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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 443–456.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and the archive. They challenge cataloguing and descriptive conventions by demonstrating that the division between manuscript and print was not as clear during the print revolution as scholars have assumed, that texts are, at least to some degree, always in state of process and production. This special issue...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 403–412.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in nonmedical literature such as travel treatises; and concepts of disease in pan-European myth-making. The volume concludes with a description of a major archive for the study of medical history, the Duke University History of Medicine Collections. In a sense, each essay encapsulates both the promise...
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Archiving Ordinary Experience: Small-Format Cartography of the English Renaissance
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 359–390.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of cultural capital that charted England as the domain of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This archive, which has been neglected in favor of beautifully illustrated, large-format cartography, reveals very different conceptions of how space, place, and nationhood intersected. At the dawn of the realm's...
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House Arrest: Modern Archives, Medieval Manuscripts
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 185–210.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., with the Verneys and with Plimpton,
have become mere footnotes in the provenance section of technical manu-
script descriptions.
194 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 30.2 / 2000
The archival conditions which control the modern use of medieval
manuscripts, then, create a particular...
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When the Dead Cry: Crime, Population, and Popular Literature in Early Modern Southwark
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 617–635.
Published: 01 September 2024
... stage but in their neighborhood. The article thus argues for the importance of careful examination of the archives to understand the lives of ordinary people in the early modern period, and the article further suggests a symbiotic relationship between “big data” and microhistory. 42 See, for example...
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Reconsidering the Boredom of King James: Performance and Premodern Histories
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 477–486.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... • • • The archival remains of The Magnificent Entertainment complicate this critique. They are not “scripts” of plays. Unlike a play, the publications in this volume provide a description of an occasion; language attributed to actors in the pageants is provided in that context. These speeches were not improvised...
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Ashes and “the Archive”: The London Fire of 1666,Partisanship, and Proof
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 379–408.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Frances E. Dolan © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.2-06 Dolan 4/30/01 9:39 AM Page 379
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Ashes and “the Archive”: The
London Fire of 1666, Partisanship...
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Vesalius among the Surgeons
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 125–151.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Cynthia Klestinec This essay describes the reception of Vesalius’s illustrations of skeletons in Latin and Italian surgery texts in the sixteenth century. The skeletons were part of a visual archive that was produced collaboratively by humanists, editors, translators, and printers. Joining older...
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The Copy Room: Imagining a Huguenot Library in Early Modern London
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 361–385.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of familiarity, a combination summed up in Alexandra Walsham's description of the early modern notion of an archive as “ancient” books with little to no “immediate utility.” 16 The letter book transformed this view, in part because it was completely unknown among church record genres. Letter books were...
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The Diseased Body: Resources for Scholarly Inquiry in the Duke University History of Medicine Collections
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 589–610.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Florence Eliza Glaze; Brian K. Nance; Suzanne Porter This article examines the holdings of the Duke University Medical School Library's History of Medicine Collections, including the Trent Collection. It provides a generalized topical description of the collections' contents, as well...
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Crime and Testimony: Life Narratives, Pardon Letters, and Microhistory
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 147–166.
Published: 01 January 2017
....
The study of life narrative as performance — as distinct from the
“linguistic turn” critiqued by Thomas Cohen in this volume — represents
neither a distraction from real people and their actions, nor an evasion of
rigorous archival work.6 It is rather a means to decipher the pardon letter’s
formal...
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Building Paper Embassies: A Prehistory of The Compleat Ambassador
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 541–564.
Published: 01 September 2020
... process of transmission. Manuscript groupings The printed volume of The Compleat Ambassador contains over 275,000 words. Some manuscripts include more than three hundred and fifty letters. The sheer size of this archive precludes a collation and stemma. Even a full description of these manuscripts stands...
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Andrew Marvell in Russia: Secretaries, Rhetoric, and Public Diplomacy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 565–586.
Published: 01 September 2020
... State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA), these papers illuminate the key role which Mar- vell played in developing Carlisle s ambassadorial voice in speeches and letters. The documents were later adapted for print by another secretary, Guy Miège, who in 1669 published A Relation of Three Embassies from...
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Forgetting the Ulster Plantation: John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611) and the Colonial Archive
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 313–348.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of the
Empire of Great Britain (1611) and
the Colonial Archive
Mark Netzloff
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
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Wicked Mysteries and Notorious Conjurors: Magic, Rape, and Violence in Two Early Modern Pamphlets
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 533–551.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Laura Levine Toward the end of the 1628 pamphlet A Briefe Description of the Notorious Life of Iohn Lambe , the pamphleteer describes the violence a crowd inflicts on John Lambe, a cunning man who dabbled in the dark arts. This violence, ultimately fatal, seems to be a response to Lambe's rape...
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English Bibles and Their Readers, 1400–1700
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 415–435.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Thomas Fulton Bibles were among the most circulated books in medieval and early modern England, the most studied and most read, and as such they provide a profoundly valuable archive for the history of reading. Because the biblical text underwent intense and often contentious hermeneutic scrutiny...
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Gold Leaf and Graffiti in a Copy of the 1462 Mainz Bible
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 617–638.
Published: 01 September 2017
...) posited an unconscious
echo of such activity in the very different community of Peterhouse, as part
of his description of the visit of the eighteenth-century Frankfurt biblio-
phile, Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, to Cambridge in 1710. Uffenbach
was dismissive of many college collections...
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The Authority of Written and Oral Sources of Knowledge in Ludolf of Sudheim’s De itinere Terre Sancte
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 37–48.
Published: 01 January 2021
... considered a pilgrimage narrative, as it includes a description of the Holy Land and Egypt. However, it also contains information about places beyond both the usual territory of pil- grimage and the places that Ludolf actually traveled to himself. For example, 38 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 453–455.
Published: 01 May 2014
... modern cut-outs or decoupage). We think that these practices
of cutting and pasting were widespread, and the corpus of collage material
to which they gave rise must challenge existing conventions of catalogu-
ing and bibliographical description, for it suggests that the division between...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 675–677.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and pasting were widespread, and the corpus of collage material
to which they gave rise must challenge existing conventions of catalogu-
ing and bibliographical description, for it suggests that the division between
manuscript and print was not as clear as had been assumed, that texts are,
at least...
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