Neil Corcoran
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198186908
- eISBN:
- 9780191719011
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186908.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This book offers a critical account of Elizabeth Bowen, a significant 20th-century Irish writer still too little known and appreciated. It considers her novels, short stories, essays, and family ...
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This book offers a critical account of Elizabeth Bowen, a significant 20th-century Irish writer still too little known and appreciated. It considers her novels, short stories, essays, and family history, showing how her work both inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its experimental traditions. The book explores Bowen's adaptation of Irish Protestant Gothic in relation to the Troubles of the 1920s and the Second World War, especially the London Blitz. It reads her explorations of childhood as a response both to Henry James and to the European novel of adultery. Focusing on the ideas of return and reflex, it reads the presence of the supernatural, and of other kinds of haunting, in her work in relation to concepts drawn from both Freud and T. S. Eliot. The book also makes use of non-fictional materials in its interpretations, notably, Bowen's wartime reports from neutral Ireland and the diaries of her wartime lover Charles Ritchie. The intention is to demonstrate the ways in which Bowen's writing merges personal story with public history. The book's radical readings, which depend on a wealth of original research, propose that Bowen is as important to 20th-century literary studies as her much better-known Irish Protestant fellow writer, Samuel Beckett.Less
This book offers a critical account of Elizabeth Bowen, a significant 20th-century Irish writer still too little known and appreciated. It considers her novels, short stories, essays, and family history, showing how her work both inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its experimental traditions. The book explores Bowen's adaptation of Irish Protestant Gothic in relation to the Troubles of the 1920s and the Second World War, especially the London Blitz. It reads her explorations of childhood as a response both to Henry James and to the European novel of adultery. Focusing on the ideas of return and reflex, it reads the presence of the supernatural, and of other kinds of haunting, in her work in relation to concepts drawn from both Freud and T. S. Eliot. The book also makes use of non-fictional materials in its interpretations, notably, Bowen's wartime reports from neutral Ireland and the diaries of her wartime lover Charles Ritchie. The intention is to demonstrate the ways in which Bowen's writing merges personal story with public history. The book's radical readings, which depend on a wealth of original research, propose that Bowen is as important to 20th-century literary studies as her much better-known Irish Protestant fellow writer, Samuel Beckett.
Lawrence Stone
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202530
- eISBN:
- 9780191675386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202530.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter presents a case study on valid clandestine marriage in England, focusing on the court case Rudd v. Rudd which was filed in 1720. This can involved the sixteen-year-old baronet Sir John ...
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This chapter presents a case study on valid clandestine marriage in England, focusing on the court case Rudd v. Rudd which was filed in 1720. This can involved the sixteen-year-old baronet Sir John Rudd and young servant called Lettice Vaughan. Rudd secretly married Vaughan in her room. By January 1721, the news of the marriage seeped out and Rudd was sent by his family to Holland for his education. When Rudd came of age, his family mounted a deliberate campaign of deception to lure Lettice into a second, bigamous marriage in order to dissolve her first marriage. Lettice then married John Blackman. She later learned that Rudd was still alive when he filed a suit for separation on grounds on her adultery with Blackman.Less
This chapter presents a case study on valid clandestine marriage in England, focusing on the court case Rudd v. Rudd which was filed in 1720. This can involved the sixteen-year-old baronet Sir John Rudd and young servant called Lettice Vaughan. Rudd secretly married Vaughan in her room. By January 1721, the news of the marriage seeped out and Rudd was sent by his family to Holland for his education. When Rudd came of age, his family mounted a deliberate campaign of deception to lure Lettice into a second, bigamous marriage in order to dissolve her first marriage. Lettice then married John Blackman. She later learned that Rudd was still alive when he filed a suit for separation on grounds on her adultery with Blackman.
Steven Green (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199277773
- eISBN:
- 9780191708138
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199277773.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This collection of essays on Ovid's corpus of erotodidactic poetry from an international contingent of Ovidian scholars finds its origins in a major conference held at the University of Manchester in ...
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This collection of essays on Ovid's corpus of erotodidactic poetry from an international contingent of Ovidian scholars finds its origins in a major conference held at the University of Manchester in 2002. The contributors between them offer a series of perspectives on the issues that have dominated scholarship on the poems in recent decades: questions of genre, intertextuality, narratology, and reception; the socio-historical Augustan context for the poems; and the nature of ‘love’ as it is constructed in the poems. Moreover, the introduction provides a comprehensive history of scholarship on the poems in the last fifty years, in which the current papers are situated. As the first collection of critical essays on Ovid's erotodidactic poetry to appear in English, one final aim of the present volume (and its original conference) is to bring together the important cultural or national traditions – German, Italian, Anglophone (British, Irish, and American) – of scholarship on the Ars and Remedia that have so far existed largely in isolation.Less
This collection of essays on Ovid's corpus of erotodidactic poetry from an international contingent of Ovidian scholars finds its origins in a major conference held at the University of Manchester in 2002. The contributors between them offer a series of perspectives on the issues that have dominated scholarship on the poems in recent decades: questions of genre, intertextuality, narratology, and reception; the socio-historical Augustan context for the poems; and the nature of ‘love’ as it is constructed in the poems. Moreover, the introduction provides a comprehensive history of scholarship on the poems in the last fifty years, in which the current papers are situated. As the first collection of critical essays on Ovid's erotodidactic poetry to appear in English, one final aim of the present volume (and its original conference) is to bring together the important cultural or national traditions – German, Italian, Anglophone (British, Irish, and American) – of scholarship on the Ars and Remedia that have so far existed largely in isolation.
Susan Niditch
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195181142
- eISBN:
- 9780199869671
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181142.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter explores two rituals patterns involving women and hair. One is a ceremony prescribed for a married woman accused of adultery by her husband in the absence of witnesses or other tangible ...
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This chapter explores two rituals patterns involving women and hair. One is a ceremony prescribed for a married woman accused of adultery by her husband in the absence of witnesses or other tangible proof (Numbers 5:11–31). It is a particularly troubling passage for modern appropriators of biblical material, with its implications concerning men’s abusive power and women’s subjugation. A key symbol of the ritual involves the woman’s hair and the difficult-to-translate term pr‘, explored in connection with heroic hair and the uncut hair of the Nazirite vow. The second symbolic complex involves the treatment of one of the most valuable and vulnerable spoils of war, captured women (Deuteronomy 21:10–14). If an Israelite man desires one of these women as a wife, he may take her, but she is first transformed by ritual actions, among which is the shaving of her hair. Both passages are disturbing, multilayered, and thought provoking regarding gender, cultural identity, and transformation.Less
This chapter explores two rituals patterns involving women and hair. One is a ceremony prescribed for a married woman accused of adultery by her husband in the absence of witnesses or other tangible proof (Numbers 5:11–31). It is a particularly troubling passage for modern appropriators of biblical material, with its implications concerning men’s abusive power and women’s subjugation. A key symbol of the ritual involves the woman’s hair and the difficult-to-translate term pr‘, explored in connection with heroic hair and the uncut hair of the Nazirite vow. The second symbolic complex involves the treatment of one of the most valuable and vulnerable spoils of war, captured women (Deuteronomy 21:10–14). If an Israelite man desires one of these women as a wife, he may take her, but she is first transformed by ritual actions, among which is the shaving of her hair. Both passages are disturbing, multilayered, and thought provoking regarding gender, cultural identity, and transformation.
Paul Borgman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195331608
- eISBN:
- 9780199868001
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331608.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
At the height of Israel's monarchal and communal glory, King David soon gives way to indulgences both physical and familial. He yields to the lure of another man's wife, and covers up his adultery by ...
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At the height of Israel's monarchal and communal glory, King David soon gives way to indulgences both physical and familial. He yields to the lure of another man's wife, and covers up his adultery by having the husband killed. Worse, at least in terms of its effect on communal well‐being, is the wrongdoing of an indulgent father: son Amnon, who rapes a sister without reprimand from his father; son Absalom, who kills his brother Amnon and stirs rebellion in the kingdom with no word or action from his father; finally, son Adonijah, to whom David has never spoken a word of displeasure—a son who surreptitiously seeks the throne without his enfeebled father's endorsement. Just as Eli before him, David falters grievously as a father, with momentous negative consequences to the people he is supposed to be ruling. In the end, as David lies dying, we find a twist in the pattern that yields a culminating insight into David's character and an added confirmation of what God found in David that pleased the divine heart. The paternal indulgence pattern begins with Eli, whose two sons die (I, 2:12‐4:22), followed by David‐the‐father, whose son Amnon dies (II, 13:1‐29); son Absalom dies (II, 13:30‐19:15); finally, son Adonijah, with whom David finally deals firmly—a son whose death is not attributed to David's fatherly indulgence (1 Kings 1:5‐2:25).Less
At the height of Israel's monarchal and communal glory, King David soon gives way to indulgences both physical and familial. He yields to the lure of another man's wife, and covers up his adultery by having the husband killed. Worse, at least in terms of its effect on communal well‐being, is the wrongdoing of an indulgent father: son Amnon, who rapes a sister without reprimand from his father; son Absalom, who kills his brother Amnon and stirs rebellion in the kingdom with no word or action from his father; finally, son Adonijah, to whom David has never spoken a word of displeasure—a son who surreptitiously seeks the throne without his enfeebled father's endorsement. Just as Eli before him, David falters grievously as a father, with momentous negative consequences to the people he is supposed to be ruling. In the end, as David lies dying, we find a twist in the pattern that yields a culminating insight into David's character and an added confirmation of what God found in David that pleased the divine heart. The paternal indulgence pattern begins with Eli, whose two sons die (I, 2:12‐4:22), followed by David‐the‐father, whose son Amnon dies (II, 13:1‐29); son Absalom dies (II, 13:30‐19:15); finally, son Adonijah, with whom David finally deals firmly—a son whose death is not attributed to David's fatherly indulgence (1 Kings 1:5‐2:25).
J. G. F. Powell
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199558681
- eISBN:
- 9780191720888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558681.003.0014
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter enquires into the objects of attack in Juvenal's second satire — traditionally called ‘philosophers’, ‘moralists’, or ‘hypocrites’ — and identifies them as élite Romans who prosecuted in ...
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This chapter enquires into the objects of attack in Juvenal's second satire — traditionally called ‘philosophers’, ‘moralists’, or ‘hypocrites’ — and identifies them as élite Romans who prosecuted in the law courts, especially the adultery court recently revived by Domitian. Juvenal's attack is seen within the tradition of hostility to prosecutors (delatores) in Graeco-Roman culture, in general, and in other literature of the period (Martial, Pliny the Younger, and, especially, Tacitus). The text of the second satire is examined in detail and numerous references to history, law, and rhetoric are eludicated. The interpretation aims to restore greater internal coherence to the satire and place it more securely than hitherto in its social and historical context. The truth or otherwise of its allegations (and thus its status as evidence for Roman sexual practices) emerges as less important. Improved interpretations are also proposed for four other passages of Juvenal that mention prosecutors (1.33-5, 3.116-20, 4.46-56, 10.69-72).Less
This chapter enquires into the objects of attack in Juvenal's second satire — traditionally called ‘philosophers’, ‘moralists’, or ‘hypocrites’ — and identifies them as élite Romans who prosecuted in the law courts, especially the adultery court recently revived by Domitian. Juvenal's attack is seen within the tradition of hostility to prosecutors (delatores) in Graeco-Roman culture, in general, and in other literature of the period (Martial, Pliny the Younger, and, especially, Tacitus). The text of the second satire is examined in detail and numerous references to history, law, and rhetoric are eludicated. The interpretation aims to restore greater internal coherence to the satire and place it more securely than hitherto in its social and historical context. The truth or otherwise of its allegations (and thus its status as evidence for Roman sexual practices) emerges as less important. Improved interpretations are also proposed for four other passages of Juvenal that mention prosecutors (1.33-5, 3.116-20, 4.46-56, 10.69-72).
Donald Black
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199737147
- eISBN:
- 9780199944002
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737147.003.0012
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
Reducing contact with someone else is underinvolvement, and reducing the openness of one's own life to someone else is underexposure. Underinvolvement might be anything from a failure to converse to ...
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Reducing contact with someone else is underinvolvement, and reducing the openness of one's own life to someone else is underexposure. Underinvolvement might be anything from a failure to converse to a divorce or declaration of independence. It might be a failure to honor a contract, return a favor, reciprocate a gift, or merely express gratitude. All such actions have the same effect: Conflict is a direct function of underinvolvement. Adultery is sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than a spouse. Because of the zero-sum nature of intimacy, adultery reduces closeness to a spouse at the same time as it increases closeness with someone else and it is one of the surest causes of conflict in the social universe.Less
Reducing contact with someone else is underinvolvement, and reducing the openness of one's own life to someone else is underexposure. Underinvolvement might be anything from a failure to converse to a divorce or declaration of independence. It might be a failure to honor a contract, return a favor, reciprocate a gift, or merely express gratitude. All such actions have the same effect: Conflict is a direct function of underinvolvement. Adultery is sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than a spouse. Because of the zero-sum nature of intimacy, adultery reduces closeness to a spouse at the same time as it increases closeness with someone else and it is one of the surest causes of conflict in the social universe.
DIANA JEATER
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203797
- eISBN:
- 9780191675980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203797.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter discusses the issue and debate of adultery within the African communities. The victory of the African lobby campaign for the criminalization of adultery seemed to provide evidence of an ...
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This chapter discusses the issue and debate of adultery within the African communities. The victory of the African lobby campaign for the criminalization of adultery seemed to provide evidence of an African voice exerting a degree of power in the colonial State. The sudden appearance of adultery in Southern Rhodesia raises questions of how far the colonized authorities could set the terms of political debate when discussing their own people. The African family heads wanted adultery legislation because they were faced with a threat to their power. The gap between the European and African conceptions of adultery would have to be bridged if legislation was to be meaningful to lobbyists and legislators alike. The issue which party was culpable in an adultery dispute was central to this.Less
This chapter discusses the issue and debate of adultery within the African communities. The victory of the African lobby campaign for the criminalization of adultery seemed to provide evidence of an African voice exerting a degree of power in the colonial State. The sudden appearance of adultery in Southern Rhodesia raises questions of how far the colonized authorities could set the terms of political debate when discussing their own people. The African family heads wanted adultery legislation because they were faced with a threat to their power. The gap between the European and African conceptions of adultery would have to be bridged if legislation was to be meaningful to lobbyists and legislators alike. The issue which party was culpable in an adultery dispute was central to this.
Sarah M. S. Pearsall
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199532995
- eISBN:
- 9780191714443
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532995.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter provides general background for the many reasons families experienced Atlantic distance in the 18th century, including the increased importance of the colonies, economic growth, ...
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This chapter provides general background for the many reasons families experienced Atlantic distance in the 18th century, including the increased importance of the colonies, economic growth, migration, slavery, war, and revolution. These factors all separated families and caused concerns, not simply for the families involved but for the larger culture as a whole. Anxieties about the family and the fragility of its bonds in this period in part reflect these larger societal and economic shifts, as well as concerns relating to family disorder such as illegitimacy and adultery. The chapter demonstrates how these anxieties were crystallized in the divorce case of Esten v. the Duke of Hamilton. It also tracks rising literacy and letter writing, and explicates a prominent metaphor in letters: ‘launching into the ocean of the world’.Less
This chapter provides general background for the many reasons families experienced Atlantic distance in the 18th century, including the increased importance of the colonies, economic growth, migration, slavery, war, and revolution. These factors all separated families and caused concerns, not simply for the families involved but for the larger culture as a whole. Anxieties about the family and the fragility of its bonds in this period in part reflect these larger societal and economic shifts, as well as concerns relating to family disorder such as illegitimacy and adultery. The chapter demonstrates how these anxieties were crystallized in the divorce case of Esten v. the Duke of Hamilton. It also tracks rising literacy and letter writing, and explicates a prominent metaphor in letters: ‘launching into the ocean of the world’.
Sarah M. S. Pearsall
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199532995
- eISBN:
- 9780191714443
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532995.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter investigates a scandal in a family, examining why a cuckolded ‘old husband,’ a rich West Indian planter, was willing to offer forgiveness to his adulterous wife (who had slept with her ...
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This chapter investigates a scandal in a family, examining why a cuckolded ‘old husband,’ a rich West Indian planter, was willing to offer forgiveness to his adulterous wife (who had slept with her own stepson-in-law, an Anglican clergyman). It raises issues about the lives of families divided between Jamaica and England, focusing on their wealth, ambitions, and sexuality, and the complicated ways in which distance between family members created both crises and the solutions to them. It also exposes how a man defined good fatherhood. The chapter scrutinizes white women's and even slaves' abilities to deploy eloquent sensibility, and the limits of this language. It also traces how Atlantic distance could both undermine and make possible ‘family feeling’.Less
This chapter investigates a scandal in a family, examining why a cuckolded ‘old husband,’ a rich West Indian planter, was willing to offer forgiveness to his adulterous wife (who had slept with her own stepson-in-law, an Anglican clergyman). It raises issues about the lives of families divided between Jamaica and England, focusing on their wealth, ambitions, and sexuality, and the complicated ways in which distance between family members created both crises and the solutions to them. It also exposes how a man defined good fatherhood. The chapter scrutinizes white women's and even slaves' abilities to deploy eloquent sensibility, and the limits of this language. It also traces how Atlantic distance could both undermine and make possible ‘family feeling’.
G. O. Hutchinson
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199279418
- eISBN:
- 9780191707322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279418.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The structure of Amores 3 has been obscured by the whole series Amores 1-3, and the relation to Ovid's coming works. The structure rests on genre. The frame (poems 1 and 15) shows the poet-narrator ...
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The structure of Amores 3 has been obscured by the whole series Amores 1-3, and the relation to Ovid's coming works. The structure rests on genre. The frame (poems 1 and 15) shows the poet-narrator making and keeping a decisive resolution, to leave love-elegy for tragedy; the frame has connotations of tragedy, especially of Medea. The inset (poems 2-14) presents the indecisive and imperfective world of love-elegy, from which the narrator will escape. The inset teases the reader, however, on ending and on love. It makes excursions into other genres, but subverts more than it reinforces generic hierarchy. The book is politically subversive on adultery, and pointedly avoids Roman patriotism. Intertextuality with other ‘last’ books highlights the force of its structure.Less
The structure of Amores 3 has been obscured by the whole series Amores 1-3, and the relation to Ovid's coming works. The structure rests on genre. The frame (poems 1 and 15) shows the poet-narrator making and keeping a decisive resolution, to leave love-elegy for tragedy; the frame has connotations of tragedy, especially of Medea. The inset (poems 2-14) presents the indecisive and imperfective world of love-elegy, from which the narrator will escape. The inset teases the reader, however, on ending and on love. It makes excursions into other genres, but subverts more than it reinforces generic hierarchy. The book is politically subversive on adultery, and pointedly avoids Roman patriotism. Intertextuality with other ‘last’ books highlights the force of its structure.
DIANA JEATER
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203797
- eISBN:
- 9780191675980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203797.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
The migrant labour system was the outcome of an apparent contradiction between its political and economic interests. The NAPO, which was to aid African women to meet their lineage obligations, ...
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The migrant labour system was the outcome of an apparent contradiction between its political and economic interests. The NAPO, which was to aid African women to meet their lineage obligations, suggests a degree of resistance to proletarianization. The company was obliged to adapt and exploit a system of partial proletarianization for economic reasons and partly because the Administration needed to bolster chiefly power and make concessions to African demands. This chapter describes the changing social environment which enabled women to evade sanctions used to restrict their independence. Because women were using this new-found independence to desert their marital homes, in the company of other men, it was an undoubtedly the case that family heads were experiencing difficulties in controlling women in Gwelo District and elsewhere. Adultery became a sensitive political issue. The Natives Adultery Punishment Ordinance was the result.Less
The migrant labour system was the outcome of an apparent contradiction between its political and economic interests. The NAPO, which was to aid African women to meet their lineage obligations, suggests a degree of resistance to proletarianization. The company was obliged to adapt and exploit a system of partial proletarianization for economic reasons and partly because the Administration needed to bolster chiefly power and make concessions to African demands. This chapter describes the changing social environment which enabled women to evade sanctions used to restrict their independence. Because women were using this new-found independence to desert their marital homes, in the company of other men, it was an undoubtedly the case that family heads were experiencing difficulties in controlling women in Gwelo District and elsewhere. Adultery became a sensitive political issue. The Natives Adultery Punishment Ordinance was the result.
Karen C. Lang
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195151138
- eISBN:
- 9780199870448
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195151135.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Ignorant people do not understand that the human body is neither a source of pleasure nor of pride. The Buddhist monks’ condemnation of sex develops an old misogynist theme of women's bodies as the ...
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Ignorant people do not understand that the human body is neither a source of pleasure nor of pride. The Buddhist monks’ condemnation of sex develops an old misogynist theme of women's bodies as the bait that traps unwary, foolish men in the cycle of repeated birth and death. Adulterous fools mistakenly believe that women's impure bodies are sources of pleasure. Male bodies are equally impure and Buddhists criticize the Brahmins’ claim to superior purity, based upon their mistaken views of chastity and their claims of descent from the gods.Less
Ignorant people do not understand that the human body is neither a source of pleasure nor of pride. The Buddhist monks’ condemnation of sex develops an old misogynist theme of women's bodies as the bait that traps unwary, foolish men in the cycle of repeated birth and death. Adulterous fools mistakenly believe that women's impure bodies are sources of pleasure. Male bodies are equally impure and Buddhists criticize the Brahmins’ claim to superior purity, based upon their mistaken views of chastity and their claims of descent from the gods.
Thomas A. J. McGinn
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161328
- eISBN:
- 9780199789344
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161328.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines the ancient Roman law lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis, a companion statute to the lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus that was brought before the concilium plebes by Augustus ...
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This chapter examines the ancient Roman law lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis, a companion statute to the lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus that was brought before the concilium plebes by Augustus acting once more on the authority of his tribunicia potestas. The lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis had as its principal aim the repression of those forms of non-marital sexual relations considered unacceptable by Roman society, particularly adultery. Aside from adultery and criminal fornication, there is disagreement as to what the adultery law punished. There is controversy over whether it punished incest, but the late classical jurists treat this as a separate crime, to the extent that even incestuous marriages might in some cases receive protection under the adultery statute. Before the passage of the lex Iulia, the repression of sexual misbehavior was generally conceded to the private sphere.Less
This chapter examines the ancient Roman law lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis, a companion statute to the lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus that was brought before the concilium plebes by Augustus acting once more on the authority of his tribunicia potestas. The lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis had as its principal aim the repression of those forms of non-marital sexual relations considered unacceptable by Roman society, particularly adultery. Aside from adultery and criminal fornication, there is disagreement as to what the adultery law punished. There is controversy over whether it punished incest, but the late classical jurists treat this as a separate crime, to the extent that even incestuous marriages might in some cases receive protection under the adultery statute. Before the passage of the lex Iulia, the repression of sexual misbehavior was generally conceded to the private sphere.
Thomas A. J. McGinn
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161328
- eISBN:
- 9780199789344
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161328.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines the ancient Roman law lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis, with emphasis on imperial law generated by emperor and Senate and the law of the jurists. The juristic definition of ...
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This chapter examines the ancient Roman law lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis, with emphasis on imperial law generated by emperor and Senate and the law of the jurists. The juristic definition of “prostitute” under the adultery statute is discussed, along with criminal pimping under the statute, the moral significance that the jurists attributed to the main species of lenocinium, and the offenses against the lex Iulia that came to be viewed by the jurists as a species of lenocinium. The lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis was the only special criminal law on which the jurists wrote monographs. Three of the Severan greats, Ulpian, Papinian, and Paul, made notable contributions in this area. If these men felt any hostility toward the statute, it is well masked. Their approach to the interpretation of the law is typical of the general juristic position. This in turn may be described as quite favorable, insofar as it aids the policy goals pursued by the statute wherever possible through extensive interpretation.Less
This chapter examines the ancient Roman law lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis, with emphasis on imperial law generated by emperor and Senate and the law of the jurists. The juristic definition of “prostitute” under the adultery statute is discussed, along with criminal pimping under the statute, the moral significance that the jurists attributed to the main species of lenocinium, and the offenses against the lex Iulia that came to be viewed by the jurists as a species of lenocinium. The lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis was the only special criminal law on which the jurists wrote monographs. Three of the Severan greats, Ulpian, Papinian, and Paul, made notable contributions in this area. If these men felt any hostility toward the statute, it is well masked. Their approach to the interpretation of the law is typical of the general juristic position. This in turn may be described as quite favorable, insofar as it aids the policy goals pursued by the statute wherever possible through extensive interpretation.
Rosalind Brown‐Grant
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199554140
- eISBN:
- 9780191721069
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554140.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter examines the representation of the spouses in marital romances, with particular emphasis on how the figure of the husband is brought centre-stage in contrast to earlier romance where he ...
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This chapter examines the representation of the spouses in marital romances, with particular emphasis on how the figure of the husband is brought centre-stage in contrast to earlier romance where he is a marginal character. Examining issues such as male adultery, bigamy, and the repudiation of wives, it discusses the Roman du Comte d'Artois, Gillion de Trazegnies, the Seigneurs de Gavre, and Baudouin de Gavre. It reads these romances in the context of the late medieval views of marriage contained in the sermons of Jacques Legrand and Jean Gerson, in the moral treatises of Giles of Rome and Philippe de Mézières, and in works promoting St Joseph as a role-model for husbands and fathers. It argues that fictional and didactic works alike temper the traditional ‘aristocratic’ male preoccupation with ensuring succession by promoting a more ‘clerkly’ view of marriage as a sacramental and companionate bond between the spouses.Less
This chapter examines the representation of the spouses in marital romances, with particular emphasis on how the figure of the husband is brought centre-stage in contrast to earlier romance where he is a marginal character. Examining issues such as male adultery, bigamy, and the repudiation of wives, it discusses the Roman du Comte d'Artois, Gillion de Trazegnies, the Seigneurs de Gavre, and Baudouin de Gavre. It reads these romances in the context of the late medieval views of marriage contained in the sermons of Jacques Legrand and Jean Gerson, in the moral treatises of Giles of Rome and Philippe de Mézières, and in works promoting St Joseph as a role-model for husbands and fathers. It argues that fictional and didactic works alike temper the traditional ‘aristocratic’ male preoccupation with ensuring succession by promoting a more ‘clerkly’ view of marriage as a sacramental and companionate bond between the spouses.
P. G. Walsh
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780198269953
- eISBN:
- 9780191601132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198269951.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
Marriage is the natural institution of society established for companionship and for the continuation of the human race. It must be lifelong, and the partners must show total fidelity to each other. ...
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Marriage is the natural institution of society established for companionship and for the continuation of the human race. It must be lifelong, and the partners must show total fidelity to each other. Lustful behaviour in marriage is pardonable, as it safeguards against adultery and fornication. Marriage is good, but consecrated virginity is better. Christian marriage differs from secular marriage in embodying sacramentum, an oath of lifelong allegiance that symbolizes unity in the future Jerusalem. Thus, marriage is good because it incorporates the three goods of proles, fides, and sacramentum.Less
Marriage is the natural institution of society established for companionship and for the continuation of the human race. It must be lifelong, and the partners must show total fidelity to each other. Lustful behaviour in marriage is pardonable, as it safeguards against adultery and fornication. Marriage is good, but consecrated virginity is better. Christian marriage differs from secular marriage in embodying sacramentum, an oath of lifelong allegiance that symbolizes unity in the future Jerusalem. Thus, marriage is good because it incorporates the three goods of proles, fides, and sacramentum.
Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691169880
- eISBN:
- 9780691184463
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691169880.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus ...
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The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus famously states, “Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” This book traces the history of this provocative story from its first appearance to its enduring presence today. Likely added to the Gospel of John in the third century, the passage is often held up by modern critics as an example of textual corruption by early Christian scribes and editors, yet a judgment of corruption obscures the warm embrace the story actually received. The book traces the story's incorporation into Gospel books, liturgical practices, storytelling, and art, overturning the mistaken perception that it was either peripheral or suppressed, even in the Greek East. It explores the story's many different meanings. Taken as an illustration of the expansiveness of Christ's mercy, the purported superiority of Christians over Jews, the necessity of penance, and more, this vivid episode has invited any number of creative receptions. This history reveals as much about the changing priorities of audiences, scribes, editors, and scholars as it does about an “original” text of John. The book calls attention to significant shifts in Christian book cultures and the enduring impact of oral tradition on the preservation—and destabilization—of scripture.Less
The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus famously states, “Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” This book traces the history of this provocative story from its first appearance to its enduring presence today. Likely added to the Gospel of John in the third century, the passage is often held up by modern critics as an example of textual corruption by early Christian scribes and editors, yet a judgment of corruption obscures the warm embrace the story actually received. The book traces the story's incorporation into Gospel books, liturgical practices, storytelling, and art, overturning the mistaken perception that it was either peripheral or suppressed, even in the Greek East. It explores the story's many different meanings. Taken as an illustration of the expansiveness of Christ's mercy, the purported superiority of Christians over Jews, the necessity of penance, and more, this vivid episode has invited any number of creative receptions. This history reveals as much about the changing priorities of audiences, scribes, editors, and scholars as it does about an “original” text of John. The book calls attention to significant shifts in Christian book cultures and the enduring impact of oral tradition on the preservation—and destabilization—of scripture.
Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691169880
- eISBN:
- 9780691184463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691169880.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This introductory chapter provides a background of the pericope adulterae—the episode involving Jesus and a woman caught in adultery. The pericope adulterae boasts a long, complex history of ...
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This introductory chapter provides a background of the pericope adulterae—the episode involving Jesus and a woman caught in adultery. The pericope adulterae boasts a long, complex history of reception and transmission, which, at least early on, placed it on the margins of Christian interpretation. Today the story is so widely known, so widely quoted, and so often alluded to in art, literature, film, and public discourse of all sorts that “throwing stones” serves as a cliché. Even so, the textual instability of the episode has not been forgotten, especially by biblical scholars, who continue to debate the implications of its unusual past. By now, most scholars have concluded that the pericope was not original to the Gospel; rather, it was added by a well-meaning interpolator at some later date, after the Gospel of John was already circulating.Less
This introductory chapter provides a background of the pericope adulterae—the episode involving Jesus and a woman caught in adultery. The pericope adulterae boasts a long, complex history of reception and transmission, which, at least early on, placed it on the margins of Christian interpretation. Today the story is so widely known, so widely quoted, and so often alluded to in art, literature, film, and public discourse of all sorts that “throwing stones” serves as a cliché. Even so, the textual instability of the episode has not been forgotten, especially by biblical scholars, who continue to debate the implications of its unusual past. By now, most scholars have concluded that the pericope was not original to the Gospel; rather, it was added by a well-meaning interpolator at some later date, after the Gospel of John was already circulating.
Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691169880
- eISBN:
- 9780691184463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691169880.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter addresses the possibility that the pericope adulterae was deleted rather than interpolated. Contemporary scholars have often suggested that the unusual history of the pericope adulterae ...
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This chapter addresses the possibility that the pericope adulterae was deleted rather than interpolated. Contemporary scholars have often suggested that the unusual history of the pericope adulterae can best be explained by its seemingly radical content. In a world where adultery on the part of women was heavily censured, this story may have pushed the limits of Christian mercy too far, especially since the earliest Christians were often accused of sexual misconduct. In addition, the woman showed no apparent signs of repentance. Nevertheless, outright deletion or intentional suppression are both highly improbable: scribes and scholars were trained never to delete, even when they doubted the authenticity of a given passage, and the widespread affection for stories about adulterous women across the ancient world belies the thesis that this story was censored.Less
This chapter addresses the possibility that the pericope adulterae was deleted rather than interpolated. Contemporary scholars have often suggested that the unusual history of the pericope adulterae can best be explained by its seemingly radical content. In a world where adultery on the part of women was heavily censured, this story may have pushed the limits of Christian mercy too far, especially since the earliest Christians were often accused of sexual misconduct. In addition, the woman showed no apparent signs of repentance. Nevertheless, outright deletion or intentional suppression are both highly improbable: scribes and scholars were trained never to delete, even when they doubted the authenticity of a given passage, and the widespread affection for stories about adulterous women across the ancient world belies the thesis that this story was censored.
