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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 227–260.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., pastoral and devotional, prose and poetry, intellect and affect. Rather than portray Christ in the excessively erotic context usually associated with affective spirituality, A Christian Mannes Bileeve stages a dialogue of voices that teaches how to “think with the heart.” This new understanding...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (2): 265–294.
Published: 01 May 2019
... affective and social practices. In this cultural shift, Nicholas Love and Margery Kempe theorized what it meant to “suffer with” Christ not only affectively but also cognitively, theologically, and socially. Compassion became, for Kempe and Love, the locus from which to identify devotional practices...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 January 2014
... a static understanding of “tra- ditional religion” based on an untenably stark opposition between affective and cognitive modalities (in which traditional devotion is imagined as a car- rier for affect, not intellection, and the affective dimensions of modern intel- lectual practices are flattened...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2016
... on medical language as jargon, Virginia Langum’s on surgery, confession, and skin, and Daniel McCann’s on therapy and devotion are further enriching this field.5 The study of medical discourse and its flexibility connects with work on the history of the emotions, on affect and feeling, on disability...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 301–340.
Published: 01 May 2018
... problematic in Elizabethan England. This essay analyzes the engagements of Stephen Batman and an anonymous ecclesiastical annotator with the Pricking of Love , a deeply affective late fourteenth-century devotional treatise. The medieval text, infused with fervent Christological and Marian piety, would seem...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 315–337.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in an antiludic discourse that may be broader and earlier than previously supposed. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Croxton Play of the Sacrament Corpus Christi Passion drama Jews and anti-Semitism mercantile culture affective devotion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2016
... with the ideology of suffering as a wit- ness to Christ. As a result, the legends find a parallel in affective devotional texts on the Passion that encourage readers to imagine themselves as partici- pants in the most violent Christian event of all — the Crucifixion. Whether they identify with Christ’s wounds...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 253–283.
Published: 01 May 2008
... Franciscan forms of devotion, with their encouragement of affective identification with Christ in his humanity, Wisdom is unique among the English moralities in its heavy reliance on contemplative literature for both its dialogue and the conceptu- alization of its characters. As emerges from Walter K...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 105–139.
Published: 01 January 2021
...- cal or historical digressions or apocryphal stories that might prompt devo- 114 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 51.1 / 2021 tion. Also, noticeably, he removes references to sites and stories that might trigger affective forms of devotion to Christ s wounds or to the Virgin Mary. Yet...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 33–59.
Published: 01 January 2016
... are in dialogue with contemporary affective devotion to the suffering Christ, but the aims of the text extend beyond a desire to stimulate greater love of God. The Livre presents a care- fully theorized meditational regime designed to heal the body-­soul through the reform of memory, cognition...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 545–560.
Published: 01 September 2017
...: Scholarship, Sacrifice, Subjectivity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 90. Molekamp sees Lanyer as reforming Catholic affective devotion (Women and the Bible, 191). Achsah Guibbory points to Lanyer’s transgres- sion of the Pauline injunction of women’s silence; “The Gospel...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 745–747.
Published: 01 September 2012
... such as literary production or scientific inquiry to devotional practice. Especially welcome are essays that reconsider the con- ventional oppositions of faith and reason, belief and knowledge, or “affective piety” and theological understanding. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: November 1...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 January 2012
... films from the 1940s interpret marriage as our alternative to philosophy.1 In what follows, I read marriage a bit differently, as a response to soteriological uncertainty. I take my lead from Puritans rather than Shakespeare, and from the affect of devotional poetry rather than the narrative arc...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 507–509.
Published: 01 May 2012
... that have linked (or failed to link) intellectual pursuits such as literary production or scientific inquiry to devotional practice. Especially welcome are essays that reconsider the con- ventional oppositions of faith and reason, belief and knowledge, or “affective piety” and theological...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 167–188.
Published: 01 January 2016
... critics acknowledge an unease that attends the experience of reading the Devotions, we might also infer that Donne discovered a way to express his illness affectively.6 While acknowl- edging the cultural richness of Donne’s descriptions of physical illness, this essay argues that the Devotions...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in the varnishes shading the images in Rome and Genoa—as artistically ungainly, and therefore impairing to their affective devotional power. But Armemini's priorities differed quite markedly from our seventeenth-century interlocutors. Giacchetti and Calcagnino essentially regard the mandylions in Rome and Genoa...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 699–724.
Published: 01 September 2012
... that could be said on behalf of a patron’s soul or to serve a com- munity’s needs through charitable, educational, or liturgical means.3 These choices, furthermore, arose simultaneously with the spread of lay devotional materials that encouraged the practice of contemplation outside the monas- tery.4...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 317–343.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of affectie (affection), or to other modes of devotion, it becomes as multivalent as the life it represents.34 Part of the singularity of Hadwijch’s work consists in the way in which the language of affection draws so strongly from gendered discourses in general, both popular and religious...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... 67 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fr. 547 (ca. 1320), fol. 140r. See Mark Amsler, Affective Literacy: Gestures of Reading in the Later Middle Ages, Essays in Medieval Studies 18 (2001): 83 110, at 98. 68 Jessica Brantley, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 271–298.
Published: 01 May 2024
... English Play of the Sacrament eucharistic theology transubstantiation scientific empiricism devotional perception Medieval devotional drama, it is often remarked, employs the resources of theater in order to render doctrinal or theological abstractions concrete. As Greg Walker puts it, drama...