Philological Quarterly articles from June 2003

Philological Quarterly archives from June 2003

Byrhtnoth's great-hearted mirth, or praise and blame in The Battle of Maldon.
June 22, 2003... Since J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son," (1) commmentary on The Battle of Maldon has focused on one word, sometimes almost to the exclusion of the rest of the poem. That word is, of course, ofermod. How one...

Male piety and sexuality in Boccaccio's Decameron.(Giovanni Boccaccio)
June 22, 2003... This essay examines the tension between male piety and male sexual performance in selected novelle in Giovanni Boccaccio's fourteenth-century collection of prose narratives, the Decameron. Recent studies in medieval masculinities have...

Homosociality, imitation, and gendered reading in Robert Greene's Ciceronis Amor.
June 22, 2003... Perhaps the single most important trend in criticism of sixteenth-century English prose fiction over the past twenty years has been a shift from questions of genre to those treating the nexus of gender, readership, and subject formation. (1)...

Richard III's animalistic criminal body.
June 22, 2003... Distortum vultum sequitur distortio morum --Thomas More History of Richard III Contemporary criminal reporting often likens perpetrators to animals when their crimes are considered particularly reprehensible. Witness this recent...

The sublimity of taste in Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
June 22, 2003... [T]he judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time. ...