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Meikle, Maureen; Payne, Helen M.

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“…Despite growing hostility, Catholic belief persisted in England (Dures & Young, 2022, p. 90), and the enduring heterogeneity of Jacobean religiosity is visible in both the content and contexts of Lanyer's work. Not only did Lanyer meld Catholic and Protestant theology and iconography, but she also dedicated her work to a group of women who possessed a variety of religious beliefs-from the staunchly Puritan Countess of Cumberland Margaret Clifford to Anne of Denmark, James I's privately Catholic wife (Meikle & Payne, 2008). Although it is difficult to discern what Lanyer herself believed, 3 the possible influences of Judaism, Catholicism, and various forms of Protestantism on the poet's personal spiritual formation can be read as a microcosmic representation of the broader Jacobean religious ecosystem, the diversity of which is further reflected in the nuptial iconography of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.…”

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Marrying Christ: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Song of Songs in Aemilia Lanyer’s "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"

Diemer

2022

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In 1611, an Englishwoman named Aemilia Lanyer published a volume of poetry and prose titled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Throughout the volume, which centres on an 1800-line retelling of Christ’s death and resurrection, Lanyer draws from the Song of Songs as well as other biblical texts to produce an image of Christ as a Bridegroom. In so doing, Lanyer inserts herself into a hermeneutical genealogy populated by both Protestant and Catholic writers. A key figure in this interpretive tradition is the twelfth-century abbot and mystic Bernard of Clairvaux, whose sermon cycle on the first part of the Song of Songs offers a detailed character study of the Bridegroom. This article examines the cross-confessional nature of the bridal-mystical tradition epitomized by Bernard before conducting a close reading of the images that Lanyer associates with Christ. Ultimately, this article suggests that Lanyer puts bridal theology to a new communal use by producing a devotional poetic space in which female readers can engage with each other through Christ and with Christ through each other.

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Marrying Christ: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Song of Songs in Aemilia Lanyer’s "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"

Diemer

2022

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Before Ladies and Gentlewomen Were Unskillful: Honorific Invocations of Learned Women in Early Modern Bilingual Dictionaries

Russell¹

2014

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Lexicographical histories often remember Cawdrey’s (1604) Table Alphabeticall , addressed to ladies, gentlewomen, or any other vnskilfull persons , as inaugurating a practice common among early modern English dictionaries; Bullokar, Cockeram, Blount, and Kersey are all understood to have similarly addressed their earliest dictionaries to uneducated female readers. This article questions such scholarly explanations as reliant upon homogenization of the diverse educations and capacities of early modern women as well as simplification of women’s various participations in early modern lexicography. Drawing on principles from feminist historiography, this article proposes an alternative approach to understanding women’s involvements and explores the material and rhetorical support offered by the four women invoked in the bilingual lexicons of Palsgrave, DuWés, and Florio. These skillful women actively inspired, encouraged, shaped, circulated, and otherwise sponsored English-language lexicographical projects that credited women as catalysts to dictionary making, celebrated women’s linguistic competencies, depended upon women’s linguistic reputations to exemplify dictionary content, and relied on women patrons to sponsor dictionary projects. This history of dictionaries that honored the women they named is both a necessary pair to considerations of dictionary titles that conflated women with ignorant audiences and a relevant tradition of dictionaries not just educating ignorant publics but commending linguistically savvy individuals.

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"Lunatique" Satire: Jonsonian Audacity, Lunar Astronomy, and Anne of Denmark in Donne's Ignatius His Conclave

DiPasquale¹

2018

Studies in Philology

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Marrying Christ: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Song of Songs in Aemilia Lanyer’s "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"

Marrying Christ: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Song of Songs in Aemilia Lanyer’s "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"

Before Ladies and Gentlewomen Were Unskillful: Honorific Invocations of Learned Women in Early Modern Bilingual Dictionaries

"Lunatique" Satire: Jonsonian Audacity, Lunar Astronomy, and Anne of Denmark in Donne's Ignatius His Conclave

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