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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2022
... narrative, which looked forward to Christ's return as—technically speaking—its catastrophe, when all the confusion and unhappiness of the universal plot would be unravelled and total clarity would reign. The author of the Old English Doomsday poem called Christ III , however, devised an ingenious strategy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Evelyn Reynolds The Old English poem Christ III represents the Crucifixion not by focusing on Christ's suffering but by depicting natural disasters. In its representation of creation's upheavals, Christ III establishes an ecopoetics in which language can sketch but never fully fathom either...
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in To Measure Is to Feel: The Mathematics of Middle English Metric Relics
> Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Line measuring the height of Christ. Philadelphia, Redemptorist Archives of the Baltimore Province (no call number, previously Esopus roll). Image (of facsimile) used courtesy of the Redemptorist Archives, Philadelphia.
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in The Madness of Hugo van der Goes: The Troubled Search for Origins in Early Netherlandish Painting
> Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 5 . Hugo van der Goes, The Lamentation of Christ . Oil on oak, 33.8 × 23 cm. Source: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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in The Madness of Hugo van der Goes: The Troubled Search for Origins in Early Netherlandish Painting
> Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 6 . School or workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, The Lamentation of Christ . Oil on panel, 81 × 130 cm. Source: Mauritshuis, The Hague.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 109–144.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Joëlle Rollo-Koster © by Duke University Press 2002 a
From Prostitutes to Brides of
Christ: The Avignonese Repenties
in the Late Middle Ages
Joëlle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Andrew R. Casper This essay recovers the dialectics of authenticity informed by the reinvigorated emergence of the Mandylion of Edessa as an authorized early Christian relic in Counter-Reformation Italy. The original was a miraculously generated icon of Christ's face which later became a major...
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in To Measure Is to Feel: The Mathematics of Middle English Metric Relics
> Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 4. Rubricated lettering mimicking blood dripping from Christ's side wound (detail). London, British Library, Harley Roll T 11. Original source: British Library. Used by permission.
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in To Measure Is to Feel: The Mathematics of Middle English Metric Relics
> Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 6. Blood dripping from Christ's side wound (detail). London, British Library, Harley Roll T 11. Original source: British Library. Used by permission.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 439–461.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Thomas Betteridge A central aim of Tyndale's polemical works was to convert the mass of the populace to a more rigorous and meaningful engagement with Christ's teaching. In this he shared the concerns of most early-sixteenth-century religious reformers. Alongside this pastoral desire, however...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 483–501.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Nancy Bradley Warren This essay explores Thomas More's understanding of the role of the recipient's virtue in activating the full power of Christ's body in the Eucharist in his A Treatise on the Passion of Christe and A Treatise to receive the blessed body of our lorde, sacramentally and virtually...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., the essay examines the role of “trees of incarnation” as contemplative models in women's religious communities for making Christ present in the imagination and in the world. M. D. Chenu's attention to the category of nature in his historical and theological writings is then revisited in order to propose...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (1): 169–191.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Grace Hamman In A Revelation of Love , Julian of Norwich employs the similitude of Christ as a mother and the Christian as his child to describe and explore the relationship between God and humanity. Theologians, literary critics, and historians alike have studied the theological...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of terms that do important work in King Lear : “take on,” “take up,” “bear,” “bear with.” These terms are all complexly associated, in late medieval and early modern discourses, with the incarnation of Christ, and with the ritual taking of Christ’s body in the Eucharist. And they are all associated...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (2): 265–294.
Published: 01 May 2019
... century via two of its earliest theorists, Nicholas Love and Margery Kempe, and it shows how compassion functioned as a keyword, registering a series of challenges and confusions in its meaning that represented a cultural change—including increased focus on the humanity of Christ—which demanded new...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 585–615.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the surrounding forest shaped sacred objects in and around the rural healing chapel. The ecological characteristics of healing waters intersected with understandings of the salvific theology of the blood of Christ; the hewn ecology of the oak jubé or rood screen framed the ontological complexity of Christ’s human...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2016
... is united with Christ through her pain. Analysis of five late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts reveals that the legend is fashioned as a practical guide to the experience and rituals of childbirth. The legend also suggests that the act of engaging with Margaret's life (whether through prayer...
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in The Madness of Hugo van der Goes: The Troubled Search for Origins in Early Netherlandish Painting
> Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 8 . Hugo van der Goes, infrared scan showing the underdrawing of The Lamentation of Christ . Source: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 257–281.
Published: 01 May 2009
... examines in detail Christ's speech after he has harrowed hell, the principal locus for the expression of Langland's views on the matter, but attempts to place this speech in the context of and as the climactic statement of Langland's salvation theology as it develops through the poem. Important variations...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
... that such practices worked to displace fundamental anxieties generated by the “sacramental cannibalism” of the eucharistic feast, in which the body and blood of Christ were fused with those of communicants through the process of ingestion. The medieval counternarrative mythologizing lepers, women, and Jews as would...
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