This (below) is, indeed, the point of the title of the chapter on Book One
of The FQ in Stephen A. Barney's _Allegories of History, Allegories of
Love_; it is called "The Knight at One."
-- jcn
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:19:59 +0100
andrew zurcher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That's no pun, mister:
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> atonement, n.
> [In use a verbal n. from ATONE, but apparently of prior formation, due to
>the earlier n. onement and the phrase .to be atone. or .at onement.. Cf.
>the following:
> 1533 Q. CATH. PARR Erasm. Comm. Crede 162 To reconcile hymselfe and make
>an onement with god. 1599 BP. HALL Sat. III. vii. 69 Which never can be set
>at onement more. 1555 Fardle Facions II. xii. 298 The redempcion,
>reconciliacion, and at onement of mankinde with God the father.]
>
> The verb 'atone' comes from the adverbial phrase, 'at one', meaning simply
>to bring two things into unity.
>
>
> az
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>> My Sunday School teacher used to encourage us to read "atonement" as
>>"at-one-ment." I suspect the pun was readily available to Spenser.
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Anne Prescott <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:55:32 -0400
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: holiness and wholeness
>>
>> Racing for a class and unable to think clearly (except for awful
>>elaborations on the pun "perfect [w]hole," but since holiness connects to
>>salvation, and since health does too (salutary, salvific) at least in
>>sound, then it would seem to me that the connection between being made
>>whole and being made healthy and being saved, as oneself or as a community,
>>would be ancient. But, to repeat--off to teach. No time for OED and to see
>>if health and "salv--" are indeed Indo-European cognates. I'll also ask a
>>Medievalist for older puns/connections.
>> PS: he never has a full union with Una, does he? And Eden, a Jungian
>>would say, is all the more an image of the whole because it's a mandala
>>with its four rivers and presumably central tree(s) (always reminded me of
>>the four parts of Oz with its central city). The self got shattered. Anne
>>P.
>>
>> On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:33 AM, James Broaddus wrote:
>>
>> Were there associations of holiness with wholeness before Berger's 1966-67
>>essay on Book I?
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>> Berger says
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>> The image [of the New Jerusalem] identifies holiness with wholeness, that
>>is, with the oneness of shared life, of communion and community. Having
>>traveled so long by himself, Redcross now begins to join and to be joined
>>by real others; the sacramental atmosphere of the dragon fight will
>>further prepare him for union and Una, while the whole the image of Eden
>>will suggest the character of wholeness.
>>
>> Since then, has anyone other than Nohrnberg connected the two words?
>>
>> Nohrnberg says
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>> Thus Spenser's knight of holiness is often presented to us in terms of his
>>health, or his wholeness: etymologically, holiness in Hebrew is set
>>apartness, but in English it is wholeness. Analogy, 279.
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>> Jim Broaddus
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