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Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on
the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives.
Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or
the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also
reflect on changes to the sacramental regulations and practices
related to marriage and penance. Such changes demonstrate the
Church's increasing authority over the daily lives and
relationships of the laity. Treated here are a wide variety of
medieval texts, using as a central reference point Philippe de
Remi's thirteenth-century La Manekine, which presents one lay
author's reflections on the role of consent in marriage, the nature
of contrition and forgiveness, and even the meaning of relics.
Studying a variety of genres including medieval romance, epic,
miracles, and drama along with modern memoirs, films, and novels,
Linda Rouillard emphasizes connections between medieval and modern
social concerns. Rouillard concludes with a consideration of the
legacy of the incest motif for the twenty-first century, including
survivor narratives, and new incest anxieties associated with
assisted reproductive technology.
This critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is
an excellent study of the importance of female roles in different
social groups and their significance in the evolution of human
social life.
"A book that properly illuminates in rich detail not only
developmental and socioecological aspects of primate behavior but
also how and why certain questions are asked. In addition, the book
frequently focuses on insufficiently answered questions, especially
those concerned with the evolution of primate sex differences.
Fedigan's book is unique . . . because it places primate
adaptations and our explanation of those patterns in a larger
intellectual framework that is easily and appropriately connected
to many lines of research in different fields (sociology,
psychology, anthropology, neurobiology, endocrinology, and
biology)--and not in inconsequential ways, either."--James McKenna,
"American Journal of Primatology"
"This is "the" feminist critique of theories of primate and human
evolution."--John H. Cook, "Nature"
An examination of if and how medieval romance was performed,
uniquely uniting the perspective of a scholar and practitioner.
Although English medieval minstrels performed gestes, a genre
closely related to romance, often playing the harp or the fiddle,
the question of if, and how, Middle English romance was performed
has been hotly debated. Here,the performance tradition is explored
by combining textual, historical and musicological scholarship with
practical experience from a noted musician. Using previously
unrecognised evidence, the author reconstructs a realistic model of
minstrel performance, showing how a simple melody can interact with
the text, and vice versa. She argues that elements in Middle
English romance which may seem simplistic or repetitive may in fact
be incomplete, as missing an integral musical dimension; metrical
irregularities, for example, may be relics of sophisticated
rhythmic variation that make sense only with music. Overall, the
study offers both a more accurate comprehension of minstrel
performance, and a deeper appreciation of the romances themselves.
Linda Marie Zaerr is Professor of Medieval Studies at Boise State
University.
Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance focuses on
the incest motif as used in numerous medieval narratives.
Explaining the weakness of great rulers, such as Charlemagne, or
the fall of legendary heroes, such as Arthur, incest stories also
reflect on changes to the sacramental regulations and practices
related to marriage and penance. Such changes demonstrate the
Church's increasing authority over the daily lives and
relationships of the laity. Treated here are a wide variety of
medieval texts, using as a central reference point Philippe de
Remi's thirteenth-century La Manekine, which presents one lay
author's reflections on the role of consent in marriage, the nature
of contrition and forgiveness, and even the meaning of relics.
Studying a variety of genres including medieval romance, epic,
miracles, and drama along with modern memoirs, films, and novels,
Linda Rouillard emphasizes connections between medieval and modern
social concerns. Rouillard concludes with a consideration of the
legacy of the incest motif for the twenty-first century, including
survivor narratives, and new incest anxieties associated with
assisted reproductive technology.
Many of the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation have been
intentionally hidden by governments around the world. Public
knowledge of these effects has been driven by activists who have
demanded recognition and justice. These activists often exist in
tension with government and academic experts, whose assessments of
“acceptable risk†can be markedly different from those of the
people affected by nuclear radiation. Many downwinders fought for
years, in the press and in the courts, to have their health and
environmental concerns taken seriously. Although these battles have
taken place worldwide, one of the most significant has been the
extended legal battle around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in
Washington and the controversial Hanford Environmental Dose
Reconstruction Project. Â From 2017 to 2020, Jacob Hamblin
and Linda Richards ran the OSU Downwinders Project, an
NSF-sponsored project supporting research and scholarship on the
Hanford downwinders cases and the dose reconstruction project.
Additionally, each summer the project team sponsored a workshop
that brought a variety of stakeholders together to explore the
science, history, and lived experiences of nuclear exposure. These
workshops took a broad view of nuclear exposure, beyond Hanford,
beyond the United States, and beyond academia. Community members
and activists presented their testimonies and creative work
alongside scholars studying exposure worldwide. Â Making the
Unseen Visible collects the best work arising from the project and
its workshops. Scholarly research chapters and reflective essays
cover topics and experiences ranging from colonial nuclear testing
in North Africa to Hiroshima survivor stories to uranium mining in
the Navajo Nation to battles over public memory around Hanford.
Scholarship on nuclear topics has largely happened on a case study
basis, with books focusing on individual disasters or locations.
Making the Unseen Visible aims to bring a variety of current
community and scholarly work together to create a clearer, larger
web uniting nuclear humanities research across time and geography.
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