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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 521–540.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Raphaële Garrod; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This essay historicizes Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the “animal outside” as ingenuity by exploring early modern French polemics stemming from the humanist reception of the Machiavellian simile stating that the prince should deploy both the lion’s...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 323–342.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., which held that all animal and plant life will perish after the Last Judgment and not be part of the promised “new heaven and new earth,” Bradford argues that creation in its entirety—not just humanity—will joyously be freed from the suffering it has endured since the Fall. © 2015 by Duke University...
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in The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses
> Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Grid of animals. Chantilly, Bibliothèque du château, MS 339, fol. 271r. Cliché CNRS-IRHT © Bibliothèque du château de Chantilly (musée Condé). Republished by permission.
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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 (2022) 52 (3): 567–591.
Published: 01 September 2022
... irenic writings, Erasmus lays out an account of human nature that highlights human beings’ vulnerability, sociability, and creaturely state. How does a naturally gentle species become bellicose? Echoing the teachings of Pythagoras, Erasmus finds the origins of war in the killing of animals, first in self...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 2. Grid of animals. Chantilly, Bibliothèque du château, MS 339, fol. 271r. Cliché CNRS-IRHT © Bibliothèque du château de Chantilly (musée Condé). Republished by permission. ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
... that the hybrids featured in Mandeville's Travels and The Blazing World so readily blend with ordinary animals highlights that they are meant to be understood as natural, since animals are natural by default of creation. The depiction of hybrid creatures in these two texts effectively opens up a new dialogue about...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 321–344.
Published: 01 May 2014
... but also represents her as a captive of erotic desire, a slave of unruly passion, and a prisoner of the law. This multifaceted vision of royal incarceration is animated by a heterogeneous tradition of ideological writing in medieval and early modern England and Scotland. Three strands of a rich mosaic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 405–432.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to procure his or her desires. This fundamental structure animated, for example, prayers for the dead, confession, and petitions to the saints. Yet these intercessory practices would be largely dismantled by Protestant Reformers, who argued that human intercession “darkens, and almost buries...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 487–516.
Published: 01 September 2017
... role in shaping the English reader. Two of its innovative paratextual features are of particular importance: the breaking down of chapters into enumerated verses, facilitating the easy extraction of individual passages, and the expanded use of annotations, animating and enabling the application...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 61–78.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Falloppia. These student notes, which have not yet been explored — or indeed known to exist — show, among other things, the outstanding importance of anatomical demonstrations on animals and of private anatomies for a small circle of students. They highlight the prominent place that anatomists accorded...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 January 2018
..., Vesalius stresses time and again the old Aristotelian and Galenic idea that the possession of hands is the mark of biological superiority over animals, as well as the crucial role played by the collaboration between sight and touch in both anatomy and clinical medicine. Copyright © 2018 Duke University...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 501–520.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... These figures might turn out to be a beast, a nobleman, a saint, a murderer, or—more unsettlingly—many of these at once. These scenes are susceptible to a reading which calls upon a theoretical model drawn from the works of Bruno Latour and Karen Barad, for whom nature, culture, humanity, animality, the organic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 541–561.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., Alexander’s father was Nectanabus, a mage and astrologer who seduced Queen Olympias with an astronomy lesson, deceived her by using animal pelts to disguise himself as a god, and then used his magic arts to retard the child’s birth when his astrological calculations indicated the child would be born a hybrid...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This volume explores new ways of understanding medieval and early modern conceptualizations of nature in light of current developments in critical animal studies, ecocriticism, new materialism, as well as our expanding knowledge of premodern...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 597–622.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to the Canterbury Tales and their narrative situations are discussed, in which authorial intention looms large: the “dramatic,” the “detached,” and the “animated.” Then a case is made for the unavoidability of intentionalist readings by drawing on cognitive literary theories, in particular the intentional stance...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 523–557.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and Peru, to find an animal Viagra-equivalent in that expanse of lands where marvels were contained. The duke's discreet fantasy of resurrecting the flesh, anchored in male anxiety, narcissistic excess, and a peculiar dream of domination, occupies hardly a footnote in the multinational project...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 January 2013
... that revels in its imagery
even as it forecloses on its possibility:
Thou almost make me waver in my faith,
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern’d a wolf, who hang’d for human...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 669–679.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Ass . Medieval Animals. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020. xiv, 163 pp., 7 illus. Paperback, ebook. Videen, Hana. The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2024. 341 pp., 30 illus. Hardcover, ebook. Wackers, Paul. Introducing the Medieval Fox...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... faction from the hierarchy's highest rank. Observing that the blind men were “treated as fairground animals akin to the pig they aim to kill,” Zina Weygand sees here the “extreme relegation of the blind to a sphere of otherness on the part of a society that felt it had nothing in common with them save...
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