...-Century­ Observant Reform Claire Taylor Jones University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana The Observant reform movement of the fifteenth century changed the face of religious life over...

...Erin L. Jordan This article uses evidence from Cistercian abbeys in Flanders and Hainaut during the thirteenth century to reconsider the role of enclosure policies in shaping the experience of religious women. The frequency with which nuns appear in the charters outside of their cloisters, when...

...Kurt Schreyer This essay proposes a sixteenth-century provenance for the ass’s head in A Midsummer Night’s Dream , a history that includes orthodox liturgies and festivals, mid-century Reformed polemics, and above all provincial mystery plays. What would it mean if this famous prop was inspired...

... illustrates how understandings of qualities were central to the contestations over rationality and vernacularity in fifteenth-century culture. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a The Physics of Holy Oats: Vernacular...

...Laura Williamson Ambrose This article focuses on almanac travel diaries, exploring both how and why seventeenth-century English readers used books of time as books of space. It seeks to broaden studies in early modern travel writing by examining the unique, nonnarrative marginalia that typify...

... as providing a fledgling science with social legitimation. Another connection between seventeenth-century science and religion is less well known, and that is the way in which the experimental practices of the new science were then thought to promote a particular kind of moral and religious formation...

...Mary Baine Campbell This essay focuses attention on the cognitive and spiritual work of the dream and the devotional labor of the Jesuit missionary in seventeenth-century Quebec, and views these often passionately opposed spiritual efforts—performed by the various and often passionately opposed...

...Stanley Chojnacki This essay examines the social orientation of married and widowed Venetian patricians in the fifteenth century as expressed in their election of final resting places. Comparing the choices of women and men reveals sharp contrasts by gender in burial patronage of lineage...

... Wooster, Ohio In the first half of the fifteenth century, the Dominican friars in Modena undertook a remodeling of their home church of San Domenico.1 After the renovations were complete, they arranged for several local painters associ- ated with the Erri family workshop to craft for the church...

...Steven Bruso This essay examines representations of knightly physicality in two fifteenth-century English texts: the Middle English Secreta Secretorum and Knyghthode and Bataile . These neglected texts are examples of mirrors for princes and Vegetian military manuals, respectively, and both...

... to the Seventeenth Century Giovanni Ceccarelli Università L. Bocconi-Milano Milan, Italy More than forty years ago Lucien Febvre, in a brief but rich article, claimed that a proper history of insurance should not only cope...

...Thomas A. Prendergast © by Duke University Press 2002 a The Invisible Spouse: Henry VI, Arthur, and the Fifteenth-Century Subject Thomas...

... in Sixteenth-Century French Poetry Todd P. Olson University of Southern California Los Angeles, California Tu en riras, je m’asseure (Lecteur); aussi n’a esté fait ce petit Poëme...

...R. I. Moore © by Duke University Press 2003 The Eleventh Century in Eurasian History: A Comparative Approach to the Convergence and Divergence...

...Fred Orton © by Duke University Press 2004 Northumbrian Identity in the Eighth Century: The Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments; Style, Classification...

...Alexander Samson England and Spain's close ties of kinship had bound the royal houses together stretching back to the thirteenth century. In the later sixteenth century, English interest in Spanish culture, history, and politics had intensified precisely during the period when political relations...

... demonstrates both wider patterns of use and the contradictory nature of the evidence. This book was presumably first used as it was intended, but it was subsequently removed from its exalted place at the pulpit. The bible was used by several different owners, most notably the seventeenth-century Moreton family...

... Double Conversions in the Fourteenth- Century Romanian Principality of Wallachia Ioan Albu Universitatea “Lucian Blaga” din Sibiu Sibiu, Romania In a letter...

...Katherine Hunt Change-ringing, a new way of ringing existing church bells based on a series of mathematical permutations, was extremely popular in seventeenth-century England and continues today. The close relationship between change-ringing and contemporary cultures of combination is established...