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OXFORD TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE Frontispiece: AndreaMantegna,ASibylandaProphet,c.1495.Reproducedbypermission oftheCincinnatiArtMuseum OXFORD TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History Edited by BRIAN CUMMINGS and JAMES SIMPSON 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork qOxfordUniversityPress2010 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2010 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby CPIAntonyRowe,Chippenham,Wiltshire ISBN 978–0–19–921248–4 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors warmly thank Andrew McNeillie, olim Commissioning Editor at OxfordUniversityPress,forinspiringthisvolume.WealsothankJamesSimpson’s researchassistantNicoleMiller,forherindefatigableworkontheminutiaeofeach essay.Finally,wethankourcontributorsforproducingtheiressayswithexemplary promptness (nominor virtueinacademic life). This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS ListofIllustrations ix ListofAbbreviations x ListofContributors xi 1 BRIANCUMMINGSANDJAMESSIMPSON Introduction 1 Part I HISTORIES 2 MARGRETADEGRAZIA Anachronism 13 3 ARDISBUTTERFIELD NationalHistories 33 4 JESSELANDER Historiography 56 5 SETHLERER LiteraryHistories 75 Part II SPATIALITIES 6 JAMESSIMPSON Place 95 7 LYNNSTALEY EnclosedSpaces 113 8 ANDREWHADFIELD Travel 134 Part III DOCTRINES 9 DAVIDAERSANDSARAHBECKWITH TheEucharist 153 10 JANELMUELLER TheSaints 166 11 THOMASBETTERIDGE VernacularTheology 188 12 PAULSTROHM Conscience 206 viii CONTENTS Part IV LEGALITIES 13 LORNAHUTSON Theatre 227 14 TIMWILLIAM MACHAN WhenEnglishbecameLatin 247 15 DAVIDLOEWENSTEIN HeresyandTreason 264 16 DAVIDSCOTTKASTAN NaughtyPrintedBooks 287 Part V OUTSIDE THE LAW 17 STEPHENGREENBLATT UtopianPleasure 305 18 GREGWALKER Folly 321 19 NICHOLASWATSON Despair 342 Part VI LITERATURE 20 HELENCOOPER PoeticFame 361 21 GORDONTESKEY ‘Literature’ 379 22 MAURANOLAN Style 396 23 JULIABOFFEY LondonBooksandLondonReaders 420 Part VII COMMUNITIES 24 CATHYSHRANK Community 441 25 COLINBURROW TheReformationoftheHousehold 459 26 VINCENTGILLESPIE Monasticism 480 27 DAVIDWALLACE Nuns 502 Part VIII LABOUR 28 JENNIFERSUMMIT ActiveandContemplativeLives 527 29 ALEXANDRABARRATT Childbirth 554 30 JAMESKEARNEY Idleness 570 Part IX SELFHOOD 31 JOHNPARKER Persona 591 32 RAMIETARGOFF Passion 609 33 BRIANCUMMINGS AutobiographyandtheHistoryofReading 635 Index 659 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece: AndreaMantegna, A Sibyl anda Prophet,c.1495. Reproduced by permissionofthe Cincinnati Art Museum. ii Figure 1 StCatherineofSienaatPrayer,woodcutfromTheOrcherd of Syon (Wynkyn de Worde, 1519), opening oftertiapars. Reproduced by permissionBritish LibraryBoard.All RightsReserved. BLC.11.b.6. 516 Figure 2 ReceivedinLondon,1557,fromahistorycommissionedby theSyonNuns(Lisbon,1620s).Reproducedbypermission of TheBridgeman Art Library. 521 Figure 3 FrancescoPetrarca,Rime(Venice:BartholomaeusdeZanis, 1497), f.63 (sig.Aii). Reproduced by permission ofthe HoughtonLibrary,Harvard University,Inc 5338Aii, p.63. 611 Figure 4 Nicholas of Lyra, Postilla super Epistolas et Euangelia quadragesimalia (Venice: Johannes Hamman, 1494), sig. Dii. Reproduced by permissionofthe Houghton Library, HarvardUniversity,Inc5195.5Dii verso. 613 Figure 5 Benozzo Gozzoli, St Augustine Reading the Epistles of St Paul (1464–5).Fresco,Apsidalchapel, church of Sant’Agostino,SanGimignano.Reproducedbypermission of theAlinari Archives, Florence. 651
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