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Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned: The Dramatic Potency of Confession on the Early Modern English Shakespearean Stage
(2023)
Though forcefully absent in its traditional practice by political and religious reformation, evidence of confession in early modern English drama remained and became representative of an exchange of power between dramatic ...
John Donne : an annotated bibliography of modern criticism, 1968-1978
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
This study is the first to collect and fully annotate the vast amount of criticism and scholarship written on Donne during the period 1968-1978.-- Page 1.
Annotated Bibliography to 1985
(1988-01)
Praesentia et potentia in the Cubiculum Leonis in the catacomb of Commodilla, Rome : late ancient martyr cult in a late Roman's tomb
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
and fountain scene on the right and left lunettes, respectively. A variety of smaller scenes depicting doves, lambs, holy figures, fruit, and more appear elsewhere. A titulus appears above the entrance arch and the doves that adorn it. An elaborate framework...
Muse, number 42 (2008)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2009)
Child death, grief, and the community in high and late Medieval England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
to drain the liquid from his body, and when that did not work, by giving him holy water associated with Thomas Becket (aqua sancti Thomoe). According to William of Canterbury, because of the devotion of the parents (devotio parentum) and divine intervention...
The Fountain of living waters : the typology of the waters of life in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne
(University of Missouri Press, 1987)
Dickson presents historical viewpoints pertaining to the water of life, exegesis of major Biblical events involving different types of waters of life, and the methods employed by three Christian poets, George Herbert, Henry ...
Gracious laughter : the meditative wit of Edward Taylor
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
Study of the New England colonial poet, Edward Taylor, and the relationship between his verbal wit and his religious commitment to Puritan belief. Gatta evaluates the anti-utilitarian dimensions and Puritan themes in ...
Jewish folk literature
(1999-03)
The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
Study of the Medieval English romance has burgeoned in recent years, with a focus on the world outside of the texts being central to the resurgence. I offer in this dissertation a reading of four of these works (Athelston, Sir Gawain and the Green...
"The back-and-forth form" : epistolarity in late medieval literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and medieval authors. The messenger's excessively human faculties emerge as cites of potential failure. Chapter 3 centers the performative elements of the epistolary circuit, arguing that the epistolary present tense is especially momentous. The timing...
Catalogue of the libraries belonging to the University of Missouri and societies
(Union Democrat Print, 1857)
Survey Course of Church Music
(1958)
This document outlines a survey conservatory course in the history of church music from the seventh century to the twentieth century.
Sleeping toward Christianity : the form and function of the Seven sleepers legend in medieval British oral tradition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus is a fascinating part of medieval oral tradition, and eminently worthy of further consideration. The legend was obviously popular and widespread during the medieval period, yet ...
A congressional history of the Populists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1936)
"Populism arose as a party movement representing an agrarian economy to combat the rising force of industrialism in the United States. It represented the rural forces of unrest that had been agitating for relief from the ...
Mass in A-flat major and other liturgical works ... May 4, 1997
(University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Music, 1997)
"The year 1997 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Viennese composer, Franz Schubert. As a part of the Department of Music's year-long series of concerts, "Remembering the Romantics," we present Schubert's ...
"Truly Qualified": The Transnational Reception of Giovanni Rovetta's Music in Seventeenth-Century Europe
(2021)
Early modern Venice flourished artistically and musically as one of the most cosmopolitan cities in all of Europe, and the Basilica of St. Mark’s represented the visual and musical power of La Serenissima. Giovanni Rovetta, ...
The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker and her imaginative Catholic faith
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker is a book largely unstudied by critics. Barker prepared A Collection of Poems Refering to the times ...