Preface | p. ix |
Publications of Burcht Pranger | p. xv |
Notes on Contributors | p. xxi |
Literary Imagination | |
"Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco...": Notes on a Sonnet of Petrarch | p. 3 |
Moments of Indecision, Sovereign Possibilities: Notes on the Tableau Vivant | p. 17 |
History and the Vertical Canon: Calvin's Institutes and Beckett | p. 39 |
Christ's Case and John Donne, "Seeing through his wounds": The Stigma of Martyrdom Transfigured | p. 55 |
Playing with History: The Satirical Portrayal of the Medieval Papacy on an Eighteenth-Century Deck of Playing Cards | p. 65 |
From East to West: Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy | p. 83 |
Labouring in Reason's Vineyard: Voltaire and the Allegory of Enlightenment | p. 101 |
The Canon | |
The Search for the Canon and the Problem of Body and Soul | p. 119 |
Music at the Limits: Edward Said's Musical Elaborations | p. 127 |
The Canonisation of the Medieval Past: England and the Continent Compared | p. 147 |
Scholarship of Literature and Life: Leopold Zunz and the Invention of Jewish Culture | p. 165 |
Censorship and Canon: A Note on Some Medieval Works and Authors | p. 175 |
Does the Canon Need Converting? A Meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the Dialogue with the Religious Past | p. 195 |
Between Pedagogy and Democracy: On Canons and Aversion to Conformity in Ordinary Language Philosophy | p. 225 |
On the Significance of Disagreement: Stanley Cavell and Ordinary Language Philosophy | p. 239 |
Fast Forward, or: The Theologico-Political Event in Quick Motion (Miracles, Media, and Multitudes in St. Augustine) | p. 255 |
The Christian Middle Ages | |
Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere: Augustine on 'Touching' the Numinous | p. 283 |
The Fame of Fake, Dionysius the Areopagite: Fabrication, Falsification, and the 'Cloud of Unknowing' | p. 301 |
Two Female Apostolic Mystics: Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon | p. 313 |
De obitu Valentiniani: Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the Canonization of Ambrose of Milan on Baptism by Desire | p. 329 |
The 'Whole Abelard' and the Availability of Language | p. 349 |
Tempus longum ... locus asper ...: Chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint-Victor | p. 377 |
Obedience Simple and True: Anselm of Canterbury on How to Defeat the Devil | p. 393 |
The Monastic Challenge: Remarks | p. 409 |
Index of Personal Names | p. 415 |
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