..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... conclusions about early modern English performance in light of new research and theory. The article deploys new thinking about performance historiography, arguing that such perspectives unsettle the easy placement of an event in historical chronology, disrupt archival logic, and insist on a degree...

...Frances E. Dolan © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.2-06 Dolan 4/30/01 9:39 AM Page 379 a Ashes and “the Archive”: The London Fire of 1666, Partisanship...

...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...

... in front of his eyes. But its potential was obscured by disuse and a neglect bred 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...

...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...

... and fifty letters. The sheer size of this archive precludes a collation and stemma. Even a full description of these manuscripts stands well beyond the scope of an article. However, twenty of the manuscripts can be grouped based on their inclu- sion or exclusion of specific letters seventeen from direct...

.... 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...

... and the Russian court.3 Now preserved in the Russian 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...

... of the Empire of Great Britain (1611) and the Colonial Archive Mark Netzloff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

...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...

...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...

...) 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...

... working on pilgrimage literature, but a broader audience requires some introduction.1 This text is usually 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...

... 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...

... of time, as wherein an Aue Maria might be sayd, that I was amazed.”1 Her description of transport in time and space resembles the prelude to medieval dream poems in which an insomniac narrator seeks diversion, often with a book, then segues into sleep and receives some form of revela- tion...

... 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...