... DOI 10.1215/10829636-8219626 © 2020 by Duke University Press A wife or friend at e ery Port : The Common Sailor in Ballads of the Early British Empire Laurie Ellinghausen University of Missouri Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri A Saylor is a cunning Knave, who does all sorts of women Court...

... and Remaking a Bishops’ Bible in Seventeenth-Century­ England Adam G. Hooks University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa The Bishops’ Bible, first published in 1568...

..., manor and city by emphasizing the paradox of order itself within the apocalyptic paradigm that Wynnere and Wastoure assumes at the outset. Even as the prophetic poet seeks to build forms capable of reflecting the overarching order of history, any attempt to capture such a totality requires...

...Su Mei Kok Spanning a thirty-eight-mile canal, a walled reservoir, and a city-wide network of wooden mains, London’s New River altered terrain from Hertfordshire to the city. A vital shift in London’s spatial order attended these topographical changes, as public space became a private commodity...

... capitalism that gave birth to the genre in More's Utopia , however, female utopian thought is differently manifested as well. In the “Wyll,” the contradictions attending the moment of transition are embodied in the dissonant form of a poem that, in its first half, describes a city of abundance, and in its...

...Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt This article compares the work of two late medieval bishops and the guidelines each produced for convents. In the late fifteenth century, Talavera (1430–1507), bishop of Avila in Spain, wrote a treatise addressed to the Cistercian nuns of the city that touched on the core...

...Jane Tylus This article addresses the role of two late fifteenth-century Florentine writers, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’Medici and Antonia Pulci, in articulating what was at stake for women who sought to engage in meaningful ways in their city’s charitable economy. The emerging role of female...

... had long rankled civic governors and guilds, sparking a series of legal and political skirmishes between the City and St. Martin’s in the 1520s and 1530s. This article examines St. Martin’s community of Dutch and French immigrants, who constituted the densest concentration of aliens...

... back the early modern layering of new religious, cultural, and political meanings in execution rituals. Using the two cities of Florence and Bologna as examples of the process, this essay demonstrates that the layerings did not develop in a clear sequence, but accumulated in a paradoxical interrelation...

... of Christ” killed herself or threatened to do so. Such willful deaths not only contravened basic religious precepts but also reneged on the promise to sacrifice oneself continuously for God, city, and family. Motivations for self-harm ranged from deep despair with convent life to madness and demonic...

... stronghold of Acre, objects such as the gates of Janus in imperial Rome, the Tower of Babel, and the fortified city of Troy serve as potent emblems of turning points in the historical past and as potential springboards toward an imagined future. These monumental points of reference form a lattice...

..., and sociability in late medieval Burgundian cities. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 microhistory medieval Burgundian pardon letters masculinity and violence crime and testimony life narrative • Crime and Testimony...

... seventeenth century. Their life stories, set against the backdrop of an early modern “global city,” shed light on the cross-cultural interactions that were critical to early modern globalization, as they contributed to the cultivation of global trade and participated in the far-reaching projects of Spanish...

... of Anglo-Saxon attitudes to Rome, a city that inspired both hope and horror in early English minds. Legendary Germanic identity is thus identified as an early medieval production and as a means of understanding history that encompasses both different times and different cultures. Copyright © 2019 by Duke...

... and witness to promote civic authority and engage the local history of York’s negotiations with royal authority. York’s charters combine the material geography of the city’s boundaries with abstract concepts of legal rights. Medieval law defined witnesses as neighbors close enough to have seen and heard...

..., the Painters, and the city of Chester. In staging intergenerational masculine fellowship on several levels, the performance may also have spoken back against the Puritan view that Chester’s “popish” cycle had been extirpated. Chester Corpus Christi plays Shepherds pageant patronage of Henry Stanley Earl...