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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 55–85.
Published: 01 January 2023
... Jewish authorities as more active, and less mediated, participants in early modern debate. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 English Reformation Hebrew scholarship Jewish sources and traditions biblical exegesis ecclesiastical politics When did...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2023
... arguments from the Old Testament to interpret spiritual censure and government in the apostolic church. Furthermore, before oriental sources premiered in Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity , controversy with Travers in the mid-1580s pressed Hooker on a series of questions that brought Jewish tradition...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of a Hebrew Matthew (12–17); Jewish practices of baptism (40–51); Jewish sects (51–60); and the constitution of the synagogues (70–77). 86 Lightfoot, 48; my trans. 85 Lightfoot, Horae Hebraicae [Acts] , 52. 84 Lightfoot, Horae Hebraicae [Acts] , 46–48. Lightfoot's sources included Rashi...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 507–560.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in these questions. It is thus to the origins and history of this story that we now turn. Jewish martyrdom: Its sources and effects The origins of the Prioress’s Tale, and of many of the topoi of antisemitism, emerge from the events surrounding the First Crusade of 1096. As some of the crusaders moved down...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 577–599.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... Martin / Marranos and Nicodemites  591 Secondly, the intellectual and cultural traditions within the Reform tradition, on the one hand, and the Jewish tradition, on the other, shaped fundamentally different attitudes toward dissimulation. For those who had chosen to accept Calvinist...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 149–178.
Published: 01 January 2023
... to Vossius and wipe away the infamy of rabbinism.” 80 The terms in which Bernard thinks here are revealing. His concern is not for what is built upon Hebraic foundations—for the church practices that derive authority from Jewish sources. His concern is for the Jewish texts themselves, and the traditions...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 23–45.
Published: 01 January 2003
... arise in this context: do these graves go back to Jewish tradition, are they found because of Jewish information, are there clashes between Christians and Jews in the 24 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.1 / 2003 fight for the possession of such sites?”10 These options—seamless...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 117–147.
Published: 01 January 2023
..., Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch: A Comparative Study of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 121–22, and more broadly on the Paris Polyglot, 118–28; Peter N. Miller, “Making the Paris Polyglot Bible: Humanism and Orientalism in the Early Seventeenth Century,” in Die...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 175–188.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Catastrophe Narrative structures, lyric effects Architectural space Mapping geographical space Law and justice Jewish studies...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 609–615.
Published: 01 September 2017
... a text’s relationship to the Hebrew canon, to extrabiblical sources for Jewish history such as Josephus, and to the pagan literary context in which Bois thought the authors of the Apocrypha were operating.13 Bois was, admittedly, unusually well-­versed in dealing with these sorts of issues...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
... impure women and Jewish men, and believed to be a carrier of the disease. The perceived threat of leprous blood to Christian bodily integrity was played out in atropaic social rituals and in widespread defamations against lepers, women, and Jews as devourers or cannibals. This study claims...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 241–259.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., the Commu- nion of the Apostles, in which Joos van Gent painted the institution of the sac- rament of the altar at the Last Supper in an ecclesiastic setting above a predella. The latter depicts one of the anti-Jewish legends concerning the desecration of the Host by Jews, an ensuing eucharistic miracle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 January 2001
... Jewishness as a religious marker of the convert and largely negated it in terms of social relations.3 Converts did not remain essentially Jews, a fact that differentiates medieval antijudaism or antisemitism from its modern variety.4 Many scholars, however, regard...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 189–207.
Published: 01 January 2016
... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Biographical studies 4. Medicine and science 5. Race and otherness 6. Jewish studies 7. Crusading 8. Theological...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 7–30.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Vegas’s story narrows down the many offenses imputed to the converso Benito García in his source text. García’s sentence accused him of spitting on the host, giving false confessions, refuting the virginity of Mary and transubstantiation, and secretly keeping the Sabbath and other Jewish holidays...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 621–644.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of difference 7. Jewish studies 8. Ritual 9. Courting and romance 10. Narrative structures, lyric effects 11. Experiencing nature and landscape 12. Visual culture Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:3, Fall 2007...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 201–221.
Published: 01 January 2009
... two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Reference Biographical studies Mapping space Contact cultures Jewish studies Christian saints and professions Family and the everyday The marvelous...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 47–89.
Published: 01 January 2003
... why Elene’s power over Judas is sig- nificantly lessened after he converts and is imbued with a newfound spiri- tual masculinity.97 Nevertheless, I would argue that the brief span of time during which a Jewish man is placed under the power of a Christian woman unsettles traditional gender hierarchy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of the foreskin. The roots of this literary-­theoretical tradition are located in Paul’s defini- tion of allegoresis, which considers allegory through a preputial analogy that marks a compromise between Jewish circumcision and Greco-­Roman ideals of the foreskin. Saint Augustine, in his story about a boy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 429–451.
Published: 01 May 2014
... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Historiography, historians, and critical theory 4. Biographical studies 5. Jewish studies 6. Christian saints and religious 7...