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Pygmies in Congo Condemned to Life on the Outside; Descendants of Central Africa's Earliest Inhabitants Face Intense Prejudice and Lack Political Power
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Yongela Bongo hid the secret from her husband for the seven years
they were married. But when he finally discovered the truth, he
kicked her out on the street -- keeping their six children and all
their belongings.
Bongo's failing? To have been born one of the 600,000 Pygmies who
live in the Central African country of Congo.
"I had managed to hide my identity for seven years, but I knew
that the day my husband would discover it, it would end that way,"
Bongo said as she sat wrapped in a dusty cloth in an unfinished stone
church.
Pygmies, not all of whom are below average height, are believed ...
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Scanlon, Larry, and James Simpson, eds, John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parergon
; ...Larry, and James Simpson, eds, John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian...bringing together a range of essays on Lydgate and his works, which challenge...notions of the quality and nature of Lydgate's writing, and open up questions...
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Lydgate's mummings and the aristocratic resistance to drama.
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama
; ...pageants in aureate verse" that Lydgate produced for ceremonial occasions...aristocrats themselves. (9) Lydgate's mummings comprise seven...exclusively in two manuscripts by John Shirley, six in Cambridge...at Eltham is "a balade" by Lydgate "for a momyng tofore pe kyng...
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Heroism and organicism in the case of Lydgate.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...and even more, that of Lydgate, are seen as implicit arguments...Theresa, but Thomas Aquinas, John Milton, Andreas Vesalius...one of opportunity denied; Lydgate's is one of opportunity lost...divide responsibility between Lydgate himself and the town of Middlemarch...
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John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England, ed. Larry Scanlon and...David Lawton in his 1987 essay 'Dullness and the fifteenth century'. John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England is certainly timely: four...
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Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books, 1473-1557.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...reputation of the medieval poet John Lydgate, for whom, as she reminds readers...examines printed editions of Lydgate, focusing on Lydgate's Prouerbes, Fall of Princes...opens with Reformation writer John Foxe writing approvingly of Chaucer...
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'These proverbes yet do last': Lydgate, the fifth earl of Northumberland, and tudor miscellanies from print to manuscript.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...leaves, The prouerbes of Lydgate (STC 17026). (1...fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate's interpolations into...two minor poems from the Lydgate canon: Consulo Quisquis...fifteenth-century copy of John Hardyng's Chronicle...
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Queen Katherine and the secret of Lydgate's Temple of Glas.(John Lydgate)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...these posthumous encounters aside, John Lydgate the monk of Bury St Edmunds (c...She was personally acquainted with Lydgate, commissioning at least one short...escaped critical notice) one of Lydgate's finest love poems seems expressive...
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THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY MANUSCRIPT OF JOHN LYDGATE'S SIEGE OF THEBES: ITS SCOTTISH OWNERS AND INSCRIPTIONS.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes has received increasing...valuable, if scrappy, evidence concerning Lydgate's reception in Scotland, and the literary...called for a more systematic study of Lydgate manuscripts and their early owners, yet...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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A Knight's Tale; Love and war: First Scots book was about a knight's romance John Lydgate: Medieval best seller.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...to God'sword. Instead, Brother John Lydgate's thoughts were on his latest best seller thatwould establish him as the John Grisham of his day. For on April...better. And today, the value of Lydgate's book as history is incalculable...
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John Lydgate (1371-1449): A Bio-bibliography.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; Derek Pearsall, John Lydgate 037-1449): A Bio-bibliography, English Literary Studies Monograph...array of information. Pearsall provides all documents relating to Lydgate's life, a very substantial listing of manuscrripts and early prints...
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