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Fall 2011
Karaito sōshi is a tale that falls within a genre of stories from 14th century Japan known as otogi-zōshi, or ‘companion tales’. It was included in the Edo period (1603-1867) anthology, Otogi-bunko, as an example of a late medieval Heike monogatari (13th century) reception text, and was...
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Fall 2013
The world presented to readers of The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory is, as the character of Galahad notes, “unstable.” The story begins following the death of Uther Pendragon, when Arthur attempts to bring order to his unstable kingdom through the institution of the Round Table, a...
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The English Manuscripts of Walter Hilton's _Scala perfectionis_: An Assessment of Reception
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Abstract This thesis investigates the reception of the forty full-text English medieval manuscripts of Walter Hilton's Scala perfectionis in order better to understand their cultural influence in late medieval England. It presents evidence for and assesses the reception of the manuscripts...
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The Roots of Persecution: a comparison of leprosy and madness in late medieval thought and society
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This thesis compares madness and leprosy in the late Middle Ages. The first two chapters explore the conceptualization of madness and leprosy, finding that both were similarly moralized and associated with sin and spiritual degeneration. The third chapter examines the leper and the mad person as...
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Spring 2012
Unmaking is an allegory of the alchemical process through the tale of a medieval hunt. It combines symbolic alchemical language with the scientific method established in both alchemy and hunting in the medieval and early modern period, and presents this research as a “speculative” historical...