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Rebellion from Below: Commonwealth and Community in The Life and Death of Jack Straw
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 May 2015
... portrayal of the rebels and not on the relationship between elite and popular discourses in the text. This article bridges a gap in the existing criticism by investigating the references to commonwealth and community that are made by Jack Straw ’s aristocrats and commoners respectively. The article argues...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 13–31.
Published: 01 January 2020
...-distance communication, providing the latest news from the front. This article provides the first examination of letter-writing soldiers as purveyors of news from the battlefield to the governing elites in Italian states during the late sixteenth century. It examines how soldiers of different ranks...
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“Good in Every Thing”: Erasmus and Communal Virtue in As You Like It
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 567–591.
Published: 01 September 2022
... as they escape a tyrannous court. 4 The play, I argue, is an Erasmian rumination on classical and biblical wisdom that rejects confessional strife in favor of sapiential community. And virtue contributes to that pluralism, insofar as wisdom is both a cardinal virtue (in its capacity as phronesis...
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in The Copy Room: Imagining a Huguenot Library in Early Modern London
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. The Consistory's communication feedback loop. Diagram created by author.
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“Al the town in a rore”: Authority, Revolt, and Rational Obedience in Thomas Usk's Appeal and Testament of Love
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to delineate the limits to power and the interdependence of ruler and subjects. Following this political tradition, he maintains that obedience is reasonable only insofar as rulers maintain their communities according to reason and the common good. Taken together, I argue, Usk's Appeal and Testament...
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Signs of Shared and Personal Experience in Dominican Breviaries
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Marika Räsänen The breviary was essential to the devotional life of Dominican friars, allowing them to celebrate the daily office individually when they were unable to join the communal liturgy. The Dominican vocation, rooted in the apostolic life and itinerant preaching, required a commitment...
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“A wife or friend at e’ery Port”: The Common Sailor in Ballads of the Early British Empire
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 May 2020
... present in these texts signals a larger cultural conversation about these men’s fitness as husbands to the nation’s women, fathers to its children, and members of its communities. Although protoimperialist and mercantilist writers such as John Dee, Robert Hitchcock, and Edward Misselden stressed...
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Monasticism and the Public Contemplative in Late Medieval England: Richard Methley and His Spiritual Formation
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 699–724.
Published: 01 September 2012
... contemplative experiences to a greater audience. Because these experiences, unlike visions, involved embodied ecstasies that are inseparable from the contemplative who experiences them, communicating them involved narrating the self as well as the experience. Methley’s position as a Carthusian, simultaneously...
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in The Madness of Hugo van der Goes: The Troubled Search for Origins in Early Netherlandish Painting
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 14 . Jan van Eyck, Saint Barbara (1437). Brush drawing on chalk ground laid on oak panel, 41.4 × 27.8 cm. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Photo: Hugo Maertens, Collection KMSKA-Flemish Community (CC0).
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“O Multiplied Misery!”: The Disordered Medical Narrative of John Donne's Devotions
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 167–188.
Published: 01 January 2016
... illness with readers when he believes its physical symptoms resist communication? This essay argues that Donne bypasses this impasse by formally recreating one of his illness's contemplative symptoms: the vexed temporal disorder caused by interpreting one's world from within a sick body. Because...
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Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus and the Anglo-Saxon Ecological Imagination
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 479–500.
Published: 01 September 2019
...” of an unknown Northumbrian monastic community), as a window into the ways in which early medieval people saw their natural world not as a passive space for human activity, but as an active participant in religious life. This reading comports with ecocritical interpretations of Æthelwulf’s poem alongside...
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Earth and Ore: Materializing Transalpine Relations on the Eve of the Reformation
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 333–369.
Published: 01 May 2024
... community and its landscape at a time of religious change. It demonstrates the potential for both positive and negative views on the part of Annaberg's citizens, arguing that these were informed not only by traditional religiosity and reform ideas, but also by the distinctive visual and material culture...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2025
... fundamental stages: (1) ways in which individual people and communities encounter the world; (2) the simultaneous relational, intersubjective process making sense of those encounters; and (3) the social and physical structures born from the repetition of these processes so as to produce knowledge of the “real...
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The Formation of Forgiveness in Piers Plowman
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 273–297.
Published: 01 May 2010
... through the poem, the essay draws out examples of medieval agents participating in the craft of forgiveness with varying degrees of inadequacy when compared with Jesus Christ, the embodiment of forgiveness. It focuses on two versions of community in the poem: the political model of forgiveness in the Mede...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 511–517.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... In this special issue of JMEMS , essays explore the ways in which monastic foundations are complexly imbricated in their local communities as well as in far-reaching political, economic, and textual systems. One of the aims of this issue is thus to use the topic of monasticism to rethink a variety of boundaries...
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Langland on the Church and the End of the Cardinal Virtues
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 59–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
... is the question of what sort of agents revolution might require, as well as what sort of eschatology might sustain them and what sort of community they might inhabit. In its search for answers Langland’s poem discredits ideologies of magisterial reformation. Langland offers instead significant gestures toward...
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The “Holy Dictate of Spare Temperance”: Virtue and Politics in Milton’s A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of habit allows him to depict the Lady’s development in the virtues as being independent of concrete social and political communities. The account of the virtues presented in A Masque anticipates some of the central aspects of Milton’s later attacks on the political reasoning of the English people. ©...
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Proximate Common Goods in the Context of Pluralism
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 583–602.
Published: 01 September 2016
... seen, though, as postsecular rather than as individualist and subjectivist. It is a context within which many different communities (of sometimes overlapping and shifting membership) seek to articulate the public character of their faith and accompanying conceptions of human flourishing...
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Microhistory and Microcosm: Chinese Migrants, Spanish Empire, and Globalization in Early Modern Manila
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 167–192.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Jonathan Gebhardt This article looks at the lives of don Pedro Quintero Tiangnio and don Juan Felipe Tiamnio, two migrants from southeastern China who became powerful and influential figures in Manila—both within Spanish colonial society and in the Chinese overseas community—during the late...
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Toward a New Cultural History of the Geneva Bible
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 487–516.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of biblical passages in contemporary social and political contexts. This essay rethinks the interpretive procedures and the cultural contexts of the notes, which, though influential in Elizabethan England, reflect the condition and polemical discourses of their exiled Marian community. Consequently...
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