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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 261–285.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Rebecca Field The fourteenth-century contemplative manual The Cloud of Unknowing and the shorter texts attributed to its author explore an extreme form of apophatic spiritual encounter. In order to guide his disciples in this kind of practice, the anonymous Cloud -author adopts a classical theory...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 345–368.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Eleanor Johnson This essay analyzes the Middle English contemplative treatise, the Cloud of Unknowing , to show how its prose style is designed to embody the experience of spiritual practice. The prevalence of monosyllabic words in the treatise originates in how the Cloud -author understands time...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 699–724.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., Richard Rolle, as well as to materials from vernacular traditions — the keeping of spiritual diaries promoted by the Devotio Moderna and the English text of The Cloud of Unknowing . a Monasticism and the Public...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 339–379.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of Dell’s mastery is his counter- balancing of textures: he sets the delicate yet dynamic flow of the resurrected Christ’s drapery against the smooth gold of the inner gloriole, the more ser- pentine banderoles, and the roiling clouds of the outer gloriole; he has stip- pled the clouds. One might...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 341–364.
Published: 01 May 2018
...- ture. In the words of Mikhail Bakhtin, the mystical language of revelation became the “authoritative discourse” of divine revelation in Reformation England Late medieval English mystics like Julian of Norwich, Margery of Kempe, and the author of the Cloud of Unknowing were in uenced...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 663–665.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., Will, and Words: Vernacular Devotion in the Cloud of Unknowing  3 4 5  –  6 8 Jones, Ann Rosalind Ethnographer’s Sketch, Sensational Engraving, Full-­Length Portrait: Print Genres for Spanish America in Girolamo Benzoni, the De Brys, and Cesare Vecellio  137 – 71 Legassie, Shayne Aaron Chivalric...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2020
...- ductions, but what he himself hath given forth. Those that will be wise above what is written may hug their philosophical clouds, but let them take heed they find not themselves without God in the world, adoring figments of their own brains, instead of the living and true God.2 While Milton declares...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 629–651.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., the saints, or the Passion in the body, blood, wounds, and cross. However Julian is far from articulating a total “rejection of ‘meanes’ ” as the notes of Watson and Jenkins’s edition would have it. This is what, in markedly similar language, the more apophatic tradition of the author of the Cloud...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 305–334.
Published: 01 May 2007
... cloudes & sternes [stars] of gold langing to heuen”; “ij peces of blue cloudes payntid on bothe sides”; “iij peces of rede cloudes With sunne bemes of golde & sternes for þe heist of heuen.”24 Featuring sophisticated mechanical apparatuses for God’s ascen- sion and an elaborate representation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 595–613.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Commandment, to make any such Resemblance,” and in the harmonies God is consistently excised and replaced with clouds or the tetragramma- ton.39 “[Y]ou may . . . Cutt off the Picture of God,” notes Arthur Wodenoth brusquely, as he describes to Ferrar a set of 153 prints he has acquired featur- ing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
... it is noughwhere wrought,” writes the anonymous author of the fourteenth-­century Cloud of Unknowing in praise of God.23 But well before the sustained use of “nought” in Middle English Creation stories and vernacular theology, the idea of nothing(ness) and the related concept of no one had provided...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 561–584.
Published: 01 September 2001
... stood” (39– 40). But it is as if his muse were riding westward on what is probably Good Friday, 1630, and will not allow herself to be directed toward that ponderous subject. The poem ends in a bathetic image of the poet’s tears impregnating a cloud; Milton here sounds like Crashaw on a bad day...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 May 2021
... on the discernment of spirits, “A Tretis of Discrescyon of Spirites,” often attributed to the author of the Cloud of Unknowing . The treatise, existing in four fifteenth-century manuscript copies, is a Middle English translation of one of Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons, attesting to interest in the broader...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 97–120.
Published: 01 January 2025
... to prioritize the publication of “extraordinary” over “ordinary” experiences, which raised the stakes and established unattainable standards. Those who did receive startling testimonies could not help but feel they were “without light” and shrouded in “clouds, eclipses, [and] blacknesse” when these temporarily...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 301–340.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Riwle, The Mirror of St. Edmund, The Doctrine of the Heart, A Treatise of Privy Counselling, The Cloud of Unknowing, as well as a volume of Wycli te commentaries on the Gospels, and another of extracts from the Wycli te Bible The keen interest that Batman took in medi- eval religious writing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 519–542.
Published: 01 September 2002
...) Here, Gascoigne truly shows his meaning “as through a glass darkly.” For where Gascoigne’s steel glass clouds over in mists, his poetic mirroring is in its fullest effect. A swarm of saints takes the place of the indiscernible mer- chant. Heavenly profit proves the mirror opposite, down to the last...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 415–443.
Published: 01 September 2022
... will run into the earth; recognizing no welcome entrance there, he implores the stars to “draw up Faustus like a foggy mist / Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud, / That when you vomit forth into the air, / My limbs may issue from your smokey mouths, / But let my soul mount and ascend to heaven.” 48...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 393–418.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.2 / 2007 the Médicis,” in a 1789 poem.83 Pamphlets like Catherine de Médicis dans le cabinet de Marie-Antoinette à Saint Cloud and Les Imitateurs de Charles IX ou les conspirateurs foudroyès provided information trumpeting ways to protect the nation from...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 253–283.
Published: 01 May 2008
.... 40 See Smart, Sources and Parallels, 24. 41 Augustine, On the Trinity, 10.6.8. See also Hilton, Scale, 2.30. 42 For a pointed late medieval critique of the dangers of reading spiritual language liter- ally, see The Cloud of Unknowing, in The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 413–442.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of their bodies near 71 foot high.5 Excretions of such magnitude clearly couldn’t be suppressed without griev- ous harm. It is an image that whispers to us of a forgotten sense of embodi- ment: massive clouds of effluvia wafting out the pores, unseen by the eye, but reaching seventy-one feet above...