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The Restoration of All Things: John Bradford’s Refutation of Aquinas on Animal Resurrection
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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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The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and their relationship to the animal and human world. Examples of gendered stones include the “echites”: [Y] a male et femele et pour ce les treuve l'en deux et deux dedens les nis des aigles et sans ces pierres les aigles ne puent faire leurs faons. Le male de ces pierres reluist un pou et est dur et la femelle est...
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Beyond Monstrosity: Natural Hybridity in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Mandeville's Travels Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World monsters hybrid creatures animal and human relationships Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 [email protected] 27 Christof Rolker, “The Two Laws and the Three Sexes: Ambiguous Bodies in Canon Law and Roman Law...
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Governing the Wolf: Soul and Space in The Merchant of Venice
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 January 2013
... threat to subjectivity itself by calling into
question the preexisting relationship of the human soul to the human body.
Much as a metempsychotic Shylock would not be exactly animal or human,
but rather an entombment of one within the other, Faustus would not be
exactly dead or alive, but trapped...
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The Incantatory Violence of the Medieval Hunt
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (2): 247–269.
Published: 01 May 2025
...) 175–237. I am extraordinarily grateful for and indebted to Leach's generative, thorough, and thought-provoking scholarship on the hunt and its relationship to music. 3 Karl Steel argues that “acts of dominating themselves establish the polar categories of human and animal,” in How to Make...
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Making Room, Affording Hospitality: Environments of Entertainment in Romeo and Juliet
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 January 2013
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began in perception psychology, and he coined the term ecological optics
to define the way in which animal perception, including the habits of the
human animal, is ambient and tangible, a constant multisensory “keeping-
in-touch with the world.”9
Although the ground affords locomotion...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 669–679.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... 208 pp., 22 illus. Ebook. [On animal performance and the role of animal agency in the performing relationship with humans.] McKay, Robert, and Susan McHugh, eds. Animal Satire . Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. xii, 431 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [A cultural...
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Place, Health, and Disease: The Airs, Waters, Places Tradition in Early Modern England and North America
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
... breezes” which “moderate the heats.”
He added, linking the health of humans with that of plants and animals,
that the breezes “invigorate every thing that grows, so they give both to man
and beast at the same time their health and refreshment.”18
There was, however, a problem. According...
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Water and Wood: Ecomateriality and Sacred Objects at the Chapel of Saint-Fiacre, Le Faouët (Brittany)
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 585–615.
Published: 01 September 2014
... also profoundly shape human response, its materiality can pervade
spaces far from its original locale, and it can engage in sophisticated theo-
logical problems. Animate nature does not have to be “in nature,” wherever
that may be.73 “Ecology permeates all forms,” writes Tim Morton, striving...
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Marginal Performances by Late Medieval Pigs and Blind Men
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... buff on fol. 70v to the elaborated violence of a blind quartet encountering a sow on fol. 74v. The begging blind man on fol. 77v is pictured twice in cooperative relationship with another animal, his dog. Although no other humans are shown, the begging bowl clearly indicates his dependence upon them...
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“Good in Every Thing”: Erasmus and Communal Virtue in As You Like It
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 567–591.
Published: 01 September 2022
... relationship between humans and animals in preindustrial pastoralism. Oikeiôsis becomes ecology as Corin, whose name subsists between “care” and “cure,” attends to human nature in concert with ovine nature. Although The Praise of Folly does not directly address abuses of hospitality, the Book...
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Aesop, Authorship, and the Aesthetic Imagination
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in aesthetic understanding.
Children, medieval and Renaissance pedagogues constantly note, need not
just moral instruction, spiritual inspiration, or social monitoring. They need
to see the beauty in the world; need to distinguish between human artifice
Journal of Medieval and Early...
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Rethinking the Twelfth-Century Discovery of Nature
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
Published: 01 May 2009
... forms plants, animals, minerals, and humans;
she supervises generative behavior; she instructs philosophers on the varieties
of natural phenomena.15 But although she wields great power over physi-
cal creation, Natura is autonomous from it as an authority, and not caught
up in it. Similarly, Hugh...
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Jesus in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 January 2012
...; and by that fullness, his moral and supernatural acts were
unfailingly good and fully pleasing to God. This is why Jesus is the model
for authentic behavior, the great human exemplar who shows what is pos-
sible for those who are in correct relationship to God, who indicates in his
own action how they might act...
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From Rags to Paper: Alchemy, Chymistry, and the Perfective Art of Papermaking
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 May 2024
...’ stone for knowledge, perfecting and preserving mankind's arts and sciences. Maier compares paper to the phoenix and the philosophers’ stone because it is chymistry's greatest achievement, revolutionizing how humans create and share knowledge. By recognizing paper's relationship to both...
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Cockfighting as Cultural Allegory in Early Modern England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
... are conflicting systems of meaning that at once affirm and disrupt anthropological distinctions between human and animal activity and the anthropocentric ideologies that construct such demarcations. Reading the early modern cockfight challenges us to critique how we engage sport, early modern culture, animals...
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The “Holy Dictate of Spare Temperance”: Virtue and Politics in Milton’s A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and older people or of
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practically wise people, no less than to demonstrations, because their expe-
rienced eye enables them to see correctly.”53 Aristotle’s definition of a human
being as a political animal (“zoon politikon”) goes...
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Communion as Shared Experience in Early Modern Finland
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 121–142.
Published: 01 January 2025
... be likened to that between clerics who handled and received the eucharistic host and lay nonpartakers who witnessed the elevated host, described by Robert Scribner as participating with a “sacramental gaze.” 32 These distinctions served to organize the relationship between humans and the divine, but also...
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The Byzantine Icon of the Virgin in the Church of the Blachernae: Michael Psellos on the Problem of Miraculous Timing
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 241–262.
Published: 01 May 2021
... moment in the arbitration of human affairs. This emphasis, in turn, bespeaks a broader concern over the timing of sacred icons during significant moments in Byzantine history as understood by contemporary chroniclers: namely, their failure to act in appropriate ways at critical moments when the empire...
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Implicit Faith and Reformations of Habit
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 513–543.
Published: 01 September 2016
... that would enable
some analytical (and terminological) precision, Gregory traffics in general-
izations or, more accurately, stereotypes. Where one might have expected to
find substantive arguments with contemporaries who have written thought-
fully on the many topics he touches on — the relationship...
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