s punishment in Marie’s lai, approaching the significance of noselessness from a dog’s perspective may deepe…[Read more]
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Alison Langdon deposited “My Trouth for to Holde-Allas, Allas!”: Dorigen and Honor in the Franklin’s Tale on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
Though the deep and abiding concern with honor that Arveragus and Aurelius evince in the Franklin’sTale have been explored in detail, Doreen’s own preoccupation with honor—no less significant in the tale’s exposition of trouthe—has not received much critical attention. Indeed, the question of Dorigen’s honor is often preempted by analysis…[Read more]
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Brandon Hawk's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Alison Langdon deposited Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]
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Alison Langdon deposited Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]
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Alison Langdon deposited Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] - Load More