The Romance of Adultery

McCracken, Peggy

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“…He highlights its downsides. Similar calls to restore significant attention to the problems caused by abundance come from sociologists (Ritzer and Jurgenson, 2010 ; Abbott, 2014 ), anthropologists (McCracken, 1998 ), geographers (Hoeschele, 2010 ), and legal scholars (Johns, 2013 ; Desai, 2014 ). In different respects, each of them recognizes that abundance might be celebrated but need not be, and that recognizing abundance in a particular social, cultural, or economic context requires thoughtful recalibrating of what it means to recognize some resources as plentiful and some resources as scarce.…”

Section: Information Abundance and Why Governance Mattersmentioning

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Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context

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Frischmann

Sanfilippo

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Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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The economics of abundance, along with the sociology of abundance, the law of abundance, and so forth, should be re-framed, linked, and situated in a common context for empirical rather than conceptual research. Abundance may seem to be a new, big thing, between anxiety over information overload, Big Data, and related technological disruptions. But scholars know that abundance is an ancient phenomenon, which only seemed to disappear as twentieth century social science focused on scarcity instead. Restoring the study of abundance, and figuring out how to solve the problems that abundance might create, means shedding disciplinary blinders and going back to basics. How does abundance, in various forms, create or alleviate social problems? We explain and illustrate how the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework provides a useful research tool to generate and test hypotheses about abundance in various economic, social, cultural, and legal settings.

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Section: Information Abundance and Why Governance Mattersmentioning

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Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context

Madison

Frischmann

Sanfilippo

et al. 2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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“…The rule of Edward II of England, with two hated favourites and one adulterous queen, is a fitting example of this. 76 It is unthinkable to study a king without his favourites, without examining their role in the exercise of monarchical power and authority through their role in the royal court and parliamentary assemblies. Likewise, the study of monarchy must include queenship and the women who were as intimate or even more so with the king.…”

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Without the Persona of the Prince: Kings, Queens and the Idea of Monarchy in Late Medieval Europe

Earenfight

2007

Gender & History

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“…Lives of the Queens of England, 415.44 While typically dismissed as strictly orthodox, Anne's possession of vernacular gospels, association with heretical Bohemians, and rumored intercessions on behalf of Lollards evince a striking degree of agency and indicate a sympathy with Wycliffite translation practices. Taylor dismisses the rumor that Anne interceded on behalf of Wyclif as "legend," misattributed to the young queen instead of Joan of Kent(100). SeeStrickland, Lives of the Queens of England, 410; Wallace, Chaucerian Polity, 363; Anthony Bedford Steel, Richard II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962), 90, citing Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 1216--(London, 1893, 1381-5.…”

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As historicist as it is materialist, my dissertation both reads the fictional queens portrayed in romance against the fraught positioning of historical queens such as Isabella of France, Anne of Bohemia and Margaret of Anjou, and traces the ambivalent function in late medieval English society of objects including the sacring-bell, the Lollard bible and the royal sword. Merging the traditionally historicist field queenship studies with typically postmodern fields like thing theory and sound theory, I investigate how queens in late medieval romances coopt, queer and reconfigure material objects of masculine power. Each chapter examines a literary queen typically dismissed by subject-oriented ontologies as insubstantial. Analyzing romances that include Richard Coer de Lyon, Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, Malory's Morte D'Arthur and the Marian romance of "The Child Slain by Jews" from the Vernon Manuscript, I argue for the overlooked significance of literary queens as figures whose circulation illuminates the construction of medieval masculinities. Through contact with charged material objects that are pivotal to romance plots, queens query patriarchal materials, exposing their underlying "thingness" and malleability. Whether tracking the disturbing afterlife of a church bell used to exorcise the hero's queen mother in Richard Coer de Lyon, or analyzing links between the "Britoun book" that rescues Chaucer's Custance and Anne of Bohemia's vernacular books, my chapters tell a new story about the foreign queens of late medieval English romances by showing how they blur boundaries between male and female, subject and object, West and East, priest and parish, Christian and Jew, orthodox and heterodox, mother and child.

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The Romance of Adultery

Cited by 131 publications

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Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context

Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context

Without the Persona of the Prince: Kings, Queens and the Idea of Monarchy in Late Medieval Europe

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