Orthodoxy, Heresy and Treason in Elizabethan England

The Virgin Knight: Spenser’s Embodiment of Duality in Elizabethan England

Edmund Spenser’s poetry notoriously battles itself, contorting the surface of his poetical works into an ambiguous representation of how he perceived Elizabethan England in terms of theology, sexuality, nobility, and ideology. Written as what he termed “an historicall fiction[sic],” Spenser allowed his imagination to capture and epitomize the perspectives of Elizabethan society, but in a twiste...

"For Words Only": From Treason Trial to Liberal Legend in Early Modern England

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next: what is new about detecting emphysema?

have been developed in the last two decades, to evaluate the severity of parenchymal destruction and to follow up the patients [2–4] . Thoracic radiologists all around the word now face the ultimate challenge: to evaluate the bronchial remodeling, along with the emphysematous destruction [5–7] . Different approaches to the quantitative evaluation of emphysema have also been proposed, such as th...

An Elizabethan Enigma

The last thing William Shakespeare wants to be is predictable. Roughly halfway through his published collection of one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, he frets that we may find it dull that he “write[s] . . . all one, ever the same,” producing one fourteen-line poem after another (76.5). He has reason to worry: he rarely allows himself to deviate from a strict iambic pentameter, and holds his v...

Orthodoxy and Global Pluralism

As scholars become more aware of the importance of religion in world affairs, several have begun to ask whether specific religious traditions are compatible with the institutions and values of liberal democracy. With approximately 350 million Orthodox Christians in the world, and given the great political and economic importance of the many countries they call home, an understanding of Orthodox...