Marginalia -- The Journal of the Medieval Reading Group at Cambridge

Vol. 3 -- Illumination


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FOREWORD



ARTICLES

'Illuminating the soul: religious enclosure and the validation of mystical experience in The Life of Christina of Markyate and The Book of Margery Kempe' -- Ruth R. Roberts

‘The Crux Gemmata and Shifting Significances of the Cross in Insular Art’ -- Ilse Schweitzer

‘Continuity and discontinuity, illuminating and interlacing the adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Suite Vulgate of the Prose Merlin’ -- Irene Fabry

‘A Modified al-Farabian Interpretation of Arisotle's Nicomachean Ethics’ -- Carrie Peffley

‘Physical Sight and Spiritual Light in Three Sixteenth Century Plays of the Low Countries’ -- Charlotte Steenbrugge

‘Irony as Illumination: Didactic Communication in the Verbal Texture of the Mystery Cycles’ -- Linda R. Bates

‘Casting Light on Clandestine Marriage in Il Filostrato’ -- W.T. Rossiter

'Cambridge Illuminations' -- Dr. Stella Panayotova



BOOK REVIEWS

Catherine S. Cox, The Judaic Other in Dante, the Gawain Poet and Chaucer -- Linda R. Bates

Mary Alexander Watt, The Cross that Dante Bears: Pilgrimage, Crusade, and the Cruciform Church in the Divine Comedy -- Ruth R. Roberts

P.J.P. Goldberg and Felicity Riddy (eds.), Youth in the Middle Ages -- John Spence

Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (eds.), The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West -- Anke Timmermann

Kantik Ghosh, The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts -- Diane Vincent

Ruth Morse, Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reality -- James Wade

Dallas G. Denery II, Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World: Optics, Theology and Religious Life -- Katie Walter

Editorial Board
Ingrid Abreu Scherer (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) -- Literature
Mary Flannery (Pembroke College, Cambridge) -- Literature
Anke Timmermann (Robinson College, Cambridge) -- History and Philosophy of Science
Sandy Vaughan (Robinson College, Cambridge) -- History
James Wade (Magdalene College, Cambridge) -- Literature
Katie Walter (King's College, Cambridge) -- Literature
Advisory Board
Dr. Laura Ashe (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge) -- Literature
Prof. Helen Cooper (Magdalene College, Cambridge) -- Literature
Dr. Catherine Eagleton (Curator in the Department of Coins & Medals, British Museum) -- History of Science
Dr. Kathryn A. Lowe (University of Glasgow) -- Literature
Dr. John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge) -- Philosophy
Dr. Robert Mills (King's College London) -- Literature, Visual Culture & Theory
Dr. Sophie Page (University College London) -- History
Dr. Tony Street (Clare Hall, Cambridge) -- Divinity
Journal Committee
Linda R. Bates (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) -- Literature
Alastair Bennett (Girton College, Cambridge) -- Literature
Irene Fabry (Trinity College, Cambridge) -- French
Julian Hendrix (King's College, Cambridge) -- History
Ruth R. Roberts (New Hall, Cambridge) -- Literature
Charlotte Steenbrugge (Trinity College, Cambridge) -- Literature
Diane Vincent (Girton College, Cambridge) -- Literature


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