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... Aeneas ; upper right , Aeneas departs ; bottom right , Dido's suicide . Lyons , Bibliothèque municipale , Palais des Arts 27 , Aeneid fol . 108r . Fifteenth century . By permission . But I would have dared to be Dido . This.
... Aeneas ; upper right , Aeneas departs ; bottom right , Dido's suicide . Lyons , Bibliothèque municipale , Palais des Arts 27 , Aeneid fol . 108r . Fifteenth century . By permission . But I would have dared to be Dido . This.
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... century , educational structures had been modified to meet the needs of clerical cultures and the bureaucratic requirements of medieval government and religious institutions.14 Although medieval educational practices vary considerably ...
... century , educational structures had been modified to meet the needs of clerical cultures and the bureaucratic requirements of medieval government and religious institutions.14 Although medieval educational practices vary considerably ...
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... century reader — in acade- mic circles at least — is just as likely to assume that the West has essen- tially exhausted the potential of empire and depleted its reserve of faith and confidence in the centrality and destiny of European ...
... century reader — in acade- mic circles at least — is just as likely to assume that the West has essen- tially exhausted the potential of empire and depleted its reserve of faith and confidence in the centrality and destiny of European ...
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... century , an important part of the initiation rite schoolboys under- went in their acquisition of a public language basic to their acquisition of a mature masculine identity.38 In Walter Ong's description of Renais- sance educational ...
... century , an important part of the initiation rite schoolboys under- went in their acquisition of a public language basic to their acquisition of a mature masculine identity.38 In Walter Ong's description of Renais- sance educational ...
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... century in England and America , the continuum of male homosocial bonds has been brutally structured by a secularized and psychological homophobia . " 46 That is , modern institutions that encourage male bond- ing and homosocial desire ...
... century in England and America , the continuum of male homosocial bonds has been brutally structured by a secularized and psychological homophobia . " 46 That is , modern institutions that encourage male bond- ing and homosocial desire ...
Contents
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Dido as Libido From Augustine to Dante | 74 |
Dido in Courtly Romance and the Structures of History | 99 |
Sely Dido and the Chaucerian Gaze | 128 |
Didos Double Wound in Caxtons Eneydos and Gavin Douglass Eneados | 163 |
Christine de Pizans Feminist Self Fashioning and the Invention of Dido | 195 |
On Reading Dido | 225 |
Notes | 229 |
Select Bibliography | 281 |
Index | 289 |
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Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid Marilynn Desmond No preview available - 1994 |
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Page 15 - When the constructed status of gender is theorized as radically independent of sex, gender itself becomes a free-floating artifice, with the consequence that man and masculine might just as easily signify a female body as a male one, and woman and feminine a male body as easily as a female one.
Page 8 - As readers and teachers and scholars, women are taught to think as men, to identify with a male point of view, and to accept as normal and legitimate a male system of values, one of whose central principles is misogyny...
Page 14 - Aeneas, magalia quondam, miratur portas strepitumque et strata viarum. instant ardentes Tyrii: pars ducere muros molirique arcem et manibus subvolvere saxa, pars optare locum tecto et concludere sulco; iura magistratusque legunt sanctumque senatum. hie portus alii effodiunt; hie alta theatris fundamenta locant alii, imanisque columnas rupibus excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris.
Page 28 - Deveniunt. Prima et Tellus et pronuba luno Dant signum : fulsere ignes, et conscius aether Conubiis, summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae.
Page 167 - I sittyng in my studye where as laye many dyuerse paunflettis and bookys. happened that to my hande cam a lytyl booke in frenshe. whiche late was translated oute of latyn by some noble clerke of...
Page 38 - Dulces exuviae, dum fata deusque sinebant, accipite hanc animam, meque his exsolvite curis. Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum fortuna, peregi, et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit imago. Urbem praeclaram statui ; mea moenia vidi ; 655 ulta virum, poenas inimico a fratre recepi ; felix, heu nimium felix, si litora tantum numquam Dardaniae tetigissent nostra carinae ! ' Dixit, et os impressa toro, ' Moriemur inultae, sed moriamur
Page 128 - For sometimes, instead of riding off on his horse to inspect his crops or bargain with his tenants, Sir John would sit, in broad daylight, reading. There, on the hard chair in the comfortless room with the wind lifting the carpet and the smoke stinging his eyes, he would sit reading Chaucer, wasting his time, dreaming — or what strange intoxication was it that he drew from books? Life was rough, cheerless, and disappointing.
Page 157 - The queen saugh that they dide hym swych honour, And hadde herd ofte of Eneas er tho, And in hire herte she hadde routhe and wo That evere swich a noble man as he Shal ben disherited in swich...
Page 130 - In stede of reste and newe thinges, Thou gost hoom to thy hous anoon; And, also domb as any stoon, Thou sittest at another boke, Til fully daswed is thy loke, And livest thus as an hermyte, Although thyn abstinence is lyte.
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