Corpus Christi Research Articles

Impersonating the Law: The Dramaturgy of Legal Action in the York Corpus Christi Pageant and John Bale’s Three Laws

As the theatre and the law emerged as separate institutions with distinct discursive practices in early modern England, the efficacy of law was understood to be dependent on the extent to which “legal action” could be distinguished from “dramatic action.” existing scholarship has shown how dramatists of this period responded to a legal discourse evolving outside the theatre, but it has not yet demonstrated how representations of the law on early modern stages also arose from the nuanced accounts of law that were already developing in late medieval and Henrician performance. this theatre, the essay argues, generated its own institutional history of legal thinking, revealing that theatrical representations of law abide by their own attendant “laws” of dramaturgy. Here, the essay examines the strategies for describing legal action at work in the trial plays of the York corpus christi Pageant and in John bale’s Three Laws . in these plays, representations of the law rely upon the manner of law’s impersonation in the theatre—the process through which the abstraction of “the law” is instantiated in and revealed through particular figures endowed with the capacity for legal action—in order to supply an account of the efficacy of the law and the agency of its human representatives. in the trial plays of the York cycle dramatic action in the theatre is shown to confirm and legitimate legal action; in Three Laws , by contrast, bale attempts to discretize legal and dramatic action, yet cannot achieve this separation without diminishing the potency of his representations of the law. the dramaturgical dilemmas confronted by these dramatists reveal their understanding that legal action is inevitably subtended by the conventions of the theatre.

UNPUBLISHED DRY-POINT ANNOTATIONS IN A MANUSCRIPT OF THE OLD ENGLISH "BEDE": OXFORD, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE 279B

UNPUBLISHED DRY-POINT ANNOTATIONS IN A MANUSCRIPT OF THE OLD ENGLISH "BEDE": OXFORD, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE 279B

Accumulation of Biomass and Compositional Change Over the Growth Season for Six Photoperiod Sorghum Lines

Biomass sorghums [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] are short-day photoperiod sensitive (PS) types, meaning that the crop will grow vegetatively late into the fall season in subtropical and temperate environments. This feature results in high biomass yield potential and mitigates drought susceptibility. The objective of this study is to assess biomass growth patterns and associated changes in composition over a growing season for PS sorghum. The experiment had a split-plot design with two replications, six PS sorghum genotypes, and 13 harvest dates. Harvest started at 60 days after planting (DAP) and continued every 15 days thereafter in both College Station (CS) and Corpus Christi (CC) in Texas, 2010. At each harvest, dry biomass yield, plant height and biomass composition (percent lignin and cellulose) were measured. For all genotypes, biomass accumulation followed a standard growth pattern which included an early lag phase, followed by a log phase of growth and finally, a general reduction in the rate of accumulation. The early lag phase ended at approximately 70 DAP, the log phase of growth ended at approximately 125 DAP, and biomass yields maximized between 180 and 225 DAP. The highest yielding genotype produced 24 Mg ha−1. Plant heights up to 400 cm were also measured between 180 and 225 DAP. Plant height and biomass yield patterns were similar, indicating that height is important to increase yield. Lignin and cellulose concentrations increased with time; at the highest yields (between 180 and 225 DAP), maximum lignin content were 14.5 to 15.5 % and maximum cellulose content was 31 to 32 %. As with yield potential, significant differences were detected for composition as well. The growth curves indicate that PS biomass sorghum yields sufficiently and can be harvested as early as 130 DAP with maximum sorghum biomass accumulation occurring between 180 and 225 days. Thus, with careful selection and deployment of biomass sorghum hybrids, the harvest season of biomass sorghum can be extended over a 3-month period in southern regions of the US

AT THE SHORE, CORPUS CHRISTI

AT THE SHORE, CORPUS CHRISTI

AT THE SHORE, CORPUS CHRISTI

1 0 1 R A T T H E S H O R E , C O R P U S C H R I S T I S C O T T H I G H T O W E R Oleander blossoms hold their corals and fuchsias. Roses and oranges spill across the western sky. You, considering the matinee, lean into me and – in a playful voice – murmur into my ear, that they should have cast Danny Kaye as Antonius. For years they resisted theater here; questionable of virtue. I guess in these times, there’s something less invasive about cinemas. The one today was nowhere near as grand as Ziegfeld’s in Manhattan, where we watched the New York premiere of this restored version. ‘‘A veritable cinematographic abundance in the land.’’ ‘‘I thought you said they once had acoustically perfect, even opulent opera houses scattered throughout the state.’’ You pause. I nod. ‘‘Getting hungry?’’ 1 0 2 Y (I’ve come to understand your reflexive hunger in the question.) ‘‘Chicken-fried steak, gravy, okra, hush puppies?’’ ‘‘How about oysters, toast tips swimming in olive oil and garlic butter? If you get my drift. . . . . . . I do. You grin, roll your eyes, and deadpan. ‘‘Sí, tengo hambre. Cariño, my appetite, too, includes both oysters and snails.’’ Next, we await the restored ‘‘Alexander’’ before the pared down version even goes into initial release. We accept ‘‘sworn virgins’’ and ‘‘white marriages’’ and wonder why others, who do not even have a dog in the fight, are so certain that the centurion in Capernaum could not have loved or been loved by his slave. ...

STICKS OR STONES? THE STORY OF IMMA IN CAMBRIDGE, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, MS 41 OF THE "OLD ENGLISH BEDE," AND OLD ENGLISH TĀN ('TWIG')

The story of Imma is preserved in book IV, chapter XX of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a work completed in AD 731. There are also two other, later versions of the story in Old English, both largely dependent on Bede's Latin version, one in the Old English Bede, the other in a homily by AEfric. These Old English versions will be brought into the discussion later on. Meanwhile, the story may be summarized from Bede's primary text.1 Imma, a young Northumbrian aristocrat, is wounded in a battle against the Mercians and left for dead on the field; but he regains consciousness the following day, bandages his wounds, and goes in search of his friends. The Mercians take him prisoner and he is given into the charge of one of King AE[eth]elred's retainers; but once Imma has recovered from his injuries, it proves impossible to restrain him: any bonds placed upon him mysteriously fall away. His puzzled captor asks him whether he 'had about him any loosing spells such as are described in stories' ('litteras solutorias, de qualibus fabulae ferunt, apud se haberet').2 Imma denies any knowledge of 'such arts' ('talium artium'), connecting the effect instead with the activities of his brother Tunna, a priest, who believes he has been killed in the battle and says regular masses for his soul. If he were indeed dead, Imma comments, these rituals would have freed his soul from punishment ('anima mea per intercessiones eius solueretur a poenis'), a remark that reveals Imma's suspicion that it is Tunna's masses that are releasing his living body from its bonds. Bede, as narrator, makes the connection between cause and effect explicit for the benefit of the reader; and within the narrative, when Imma is eventually reunited with his brother, he too has his earlier surmise confirmed: Tunna's masses were said at just the time of day when his bonds had fallen away.It is obvious that Bede valued this story as a demonstration of the power of Christ's sacrifice to achieve 'the everlasting redemption of both body and soul' ('redemptionem ... et animae et corporis sempiternam');3 but modern scholars have been more interested in the significance of the phrase 'litteras solutorias' in this context. It is clear enough that Imma's captor's question alludes to some magical procedure for dissolving bonds involving the use of the written word. What is uncertain is whether runic writing in particular is to be understood as an element in the process. Runes are an alphabetic script developed somewhere in the European Germanic language area, though we do not know where exactly they originated.4 They were originally used only for inscriptions on hard surfaces, and there are good reasons for thinking that they were specifically designed with wood in mind. The chief model for the runic letter-forms was clearly some Mediterranean version of the alphabet, though scholars disagree over which version exactly; the cases for Greek, Roman, and north Italic models have all been pressed recently. We also do not know how old runic script is, though the earliest continental inscriptions using it have been dated to the second century AD. The Anglo-Saxons seem to have known the runic alphabet (or futhorc, named after the first six letters of the standard runic series) when they first came to Britain in the fifth century, for runic inscriptions in Old English on various materials (initially clay, bone, or metal) survive from the settlement period onwards. In Scandinavia, which is particularly rich in runic inscriptions, evidence for a belief in the magical power of runes is relatively plentiful (though also relatively late), as R. I. Page has shown;5 but in England there is very little to indicate that runes were thought of in this way. Whether or not the Imma story testifies to the use of rune-magic in England is therefore a question of some importance. If it does, it supports the meagre English runological evidence considered by Page, increasing the likelihood that rune-magic was known in England as well as in Scandinavia, and thus suggesting that the connection between runes and magic was already well established among the Anglo-Saxon tribes at the beginning of the period. …

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years: Memory, Narrative, Desire. By COLIN DAVIS and ELIZABETH FALLAIZE. (Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture). Oxford University Press, 2000. 160 pp. Hb £45.00. Pb £14.99. EMMA WILSON EMMA WILSON CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LV, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 431-b–432, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LV.3.431-b Published: 01 July 2001

Genetic Diversity of Panicum mosaic virus Satellite RNAs in St. Augustinegrass

ABSTRACT St. Augustine decline is a viral disease caused by Panicum mosaic virus (PMV) alone or in combination with a satellite virus (SPMV) and/or satellite RNAs (satRNAs). A ribonuclease protection assay (RPA) was used to evaluate the genetic diversity of PMV satRNAs isolated from 100 naturally infected St. Augustinegrass plants (Stenotaphrum secundatum). Distinctive satRNA RPA profiles were observed for 40 of 52 samples from College Station (CS) and 37 of 48 samples from Corpus Christi (CC), Texas. A dendrogram constructed from the RPA data revealed that satRNAs were grouped in two distinct clusters based on their place of origin. From 100 samples, only 4 satRNAs from CS were placed in the CC group, and only 2 satRNAs from CC were placed in the CS group. The data show that there is genetic variability in PMV satRNAs in naturally occurring infections, and distinct geographically separate populations can be identified from CC and CS.

Review. Women and Representation. Knight, Diana and Judith Still (eds)

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Women and Representation. Edited by DIANA KNIGHT and JUDITH STILL. Women Teaching French Occasional Paper 3. (WIF Publications, University of Nottingham, 1995). 144 pp. Pb £5.00. EMMA WILSON EMMA WILSON CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LI, Issue 3, July 1997, Page 361, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LI.3.361 Published: 01 July 1997

Review. Michel Tournier. Worton, Michael (ed.)

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Michel Tournier. Edited by MICHAEL WORTON. (Modern Literatures in Perspective). London-New York, Longman, 1995. xi + 200 pp. Hb £45.00. EMMA WILSON EMMA WILSON CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LI, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages 357-a–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LI.3.357-a Published: 01 July 1997

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Michel Tournier. Edited by MICHAEL WORTON. (Modern Literatures in Perspective). London-New York, Longman, 1995. xi + 200 pp. Hb £45.00. EMMA WILSON EMMA WILSON CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LI, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages 357-a–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LI.3.357-a Published: 01 July 1997

Review. Poets, Patrons and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France. Brown, Cynthia J.

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Christine de Pizan: A Bibliographical Guide. Supplement I. By ANGUS J. KENNEDY. (Research Bibliographies and Checklists, 42.1). London, Grant & Cutler, 1994. 135 pp. £15.95. NIGEL WILKINS NIGEL WILKINS CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LI, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 61-a–61, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LI.1.61-a Published: 01 January 1997

Review. Art and the Everyday: Popular Entertainment and the Circle of Erik Satie. Perloff, Nancy

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Art and the Everyday: Popular Entertainment and the Circle of Erik Satie. By NANCY PERLOFF. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991. 227 pp. Hb£30. NIGEL WILKINS NIGEL WILKINS CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLVII, Issue 2, April 1993, Page 232, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLVII.2.232 Published: 01 April 1993

Ethnic conflict and corpus christi in colonial cuzco∗

Ethnic conflict and corpus christi in colonial cuzco∗

Hospitalization rates for myocardial infarction among Mexican-Americans and non-hispanic whites the corpus christi heart project

The rate of hospitalization for myocardial infarction was examined in the Corpus Christi Heart Project (CCHP), a prospective population-based surveillance program in a biethnic community of Mexican-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. During 12 months of ascertainment, a total of 740 patients hospitalized with definite (217) or possible (523) myocardial infarction were identified. Of the 740 subjects, 334 were Mexican-Americans (150 females and 184 males), 348 were non-Hispanic whites (138 females and 210 males), and 58 were of other ethnic backgrounds. The 1-year age-adjusted rates of hospitalization per 100,000 population were 427.4 and 276.9 among Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white females, respectively, and 721.4 and 502.6 among Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white males, respectively. The age-adjusted hospitalization rate ratios for Mexican-Americans in relation to non-Hispanic whites were 1.55 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.23 to 1.95) and 1.40 (95% CI: 1.15 to 1.70) for females and males, respectively. These results suggest that Mexican-Americans may have a greater burden of coronary disease than non-Hispanic whites.

Frege ‘s Puzzle

Philosophical BooksVolume 28, Issue 3 p. 161-163 Frege ‘s Puzzle JENNIFER HORNSBY, JENNIFER HORNSBY CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORDSearch for more papers by this author JENNIFER HORNSBY, JENNIFER HORNSBY CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORDSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1987 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0149.1987.tb01228.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume28, Issue3July 1987Pages 161-163 RelatedInformation

Soiled Fairy: The Water-Babies in its Time

Soiled Fairy: The Water-Babies in its Time VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM Corpus christi collegeoxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Essays in Criticism, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, April 1985, Pages 121–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/eic/XXXV.2.121 Published: 01 April 1985

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Journal Article BOOK REVIEWS Get access Plato's Theory of Understanding. By JON MOLINE. Madison, Wisconsin and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. Pp. xv+255. £14.30. C. C. W. TAYLOR C. C. W. TAYLOR CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGEOXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XCIII, Issue 369, January 1984, Pages 127–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XCIII.369.127 Published: 01 January 1984

Reply to Schueler on Akrasia

Reply to Schueler on Akrasia C.C.W. TAYLOR C.C.W. TAYLOR CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGEOXFORD, OX1 4JF Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XCIII, Issue 372, October 1984, Pages 584–586, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XCIII.372.584 Published: 01 October 1984

Mortal Questions

Philosophical BooksVolume 21, Issue 3 p. 185-187 Mortal Questions R. M. HARE, R. M. HARE CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE OXFORDSearch for more papers by this author R. M. HARE, R. M. HARE CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE OXFORDSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1980 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0149.1980.tb01850.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume21, Issue3July 1980Pages 185-187 RelatedInformation