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John Lightfoot (1602–1675), the Westminster Assembly, and the Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Kirsten Macfarlane The English Hebraist John Lightfoot has a Janus-faced legacy. On the one hand, he is known among historians of the British Reformation for his participation in the Westminster Assembly (1643 – 52), for which his journal remains a crucial source of evidence. On the other hand...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2023
... to plunge all three kingdoms into war. When Parliament sought to manage the confessional crisis by summoning the Westminster Assembly of divines to reform the Church of England in July 1643, it assigned the delegation a three-fold task: to revise the English liturgy, reform church government...
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Unwritten Virtues, Selves, and Texts: Early Modern Self-Erasure
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 415–443.
Published: 01 September 2022
... B. Warfield, “The Westminster Assembly and Its Work,” Princeton Theological Review 6. no. 2–3 (1908): 176–391, at 371–78. The book was republished as Benjamin B. Warfield, The Westminster Assembly and Its Work (New York: Oxford University Press, 1931). For the theology of the Westminster...
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The Copy Room: Imagining a Huguenot Library in Early Modern London
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 361–385.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Press, 2001), 56. See also Alex F. Mitchell and John Struthers, eds., Minutes of the Sessions of the Westminster Assembly of Divines (London, 1874), xi–lxxviii. 3 From here forward I use the English term to refer to this group of church leaders. 4 On the narrative of persecution...
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“Al the town in a rore”: Authority, Revolt, and Rational Obedience in Thomas Usk's Appeal and Testament of Love
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 2022
...: the Revolt of 1381 was a rising of England's poorest against England's “best men.” According to his account, the revolt began in Essex, when “five thousand of the most mean commons and rustics” assembled. These rebels inspired in Kent “a large band of commons and rustics in the same manner as the men...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 179–198.
Published: 01 January 2023
... in the Westminster Assembly, the rabbinic influence on his positions, and his influence on Milton's prose treatises.] Rittgers, Ronald K. The Reformation of the Keys: Confession, Conscience, and Authority in Sixteenth-Century Germany . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. 330 pp., 4 illus., 1 map...
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Ecology and Apocalypse in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (2): 353–378.
Published: 01 May 2025
... al., eds., Works of Lucy Hutchinson , vol. 2, pt. 1, 208; The Confession of Faith of the Assembly of the Divines at Westminster (London, 1646), 8. On Hutchinson's use of the Westminster Confession, see Crawford Gribben, “Lucy Hutchinson's Theological Writings,” Review of English Studies 71...
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Calvinist Versions of God: A Revolution in Medieval Tradition
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 445–482.
Published: 01 September 2022
... halt, proclaiming that the Spirit is a Spirit of order, their order. So English Presbyterians sought hegemony in the English revolution through the powers of Parliament, Westminster Assembly, and Army. But the unintended consequences of this attempt in the 1640s were further fragmentation of doctrine...
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The Severed Head as Public Sculpture in Late Medieval England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 May 2020
... a text assembled by Yorkist advocates, but it was also produced in Bruges at several years remove from the events they report.68 It is arguably this distance and the prejudicial report of Edward s reconquest that led to an illustration that records an execution that was, in actuality, an act of clemency...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 419–440.
Published: 01 May 2015
...: Boydell Press, 2013.
xiii, 306 pp.; 10 figs., 3 tables, 1 map. $99.00.
Roach, Levi. Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978:
Assemblies and the State in the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge Studies in
Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series, vol. 92. Cambridge: Cambridge
University...
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Sidney Montagu and the Sacramental Sign: Memorial and Sacred Objects in Post-Reformation England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 549–583.
Published: 01 September 2014
... exploits the interplay of rev-
elation and concealment and of private and communal worship emergent
in post-Reformation ideas of the sacraments and the sacred spaces where
they were celebrated. Although the Barnwell piscina and manuscript box,
two of the three objects assembled to commemorate Henry...
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Making History: The Rhetorical and Historical Occasion of Elizabeth Tudor's Coronation Entry
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 251–282.
Published: 01 May 2001
... on the event and texts of the coronation entry
of Elizabeth I. The coronation entry was a traditional, ritual procession of
the monarch and court through the streets of London, beginning at the
Tower of London and ending at Westminster, moving along a fixed route
through...
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Laureation and Identity: Rewriting Literary History in John Skelton's Garland of Laurel
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 347–371.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in which Ovid places the myth
of Daphne and Apollo is completely absent from Skelton’s rendering. The
audience assembled at the court of the Queen of Fame hears nothing of
Apollo’s destruction of the Python or of the establishment of the Pythian
Games and, most importantly, nothing suggesting...
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Medieval Engagement with Authorial Intention
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 519–543.
Published: 01 September 2023
... audacious project of assembling a collection of conflicting texts from various authorities. He intends neither to rebuke these venerable authors nor to breed scandal or confusion. On the contrary, the goal is “to encourage inexperienced readers to engage in that most important exercise, inquiry into truth...
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The Giant's Faction: Spenser, Heywood, and the Mid-Tudor Crisis
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 335–371.
Published: 01 May 2007
... deformed and distort,
Fild with false rumors and seditious trouble,
Bred in assemblies of the vulgar sort,
That still are led with every light report.
And as her eares so eke her feet were odde,
And much unlike, th’one long, the other short...
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“Here at the Fringe of the Forest”: Staging Sacred Space in As You Like It
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 121–144.
Published: 01 January 2013
... it “in a man[n]er a Paradise.”18 Driven by necessity, Catholics and Prot-
estants alike were searching for ways of resituating the sacred. Protestants
altered the old faith’s sacred spaces but also generated a new culture of care-
fully circumscribed sites of assembly and worship whose ideal architectural...
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Materializing Authorship in Esther Inglis's Books
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 469–491.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and
the ways that she uses their objectivity to represent her subjectivity as a
woman author who appropriates both the conventions of presentation
manuscripts and of print culture. Every material feature of Inglis’s books
asserts her project, to assemble and publish exquisite textual objects whose
value...
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“How Many Arts from Such a Labour Flow”: Thomas Middleton and London’s New River
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 173–190.
Published: 01 January 2013
... was care-
fully executed, Middleton refers his reader to the atypical performance of a
song and speech before the Lord Mayor elect’s journey to Westminster; but,
compelled to acknowledge members of the Grocers’ Company as his col-
laborators, he praises their “greatness of expense, so the cost might...
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Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 585–606.
Published: 01 September 2001
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so occur—for it does not necessarily and essentially belong to the
mass, as has been said—yet it is more precious, more appropriate,
more mighty, and also more acceptable when it takes place with
the multitude and in the assembly, where men encourage, move,
and inflame...
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The Witnessings of the Spirit: Experimental Religion and Heart Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Britain
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 97–120.
Published: 01 January 2025
... in “a state of becoming,” they not merely validated the experiences of laypeople; in turn, the act of inscribing them was a kind of experience itself. 29 Most, though, probably originated as vocal performances, uttered to the assembled congregation of “visible saints” into which the believer hoped...
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