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{"title":"Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent ed. by Jennifer N. Brown and Nicole R. Rice (review)","authors":"A. Welch","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905424","url":null,"abstract":"Moving to expressions of civic identity in the early medieval period, Matthieu Tillier broadens the scope of the volume to include urban populations identifying with Islam. He argues that, in the seventh and eighth centuries, Islamic political identity, influenced by consensus, similarly emphasised tribal origins over urban origins, but a shift in the latter half of the eighth century saw a new emphasis on political centralisation. Marco Mostert reflects on urban culture in the early medieval West. Focusing on a Germanic context, Mostert identifies a shift in the tenth century in the political identity of episcopal towns identifying with Roman concepts of civitas and urbs to, perhaps monastic, ideals centred on community. Gianmarco de Angelis then explores elites and urban communities in an early medieval Italian context, as particularly informed by recorded tensions between central authority and local traditions. He posits a clear and vital urban identity strongly informing political discourse in this period. Claudia Rapp rounds off the volume by noting the variety of political continuities informed by the volume as providing a counterpoint to teleologies inspired by the ‘fall of Rome’. Despite the teleological shift from Roman to medieval and the continuities this microanalysis of urban political culture inspires, this volume is perhaps at its best when it disagrees with itself: uncertainty over whether the ‘power of the people’ or ‘urban identity’ were formally and politically effective in this period of transition creates a powerful tableau for reflection. A small criticism, common in an age dominated by secularism, is the sense that that other radical continuity, Christianity, was somehow not vitally active and invested in this transition, but rather informed by it. Still, this is a volume bringing together a wide variety of perspectives into a useful whole. Stephen Joyce, Monash University","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"59 1","pages":"240 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88014460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia: Essays in Honour of Kirsten Wolf ed. by Dario Bullitta and Natalie M. Van Dreusen (review)","authors":"J. Kennedy","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905427","url":null,"abstract":"what appears in regions considered exotic by Europeans. In this section Buettner discusses trade routes, mining, and maps, the interests of merchants and princes in treasures and travel, with geography and art. The three sections of this book deal with three quite different arenas, and possibly to three quite different audiences. Each could be a separate study, which is both frustrating and fascinating. The work opens new areas of research that expands our understanding of late medieval society. The focus on secular evidence also ties in with current work being done on inventories and other forms of material culture that are also proving fruitful for researchers. This book is stimulating, thought-provoking, and should be read by anyone interested in the role of precious stones in medieval secular culture. Judith Collard, The University of Melbourne","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"78 1","pages":"246 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74979822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Materiality and Religious Practice in Medieval Denmark ed. by Sarah Croix and Mads Vedel Heilskov (review)","authors":"Roderick McDonald","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"72 1","pages":"248 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80053699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Essay on Contextual Indeterminacy in Early Modern English Intellectual History: Past-Relationships, Historicity, Languages, and the Conceptual Realm","authors":"Conal Condren","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905414","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article discusses contextualisation in early modern, mainly English intellectual history, from which ‘Cambridge contextualist’ history arose. It argues that contextualisation is a ubiquitous aspect of understanding and that historical contexts are unstable historiographical necessities, not features of history. It explores the issues most with reference to J. G. A. Pocock’s notions of ‘past-relationships’ in tension with a sense of historicity, and the ‘languages’ he considers fundamental to intellectual history. The former provides a valuable analytic vocabulary in and beyond the early modern; the latter are problematic. Discussion of the difficulties leads directly a critique of a conceptual realm as a necessary context for intellectual history.","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"81 1","pages":"51 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83907831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bird-Catching as a Love Allegory: A Comparison of Greco-Roman and Early Modern English Literature","authors":"A. Green","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905419","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the literature of early modern England, particularly Lyly, Shakespeare, and Spenser, love and sexual desire are commonly allegorised in terms of luring, trapping, and shooting birds. This paper investigates the classical origins of this symbolism, revealing how authors used Greek and Roman metaphors of love-as-fowling to inform their own works, with Cupid himself often imagined as a bird. It reconstructs technical and terminological aspects of fowling, arguing that we can only understand why bird-catching was used to express desire once we have answered fundamental questions of how, when, and by whom birds were traditionally caught.","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"10 1","pages":"181 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86224989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecological Impacts and Environmental Perceptions of Mining in Europe, 1200–1550: Preliminary Notes","authors":"G. Geltner, Nick Bainton, Martha Macintyre, Lara Casarande, Luisa Dallai, David Garrioch, Léa Hermenault, Carolyn James, Sarah May, Kathleen Neal, A. Shepon, Paolo Squatriti, Alistair Thomson","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905418","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The proliferation of mines in Europe since the late twelfth century is well documented, but only recently have scholars begun to fathom the scale of the industry’s ecological impact, on the one hand, and its role in stimulating environmental thinking and action, on the other. Focusing on the extraction and processing of metal ores, this article begins by illustrating how the renascent sector reshaped different ecosystems, as traced by several palaeo-scientific methods. It then turns to cultural-historical sources to propose that, rather than becoming passive, unwilling, or ignorant victims of a polluting industry, contemporaries criticised what they perceived as extraction’s harms and sought to reduce them, but also developed ways to justify their risks. Communities’ actions, which mingled with the materiality of mines and their surroundings, wrote a major chapter in Europe’s environmental history, one whose ongoing impact remains poorly understood.","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"4 1","pages":"157 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88793768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Memoriam: Ioannis Oastler Wardii","authors":"John Pryor","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905411","url":null,"abstract":"In MemoriamIoannis Oastler Wardii John Pryor John Oastler Ward was born in Melbourne in 1940 and died in Canberra on 29 April 2023. Into the eighty-three years in between he packed an extraordinary, multifaceted life. As well as for his academic scholarship and teaching he was renowned for his civic commitment, his love of music, especially of opera, of the age of steam locomotives, and of books and photography. At his and Gail’s fiftieth wedding anniversary lunch his son proudly proclaimed that at the latest count John’s library ran to 2200 linear feet of books, probably close to thirty thousand volumes. What on earth his family will do with them defies belief. John gained First Class Honours at Melbourne University (1960), writing his thesis under the supervision of Marion (Molly) Gibbs, by whom he was much influenced and with whom he maintained a close relationship until her death in 1995. In 1963 he went to Canada to the newly established Centre for Medieval Studies, where he gained an MA in 1964 and then proceeded to a PhD under the guidance of fathers J. Reginald O’Donnell and Nicolaus Häring of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. He was awarded a Lectureship in Medieval History at the University of Sydney in 1967, where he remained as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (from 1973) and eventually Reader (from 2000). Because the History Department already had another John Ward on its staff, John became known universally and affectionately as JOW. His monumental PhD thesis was not completed until 1972: ‘Artificiosa eloquentia in the Middle Ages: A Study of Cicero’s De inventione, the Ad Herennium and Quintilian’s De institutione oratoria from the Early Middle Ages to the Thirteenth Century, with Special Reference to the Schools of Northern France’.1 Much of the thesis consisted of extensive descriptions of texts in a very large number of manuscripts that John had tracked down in collections across Europe and the Americas. Until 1972 the University of Toronto had had no limits on the length of PhD theses, but JOW’s induced it to introduce one. The thesis was not published until 2019,2 but over the years JOW continued to work on it and update it and it became known widely and cited frequently. By the mid-90s JOW had published over ten important articles and papers on the medieval rhetorical tradition and was already a well-known and important scholar in the field.3 This was augmented by the nature of his participation in [End Page 1] conferences, workshops, and symposia. He was invariably among the most active of participants, with much to say about all and sundry, not infrequently with a degree of courteous mischief. The publication in 1995 of a major monograph, Ciceronian Rhetoric in Treatise, Scholion and Commentary,4 which incorporated a good deal of material from the still-unpublished thesis, cemented this standing internationally. From then on he became a doyen of the international community of scholars. Even after his retirement he rema","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136303104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136303105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Epistolary Compassion in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia","authors":"Emma Simpson-Weber","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2022.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2022.0056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article takes Sir Philip Sidney's 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia' (1593) as a touchstone of the English tradition, arguing that early modern English romance authors redirect the Ovidian epistolary form to articulate a sympathy that ultimately facilitates satisfaction rather than loss. Ovid's 'Heroides' conceives of compassion as hinging on loss and separation. Whereas Ovid's heroines write to complain to the lovers who have abandoned or betrayed them, early modern prose romance adapts the epistolary discourse of complaint to support romantic union. Sidney's central female figures appeal to compassion that authorizes their writing, but in romance the female writer's story does not end in suffering. Romance is hopeful: it rewards compassion and demonstrates its practical, positive ends.","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"17 1","pages":"107 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90226417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A la sombra de la reina. Poder, patronazgo y servicio en la corte de la Monarquía Hispánica (1615–1644) by Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez (review)","authors":"Paula Plastić","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2022.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2022.0067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"12 1","pages":"159 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88668406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}