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British and Irish Literature
History of Medieval Europe
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Margaret Paston’s Calendar and Her Saints
This inquiry into Margaret Paston’s religious life begins by following her lead as she reaches out to the saints. That late medieval religion rested heavily on the cult of the saints is a proposition from which.....
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Family Wills: Margaret Paston and the Rest
A look at the last wills and testaments of the Paston family—with Margaret as our centerpiece—opens the window on many scenarios and agendas touching the world and worldview of the late medieval laity.1 Reading t...
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Reading the Religious Life of Margaret Paston
This inquiry into lay or popular religion in the fifteenth century is a brief on behalf of Margaret Mautby Paston. If we wish to reconstruct the religious life of the late medieval English laity, whether female.....
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Margaret Paston in Context: Things Said, Done, and Owned
Saints and the moveable feasts of the Christian year seemed a good place to begin, guided as we are by Margaret Paston’s own choices on such matters. And yet noting saints’ days in the dating clause of her lett.....
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What Did Margaret See?
The Pastons are dead and gone. Though they eventually would rise well beyond the gentry-fueled aspirations of John I, the sands of time that were to grind down Mowbray and Bohun and Plantagenet would get to the.....
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Conclusion
The importance of shame in Chaucer’s texts makes him an important but complicated interlocutor in contemporary discourse on ethics and affects, where it seems undeniable that shame has entered a period of ascen.....
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Afterword: Specters and Apparitions
In 2010, two temporary exhibitions of replicated Irish medievalia appeared in Dublin and Chicago.1 In Ireland, a show devoted exclusively to plaster-of-Paris reproductions of high crosses ran concurrently with on...
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Shamed Guiltless in Chaucer’s Pagan Antiquity
In The House of Fame, Chaucer’s poet-persona Geffrey both aligns himself with and distances himself from the great poets of antiquity and the Continent, and represents the act of writing as emerging out of the ac...
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Visualizing Antiquity
No matter which road you choose to approach the ruined medieval monastery at Clonmacnoise, county Offaly, you can just barely make out the tips of the round tower and ancient churches over the rolling green hi...
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Structures of Reciprocity in Chaucerian Romance
In the previous two chapters, I have made the case that Chaucer’s representations of pagan antiquity center on the ethical problems created by honor competition and the need to avoid, avenge, or purge shame. Ch.....
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Meet Me at the Fair
In 1853, an enormous temporary pavilion was constructed on Dublin’s Leinster Lawn, adjacent to the Royal Dublin Society’s permanent home. The building, designed by one John Benson, was an innovative glass-and-...
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Proclaiming Independence, Expressing Solidarity
Belfast muralist Gerard “Mo Chara” Kelly has no formal artistic training. As he says, he thought he was “too tough” for art, “art was for soft people, y’know?” He came to painting via militant activism in supp...
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Shame and Guilt, Now and Then
This book explores Chaucer’s representation of the primary emotions of penitence, shame and guilt, in order to contextualize his engagement with late medieval penitential theology in the light of modern theorie.....
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Introduction: Icons of Irishness
This book is about objects that share visual properties but occupy distinct temporal moments of production and reception, execute different functions in their past and present incarnations, and engage multiple .....
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Honor, Purity, and Sacrifice in The Knight’s Tale and The Physician’s Tale
According to Mauss and Lévi-Strauss, women “are the most precious of gifts,” and the “regulation of the exchange of women between families and groups is the very basis of social organization.”1 In light of this, ...
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Classifying Taste
As the story goes, in the summer of 1850, an elaborately decorated brooch was found along a beach somewhere outside of Dublin.1 It was a small, circular object, measuring less than nine centimeters in diameter. I...
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The Ills of Illocution: Shame, Guilt, and Confession in The Pardoner’s Tale and The Parson’s Tale
In the previous chapter, I argued that the penitential acceptance of shame figures as an ethical ideal in Chaucerian romance. In this chapter, in my reading of The Pardoner’s Tale and The Parson’s Tale, I contend...
