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Love and charisma in the Tristan et Iseut of Beroul.
January 1, 2003... The prevarications invented by Beroul's Tristan and Iseut to disguise their love affair have elicited much critical attention over the years. However, one significant aspect of the lovers' lies bears further examination: that they are, in fact,...
Montaigne's "De l'art de conferer": conference as an act of friendship.
January 1, 2003... It is now standard practice to interpret Michel de Montaigne's view of friendship through a pre- and post-lapsarian framework, drawing namely from the author's central essay "De l'amitie" (1.28). Prior to the death of Estienne de La Boetie,...
Beyond words and deeds: Montaigne's soldierly style.
January 1, 2003... Elegance of style is not a manly ornament (Non est ornamentum virile concinnitas)
--Montaigne, citing Seneca in "A consideration upon Cicero" (1:40, 251a) (1)
That I, the son of the dear murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and...
Robert Gould's attacks on the London stage, 1689 and 1709: the two versions of "The Playhouse: A Satyr".
January 1, 2003... Scholars have paid astonishingly little attention to Robert Gould's "The Playhouse: A Satyr," first published in a collection of his poems in 1689 and reissued in 1709 shortly after his death in a longer and significantly revised version....
British conquistadors and Aztec priests: the horror of Southey's Madoc.
January 1, 2003... To European imaginations in the early nineteenth century, the world was larger than ever before. What Raymond Schwab described as an Oriental Renaissance, an eager European exploration of world cultures in the late eighteenth century, continued...
Books received.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2003... LANGUAGE
Fortescue, Michael, Eva Skafte Jensen, et al., eds. Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected Papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam:John Benjamins, 2005. Pp.ix + 319. $144.00.
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