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Disability and Knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur
Tory Pearman
Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
ISBN 9780429445453 - CAT# KE67287
October 3, 2018 by Routledge
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This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory's unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight's physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights' movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory's book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text's fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text's multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the "hoole book" that Malory envisions. The Morte, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses.
Introduction: "Able to do Lyke a Knight": Disability in Malory's Morte Darthur
Chapter 1: "Disability, Lovesickness, and the Chivalric Code: Women Healers and Harmers in the Morte"
Chapter 2: "'For whome he wente oute of hys minde': Women and the Love-madness of Tristram and Lancelot"
Chapter 3: "(Dis)abling Heteronormativity: The Touch of the Queer/Crip in Malory's Morte"
Chapter 4: "Vessels of Blood: (Dis)abled Bodies and the Grail in Malory's 'Tale of the Sankgreal'"
Chapter 5: Lancelot's Wounds, the Healing of Urry, and Images of (Dis)ability in the Book of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
Associate Professor of English, Miami University Hamilton
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Tory V. Pearman, Associate Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, earned her M.A. at Purdue University and her Ph.D. from Loyola University. She has published widely on the intersections between gender and disability in medieval literature. She is author of Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (2010).

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The economic downturn of Lebanon
By serranovane
Post Civil War
Lebanon was devastated by a bloody 15-year-long civil war, which began on April 13, 1975. Under the 1989 Taif Agreement, which ended this conflict, cabinet portfolios are divided among the main religious groups in the country, with six portfolios reserved for Sunnis, six for Shiites, and three for Druze.
Alliances or respective withdrawals
Tensions between Christians and Palestinians caused a bloody civil war to break out between the Lebanese themselves, the Palestinians, and outside forces (mainly Israel and Syria). The latter occupied a large part of the country physically, making alliances with one side or another until their respective withdrawals in 2000 (Israel) and 2005 (Syria).
Lowering the growth rate
Starting in 2011, shortly before the massive arrival of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the economic situation began to deteriorate, lowering the growth rate to 2%.
Lebanon has experienced many moments of instability: attacks, war with Israel, civil war, internal tensions between the parties, tensions with Syria, etc. The corruption index is 72 points out of 100 in 2018, ranking 140 in the world (well above the average). Where citizens continue to suffer daily and government-scheduled power outages. This is due to the connection with the generator mafia that fills the state vacuum and makes money.
Corruption increasing
The perception of corruption in Lebanon is increasing. For years, politicians from all factions in the country have stolen and thereby ruined the country. Even politicians who are at odds with each other have taken advantage of this corrupt system to enrich themselves. When it comes to your own well-being, everyone agrees.
Protests against the government
On October 17, 2019, people took to the streets across Lebanon with an unprecedented sense of unity to call for the dissolution of the entire political and economic power structure that ruled the country since the end of the armed conflict in 1990. The trigger for this collective mobilization was the government's decision to impose even more rates as part of the austerity measures, in particular a "WhatsApp tax", which would levy a free worldwide calling service.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Lebanese people continue to take to the streets amid reports that at least four people committed suicide in June due to economic problems. The coronavirus stalked the country, which lived in a hospital collapsed and suffered from the lack of all kinds of medical supplies to assist the sick. As if that were not enough, the country's already devastated economy was sinking more and more.
Port of Beirut explosion
On August 4, 2020, Beirut, the capital, was devastated by an explosion that swept through part of the city, killing 217 people and injuring more than 6,500. After the explosion, the causes of which are still being investigated, it reignited the protests of a citizenry inflamed with its political class after rumors spread that the accident could have been prevented.
Growing crisis and shortages
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Jan. 22, 22
What initially started as a space for Black female hockey enthusiasts has turned into movement compelling others to have uncomfortable conversations on race and injustice.
R. Renee Hess is proud to be a hockey fan, loudly repping the sport any way she can. And, while she believes that hockey is for everyone, that isn't the case universally. While reflecting back on her first NHL game, she reflected on the crowd inside the area — specifically, how different they were from her.
"I didn't see any faces that looked like mine," she told SportsNet. "I didn't see any women of color there, any Black women. After I'd gone to a couple more live games, I started wondering, 'Where are all the Black women fans?'"
This question prompted the beginning of the Black Girl Hockey Club in 2018, hoping it would bring Black women together to enjoy the sport while also celebrating the Black community's history within it.
The goal was to create a safe space. According to its website, The BGHC's mission statement centers around preventing exclusion in hockey based on race, gender, sexuality, or ability by way of institutional racism, financial gatekeeping, and accessibility. Education, scholarship opportunities, and community spaces are also provided to give Black women access to hockey.
However, after a summer strife with violence and protests over systematic racial reform, Hess and her team decided that more work needed to be done. Change always starts from within, which made hockey the perfect breeding ground to begin a movement. But to really make a point, you have to get out of your comfort zone.
The Get Uncomfortable Campaign seeks to disrupt racism on the ice. By bringing together BIPOC players, fans, media personnel, and other stakeholders, the campaign is developing a comprehensive list of recommendations on how all hockey-related entities can contribute to the movement against racial discrimination of BIPOC communities in society.
But they don't seek to do the work alone, as so many Black women have been forced to do in the past. The BGHC welcomes collaboration with allies to join the cause.
"Black women are tired," the non-profit stated via their Twitter. "We don't want to carry the burden of racism on our own any longer. In life, in sport, in our neighborhoods and in our country."
The BGHC is asking their allies to pledge that they will be active in the movement in making hockey an inclusive sport on and off the ice through education, diversity, allyship, and anti-racism work. A pledge that has, so far, garnered over 5,000 supporters. The pledge is the BGHC's way to hold others accountable, ensuring that people are committed to the cause.
Through this campaign, the BGHC has evolved from its early fan club days. "We've been able to have an impact on the hockey community because we've learned we're stronger together," Hess said to the New York Time. "And focus on initiatives to advance social change."
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Mexico — What Went Wrong?
Mexico gets a massive cash influx in remittances, American corporations get cheap labor, Democrats get voters . . .
Mexico in just a few days could elect one of its more anti-American figures in recent memory, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Obrador has often advanced the idea that a strangely aggrieved Mexico has the right to monitor the status of its citizens living illegally in the United States. Lately, he trumped that notion of entitlement by assuring fellow Mexicans that they have a "human right" to enter the United States as they please. For Obrador, this is an innate privilege that he promised "we will defend" — without offering any clarification on the meaning of "defend" other than to render meaningless the historic notion of borders and sovereignty.
Obrador went on to urge his fellow Mexicans to "leave their towns and find a life in the United States." He has naturally developed such a mindset because he assumes as normal what has become, by any fair standard, a historically abnormal relationship.
Obrador is determined to perpetuate, if not enhance, the asymmetry. In the age of Trump, Obrador also reasons that the furor and hysteria of the American media toward the president represents a majority and a domestic grassroots pushback against the Trump administration — apparently because of Trump's "restrictionist" view of enforcing existing immigration law. Polls, however, suggest otherwise, despite their notorious embedded anti-Trump bias.
Mexico, the Aggressor
Facts are stubborn and reveal Mexico, not the United States, as a de facto aggressor and belligerent on many fronts. Mexico runs a NAFTA-protected $70 billion trade surplus with the U.S., larger than that of any other single American trade partner (including Japan and Germany) except China. The architects of NAFTA long ago assured Americans that such a trade war would not break out, or that we should not worry over trade imbalances, given the desirability of outsourcing to take advantage of Mexico's cheaper labor costs.
A supposedly affluent Mexico was supposed to achieve near parity with the U.S., as immigration and trade soon neutralized. Despite Mexico's economic growth, no such symmetry has followed NAFTA. What did, however, 34 years later, was the establishment of a dysfunctional Mexican state, whose drug cartels all but run the country on the basis of their enormous profits from unfettered dope-running and human-trafficking into the United States. NAFTA certainly did not make Mexico a safer, kinder, and gentler nation.
In addition, Mexican citizens who enter and reside as illegal immigrants in the U.S. are mostly responsible for sending an approximate $30 billion in remittances home to Mexico. That sum has now surpassed oil and tourism as the largest source of Mexican foreign exchange. That huge cash influx is the concrete reality behind Obrador's otherwise unhinged rhetoric about exercising veto power over U.S. immigration law.
What is also unsaid is that many of the millions of Mexican expatriates in the United States who send remittances home to Mexico are themselves beneficiaries of some sort of U.S. federal, state, or local support that allows them to free up cash to send back to Mexico.
When Obrador urges his fellow citizens to abandon their country and head illegally into the United States, his primary concern is not their general welfare and futures. He seems quite unconcerned that those who send home remittances live in poverty in the United States and seek offsetting subsidies from the U.S. government to find enough disposable income to save the Mexican government from its mostly corrupt self.
Why the U.S. government does not tax remittances and why it does not prohibit foreign nationals on public assistance from sending cash out of the country are some of the stranger phenomena of the entire strange illegal-immigration matrix.
On a related note; I talked about this back in 2011. You can read that blog post here.
Labels: crime, drugs, Foreign Affairs, immigration, mexico, prohibition
Cardinal Meuller hits one out of the park
In an exclusive CWR interview, the former prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith discusses tensions over the proposed reception of Holy Communion by Protestants, continued conflicts over the Church's teaching about ordination, and homosexuality and ideology.
"We are experiencing conversion to the world, instead of to God"
HT: Dr. Tighe
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Greek Government to Propose Separation of Church and State
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras intends to initiate the process of separating the Greek Orthodox Church from the Greek state and revising the relevant article of the Greek constitution, reports Russian Athens with reference to the Greek paper Kathimerini.
According to the Greek publication, within the next month Tsipras will present his plan for the revision of the constitution, including plans to separate the Church from the state, ahead of the expected submission of the SYRIZA proposal to parliament, planned for October.
Tsipras and his advisers are aware that the initiative is likely to cause strong reactions from the Greek Church, although Tsipras believes he will be able to manage the situation. The initiative will be presented as "progressive," and therefore the prime minister is hoping to receive the support of the centrist party "Movement for Change."
The project on the separation of Church and state from SYRIZA, the Coalition of the Radical Left, was published about a year ago. The project provides:
That Church and state discretion are fully established with full respect for the Orthodox Church and its historical role;
The explicit fixing of the religious neutrality of the state, recognizing Orthodoxy as an historical religion;
The obligation to guarantee a single political oath for president, prime minister, legislators, judges, and other public officials.
The Holy Synod of the Greek Church has opposed the government's plans to unilaterally separate the Church from the state. The bishops argued that one political part cannot make such a decision, but only with the support of the people.
Labels: greece, Greek Orthodox Church, separation of church and state
Ex President of Ireland claims baptizing infants is a violation of their human rights
It's getting real folks. There was a time when I dismissed warnings about a coming persecution as hysteria. I don't anymore. In Australia they just passed a law requiring priests to report any confession of child sex abuse. The general hostility on the part of the secular left to Christianity that goes back decades, is reaching the point of visceral hatred. And in some parts of the world they are in firm control of the state.
Labels: Ireland, religious persecution, secularism
The latest claims from the Ukrainian schismatics
Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine [sic] Filaret claims that after receiving a Tomos on autocephaly from Constantinople, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that is now in unity with the Russian Orthodox Church will lose the right to be called "Ukrainian."
"It is the Ukrainian Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the UAOC (Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church) who will receive the tomos, which will mean the unification of said churches. The Moscow Patriarchate will have to decide: either to join the canonical Ukrainian Church, recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and other churches, or not. We assume that not all parishes, priests and bishops will join the Local Church. No one will force them to do this. However, those who do not join will not have the right to be called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, remaining only the metropolis or exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine," Patriarch Filaret told the parliamentary newspaper, Holos Ukrainy.
He also estimated Ukraine's chances of obtaining the tomos at "99 percent," adding that "the Synod meeting is scheduled to be held in the Constantinople Church in Istanbul in the first half of July."
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced on April 17 that the heads of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church had decided to officially appeal to Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I for autocephaly. Autocephaly is the status of a hierarchical Christian Church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop (used especially in Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Independent Catholic churches). Autocephaly opens the way for the creation of a united Orthodox church in Ukraine, which will not be subordinate to Moscow.
Ukrainian experts recently explained, and debunked, Russian propaganda's narratives aimed at hindering Ukraine's efforts to gain autocephaly for its church. It was also reported that Russian intelligence could resort to provocations to sow discord.
I would take this with a grain of salt. That said, there are a few unbiased sources predicting that Constantinople will in fact grant the tomos. If that happens the Church could shortly be facing the most serious crisis since the Great Schism.
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Cardinal McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of DC has been effectively suspended as a result of credible allegations of sexual misconduct. It seems likely that the Catholic Church had at least some warning long ago that he might be a scandal bomb waiting to go off.
In any event we Orthodox should not be patting ourselves on the back as we look down our nose at the Roman Church. It is common knowledge that we have our own "lavender mafia" in some of the jurisdictions in North America. On which note; we need to stop making unmarried diocesan priests bishops. Bishops should be drawn from monasteries, and only monastics with a long and solid reputation. For that matter we should really not be ordaining unmarried men to the priesthood unless they are monks.
Labels: scandal
Marriage as a Lifetime of Suffering
I would like to commend Fr. Stephen Freeman's latest reflection to readers of this blog. I am not going to excerpt it. Just go here and read it all.
Labels: culture, marriage
Irish PM Says Catholic Hospitals Will Be Forced to Abort Children
Just weeks after a lopsided, groundbreaking vote struck down Ireland's constitutional ban on legal abortion, the country's Taoiseach signaled the broader moral and legal implications of this sea change in a once deeply Catholic nation.
"It will not … be possible for publicly funded hospitals, no matter who their patron or owner is," Leo Varadkar told the Dáil, "to opt out of providing these necessary services which will be legal in this state once this legislation is passed by the Dáil [the lower house of the Irish legislature] and Seanad [senate]."
Britain's Catholic Herald reported today that two large hospitals in Dublin are owned by religious orders: the Sisters of Charity's St Vincent's Healthcare Group and the Sisters of Mary's Mater Hospital. Both, along with other Catholic medical institutions, will soon confront the full reality of abortion on demand.
In a June 14 column for National Review entitled, "In Ireland, What's Legal Is Now Mandatory," Michael Brendan Doughterty noted that NRO had "predicted in its editorial on the referendum that victory for Repeal would be swiftly followed by attempts to coerce Catholic institutions to provide abortion. Now Varadkar has promised as much."
At present, the Irish government is preparing legislation to allow abortion on demand for up to 12 weeks of pregnancy — and in special cases, for up to 24 weeks.
Labels: abortion, Ireland, Roman Catholic Church
More than 1300 German Lutherans, mostly working class immigrants or first generation Americans boarded an excursion steamer in New York for a long planned church outing and picnic on Long Island. Most were women and children. The men had to work. Within an hour of sailing most, more than a thousand, were dead. They were the victims of the worst disaster in New York history until 9/11.
The PS General Slocum
The New York Tribune's coverage of the disaster
Memory eternal.
Much of bitcoin's 2017 boom was market manipulation
Bitcoin's epic rise last year may have been more than investor fervor. A study published Wednesday says at least half of the jump in bitcoin was due to coordinated price manipulation.
University of Texas finance professor John Griffin, who has a 10-year track record of spotting financial fraud, and graduate student Amin Shams examined millions of transactions on cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. In a 66-page paper, the authors found that tether was used to buy bitcoin at key moments when it was declining, which helped "stabilize and manipulate" the cryptocurrency's price.
"Fraud and manipulation often leave footprints in the data and it's nice to have the blockchain to track things," Griffin told CNBC.
By tracking Bitfinex transactions, which are recorded on a public ledger, Griffin found that another cryptocurrency, tether. was used to buy bitcoin after large price falls. The authors tracked that pattern and found periods of suspicious bitcoin price activity tied to the issuance of tether, which is purportedly pegged to the value of the U.S. dollar.
"It was creating price support for bitcoin, and over the period that we examined, had huge price effects," Griffin said. "Our research would indicate that there are sophisticated people harnessing investor interest for their benefit."
Griffin found that about 87 hours, or about 1 percent, of heavy tether trading could explain 50 percent of the rise of bitcoin, and around 64 percent of the rise of other major cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin rose to almost $20,000 in December after starting last year below $1,000. This year, the world's first and most popular cryptocurrency has lost more than half its value, trading near $6,252 on Wednesday afternoon, according to CoinDesk.
Labels: bitcoin, economics, fraud
Something a bit out of the ordinary...
The Salve Regina chanted according to the ancient Cistercian Rite by Dom Abbot Thomas and assisted by two subdeacons. From the Western Rite Mission of St. Athanasius in Munster Germany under the omiphorion of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
Labels: western rite
Met. Kallistos Ware strays way off the reservation
The hitherto highly respected theologian has written the Forward for the new edition of "The Wheel," a pseudo-Orthodox publication that appears dedicated to challenging the traditional Christian understanding of gender and sexual morality. At least one Orthodox site claims, inaccurately, that Ware has endorsed unnatural marriage. He did not, as far as I can tell, cross that line.
But he came damn close.
From my perspective he seems to be spouting the same theological revisionism that has devastated what we once called the Mainline Protestant denominations and which, like a deadly cancer, has now infected and is spreading within the Roman Catholic Church.
This needs to be addressed quickly and decisively. The Holy Synod must demand a formal affirmation of his adherence to the Orthodox Christian Faith which I believe would necessitate recanting a great deal of what he wrote. This is not a time or place for "dialogue," one of the favorite words employed by modernists which can be generally understood to mean "let's talk until you realize how wrong Christianity has been for its first two thousand years." This is a time for a firm defense of Holy Orthodoxy in the face of liberal Protestant heresy.
HT: Bill Tighe
Labels: Greek Orthodox Church, Heresy
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