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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 121–146.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Sara Petrosillo This essay examines representations of the womb across late medieval and early modern performance. The N-Town Mary plays and the Elizabethan tragedy Gorboduc are separated by less than a century but are rarely examined in light of one another. Using microhistorical methods...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 193–198.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Narratives, Pardon
Letters, and Microhistory,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47, no. 1
(2017): 147 – 66, quotations at 147 and 149.
14 Sara Petrosillo, “A Microhistory of the Womb from the N-Town Mary Plays to Gor-
boduc,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., since in the context of both the Chester and N-Town plays, Thomas s doubt and probing of Jesus s body is positioned as Cushman / Handling Knowledge 291 a typological fulfillment of Salome the midwife s assay of the Virgin Mary. Thomas s probing is literally the fulfillment of scripture. III Salome...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 503–529.
Published: 01 September 2014
... present to past. This essay focuses on the afterlife of the East Anglian N-Town plays, exploring the ways that the Cotton Vespasian D.8 manuscript continued to be “performed” (in an extended sense of that word) in ideologies of recusancy and antiquarian possession in the life of its little-known early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 167–192.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., “The Desert War of a Carolingian Monk”; Peter Arnade
and Elizabeth Colwill, “Crime and Testimony: Life Narratives, Pardon Letters, and
Microhistory”; and Sara Petrosillo, “A Microhistory of the Womb from the N-Town
Mary Plays to Gorboduc,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47, no. 1...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 269–304.
Published: 01 May 2002
... originally to have been an independent performance
sponsored by a women’s guild.16 The St. Anne guild in Lincoln also spon-
sored plays, perhaps related to the Marian plays incorporated into the N-
Town cycle. The cultural status of the parish guilds that sponsored hagio-
graphic drama is a crucial part...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 671–673.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Christian
Origins 95 – 112
Gayk, Shannon, and Robyn Malo
The Sacred Object 457 – 467
Gibson, Gail McMurray
Manuscript as Sacred Object: Robert Hegge’s N-Town Plays 503 – 529
Harris, Anne F.
Water and Wood: Ecomateriality and Sacred Objects at the Chapel of
Saint-Fiacre, Le Faouët...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Closely allied to gropen is ransaken , which has the same semantic range from examination of wounds and consciences to rough mishandling. Where Christ was groped, however, Mary was ransacked. In the N-Town Nativity Play , Joseph brings two midwives to help Mary give birth, one of them named Salomé...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 323–345.
Published: 01 May 2023
... University Press, 2008), 211–34. 7 The N-Town plays, preserved in British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian D.viii, were written down between 1450 and 1500. Bodleian Library, MS Digby 133, containing among other works the unique texts of Mary Magdalene , the Conversion of Saint Paul , Killing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 545–576.
Published: 01 September 2011
... - Q u r ’ a n : A
Contemporary Translation (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001).
31 Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary through the Centuries: Her Place In the History of Culture (New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996), 69; and see 68 – 76 for his analysis...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
... formulation
in all senses of the term, as the fifteenth-century cycle plays demonstrate. In
the York Creation, for example, God proclaims that “all sall be made euen
of noghte”; in the N-Town Creation of the World, God declares that he has
“made allthynge of nowth”; in the Towneley Creation, God...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 333–369.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Lucy Donkin In 1519, soil from the Campo Santo Teutonico next to St. Peter's in Rome — a burial place thought to contain earth from Jerusalem — was spread over the extramural cemetery in the Saxon town of Annaberg. This article asks how the reception of the soil from Rome was shaped by the local...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 7–30.
Published: 01 January 2009
... played
a decisive role in the royal deliberations on the fate of the Spanish Jews in
the two years prior to the issuance of the Edict of Expulsion. The murder
of the child known as El Santo Niño de La Guardia, or Holy Child of La
Guardia, alledgedly occurred in that town near Toledo in 1487. All...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 671–684.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in late medieval English literature, particularly in the N- Town plays.] Twomey, Lesley K. The Sacred Space of the Virgin Mary in Medieval His- panic Literature from Gonzalo de Berceo to Ambrosio Montesino. Wood- bridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, 2019. xii, 484 pp., 19 illus. $115.00. Van Deusen, Natalie M...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 453–473.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the town relic of St. John. 20 In Durham, Rogationtide processors carried portable shrines and relics including the banner of St. Cuthbert. 21 From the 1520s on, village bylaws insisted upon provision of markers of wood or stone. 22 Some perambulations made use of theatrical properties from parish...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 635–655.
Published: 01 September 2012
....
The chronicler details the military offensive’s impact upon the town and
records the sisters’ fear and deprivations.33 But, as Isobel Grundy observes,
“the chronicler does not privilege such events” over the recurrent rhythms
of community life.34 Thus, the English nuns’ historical writing was focused...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 May 2020
... such as Yarmouth, Bristol, Plymouth, and Wapping although these locations also may sim- ply reference well- known coastal towns where sailors could be reasonably assumed to congregate. Some ballads give their lovers generic names such as Will and Kate or Thomas and Betty, but others name specific...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 601–630.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and historiography
5. Colonization and crossing cultures
6. Hispanica
7. The Americas
8. Islamic studies
9. Lords and peasants, villages and towns
10. Merchant enterprise and economies...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 225–245.
Published: 01 January 2011
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6. Towns and rural cultures
Barrett, Robert W., Jr. Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire
W r i t i n g , 1 1 9 5 – 1 6 5 6 . ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern. Notre
Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. xvii, 306 pp.; 7 figs.,
2 maps. Paper...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 643–662.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Ama-
dace. Second edition. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo,
Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS, 2007. viii, 136 pp.
Paper $12.00.
Foxe, John. Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”: Select Narratives. Edited by John N.
King. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University...
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