{"title":"To Have and to Hold: Conversion, Genealogy, and Imperialist Aims in Les Enfances Renier","authors":"Annie Le","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Les Enfances Renier, a chanson de geste dating to the mid-thirteenth century, recounts the titular hero's journey throughout the Mediterranean as he looks for his birth family and aids Frankish, Norman, and even Byzantine allies in their struggles against predominantly Muslim enemies. The present study focuses on Renier's relationship with Ydoine, the Muslim princess who took him in as a foundling and raised him. After Renier discovers the identity of his birth parents, and Ydoine converts to Latin Christianity, the two marry and conceive a son named Tancred. This son, according to the narrator, will go on to play a major role in the First Crusade. In this way, Les Enfances Renier constructs a genealogy for the historical figure of Tancred (1075–1112) that adds an element of familial reclamation to the campaigns of the First Crusade. Conversion is an indispensable process that allows for Ydoine to convert, marry Renier, and conceive such an important figure. Throughout this article, I uncover how Les Enfances Renier uses conversion and ambivalent treatment of Ydoine, the notable convert, to navigate complex genealogical issues in service of upholding an ethos of Latin Christian expansion.","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"101 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43610678","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":"Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography ed. by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (review)","authors":"Alexander Flores","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"276 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43681615","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":"53 1","pages":"251 - 253"},"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}
{"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":"53 1","pages":"265 - 266"},"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":"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":"53 1","pages":"165 - 204"},"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":"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":"53 1","pages":"263 - 264"},"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":"\"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":"53 1","pages":"147 - 163"},"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":"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":"53 1","pages":"249 - 251"},"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}
{"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":"53 1","pages":"279 - 282"},"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}
{"title":"Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe (c. 1450–1700) ed. by Tanja L. Jones (review)","authors":"Catherine Powell-Warren","doi":"10.1353/cjm.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53903,"journal":{"name":"COMITATUS-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"258 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43286428","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}