Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams

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by  Stephanie Hayes-Healy (eds.)

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MEDIEVAL PARADIGMS
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JEREMY
DUQUESNAY ADAMS
Volume I
Edited by
Stephanie Hayes-Healy
with a Foreword by
James J 0 ' Donnell
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MEDIEVAL PARADIGMS
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Medieval paradigms :essays in honor of jeremy duQuesnay
Adams I edited by Stephanie A. Hayes-Healy ; with a foreword by
james j. O'Donnell.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Middle Ages-History. 2. Civilization, Medieval. 3. Europe
History-476-1492. 4. Europe-Social life and customs. 5. Adams,
jeremy duQuesnay. I. Adams, jeremy duQuesnay. II. Hayes-Healy,
Stephanie A.
D117.M366 2005
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CONTENTS
Volume I
List of Illustrations
Vll
Logos Protreptikos
lX
What Happened to the Neolithic?
XV
Abbreviations
XX111
Part One Paradigms of Authority 1
1. Abelard and Theology 3
Marcia L. Colish
2. The "People" in the Psalter of Saint Louis and
the Leadership of Moses 13
William Chester Jordan
3. Beware of Universities. A Cautionary
Tale from Paris, 1380-1381 29
Alexander Murray
4. Negotiating Poetry at Court:
Charles V and Janus Secundus 55
David Price
Part Two Paradigms of Community 77
5. Commercium Spirituale: "A Spiritual Exchange"
Paulinus of Nola and the Poetry ofWealth 79
Peter Brown
6. Widows and Noble Remarriage in Eleventh- and
Twelfth-Century Montpellier 99
Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch
Vl CONTENTS
7. Heretics or Lawyers? Propaganda and Toulousan
Identity through the Albigensian Crusade 115
Christopher K. Gardner
8. Fighting Words and Wounded Honor in
Late-Fourteenth-Century France 139
Penelope D.johnson
9. Cypriot Funerary Icons: Questions of Convergence
in a Complex Land 153
Annemarie Weyl Carr
Part Three Paradigms of Morality 175
10. Memory, Anger, Oblivion: Ivo of Chartres and
the Presbyter of Orleans 177
Bruce C. Brasington
11. Rhetorical Stimulus in the Prick of Conscience 191
Howell Chickerincrz
12. Teaching Virtue from the Ignoble Nobility:
Alberto Alfieri's Ogdoas (1421) 231
E. Ann Matter
13. "Know Thyself" and Christian Art: The Dispute
between William Tyndale and Thomas More 249
Karl F Morrison
List of Contributors 275
Index 279
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
2.1 Psalter of St. Louis. Paris, Bibliotheque nationale
de France MS lat. 10525, fol. 29, illumination detail 14
2.2 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 30, illumination detail 16
2.3 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 31, illumination detail 17
2.4 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 32, illumination detail 18
2.5 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 33, illumination detail 20
2.6 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 34, illumination detail 21
2.7 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 35, illumination detail 22
2.8 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 36, illumination detail 24
2.9 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 37, illumination detail 25
2.10 BnF MS lat. 10525, fol. 37 (over leaf), inscription detail 26
4.1 Unknown artist, Portrait cifJ anus Secundus (engraving)
reproduced from Iohannis Secundi Opera, ed. Petrus
Scriverius (Lei den: Franciscus Hegerus, 1631) 59
4.2 Giovanni Britto, Emperor Charles V (woodcut),
reproduced from The Procession of Pope Clement VII
and the Emperor Charles V, ed. William Stirling
Maxwell (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1875) 59
4.3 Nicolas Hogenberg, Memorial to Margaret ofA ustria
(engraving) 62
4.4 Nicolas Hogenberg, Wine Fountain, the thirty-seventh
engraving in The Triumphal Procession of Clement VII and
Charles V in Bologna, reproduced from The Procession cif
Pope Clement VII and the Emperor Charles V, ed. Maxwell 67
9.1 Nicosia, Byzantine Museum. Funerary icon of 1356 155
9.2 Nicosia, Byzantine Museum. Icon of the Virgin and
Child with Saints Nicholas and George and a family 156
9.3 Nicosia, Byzantine Museum. Icon of the Virgin
Kamariotissa and devotees 160
Vlll LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
9.4 Morphou, Church of St. Mamas. Tomb of St. Mamas 165
9.5 Tomb ofEschive de Dampierre, from a drawing by
Camille Enlart, L' art gothique et Ia Renaissance en Chypre
(Paris: E. Leroux, 1899), figure 332 166
12.1 The Visconti and Adorno of Alfieri's Ogdoas 233
LOGOS PROTREPTIKOS
J
eremy Yvon duQuesnay Adams did not grow up to become the hero of
A Confederacy of Dunces, for all that he is as canny a reader of Boethius as
ever came out of New Orleans; nor can the rumor possibly be true that he
was the real-life model for Eric Segal's riff in the screenplay for Yellow
Submarine on "the Nowhere Man," for all that he has indeed been heard to
say things that might sound a little like "ad hoc, ad loc, quid pro quo, so lit
tle time, so much to know"; nor did Walker Percy imagine him, for all that
he would be at home in any of Percy's novels, perhaps in a thoughtful and
articulate character part, steadying the disoriented central character on the
brink of collapse. He is a more protean figure than any of those models, an
inveterate transgressor of boundaries who still recalls Augustine's friend
Nebridius, "a most diligent investigator of things who really hated a short
answer to a big question." He has at the same time been a faithful and
beloved mentor and guide to generations of students, who have responded to
that gift by offering him the admiring token of a Festschrift-repeatedly.
I shall return to that "repeatedly" in a moment. Jeremy is a product of
Anglo-French Louisiana, Catholic and multicultural, rooted in ancient and
medieval paradigms yet effiorescing in divergent modernities. The Catholic
1950s sent him north and east to Georgetown, where he rehearsed the part
of a classicist, and the American 1950s sent him further, to Harvard, where
he found the Middle Ages that his name-bearer Henry Adams had left
enshrined in the Cambridge hothouse. The American 1950s snatched him
away again from Harvard, gave him a uniform, transplanted him into the
sun-blasted southwestern desert, and turned him into a museum curator.
He and I have agreed that at some point in 1956, when he was a junior
second lieutenant serving as curator of the Fort Bliss Replica Museum, my
parents must have led me, all impatient, through his precincts, for we lived a
few miles away. Fort Bliss was not a bad place for a historian to begin, for it
sits on the U.S.-Mexican border and has variously defended its nation from
native Americans, Mexicans, godless communism, and, latterly, narcotics
traffickers. Jeremy's time there matched the apotheosis of missile defense,