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Translation's Temporal Rhetoric:
Pierre du Ryer and Le Quinte-Curce de Vaugelas
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How Many Have Been Deceived!
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Bound by Culture:
A Comparative Study of the Old French and Old Norse Versions of La Chanson de Roland
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Images, Devotion, and Lay Drama
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Barbara De Marco, Sandro Sticca
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Performance and Traditions of Scholarship
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La Palabra del Predicador:
Entre Liturgia y Dramatización
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The Passion Meditations of Richard Rolle:
The Latin Meditative Tradition and Implications for Authenticity
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A Proposito di Alcune Raccolte di Favolisti Medievali
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Death by Dance
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Performing Boccaccio's Questioni d'Amore
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Saint or Politician?:
The Ambivalence of the Converted in Lorenzo de' Medici's Rappresentazione di Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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La Cucina Infernale e la Mirabile Illusione:
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Il Ruolo del Dlavolo nella Drammatica Religiosa del Medioevo
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Mass Media:
Visuauzing the Last Supper in Late Medieval Italian Plays
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Nativity Celebrations in Medieval Iberia:
The Role of Fray Íñigo de Mendoza
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Between Acting and Literacy:
On the Origins of Vernacular Italian Comedy
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Show and Tell:
Entertainment and Persuasion Tactics in Louris Jansz. of Haarlem's Vanden Afval Vant Gotsalige Weesen
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Conceptuauzing Cyning and Konungr in the Heimskringla and Beowulf
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Margery Kempe's Ravishment Into the Childhood of Christ
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John Mulryan, Steven Brown
Venus and the Classical Tradition in Boccaccio's Genealogia Deorum Gentilium Libri and Natale Contfs Mythologiae
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This paper is a comparative study of the accounts of the goddess Venus in the Genealogia of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) and the Mythologiae of Natale Conti (1520?-1382?). Conti's superior knowledge of Greek, access to Greek sources unknown or incomprehensible to Boccaccio, easily accessible Latin prose style, and exceptional organizational skills, enabled him to create a richer, more extensive, and more accurate account of the goddess than Boccaccio could provide. Both Boccaccio and Conti escape from the binary, antithetical understanding of Venus that dominated medieval commentary. Conti focuses on the paradox of a beautiful goddess representing ugly things; Boccaccio's organizational scheme (based on a flawed genealogical chart originating with the supposed god Demogorgon) makes for a more disparate approach to symbolic interpretation, interesting in parts but thematically unfocused.
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