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...Erika T. Lin This essay models a method for unearthing performance traces in texts that seem on the surface to be strictly literary. Centering on Thomas Dekker's The Raven's Almanac , a compilation of stories akin to those in early modern jest books, it analyzes a bawdy tale about a friar...

... slips, and from the secondary evidence of references to such texts. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 early modern books compilation process information management cutting and pasting • Cutting and Pasting Slips...

... fuller sources until the end of the prologue, the Wife compels engage- ment with her own compilation before enabling its assessment in light of those sources. In this sense, then, the prologue makes visible a process of intertextual adaptation enacted (though now not fully recoverable) in each...

...- ural philosophy, where they were used to buttress writings on human gener- ation and reproduction. These new combinations of texts divorce medical lore on the diseases of women from its curative contexts; indeed a number of compilers prune pragmatic material from...

... scripture with Christian traditions and to find thematic coherence across biblical texts. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Wycliffite Bible translation Middle English manuscripts scriptural reading manuscript compilation...

...Juliet Fleming The essays gathered in this special issue of JMEMS describe processes of cutting, dismantling, and reassembling printed books in the early modern period. This focus on “collage” techniques in bookmaking should displace the commonsense understanding of the book as an undisturbed whole...

... Nancy Bradley Warren Texas A & M University College Station, Texas Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 416 is a mid-­fifteenth century manuscript containing a compilation of texts. It opens with part two of Peter Idley’s Instructions...

... Christi College, MS 426 presents a vision of the world profoundly inflected by Holy Land pilgrimage, in which scholarly, mathematical geography is placed in the service of knowledge and understanding of the Holy Land. Indeed, within MS 426, the process of gaining understanding of the world’s geography...

...Adam Smyth This article explores the production of Gospel harmonies at Little Gidding in the 1630s. By drawing on rarely examined archival letters, documents, and drafts contained in the Ferrar Papers at Magdalene College, Cambridge, the article examines the production processes behind the biblical...

... on the event. She is changed for her future and her conception of that future is in turn altered. Moreover, temporality itself appears affected by the process. This is of course by no means an effortless phasing. Teresa’s repeti- tive liturgical modes are embedded in a teleology that “renders...

... Cannon and James Simpson for their immensely helpful comments, and to Michael Cornett for guiding my essay with a steady hand through the editorial process. The fallout from almost eighty years of anti-intentionalism is a sense of paranoia that cuts to the heart of our professional self...

... the desired afterlife and resurrection of the body. One way of hewing more closely to God was to go on pilgrimage, and in some medieval traditions, earthly life was to be understood as a continual pilgrimage and process of striving to become closer to God. 31 Pilgrimage could improve the matter...

... and on Muscovy’s foreign policy at the turn of the six- teenth century. The first was compiled for the wedding in 1495 of Ivan III’s daughter, Elena, with Alexander, the grand duke of Lithuania; the second for the wedding in 1506 of Ivan III’s other daughter, Evdokiia, to Tsarevich Peter, a converted...

... generally. In some instances, it becomes the normative vocabulary to refer to the female genitalia and their physiological processes. In a thirteenth- century Latin verse rendition of the Trotula, for example, the female geni- talia are straightforwardly referred...

... authors like Aetius of Amida (fl. 530), Alexander of Tralles (fl. 570), or Paul of Aegina (fl. 630), each of whom compiled a medi- cal encyclopedia containing both theoretical and practical material, appear at Duke in early modern printed versions not because they were ever taught in the medieval...

..., and environmental causes of ill health, patients commonly attributed everyday disorders to their emotional responses to social stimuli, such as money problems, ruined relationships, or distressing news. The article argues that men and women perceived this physical process in gendered ways, according to patterns...

... negotiation to a complex sociocultural landscape underlying the processes of diplomacy-in-the-making. The field of New Diplomatic History has since burgeoned. This current special issue hews closely to the cross-disciplinary nature of newer diplomatic history, and it responds to critical challenges that have...

... in Whitford's compilation explicitly absorbs the political, using it as fodder for potentially activist and resistant praxes. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Richard Whitford lay devotion family households English church politics Tudor state...

... every shred of her earlier peripatetic character through judicious omission of place and dynastic names, so gaining prized stabilitas or stability in the process.39 The newly stabilized Brigid was being remade for a new age of heroic but enclosed virginity, just as at the same time the early Christians...

... even suited encyclopedias, such as the T-O diagrams that manuscript compilers often inserted alongside descriptions of the earth's divisions in Isidore's Etymologiae (XIV.i–iv). 66 The almost standard appearances of T-O diagrams across literary genres as well as their repeated encyclopedic...