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demonstrate how these negative affects can point to political problems and the highlighting of social and political ills. So, in the truth of Gower’s exemplum, itself a revision of an earlier source, we might ... with political meaning regardless of whether the obstruction is actual or fantasized, or whether the agency obstructed is individual or collective.3 As a way to leverage the present and future onto this
proposes Agrippa’s universe is built upon a foundation of natural philosophy, astrology and mathematics, and religious practice and belief intertwined into magical work that allows virtues to be drawn down ... Vaughan as an interpreter of Agrippa’s occult philosophy and Vittoria Perrone Compagni, whose edited edition of this text is extremely helpful.1 Within broader Agrippa scholarship, however, DOP has often
/accessus/vol7/iss1/2 Salisbury: Gower's "Herte-Thoght" 3 While there is no direct evidence to suggest that Gower was intimately familiar with either medical philosophy or its political implications, it is ... , “Head or Heart? The Political Use of Body Metaphors in the Middle Ages,” in Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Three, ed. Michel Feher, et al. (New York: Zone, 1989), 12–27. See also Takashi
. In o th er words, th e political space, u n lik e in th e philosophy, th e m in d only is not enough for som ething to be considered for th e tru th . We need also some social conditions, am ong w hich ... re tu rn in g in th e A re n d t’s d e lib era tions. It is philosophy political p ractice of a n c ie n t Greece. T he a u th o r trie s to find th e re a still u n co n ta m in a te d source of
and recovery in the Confessio in socio-political and religious terms, but, unlike his earlier poems, the Confessio analyzes the process in personal terms as well. As Amans turns out to be John Gower at ... themselves, Runstedler argues, provide a form of recovery through narrative and understanding, a kind of therapeutic consolation, like the one provided by Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy; this recovery is
is accordingly an important early description of a key political, sociological, and economic element in late medieval English society. ... —that could not easily be accommodated in this simplistic scheme.”1 David Rollison notes that by the late Middle Ages the lay component of England’s emerging socio-political structure “was constituted by
r in g th e y e a r s 1989-1992 The year 1989 was distinctive for a political transform ation in Poland and other countries of E a ste rn and C entral Europe. It was in th is year th a t the first
cultural recognition in, and economic access to, American higher-education institutions. The authors consider this history along three interrelated axes—juridical, socio-political, and subjective—in order to ... it signifies movement towards unity), universality lends diversity much political force today: diversity threatens to become a universal. Below we examine this force in historical and juridical
(1992): 57–82 (67–68); on figures of speech, Masayoshi Itô, “Gower’s Knowledge of Poetria Nova,” Studies in English Literature 162 (1975): 3–20; on linguistic philosophy and context, Edwin Craun, Lies ... scholarship on rhetoric in “Gower and Rhetoric,” in The Routledge Research viewpoints such as gendered or political readings of Book VII, 6 I wish to highlight rhetoric’s links in the Confessio to charms
nowadays, has its origin in the second half of the 19th century which was significantly influen? ced by the development of the parliam entary movement and the spread of the right to vote. Political parties
(2014, 95–96). The song has also been used ironically in popular culture: in his 2004 political documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore played the song while showing members of the Bush family greeting
Amantis. This essay examines the philosophy and difficulties of making a “medieval motion picture” (animated and narrated by the author) reflect the message of three of Gower’s tales (“The Travelers and the ... that examine medieval tropes not merely in the medieval film or Internet game-world, but science fiction, thrillers, even socio-political and economic theory. This last posits that looking back to
Amantis. This essay examines the philosophy and difficulties of making a “medieval motion picture” (animated and narrated by the author) reflect the message of three of Gower’s tales (“The Travelers and the ... that examine medieval tropes not merely in the medieval film or Internet game-world, but science fiction, thrillers, even socio-political and economic theory. This last posits that looking back to
Historians on John Gower.6 In the latter anthology of essays, readers learn contexts for Gower’s criticisms of fourteenth-century English life, from investigations of the 1381 Uprising, to political and gender
death amplifies human pain. That pain manifests as a political position projected onto others in the community through the “ugly” emotion (and deadly sin) of envy, but Will Rogers argues convincingly that ... , including envy, to mark the political and moral wounds of the body politic. Yet in the Confessio Amans / Gower is not the archer, but the body whose love agony is marked by Cupid’s “firy dart” cast into the
emphasizes public, political involvement.16 Those petitioning the king are no longer simply friends, but subjects. One key difference between the tales of Paulina and Lucrece is the matter of who is permitted ... kind of restitution that Paulina eventually receives. Lucrece, due to her death and despite the support of relatives, does not see the political change her actions inspire: instead, her death is part of
the Travelers and the Angel," "The Tale of Canace and Machaire," and "The Tale of Florent." Higley's work captures our philosophy concerning new media representations of premodern literature. ... , always-already there, contemporary and timeless. This is not an anachronistic or uninformed remediation of the Middle Ages, but rather an adaptation that expresses Gower’s philosophy of “writings of the
the Travelers and the Angel," "The Tale of Canace and Machaire," and "The Tale of Florent." Higley's work captures our philosophy concerning new media representations of premodern literature. ... , always-already there, contemporary and timeless. This is not an anachronistic or uninformed remediation of the Middle Ages, but rather an adaptation that expresses Gower?s philosophy of ?writings of the
government agencies, faltering spiritual leaders, and economic challenges spread misery among the people. Seeking antidotes to these ills in his poems, Gower promotes the strength of the bodily and political ... a better future extending personal, social, and political recuperation. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, ideological division, hate-crimes and hate-laws, racist murders, crushing poverty, and
the consolatio genre for the Confessio Amantis, particularly Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy. Like Boethius’s Prisoner, Amans begins the poem 6 Mitchell, Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer
