Selwyn College Research Articles

Boccaccio's 'Decameron': Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition by Dino S. Cervigni

Reviewed by: Boccaccio's 'Decameron': Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition by Dino S. Cervigni Charlotte Alton Boccaccio's 'Decameron': Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition. By Dino S. Cervigni. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 548) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Press. 2021. viii+558 pp. £88. ISBN 978–0–86698–606–9. Dino Cervigni's latest monograph provides an extensive study of Boccaccio's masterpiece which is exceptionally well timed in its publication in the light of the [End Page 256] increased readership of the Decameron in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Cervigni's approach is particularly pertinent given its focus upon the text's critique and reconstruction of societal norms in the aftermath of the plague which forms the backdrop to Boccaccio's text. Cervigni reads the Decameron's first ninety tales as a parodic rewriting of the societal, historical, and lyric traditions of the Christian Middle Ages and suggests that the Tenth Day sets out a new ethical code for society and literature in the wake of the plague, based upon human and liberal principles such as generosity and sacrifice. Cervigni's work asserts the importance of the text's overarching narrative and dismisses the labelling of this architectural feature as a 'frame' or 'cornice', as it is so often referred to by critics. Instead, he reads this 'novella portante', voiced by Boccaccio's narrator, as the principal location of meaning within the text. Cervigni's advancing of this 'novella portante' addresses the limitations of fragmentary readings of Boccaccio's text which occur through the discussion of isolated novelle. Through his concern with this overarching narrative, Cervigni's emphasis also highlights areas of the text that have eluded significant critical attention thus far. The book comprises an Introduction and fourteen chapters, ten of which are dedicated to each of the text's ballads that feature in the 'novella portante' at the close of each day of narration. The focus upon the ballads is particularly significant to this work's contribution. Building on his own previous work on the ballads, with this monograph Cervigni provides ten rich, close readings of each of the text's ballads and exposes them as significant textual loci. The book offers an original and necessary approach to the Decameron by demonstrating the ballads' significance in the construction of meaning across the text, thus providing a hugely important intervention in the literature surrounding the Decameron. The ballads are frequently passed over by the critical literature and certainly have not thus far been widely considered as essential to textual meaning. Cervigni takes these poetic sites as key moments of introspection on the part of the narrators that provide a key through which we may read their ten narrated tales. This approach thus contributes a further important intervention in the ongoing debate within Boccaccio Studies surrounding the individuality of the ten members of the brigata. Cervigni's focus upon the ballads as keys for understanding the members of the brigata as unique subjects offers a notable contribution to that debate by arguing that 'the evening ballad accomplishes something no other daily activity can achieve: it offers all members of the group the opportunity of revealing aspects of their inner selves which would not have become manifest otherwise' (p. 101). Cervigni's far-reaching work makes a substantial contribution to Boccaccio Studies by addressing a significant gap in the scholarly literature relating to the Decameron, by arguing for the 'essential function of the ten evening ballads' (p. vii), and by highlighting the importance of the 'novella portante' to the text's meaning. This monograph also offers a reading that is opportune in its concern with the [End Page 257] disruption and reconstruction of tradition in response to plague, which our own contemporary readership will no doubt find to be particularly thought-provoking. Charlotte Alton Selwyn College, Cambridge Copyright © 2023 Modern Humanities Research Association

Editor's Choice Articles for July.

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ClydeBinfield, G. M.Ditchfield and DavidWykes, eds., Protestant Dissent and Philanthropy in Britain 1660–1914. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020; pp. xiv + 264.

Journal of Religious HistoryVolume 45, Issue 3 p. 497-498 BOOK REVIEWS Clyde Binfield, G. M. Ditchfield and David Wykes, eds., Protestant Dissent and Philanthropy in Britain 1660–1914. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020; pp. xiv + 264. John Morrill, John Morrill Selwyn College, Cambridge UniversitySearch for more papers by this author John Morrill, John Morrill Selwyn College, Cambridge UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 June 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12763Read 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 No abstract is available for this article. Volume45, Issue3September 2021Pages 497-498 RelatedInformation

Editors' Introduction: Reflections on the Land-Grab Universities Project

Editors' Introduction:Reflections on the Land-Grab Universities Project K. Tsianina Lomawaima (bio), Kelly McDonough (bio), Jean M. O'Brien (bio), and Robert Warrior (bio) on march 30, 2020, the self-described "independent, nonprofit 501(c)3 media organization" High Country News (HCN) published under their Education section "Land-Grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land Is the Foundation of the University System" by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone (https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities), "How We Investigated the Land-Grant University System" by Robert Lee (https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-education-how-we-investigated-the-land-grant-university-system), and "Lost and Found: The Story of Land-Grant Universities" by Tristan Ahtone under Editor's Note (https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/editors-note-lost-and-found-the-story-of-land-grant-universities). Ahtone (Kiowa) was at the time of publication Indigenous affairs editor at HCN; as this issue goes to press he is the editor in chief at the Texas Observer. Lee is a lecturer in American history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Selwyn College. With stunning photographs by journalist and photographer Kalen Goodluck (Diné, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and compelling maps by cartographer Margaret Pearce (Citizen Band Potawatomi), Land-Grab Universities (LGU) sets a new bar for investigative journalism and innovative scholarship in Indigenous lands. In addition to these articles, the project's web portal with interactive maps (by Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone, Margaret Pearce, Kalen Goodluck, Geoff McGhee, Cody Leff, Katherine Lanpher, and Taryn Salinas) is available at https://www.landgrabu.org/, and the database is accessible at https://github.com/HCN-Digital-Projects/landgrabu-data. Within days, Native scholars across the country were abuzz, sharing the LGU project links with one another and with presidents, chancellors, [End Page 89] provosts, and deans at their academic institutions (whether land-grant universities or not). Impressed with the project's scope, impact on institutions of higher education in the United States, and import for Indigenous studies scholars around the world, editors in the NAIS review collective agreed that LGU warranted extensive evaluation in an Intervention and quickly moved to recruit essays from scholars across the interdisciplinary arenas of critical Indigenous studies, American studies, geography, cartography, economics, digital humanities, history, and higher education. The Intervention includes twelve commentaries and concludes with the transcript of an interview with Lee and Ahtone, who comment on the project, answer questions from the editors, and respond to the multidisciplinary perspectives on their work gathered in this issue. As of October 2020, as this issue is being prepared for our publisher, the University of Minnesota Press, university administrators, faculty, staff, and students are responding to or mobilizing in support of the LGU call for acknowledgment of the massive Indigenous land dispossession and the subsequent enrichment of university endowments documented by the project and for responsibility to the Indigenous caretakers and stewards whose lands and resources have underwritten so much of the U.S. higher education system (including lands dispossessed through means other than the Morrill Act). At Cornell University, the beneficiary of the greatest endowment wealth by far from Indigenous lands and/or scrip distributed by the Morrill Act, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program has formed a faculty committee to examine the issue and publish a blog (https://blogs.cornell.edu/cornelluniversityindigenousdispossession/). At the University of California, Berkeley, the Centers for Educational Justice & Community Engagement organized webinars in September and October 2020 entitled "The UC Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Lands" (https://cejce.berkeley.edu/uc-land-grab). The LGU project has also generated significant media attention, such as Scalawag magazine's indictment of the University of North Carolina (https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/09/indian-land-university-profit/). We are confident that LGU will continue to generate interest, controversy, self-reflection, and hopefully self-improvement within higher education institutions and, most importantly, further research into the tangible realities and consequences of Indigenous land dispossession, the enduring character of Indigenous sovereignty, and the remarkable resilience of Indigenous peoples. [End Page 90] K. Tsianina Lomawaima k. tsianina lomawaima, coeditor of NAIS, is retired from the School of Social Transformation...

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2021: The Five Rs.

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Editors' Introduction: Reflections on the <em>Land-Grab Universities</em> Project

Editors' Introduction:Reflections on the Land-Grab Universities Project K. Tsianina Lomawaima (bio), Kelly McDonough (bio), Jean M. O'Brien (bio), and Robert Warrior (bio) on march 30, 2020, the self-described "independent, nonprofit 501(c)3 media organization" High Country News (HCN) published under their Education section "Land-Grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land Is the Foundation of the University System" by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone (https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities), "How We Investigated the Land-Grant University System" by Robert Lee (https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-education-how-we-investigated-the-land-grant-university-system), and "Lost and Found: The Story of Land-Grant Universities" by Tristan Ahtone under Editor's Note (https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/editors-note-lost-and-found-the-story-of-land-grant-universities). Ahtone (Kiowa) was at the time of publication Indigenous affairs editor at HCN; as this issue goes to press he is the editor in chief at the Texas Observer. Lee is a lecturer in American history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Selwyn College. With stunning photographs by journalist and photographer Kalen Goodluck (Diné, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) and compelling maps by cartographer Margaret Pearce (Citizen Band Potawatomi), Land-Grab Universities (LGU) sets a new bar for investigative journalism and innovative scholarship in Indigenous lands. In addition to these articles, the project's web portal with interactive maps (by Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone, Margaret Pearce, Kalen Goodluck, Geoff McGhee, Cody Leff, Katherine Lanpher, and Taryn Salinas) is available at https://www.landgrabu.org/, and the database is accessible at https://github.com/HCN-Digital-Projects/landgrabu-data. Within days, Native scholars across the country were abuzz, sharing the LGU project links with one another and with presidents, chancellors, [End Page 89] provosts, and deans at their academic institutions (whether land-grant universities or not). Impressed with the project's scope, impact on institutions of higher education in the United States, and import for Indigenous studies scholars around the world, editors in the NAIS review collective agreed that LGU warranted extensive evaluation in an Intervention and quickly moved to recruit essays from scholars across the interdisciplinary arenas of critical Indigenous studies, American studies, geography, cartography, economics, digital humanities, history, and higher education. The Intervention includes twelve commentaries and concludes with the transcript of an interview with Lee and Ahtone, who comment on the project, answer questions from the editors, and respond to the multidisciplinary perspectives on their work gathered in this issue. As of October 2020, as this issue is being prepared for our publisher, the University of Minnesota Press, university administrators, faculty, staff, and students are responding to or mobilizing in support of the LGU call for acknowledgment of the massive Indigenous land dispossession and the subsequent enrichment of university endowments documented by the project and for responsibility to the Indigenous caretakers and stewards whose lands and resources have underwritten so much of the U.S. higher education system (including lands dispossessed through means other than the Morrill Act). At Cornell University, the beneficiary of the greatest endowment wealth by far from Indigenous lands and/or scrip distributed by the Morrill Act, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program has formed a faculty committee to examine the issue and publish a blog (https://blogs.cornell.edu/cornelluniversityindigenousdispossession/). At the University of California, Berkeley, the Centers for Educational Justice & Community Engagement organized webinars in September and October 2020 entitled "The UC Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Lands" (https://cejce.berkeley.edu/uc-land-grab). The LGU project has also generated significant media attention, such as Scalawag magazine's indictment of the University of North Carolina (https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/09/indian-land-university-profit/). We are confident that LGU will continue to generate interest, controversy, self-reflection, and hopefully self-improvement within higher education institutions and, most importantly, further research into the tangible realities and consequences of Indigenous land dispossession, the enduring character of Indigenous sovereignty, and the remarkable resilience of Indigenous peoples. [End Page 90] K. Tsianina Lomawaima k. tsianina lomawaima, coeditor of NAIS, is retired from the School of Social Transformation...

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

The Published Archaeobotanical Data from the Indus Civilisation, South Asia, c.3200–1500BC

The collection of this dataset of published archaeobotanical data from the Indus Civilisation (c.3200–1500BC) was carried out by the author as part of her doctoral work, and has continued up to October 2017. The dataset represents a systematic collation of all primary published macrobotanical data, regardless of their designation as ‘crop’, ‘fully domesticated’ or ‘wild/weedy’ species. The dataset comprises 63 sites and 339 ‘taxa’ (including less confidently identified elements such as ‘charred seed’). Data is presented as presence/absence due to different sampling, quantification and data presentation practices. Funding statement: This paper developed out of research conducted while the author was a PhD student working as part of the Land, Water and Settlement project, which has been investigating human–environment relations in northwest India. It presents material gathered for a literature review that formed part of the author’s PhD dissertation, and expanded upon during her first post-doctoral position as Trevelyan research fellow at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. The PhD research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), United Kingdom (Grant No. 1080510), and this paper has been written up while she has been a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, and published while she is a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. The Land, Water and Settlement project ran from 2007 to 2014 and was primarily funded by a Standard Award from the UK India Education Research Initiative United Kingdom (UKIERI) under the title ‘From the collapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise of the great Early Historic cities: Investigating the cultural and geographical transformation of northwest India between 2000 and 300 BC’. Smaller grants were also awarded by the British Academy’s Stein Arnold Fund, United Kingdom, the Isaac Newton Trust, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom, and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom.

Diskurse des Kalten Krieges. Eine andere österreichische Nachkriegsliteratur by Stefan Maurer Doris Neumann-Rieser Günther Stocker

Reviews 274 Eschenbach’s own curation of her image and its role in her posthumous reception. Karin S. Wozonig analyses the role of the poet and literary critic Betty Paoli in establishing Ebner-Eschenbach as a writer. Paoli, a highly regarded journalist, had a powerful influence and her favourable reviews of EbnerEschenbach ’s stories recommended them to a bourgeois Austrian readership whose tastes she understood. Like Julius Rodenberg, whose publication of Lotti, Die Uhrmacherin in Deutsche Rundschau marked a breakthrough in EbnerEschenbach ’s career, Paoli also offered some pre-publication mentoring, but Wozonig points out that it is impossible to know how much Ebner-Eschenbach took account of what she knew to be Betty Paoli’s preferences when writing her stories. This volume offers fresh engagement with the modernity of EbnerEschenbach ’s works, in chapters such as Marie Luise Wandruszka’s thoughtprovoking analysis of Ebner-Eschenbach’s engagement with suffering in the context of Spinoza’s thought. Insightful readings of Ebner-Eschenbach in her literary networks include Walter Hettche’s analysis of the aesthetics of realism with regard to sexual violence towards women, in the context of the relationship between Ebner-Eschenbach and Paul Heyse, as well as Ebner-Eschenbach’s relationship to the authors of Jung Wien (Evelyne Polt-Heinzl), to Ferdinand von Saar (Magdalena Stieb), and to the Czech realist Karolina Světlá (Milan Tvridík). To close this volume, Ulrike Tanzer reflects on the institutional and political constraints which affect the kinds of research carried out within the academy and the degree of recognition given to different kinds of projects. She rightly emphasizes the significance of editorial work as a foundation for new research. So much of Ebner-Eschenbach’s correspondence remains unedited — not least the many letters she exchanged with other women writers, for whom she was a much-admired role model and mentor. As this volume shows, such editorial projects are the source of valuable new insights into the broader cultural context that are of significance not just within Austrian studies but also in the wider context of European literature. Charlotte Woodford Selwyn College, Cambridge Diskurse des Kalten Krieges. Eine andere österreichische Nachkriegsliteratur. Ed. by Stefan Maurer, Doris Neumann-Rieser and Günther Stocker. Vienna, Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau, 2017. 737 pp. €80. ISBN 978–3-205–20380–3. Stefan Maurer’s, Doris Neumann-Rieser’s and Günther Stocker’s impressive volume on Cold War discourse patterns in Austrian post-1945 literature, published in 2017, has become very timely with the United States’ formal withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, an arms control treaty from 1988, that originally heralded the end of the Cold War period. This act may well signal the return of a phase in twentieth-century Reviews 275 history that held a whole generation hostage to the dramatic, ideologically simplified, bipolar world-view of good and evil, freedom and slavery, West and East, lightness against the dark — the world-view that is the focus of this survey study. The result of a four-year-long research project at the University of Vienna about the Cold War period (1945–66), this jointly written and published collection of materials is of epic proportions with its 737 pages, comprising fifteen main and more than 130 sub-chapters, an introduction, index and biographical lexicon of authors discussed. The authors convincingly justify the large scale of their study by adopting Lawrence Grossberg’s ‘strongly antireductionist’ (p. 20) cultural studies approach, and quite rightly claim that their survey of the ‘Diskursfäden’ (p. 16) that affected the literary field in Austria between 1945 and 1966 is the first of its kind in its scope. Anchoring their survey in the New Historicist method that wants to find the ‘soziale Energie’ (p. 17) shaping literary representations of the Cold War discourse in and about Austria at the time, the authors provide a formidable overview of a hitherto under-researched part of Austrian literary production. This volume’s most significant achievement lies in the identification of fifteen central tropes, or ‘Diskursmuster’ (p. 19), that form the headings of the main chapters and allow an initial classification of texts from diverse genres and production backgrounds. A listing of...

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Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Modern England, by Noah Millstone

Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Modern England, by Noah Millstone Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Modern England, by Noah Millstone (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2016; pp. xvi + 358. £74.99). David L Smith David L Smith Selwyn College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 133, Issue 563, August 2018, Pages 945–947, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey162 Published: 09 June 2018

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Catholic Faith and Practice in England 1779–1992: The Role of Revivalism and Renewal. By Margaret H. Turnham. Boydell. 2015. xii + 222pp. £65.00.

HistoryVolume 102, Issue 350 p. 320-321 Reviews and Short Notices Catholic Faith and Practice in England 1779–1992: The Role of Revivalism and Renewal. By Margaret H. Turnham. Boydell. 2015. xii + 222pp. £65.00. JOHN MORRILL, JOHN MORRILL Selwyn College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author JOHN MORRILL, JOHN MORRILL Selwyn College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 21 March 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12403Read 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 onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume102, Issue350April 2017Pages 320-321 RelatedInformation

Laura LungerKnoppers, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. xxvii + 715pp. ISBN 13: 9780199560608. $170; £105 (cloth).

Milton QuarterlyVolume 50, Issue 4 p. 277-283 Reviews Laura Lunger Knoppers, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. xxvii + 715pp. ISBN 13: 9780199560608. $170; £105 (cloth). John Morrill, John Morrill Selwyn College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author John Morrill, John Morrill Selwyn College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 February 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12186Read 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 onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume50, Issue4December 2016Pages 277-283 RelatedInformation

Politics and Political Culture During the English Revolution: A Review-Essay

Milton QuarterlyVolume 49, Issue 3 p. 175-180 ARTICLE Politics and Political Culture During the English Revolution: A Review-Essay David L. Smith, David L. Smith Selwyn College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author David L. Smith, David L. Smith Selwyn College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 October 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12136Read 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 onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume49, Issue3October 2015Pages 175-180 RelatedInformation

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Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the Patriotic Monarch: Patriarchalism in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought. By Cesare Cuttica. Manchester University Press. 2012. xii + 283pp. £70.00.

HistoryVolume 98, Issue 333 p. 782-783 Reviews and Short Notices Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the Patriotic Monarch: Patriarchalism in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought. By Cuttica, Cesare. Manchester University Press. 2012. xii + 283pp. £70.00. David L. Smith, David L. Smith Selwyn College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author David L. Smith, David L. Smith Selwyn College, CambridgeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 25 November 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12042_9Read 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 Volume98, Issue333December 2013Pages 782-783 RelatedInformation