Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

(“desiderio”)–André’s blindness (“oculis captus”) enables him to“see”the event, kindled by bardicfurorand by sovereign love.^25 ...

doubt their loyalty, but so that they may be more eagerly aroused to the task in hand. The most conscientious and victorious Jul ...

practice have often been collapsed. It might be altogether more accurate, however, to imagine the period’s poetic energies as ra ...

The civyll weir, the battell intestine; How that the sonne, with baner braid displayit, Agane the fader in battell come arrayit. ...

The openings of bothThe Thrissilland theTargeevoke theRoman de la Rose, which theTargeabbreviates with delightful insouciance (“ ...

bodily representation”is ambiguous, and an“ultimately unlocalizable, inef- fable body”produces“amentalutopia, literally a no-pla ...

As he enters this illumined“lustygairdinggent”( 44 ), the dreamer accordingly becomes part of its optics, and it is useful at th ...

presents human making in the terms of nature.^42 The erotic allure of those terms becomes unmistakable when the ship’s passenger ...

stages of a woman’slife(“tender Youth,” 154 ;“Grene Innocence,” 155 ;“Suete Womanhede” 160 )–and his defense collapses only in t ...

the“flour”of English, but also linking the“desolate”(in Scots“left without a king”)^46 “ile”to the“wildernes”that is“the space o ...

threefigures of Jamesian royalty:“the Lyone, gretast of degre”( 87 ),“the Egle king of fowlis”( 120 ), and“the awful Thrissill”( ...

necessarily points to the death of fathers,whileassertingthepublicrightsofthe living to use the sign. Dependent both“on proximit ...

who appears only to be sent into the heraldic wallpaper, becomes an unanswered question, an unsettling surplus in a vision akin ...

one which creates a demand in order tofill an absence. It cannot sustain, therefore, a subject to whom it was always blind. Dunb ...

chapter 2 The Bowge of Courteand the birth of the paranoid subject We have seen that André’sVita Henrici Septimiis a remarkably ...

Caxton’s part. Since Skelton translates“into Englysshe, not in rude and olde langage but in polysshed and ornate termes craftely ...

evocative phrase–is the author’s own project before it is that of a post-Reformation interest in associating Catholicism with th ...

hadd, the destruccyon of the prynce was ymagyned therby,”authorized a jury of the household to determine whether any of its less ...

My general point is that there may be a more specific context for Skelton’s poem than we often assume. A bifurcation is at work; ...

illumyne, she sayde, I was to dulle”( 20 ). Ignorance here targets the poetic terminology of vernacular“heigh style,” with catas ...