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Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales (review)

Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales (review) afford to see a doctor. The most interesting mistake appears in the discussion of Bodin's Methodus. Grafton argues that Bodin was in the minority when he challenged the prophecy of the four monarchies from the Book of Daniel, especially in France where both sides in the Wars of Religion believed that the end of the world was imminent, "as Denys Roche has shown" (176). The mysterious Denys Roche does not appear in the bibliography, or in real life for that matter, and I think that we are meant to understand Denis Crouzet, whose 1990 magnum opus Les guerriers de Dieu still draws a crowd in French Renaissance studies. The mistake here is not so much bibliographical as it is logical. Crouzet alias Roche did not "show" anything. He made an argument, which has been vigorously contested, and which can by no means sustain Grafton's hasty conclusion about the eschatological fervor of the age. Readers would do well to consult Reinhart Koselleck's essay on the decline of eschatology in early modern Europe from his book Futures Past, which is in the bibliography. I would go on if I could, but in fact these errors are not very numerous, nor http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales (review)

The Comparatist , Volume 36 (1) – May 19, 2012

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afford to see a doctor. The most interesting mistake appears in the discussion of Bodin's Methodus. Grafton argues that Bodin was in the minority when he challenged the prophecy of the four monarchies from the Book of Daniel, especially in France where both sides in the Wars of Religion believed that the end of the world was imminent, "as Denys Roche has shown" (176). The mysterious Denys Roche does not appear in the bibliography, or in real life for that matter, and I think that we are meant to understand Denis Crouzet, whose 1990 magnum opus Les guerriers de Dieu still draws a crowd in French Renaissance studies. The mistake here is not so much bibliographical as it is logical. Crouzet alias Roche did not "show" anything. He made an argument, which has been vigorously contested, and which can by no means sustain Grafton's hasty conclusion about the eschatological fervor of the age. Readers would do well to consult Reinhart Koselleck's essay on the decline of eschatology in early modern Europe from his book Futures Past, which is in the bibliography. I would go on if I could, but in fact these errors are not very numerous, nor

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Published: May 19, 2012

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