Fear and its Representations: in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 9782503512075

Table of contents :
Introduction, p. xi
Anne Scott, Cynthia Kosso

The Complexity and Importance of timor in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, p. 1
Stephen Loughlin

Fear and Instinct in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale, p. 17
L. A. J. R. Houwen

Fear of Falling: Depicting the Death of Judas in Late Medieval Italy, p. 33
Janet Robson

The Fear of Divine Vengeance: Mnemonic Images as a Guide to Conscience in the Late Middle Ages, p. 66
Kimberly Rivers

Orthodox Fears: Anti-Inquisitorial Violence and Defining Heresy, p. 92
Susan Taylor Snyder

Evangelico mucrone: With an Evangelical Sword: Fear as a Weapon in the Early Evangelization of Gaul, p. 107
Elizabeth McLuhan

Fear, Loathing, and Deadly Rivalry in the Frankish Polygamous Royal Family, p. 125
Elaine M. Ragland

Fear and Power in Renaissance Mediterranean Kabbalah, p. 137
Yoni Garb

Kabbalistic Tocinofobia: Américo Castro, Limpieza de Sangre and The Inner Meaning of Jewish Dietary Laws, p. 152
Barry R. Mark

Fear of the Supernatural as a “Pleasante and Merry Humour” in Two of Newcastle’s Comedies, p. 189
James Fitzmaurice

From Fearsome to Fearful: Panurge’s Satirical Waning, p. 206
Bernd Renner

Christine de Pizan’s Frightened Lovers, p. 241
Tracy Adams

Gender and Fear: Malory’s Lancelot and Knightly Identity, p. 255
Dorsey Armstrong

To Fear or not to Fear, that is the Question: Oswald von Wolkenstein Facing Death and Enjoying Life: Fifteenth-Century Mentalitätsgeschichte Reflected in Lyric Poetry, p. 274
Albrecht Classen

Mitigations of the Fear of Hell and Purgatory in the Later Middle Ages: Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Genoa, p. 295
Steven Fanning

“a hevynly joy in a dredfulle soule”: Julian of Norwich’s Articulations of Dread, p. 311
C. E. Banchich

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Fear and its representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. - (Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 6) 1.Fear - Europe - History 2.Literature, Medieval - History and criticism 3.Literature, Modern - 15th and 16th centuries - History and criticism 4.Fear in literature 5.Fear Religious aspects - Christianity I. Scott, Anne II. Kosso, Cynthia III. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 152.4’6’094’0902 ISBN 2503512070

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