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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (2): 265–294.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Jessica Hines Building on recent critical conversations in the history of the emotions, this article examines how the language of compassion came into English culture and how it was deployed for theological and political purposes. It traces the growth of compassion in England in the early fifteenth...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 533–565.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Instead of compassionately taking on the suffering of the body in front of him—internalizing Tom's pain as the precursor to alleviating it—Lear externalizes his own misery and hangs it awkwardly on Tom. In this Lear perverts Aquinas's definition of misericordia (mercy, compassion) as a virtue which...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 January 2022
... the extent or, importantly, the causes of ecological catastrophe. Its forms suggest that creation's compassion for Christ's suffering actually results in violent self-destruction—a suggestion that troubles twenty-first-century narratives of ecological catastrophe and human responsibility. Although the motif...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 83–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
... inherent in one’s relationship to one’s neighbor. Gower’s tales explore the proximity of envy and compassion, asking crucial questions about how envious identification can be turned instead into compassionate likeness, and commenting on the larger project of exemplarity and mimetic narrative. © 2012...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
... diagram without continents, focusing instead on the surrounding classical compass winds and the intersecting bodies of water—the Tanais, Nile, and Mediterranean Sea. This combination of pseudo-diagrams indicates that the annotator was adapting information without heeding shape or even original use...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 167–188.
Published: 01 January 2016
... with others unless another has experienced a
degree of similar suffering: “Diseases which we never felt in ourselves come
but to a compassion of others that have endured them; nay, compassion itself
comes to no great degree if we have not felt in some proportion in ourselves
that which we lament...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 379–404.
Published: 01 May 2023
...; so, I make no question, but the Speare through His . And, if through her 's, which was but anima compatientis ; through His, much more, which was anima patientis ; since Compassion , is but Passion at rebound . ( SSL , 125) So far the discussion has focused on the ways in which...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 283–312.
Published: 01 May 2001
... interpretation of a case requires the use of
verbal tricks and deceptions that will distract him (or her) away from the
rigor of the law.16 In Aristotle’s account, equity encourages a compassion-
ate interpretation of a case by drawing attention to human character...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 327–358.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and
Wonderful History of Perkin Warbeck. Both historians denigrate Perkin’s pity
for the people as sheer sentiment: Gainsford describes Perkin’s “ridiculous
mercy and foolish compassion,” and Bacon ridicules Perkin for “acting the
part of a prince handsomely” to make his “great lamentation” against...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 299–323.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., be determined by the
accuracy of the compass and the reliability of the clock (LL 14). The instabil-
Kimmel / Interpreting Inaccuracy 303
ity of sixteenth-century cartography’s conventions results from the techno-
logical limitations of these instruments, and so...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 287–321.
Published: 01 May 2023
... rectus is a half of the double chord with respect to half the arc. The sinus versus is always that part of the diameter which cuts both the sinus duplatus and its arc, and is like an arrow in relation to the chord and its arc.] 37 Geometrical figures, drawn by ruler-and-compass, illustrate...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 323–342.
Published: 01 May 2015
...” showed “compassion” as “the sun was darkened” (Matt. 27:45),
the “earth did quake; the rocks clave asunder; the veil of the temple rent
asunder” (Matt. 27:51).12 When He arose, both heaven and earth rejoiced; in
his ascension, a bright cloud received him and took him up (Acts 1:9). When
he sent...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 227–260.
Published: 01 May 2018
... “may neuer forgete hise, so
luuand [loving] he is and so reuthfull [full of compassion]” (fol. v; –
There is a similar move between the abstraction of “trewe bileue” (fol. v;
and the “luue bonde” [love bond] that creates emotional ties of
a ection: “Ihesu, yat is salueoure [savior...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 May 2023
... contributions to this discussion include the important special issues of Literature Compass and postmedieval (edited respectively by Dorothy Kim and by Mary Rambaran-Olm, M. Breanne Leake, and Micah James Goodrich), which have documented and contributed to still-unfolding conversations about medieval...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 567–591.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of Augustine, provide a compassionate portrait of Christ's humanity, and mount an argument for peace. 14 Benjamin Parris describes oikeiôsis as an ecology of care: For the stoics, animal life is born with an innate understanding of its constitution as a living being endowed with certain physical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
... than the fact that Anna had not come to show her sympathy for the child's illness until after its death. 44 Only then had Anna come to offer her condolences. Not only had Elisabeth seen Anna acting—in her view—suspiciously before her child became ill, Anna then did not show the requisite compassion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 January 2014
...), 63. See Sharon Cameron’s discussion in Impersonality: Seven
Essays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 118 – 21.
13 Jennifer Summit, “Renaissance Humanism and the Future of the Humanities,” Lit-
erature Compass 9/10 (2012): 665 – 78, at 665. The phrase “crisis...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 303–334.
Published: 01 May 2013
... that mastering social exigency is inflected
by gender as much as status. Prefaced by antifeminist outrage — “Þer is no
fraude fully equipollent [equal in degree] / To þe fraude and sleiȝty compass-
ing [treacherous plotting] / Of a womman, nor like in worchynge [execut-
ing]” (3.4332 – 34) — and hedged...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
... deriving from Latin pati (patient, compassion, compatible). The common linguistic ancestry uncovers an implicit connection between measurement and touch, and consequently, between measurement and feeling. That connection is explicitly made in late medieval popular religion, and, in this essay, I examine...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 583–602.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., patience, self-sacrifice, forgiveness, compassion, service, and generosity
simply was Christianity,” “not something called ‘religion’ distinguished from
the rest of life, but rather all of life lived in a certain way” (134). If medi-
eval Christians had not perfected the virtue part of this equation...
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