Recently added articles from Philological Quarterly:
Introduction.(medieval literary studies)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In the last decade, medieval literary studies has been undergoing something of a renaissance as scholars have troubled stereotypes about the "myopia" of the discipline by bringing the premodern past in dialogue with new theories, methodologies and approaches. Longstanding claims regarding ...
Fashioning change: wearing fortune's garments in medieval England.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Almost from the moment of Fortune's inception as a literary and cultural trope, clothing emerged unchallenged as the goddess's material good par excellence, central as it was to the core symbolism of losing (or being stripped of) one's goods and status. Lucian imagined Fortune as the ...
Corporeal anxiety in Soul and Body II.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Scholars have long recognized that Soul and Body, an Old English poem that depicts a damned soul berating the body it once inhabited, was intended to serve as a spiritually prophylactic work. The soul is brutal as it enumerates the sins the body has committed, describes the body's sorry ...
Is there a minstrel in the house?: domestic entertainment in late medieval England.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Medievalists have been arguing about minstrels for nearly two and a half centuries. This argument is both older than, and fundamental to, medieval studies as an academic discipline. Indeed, perhaps the only older, longer-running argument in the study of medieval literature concerns ...
Choreographing mouvance: the case of the English carol.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... This essay sets mouvance newly in motion by asking it to trace the steps of an ancient dance. As an approach to manuscript traditions, Paul Zumthor's term mouvance and the various critical models that revisit and elaborate upon it have proven extremely influential. Taken together, they ...