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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
... cockfighting texts (one that promotes the virtues of cockfighting as a sport and another that figures cockfighting as an extension of animal husbandry), the essay maps the range of cultural and behavioral practices that early modern cockfighting discourse makes possible. Located in allegories of the cockfight...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 January 2011
... project. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 a Allegory and Difference in Ralegh and De Bry: Reading and Seeing the Discoverie Dennis Austin Britton...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., as experiments in secularity, as adaptations of allegory's visionary energies to the social and institutional secularization of early modern England. But in one poem, The Bowge of Courte , Skelton remakes allegory not just as an idiom of social and institutional analysis but also, much more powerfully...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
...A. W. Strouse Christian writers have often conceptualized reading and writing in terms of uncircumcision. This study begins to uncover that long-standing literary-theoretical tradition. It describes how early Christian theologians, following Saint Paul, discussed allegory with metaphors...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 215–240.
Published: 01 May 2021
... reexamines Book to a Mother 's adaptation of allegories of the cloister and its transformation of clerical practices of reading alongside lollard polemical writings that also sidestep priestly authority and institutional religion in Christian life. Although Book 's use of polemical discourse has been...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 461–486.
Published: 01 May 2012
... a more residual, backward-glancing form, its allegories of Spanish greed and Irish theft likewise attempt to morally differentiate emergent English methods of expropriation from competing methods of conquest and customary economies. a Utopia...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 321–344.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of interlocking discourses are analyzed: the imagery of a ruler imprisoned by passions found in Boethius’s Consolatio ; a courtly love allegory in which royal eros submits to the bondage of legal constraint in The Kingis Quair ; and the figurations of limited monarchy as royal incarceration in the Anglo-Scots...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 153–182.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Amanda Taylor The sixteenth century witnessed the publication of landmark texts on anatomy and allegory: De humani corporis fabrica or On the Fabric of the Human Body by Andreas Vesalius in 1543 and The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, published first in 1590. Each of these texts has received...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (1): 137–167.
Published: 01 January 2019
... on the province of tragedy. Heinsius, in response, defended the historical and philological accuracy of his tragedy, claiming that Herod’s affects are represented to him in the dream as aspects of familiar mythoi, pagan and Hebrew, not as allegories but as mental personae or noetic characters appropriate...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and community. Mercie’s labors are performed in continuity with a late medieval tradition linking work and virtue. Her example prompts reconsideration both of Bunyan’s own dissenting allegories and of the uses of literary forms and ethical traditions across conventional period boundaries and confessional...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 215–239.
Published: 01 May 2003
... order of the present; in this situa- tion, interpreters habitually deploy allegory or its subset irony to accommo- date texts from the past within new cultural imperatives. This is a funda- mental resource of cultural recycling and renewal. In this case, we can see how the Old Testament passage...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 339–379.
Published: 01 May 2016
... probably comes from the early 1530s, while Dell was at Hein- rich’s court (see fig. 7).46 Amid the larger corpus of German relief sculpture in the 1530s, Dell’s work stands out for its combination of mismatched visual idioms and technical excellence. The 1534 Allegory of Christian Salvation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 439–461.
Published: 01 September 2010
... their knowledge of church history and of such traditional allegorical figures as Betteridge / Tyndale and Religious Debate  451 owls along with their imagination to produce meaning. At a formal level, it is a celebration of the power of allegory, when used for what Tyndale...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 283–312.
Published: 01 May 2001
... with the harsh realities of Elizabethan justice, readings that examine the politics of the Legend of Justice tend either to reproduce Lewis’s claim and see the allegory as a simple propaganda tool for the polit- ically powerful or to retreat from real politics into the neutral...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 663–665.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of Antioch: Narratives of Conversion and Conquest during the First Crusade  463 – 85 Britton, Dennis Austin Allegory and Difference in Ralegh and De Bry: Reading and Seeing the Discoverie  117 – 36 Cornett, Michael New Books across the Disciplines  225 – 45, 435 – 55, 635 – 57 Crawford, J. M...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 251–282.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of the event he describes. The coronation entry, as a form, strongly resonates with the progress form of allegory, as well as with the second, or liminal, phase of rites of pas- sage.5 These associations are clearly evident in the structure of the proces...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 633–657.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Fuente s inter- vention are hardly abstruse. The Book of Revelation s apocalyptic Whore of Babylon was widely understood in late Jacobean England as an allegory of the Catholic Church, both in biblical exegeses and in the wider cultural imagination, and had even featured in the English king s own...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 89–115.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning — that meaning being invariably a moralistic one. — Susan Sontag Moralization and allegory go hand in hand in medieval French letters. The courtly...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 545–570.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.3 / 2009 despite cultural pressure from new theological methods, despite what Joseph A. Jungmann called the “crisis” of liturgical allegory in the thirteenth cen- tury caused by the achievements of scholastic theology.8 Even more surpris- ingly, the Rationale’s...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:1, Winter 2012 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1473118  © 2012 by Duke University Press The eighteenth century coined the term “morality play” to define dramatized moral allegories, and in so doing modeled a terminology of self- hood and moral agency...