Sheila Delany
Biographic Data
| ID | 804091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila Delany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila |
| FAMILY NAME | Delany |
| SIGNATURE | DELANY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
For and Against the Bible: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal’s Pour et Contre la Bible (1801)
In this first translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Bible commentary, Sheila Delany offers an important document in the history of modern European secularization and rationalist Bible criticism. Editor of one of France's best-known radical journals, Révolutions de Paris, and author in many genres—drama, poetry, journalism, treatise—Maréchal (1750-1803) embraced the revolutionary egalitarian ideas of François-Noël "Gracchus" Babeuf. As an atheist, he …
Afterlife of a Medieval Genre: TheNouvelle légende dorée(1790) of Sylvain Maréchal
In his Nouvelle légende dorée (1790), the revolutionary atheist journalist Sylvain Maréchal appropriated and reworked a medieval genre, the legendary, to expose the vices of the Catholic Church and to win his reader, especially his woman reader, away from religion and to revolutionary values of family and citizenship. I have translated and annotated this book-length text, but my annotated translation is not yet published as of this writing. This …
Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare . Lisa Lampert Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) . …
Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom . Robert Chazan
Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England . Elizabeth Scala
Communications
A Companion to Chaucer . Peter Brown
Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy . Karma Lochrie
The Siege of Jerusalem in Its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts . Bonnie Millar
Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims
This paper explores some implications of the "Asia" setting of Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. Its method is literal and historicist. Its argument is that the tale is meant to present real, not figurative, Jews; that Chaucer had opportunity to meet and know about Jews outside of England (which had expelled its Jews in 1290); that "Asia" in Chaucer's day was under Islamic control and Europe was threatened by Islamic invasion; that Jews were often viewe…
Impolitic Bodies
Impolitic bodies: Poetry, saints, and society in fifteenth-century England : the work of Osbern Bokenham
Sexual—Textual Politics
This chapter discusses the other type of politics—that of sex and gender—and how this is manifested in Bokenham's legendary. Examples are provided of the occurrence of such themes in the lives of the female saints that Bokenham studied. The chapter then highlights the friar's treatment of such issues, in light of his milieu and Augustinian beliefs. Throughout his narratives, Bokenham expressly omits any misogynist elements, even if such is part o…
Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature. Anne Clark Bartlett
Bokenham's Claudian as Yorkist propaganda
The first translation of Claudian into English was probably the work of Osbern Bokenham, an Augustinian friar resident at Clare (Suffolk) and author of the Legends of Holy Women (1443-47). The text survives in a unique manuscript dated 1445 and decorated with Yorkist emblems. The choice of original-‘De consulatu Stiliconis’-and management of the translation show strong support for Richard Duke of York at an especially difficult moment in his care…
Anatomy of the Resisting Reader: Some Implications of Resistance to Sexual Wordplay in Medieval Literature
BOTTOM We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1.1.96–7)
Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital
(1990). Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital. Exemplaria: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 49-69
Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital
Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future
Two Studies of Marriage
Flore Et Jehane: A Case Study of the Bourgeois Woman in Medieval Life and Letters
A Response to Bell and Diamond
The Order of the Rose: The Life and Times of Christine de Pisan. Enid McLeod
Dissent and Alternatives: A Review of Two Anthologies
Substructure and Superstructure: The politics of Allegory in the Fourteenth Century
Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future
Communications
Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital
(1990). Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital. Exemplaria: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 49-69
Afterlife of a Medieval Genre: TheNouvelle légende dorée(1790) of Sylvain Maréchal
In his Nouvelle légende dorée (1790), the revolutionary atheist journalist Sylvain Maréchal appropriated and reworked a medieval genre, the legendary, to expose the vices of the Catholic Church and to win his reader, especially his woman reader, away from religion and to revolutionary values of family and citizenship. I have translated and annotated this book-length text, but my annotated translation is not yet published as of this writing. This …
Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital
Dissent and Alternatives: A Review of Two Anthologies
Substructure and Superstructure: The politics of Allegory in the Fourteenth Century
The Order of the Rose: The Life and Times of Christine de Pisan. Enid McLeod
A Response to Bell and Diamond
Flore Et Jehane: A Case Study of the Bourgeois Woman in Medieval Life and Letters
Two Studies of Marriage
Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future
Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital
(1990). Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital. Exemplaria: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 49-69
Strategies of Silence in the Wife of Bath's Recital
Anatomy of the Resisting Reader: Some Implications of Resistance to Sexual Wordplay in Medieval Literature
BOTTOM We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1.1.96–7)
Bokenham's Claudian as Yorkist propaganda
The first translation of Claudian into English was probably the work of Osbern Bokenham, an Augustinian friar resident at Clare (Suffolk) and author of the Legends of Holy Women (1443-47). The text survives in a unique manuscript dated 1445 and decorated with Yorkist emblems. The choice of original-‘De consulatu Stiliconis’-and management of the translation show strong support for Richard Duke of York at an especially difficult moment in his care…
Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature. Anne Clark Bartlett
Impolitic Bodies
Impolitic bodies: Poetry, saints, and society in fifteenth-century England : the work of Osbern Bokenham
Sexual—Textual Politics
This chapter discusses the other type of politics—that of sex and gender—and how this is manifested in Bokenham's legendary. Examples are provided of the occurrence of such themes in the lives of the female saints that Bokenham studied. The chapter then highlights the friar's treatment of such issues, in light of his milieu and Augustinian beliefs. Throughout his narratives, Bokenham expressly omits any misogynist elements, even if such is part o…
Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims
This paper explores some implications of the "Asia" setting of Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. Its method is literal and historicist. Its argument is that the tale is meant to present real, not figurative, Jews; that Chaucer had opportunity to meet and know about Jews outside of England (which had expelled its Jews in 1290); that "Asia" in Chaucer's day was under Islamic control and Europe was threatened by Islamic invasion; that Jews were often viewe…
Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy . Karma Lochrie
The Siege of Jerusalem in Its Physical, Literary and Historical Contexts . Bonnie Millar
A Companion to Chaucer . Peter Brown
Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England . Elizabeth Scala
Communications
Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom . Robert Chazan
Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare . Lisa Lampert Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) . …
Afterlife of a Medieval Genre: TheNouvelle légende dorée(1790) of Sylvain Maréchal
In his Nouvelle légende dorée (1790), the revolutionary atheist journalist Sylvain Maréchal appropriated and reworked a medieval genre, the legendary, to expose the vices of the Catholic Church and to win his reader, especially his woman reader, away from religion and to revolutionary values of family and citizenship. I have translated and annotated this book-length text, but my annotated translation is not yet published as of this writing. This …
For and Against the Bible: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal’s Pour et Contre la Bible (1801)
In this first translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Bible commentary, Sheila Delany offers an important document in the history of modern European secularization and rationalist Bible criticism. Editor of one of France's best-known radical journals, Révolutions de Paris, and author in many genres—drama, poetry, journalism, treatise—Maréchal (1750-1803) embraced the revolutionary egalitarian ideas of François-Noël "Gracchus" Babeuf. As an atheist, he …
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