Concept Of Honor Research Articles

Sonnet XX and Erasmus' "Epistle to Perswade a Yong Gentleman to Marriage"

which the concept does not apply. Many Renaissance people believed that like as base occupations are fit for folks of base fortune, so valiant and vertuous minds, in actions of honor and vertue should be employed.' Villain (serf), as Montesquieu observed in tracing the development of the concept of honor, was a term of reproach to a nobleman.7 (Falstaff's background peculiarly fits him to be a witty commentator on this parody. He is with the meaner sorte, so that he can observe them, but he is not altogether of them; he can view their present in terms of his past background. His parody of the noble class is clear when he calls the thieves, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon (i Henry IV, I. ii. I7-i8). Pistol is one of the low-life people who illustrate the parody of the physical-moral competence principle as applied to old age. In his quarrel with Fluellen, Pistol first utters such imitation-classical threats as, Base Troyan, thou shalt die! (Henry V, V.i. 32). Forced to eat a leek, Pistol still insists, By this leek, I will most horribly revenge! I eat, and yet, I swear- (V. i. 4950). But, obliged to choose between taking a tip of a groat or eating another leek, Pistol demonstrates a degenerative sequence in moral force which parodies that of such members of the noble class as Gaunt and York.8 Pistol finally acknowledges, Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs, Honour is cudgell'd (V. i. 89-9o).

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor.

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor.

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

The Origin of the German Word Ehre ‘Honor‘

Special interest in the German word Ehre was aroused forty years ago when Gustav Ehrismann dealt with Middle High German ere as one of the three cardinal virtues of the age of chivalry (“Die Grundlagen des ritterlichen Tugendsystems,” Zeitschrift für deutsches Alter-tum, LVI, 1919, 137–216). Since then this word has been repeatedly discussed by scholars, e.g., by E. R. Curtius (who opposed Ehrismann's views), Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt (in her detailed semantic study of the word in Old High German), Friedrich Maurer (in his investigations of the word in Middle High German), Eduard Neumann, and others. The same topic has also been dealt with in several dissertations, e.g., by Hildegard Emmel and by Frederik Mos-selmann.“ Recently monographs by Hans Reiner and by George Fenwick Jones have dealt with the concept of honor.

Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets; Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor; Shakespeare in Warwickshire; Shakespeare Survey, 14

Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets; Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor; Shakespeare in Warwickshire; Shakespeare Survey, 14 Get access Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets. By J. B. Leishman. Hutchinson. 35s.Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor. By Curtis Brown Watson. Oxford ( Princeton U.P.). 60s.Shakespeare in Warwickshire. By Mark Eccles. Wisconsin U.P. $ 4.50.Shakespeare Survey, 14. Edited by Allardyce Nicoll. Cambridge. 27s. 6d. R. A. Foakes R. A. Foakes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar English: Journal of the English Association, Volume 13, Issue 78, Autumn 1961, Pages 234–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/english/13.78.234 Published: 01 October 1961

A Legal Revival of Pundonor in Spanish Louisiana

On November 25, 1769, General Alejandro O'Reilly, the second Spanish Governor of Louisiana, issued a proclamation setting forth the laws for the government of the province (1). These laws constituted an abstract of the multitudinous laws in effect at that time in Spain and the Indies, but they were principally drawn from the following codes: the Fuero Real, the Fuero Juzgo, the Siete Partidas, the Nueva Recopilaci6n de Castilla, and the Recopilacidn de las Indias (2). Article 6, Section 5 of O'Reilly's ordinance stipulated: La muger casada que adultere y el adiltero sean entregados al marido para que haga de ellos lo que quiera, con tal que no pueda matar al uno sin matar al otro (3). This harsh law was taken from Book 8, Section 20, Law 1 of the Nueva Recopilacidn de Castilla (4), which first appeared in 1567 (5), and, which, despite its rather early date, continued to be one of the principal codes for legislative law in Spain as late as 1803 (6). Does the inclusion of this law in O'Reilly's ordinance signify that it was being literally observed in Spain in the 1760's? Before seeking to answer this question, it might be well to review briefly social practices in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries relating to conjugal honor and the vengeance accorded and taken by wronged husbands. Despite the legal codification of conjugal honor that we have seen in the Nueva Recopilacid6n de Castilla, debate continues to be waged as to how much of the concept of honor was pure convention and how much was actually put into practice by the people of the time.