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Throughout most of Western European history Jews have been a numerically tiny or even entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued book suggests that anxieties about their own transcendent ideals made Judaism an important tool for Christians, as an apocalyptic religion defined by prizing soul over flesh, the heavenly over the physical world, the spiritual over the literal, came to terms with the inescapable importance of body, language, and material things in this world....
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This piece, which is Chapter 4 of my monograph, English Literary Sexology 1860-1930, argues that The Well of Loneliness provides a distinct contribution to the emergence of modern ideas about female same-sex sexuality. Examining both the sexological debts of Hall's novel and the contribution it made to sexual debate, the chapter shows how The Well of Loneliness came to challenge sexology's authority as the producer of scientific truths about the the body and desire.
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Italian philosopher and physician, closely related to Dante's intellectual and political milieu
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It contrasts the common and over the past five decades frequently recorded perception by both scholars and others of the absence of winter voyaging in the Medieval Mediterranean – largely based upon the surviving legal texts recording the prohibition of winter sailing issued by Pisa, Venice, Genoa, Ancona etc. – with the record of the actual practice of winter sailing in the Medieval Mediterranean. This, after providing evidence extending from 1936 to 2010 from the published record of the absence of winter sailing, through providing a brief chronology of recorded winter voyaging in the...
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This essay explores the interventions of the exegetical proclamator and related figures in late-medieval theatric representations of Christ’s passion. The „proclaimer“ directed audience attention both towards and away from the physical presence of the Christ figure on stage, thereby regulating spectators’ experience of the Eucharistic body. The Lucerne and Frankfurt passion play traditions exhibit opposing trends in this regulation of presence. In the Lucerne Passion Play of 1583, exegetical figures apostrophize the audience following scenes of Christ’s torture, verbally invoking the...
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