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{"title":"Publicity and Persuasion in Early Modern England: The Babington Plot and its Aftermath, 1586‒88","authors":"Jonathan McGovern","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905417","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that the English Privy Council organised a persuasion campaign in the wake of the Babington Plot (1586). It examines a wealth of sources from a variety of genres, including prayers, sermons, ballads, and treatises, which are often analysed in isolation. It establishes the date of an anonymous sermon delivered at Paul’s Cross to condemn the Babington Plot, and it provides new information about the trials and executions of the traitors, making use of a little-known narrative written by the spy Maliverey Catilyn. The article reaffirms the traditional view that Tudor governments used popular propaganda to promote royal policy, which is of more utility than the theory of the ‘early modern public sphere’.","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"1 1","pages":"131 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78126041","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":"Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II ed. by Karl Fugelso (review)","authors":"Marina Gerzić","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"39 1","pages":"255 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85836655","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":"Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England ed. by Carolyn Twomey and Daniel Anlezark (review)","authors":"Manu Braithwaite-Westoby","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"118 1","pages":"276 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87403539","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":"Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle: Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France by Yossi Maurey (review)","authors":"Robert Curry","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905439","url":null,"abstract":"explains, even this is inadequate to save the Empire from the general violence and opportunism that will lead to its downfall. Having dealt with the sources that Fletcher adapted in his Roman plays and his pessimistic depiction of the Empire, its leaders, and male subjects, in Chapter 3, Lovascio turns to Fletcher’s depiction of women. He argues that Fletcher conveys the female exemplum par excellence of the era—Lucretia’s suicide after being raped by Sextus Tarquinius—as an inadequate ideal. Lovascio compares Fletcher’s representation of Roman women to non-Roman women (most notably, Bonduca and Cleopatra), and then to the women of the Fletcher canon more broadly. He finds that Fletcher is critical of Roman women’s reputation for ‘excessive passivity’ (p. 128), as they do not display the kinds of ‘masculine’ wit and fortitude as the plays’ non-Roman women and Fletcher’s female characters at large (Maria in The Tamer Tamed perhaps being the most famous example). Rather, Roman exempla for early modern women are, for Fletcher, ‘undependable and impractical’ (p. 128) and should not be followed. In the final chapter, Lovascio discusses Fletcher’s intertextual relationship with Shakespeare’s Roman plays, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus (Titus Andronicus, curiously, goes unmentioned). Lovascio explores how Fletcher ‘often puts Shakespeare’s Roman plays on the same level as the accounts of the classical historians’ (p. 135), which has the effect of giving characters a sense of themselves within a historical context and of future events. Lovascio suggests that Fletcher saw Shakespeare’s plays as alternative exempla, ones more fruitful than the Ancient Roman models. Throughout the chapter, Lovascio notes how Fletcher’s plays are generally full of linguistic imitation of Shakespeare’s Roman plays. He suggests the possibility that Fletcher was tasked with editing Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar for the preparation of the First Folio. This is an interesting and original hypothesis that I hope can be proven in subsequent studies. Ultimately, Lovascio demonstrates how Fletcher’s plays were taking part and contributing to broader cultural discourses about history, gender, education, stoicism, and misplaced nostalgia. John Fletcher’s Rome is a valuable contribution to the field of classical reception studies, but more importantly, it offers up future possibilities for literary readings of the veritable terra incognita that is the wider Fletcher canon. Gabriella Edelstein, The University of Newcastle","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"43 1","pages":"268 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87005576","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":"The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 by Sonja Drimmer (review)","authors":"H. Maddocks","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905431","url":null,"abstract":"demonstrate that questions of gender were and always have been central to questions of humanity—not only did ideas about nonbinary sex/gender inform theology and science and shape the ways in which categories like ‘male’ and ‘female’ were constituted, but such ideas were also deployed as tools of exclusion for the enemies of Christendom. The Shape of Sex urges us to consider how gender/sex continues to be used as a boundary marker, with ongoing, significant consequences for nonbinary people today. Paige Donaghy, The University of Queensland","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"107 1","pages":"253 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77016618","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":"Disciplined Dissent in Western Europe, 1200–1600: Political Action between Submission and Defiance ed. by Fabrizio Titone (review)","authors":"Grace May Howe","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905441","url":null,"abstract":"references to clothes worn for appearances at court, and extensive preparations of wardrobes for travel. But make no mistake, this is a poem about bodily fluids and violence as much as sartorial power. The battle scenes are horrific: wounds gush, tears course, and blood runs in rivulets. The violence is delivered in gory detail, when ‘Siegfried’s hands caused rivers of blood to flow from bright helmets’ (p. 19), or ‘faces were stained with blood, and pale hands beat at breasts’ (p. 215), and the ‘three highborn kings, covered in blood, grime and rust’ (p. 168). At the end of particularly lengthy battle, there is a hint of resignation: ‘What more can I say? At least twelve hundred men fought each other, surging back and forth. The foreigners cooled their inner fire with the wounds they slashed. No one could separate the two sides. Blood could be seen flowing from deadly wounds inflicted left and right’ (p. 171). It is with some sense of relief that the action concludes, with the Klage as a lament for the dead. This vivid new translation is highly recommended to those already familiar with the poem, or those encountering it for the first time. Andrea Bubenik, The University of Queensland","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"21 1","pages":"272 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88252355","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":"The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun (review)","authors":"Paige Donaghy","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905430","url":null,"abstract":"with secondary scholarship in other disciplines, the reliance on primary sources is minimal. The final section, ‘Negotiating Power and Authority’, addresses miscellaneous topics. Sibel Kocaer addresses the Saltuk-nāme, a set of stories about Muslim hero Saltuk compiled by Ebū’l-hayr-i-Rūmī on the directions of Prince Cem. On the one hand, the compilation was used to further Cem’s campaign to succeed his father as caliph; on the other, the tales themselves presented the holy warrior Saltuk, who operated in the borderland territory of Rumelia (the Balkans), as a role model for an audience part of which had probably only lately converted from Christianity. Fabrizio Petorella considers the Byzantine stylite Saint Daniel, whose prophecies asserted spiritual authority over two emperors. Jeremiah A. Lasquety-Reyes examines two occasions on which the Virgin Mary, in Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea, relinquishes her power as queen of heaven and lets human petitioners bargain with her in unexpectedly familiar ways. In all, the collection adopts disparate perspectives on its chosen topic, crossing eras, lands, cultures, and religions, facilitating contrast and comparison. As such it is to be commended. Patrick Ball, Hobart, Tasmania","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"19 1","pages":"251 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73038529","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":"On Gambling by Pascasius Justus Turcq (review)","authors":"P. Ball","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"134 1","pages":"274 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73758911","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":"Scribes of Space. Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science by Matthew Boyd Goldie (review)","authors":"J. Mead","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905434","url":null,"abstract":"This is not a comprehensive summary—I have picked out a few of the chapters to demonstrate just how widely this volume ranges. I think that there are two ways to use this collection profitably. I read the introduction, then the individual chapters, then went back and reread the introduction. That gives an overview of the field, a sense of where the research is heading, the kinds of material which can be used, and the contexts where these methodologies might be fruitfully used. This approach might be particularly valuable to the planning of a consideration of ‘Otherness’ in a specific context, providing some productive insights into the layers and relationality of the concept. The second way is to concentrate on a particular aspect, whether that be type of source material analysed, a particular period or geographical area, or a specific kind of community, and read across the chapters that deal with that narrower focus. Both ways have merit. This is a versatile collection which deliberately poses more questions than it answers. Georgina Pitt, The University of Western Australia","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"36 1","pages":"259 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89297964","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":"‘Physicians of the Soul’: Clerical Responses to Demonic Temptation and Possession in Early Modern Reformed English Protestant Theology","authors":"B. Walsh","doi":"10.1353/pgn.2023.a905415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2023.a905415","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Recent scholarship has highlighted the centrality of demonic temptation (to commit sin) in early modern Reformed English Protestantism. This article develops this argument further by examining the manifestation of, and the clerical response to, demonic possession in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Demonic possession is framed here as an expression of intense conflict with demonic temptation: a reading that emphasises the spiritual effects of this affliction on the soul. Moreover, it presents English clergymen—particularly those of Puritan convictions—as predominantly concerned with treating the effects of demonic temptation on the soul. In this role, they thereby fashioned themselves as ‘physicians of the soul’. Through examining a range of early modern English works of practical divinity, demonology, and demonic possession, this article establishes the broader ‘Godly’ concern with demonic temptation, along with how this concern shaped their conceptualisation of demonic assault and spiritual healing.","PeriodicalId":43576,"journal":{"name":"PARERGON","volume":"44 1","pages":"73 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90954537","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}