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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 (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 (2015) 45 (2): 323–342.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Press 2015 theology of the Fall and Last Judgment animals and creatures creation resurrection of the body John Bradford and Martin Bucer •
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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 (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... space for demystifying explanations that reveal organizing principles and tributes to the infinite variety of nature. Susan Crane demonstrates the dynamic nature of medieval animal taxonomies, contending that bestiaries create “a world view by working out a classification of the world's creatures...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 415–443.
Published: 01 September 2022
...: an expected narrative of some (talking) thing broken in pieces is suddenly and puzzlingly displaced by an entirely different narrative of an animate creature being hunted: animate and inanimate jostle uneasily and vie unsuccessfully for narrative control. These multiple disruptions—metrical, syntactic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 513–543.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the insult, Goodman set out to show that even if these ministers
were actual dogs, they could still serve as channels of grace. To read The
Creatures Praysing God is to see animals turning into Christians as if before
one’s eyes: the creatures are by turns signifying objects and fellow subjects...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 669–679.
Published: 01 September 2024
...: Insects . Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures, vol. 20. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. xii, 281 pp., 11 illus. Hardcover, ebook. Botelho, Keith, and Joseph Campana, eds. Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance, Volume 2: Concepts . Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 May 2024
... alum water as the sizing ingredient and omitting the gelatin. 40 In doing so, Maier foreshadows Mercury's success as the most useful creature over animals (gelatin) and plants (paper). The details that Maier includes emphasize the roles that minerals and artisans’ chymical expertise played...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 271–303.
Published: 01 May 2007
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detailed and precise observation of “the creatures.” At the Leipzig debate,
Strier / Luther and the Real Presence in Nature 273
Luther concluded by stating that his theological opponent, John Eck, pen-
etrates the scriptures as deeply as a water spider does water...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to occupying its place in the animal order could be treated like an animal, humans could be especially convinced of their abyssal difference from other worldly creatures. Nonetheless, the very necessity of dominating pigs also reminds humans of the mutual contingency of being pig and being human, for even...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... Wilson opens his treatise with what had come to be and would remain
a common biblical justification for the fighting of cocks in early modern
England: namely, man’s divinely ordained dominion over animals, a posi-
tion that afforded him not only the necessary uses of God’s creatures “for
clothing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 January 2012
... and inves-
tigation of the truths of the Catholic faith. It falls into three main parts.2
In the first or Prima Pars (I), Aquinas discusses God and the procession of
creatures, including humans, from God as their creative cause. In the third,
the Tertia Pars (III), he treats Christ and the sacraments...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., potluck and
picnic, progress and parade). Hospitality is environmental in a second sense
as well: by participating in the liturgical and agrarian calendar of holidays,
hospitality events amalgamate heterogeneous ingredients (times and places;
animals and vegetables; things, gods, and persons...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 469–502.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in no sich creature
þat is so charmid but be fals beleue.
[exorcisms and consecrations done in the church of wine, bread
and wax, water, salt and oil and incense, the stone of the altar,
upon vestments, miter, cross, and pilgrims’ staffs are properly the
practices...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., but often of creation, is
considered as a “nature saint” owing to his interactions with animals, his fondness for
mountainous caverns, and his crafting of the “Canticle of Creatures” and sermon to
the birds. See Roger Sorrell, St. Francis of Assisi and Nature: Tradition and Innovation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... And that ingenium, as medievalists
and early modernists well know, is not just the defining quality of Aesop’s
clever animals; it is the defining quality of romance heroes, of lyric lovers,
of saints and scholars. One may well argue that it may not be so much that
Aesop is “medievalized” by later readers...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 January 2013
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York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), and Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and
Other Wonderful Creatures (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004). Fudge takes
up the concerns of this essay, the interface of the animal and the soul, in Perceiving
Animals, 34 – 63; her final...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 327–358.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., encoding Henry as modern and “politicke”
despite his respect for the practice. The additive language stresses Henry’s
magnanimity (“not only . . . but [also] . . . yea Gainsford acknowledges
Perkin’s animal desperation and sanctuary’s primitive power to open “fur-
ther caverns of the earth,” working...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 561–584.
Published: 01 September 2001
... incarnated himself into the creation so as to experience the pain of
being one of his own creatures, and so to regenerate a mode of intimacy
between creature and creator. As such, sacrifice obligates mortals to respond
to God in a way that is by definition unavailable to them.
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