ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the links that Sidney and Spenser exploit between liturgical space and human movement. Ultimately, these spaces provide an arena for movement, both individually and collectively. The complexity of the word ductus is apparent in the revised edition of Richard Huloet’s English-Latin dictionary, published the same year that Sidney witnessed the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris. In the writings of Cicero, rhetorical patterns are explicitly directed toward proof of one side of a question or another. Ethics in the classical world was heavily virtue-based, whether the virtue of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics or the ataraxia of the Stoics. The chapter considers spaces in Sidney and Spenser as places of secular liturgy. In modern cultural studies, 'secular liturgy' is often used to express the ceremonies and rites of a secular culture. Spenser, too, employs liturgical settings and narratives to help readers think about hermeneutics.
