Contributors - Preface - Introduction - Marina Rustow: On the Salutary Effects of Empire: Muslims, Jews, and the Calculus of Benefaction - Daniel Heller-Roazen: Thought Things: Greek, Arabic, Latin - Stephen G. Nichols: Greek Fathers, Roman Tyrants, Spanish Martyrs: The Inventio…
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Just like the modern hysteric, a figure that catalyzes clinical vocabularies confirming medieval theological anxieties, the demoniac has been considered an "anomalous" and "abnormal" manifestation of womanhood. Incapable of self-governance, both linguistic and corporeal, the med…
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence offers the first systematic study of an important and heretofore insufficiently-studied phenomenon in Renaissance Europe. Through a close examination of a wide variety of visual and textual materials,…
Dreams, visions, and the rhetoric of authority
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"Dreams and visions in literature inherently suggest access to a divine or transcendent authority. Whether including a brief dream sequence within a larger narrative or framing a narrative within a dream, authors often depict the ultimate sources of their texts' dreams and visio…
