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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 477–486.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of The Magnificent Entertainment . Suspended in this liminal space—literally on the threshold of the Londinium Arch—James revealed the intertheatrical potentials of this premodern occasion. The site where James hesitated was thick with meaning. Dekker and his colleagues collaborated to create what Pierre Nora would...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 577–585.
Published: 01 September 2021
... or the script laid out for his royal entry into London as described in The Magnificent Entertainment . The king disrupts their carefully structured spatial, rhetorical, and historical meanings of the plan to such an extent that Thomas Dekker's pageant account can only enact the “magnificent entertainment...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 119–141.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of the Pyrenees, “Spain” returns in the ghostly, abjecting fetters
that still today, and necessarily, join material studies of the emergence of
early modern subjectivities to the most ascetic cultural formalism.
In 1604 Thomas Dekker published his Magnificent entertainment:
given to King James...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 229–252.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., 1995), 81.
25 Thomas Dekker, The Magnificent Entertainment Giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne
His Wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, Vppon the Day of His Maiesties Tryumphant
Passage (from the Tower) through His Honourable Cittie (and Chamber) of London . . .
(London, 1604), sig...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 January 2009
... sought to outdo the other in terms of magnifi-
cent spectacle, the form of this magnificence itself derived from a common
courtly culture in the Spanish Netherlands. Burgundian influences encour-
aged a rapprochement between English and Spanish courtly cultures, espe-
cially the matrix of chivalry...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 511–544.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to the status of his royal dedicatee, however, Despres adds that
he intends no criticism of “the excellent clothes of those who are worthy
[that is, entitled] to wear them” (32). His preface, then, is complicated by a
tension between his role as entertainer and as pedagogue; the captions that
accompany...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 587–608.
Published: 01 September 2020
... by way of the parvis of the Annun- ciation, or the more honorable route of the Great staircase. 6 Granted, Bowes s embassy occurred at a more auspicious moment in Anglo- Russian relations: Ivan IV had a keen interest in a political alliance with Elizabeth and was entertaining the idea of an English...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 January 2021
... extent each retained its characteristic aim: the former to entertain the curiosity of educated readers, the latter to provide pilgrims with a practical devotional tool. This distinc- tion is reflected less in the material form of the printed texts than their lin- guistic variance.10 The Mirabilia...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 303–334.
Published: 01 May 2013
....288 – 94)
Criseyde’s magnificent appearance affirms her confidence and independence
as an exemplar of virtues extolled within her community. She controls her
excellence, even as she epitomizes heroic ideals.
These virtues serve Criseyde well when Pandarus attempts to con-
vert her...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2011
... ware;
His wytte is thynne, his hode is threde-bare. (484 – 90)
No one has ever quite known what to make of this weird apparition. Leigh
Winser, who calls the “teder man” the “central mystery of the entertain-
ment,” champions the claim that he is a straw man, a scarecrow.26 Teder can...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 227–268.
Published: 01 May 2002
... body for fear of compromising its purity, Wihtburg’s corpore-
ality is substituted. The demonstration of her incorruptibility increases the
magnificence of Ely’s holy family; in effect, a sister’s corporeal purity lends
authenticity to the narrative claim that Æthelthryth’s preserved body contin...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 405–432.
Published: 01 May 2016
...” of the medieval church serve a pla-
catory function that undermines Christ’s biblical status as media-
tor. In essence, Protestantism wants to return unencumbered to
the magnificent singularity of Christ’s expiatory sacrifice.20
Byker / Bent Speech...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 559–592.
Published: 01 September 2010
... entertained by
English General Baptists, who by 1660 may have had more than a hundred
congregations in England; many English General Baptists, including Rich-
ard Overton, had been involved with Anabaptist communities in Holland.15
Ann Thomson has recently emphasized the confessional, rather than athe...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... , because its manuscripts reconstruct encyclopedic knowledge in magnificent, dedicated illuminations that tightly bind information and beauty, whereas the Latin original was sparsely illustrated. 8 Corbechon also takes such knowledge into new contexts, diverting the text from its original purpose...
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