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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 443–456.
Published: 01 September 2015
... draws attention to the range of media in which early modern texts were “written.” © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Renaissance books composition and techniques cutting...
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From Rhetorical Theory to Spiritual Pedagogy in The Cloud of Unknowing
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 261–285.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Privy Counselling and A Pistle of Discrecioun of Stirings , describe and teach an extreme form of apophatic spiritual encounter. The contemplative theory and techniques taught by this author resist forms, structures, institutions, and even language, and his writings are premised on the belief...
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The Lies of the Painters: Artisan Trickery and the Labor of Painting in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Sacchetti’s Trecentonovelle
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 487–519.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of talking about a painter’s unique “style.”
The revelations offered by recent technical studies of fourteenth-century
painting have invited art historians to rethink the conceptual partitioning of
design/composition/style on the one hand and craft/manufacture/technique
on the other. This division...
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Tears in the Desert: Baroque Adaptations of the Book of Lamentations by John Donne and Francisco de Quevedo
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 31–42.
Published: 01 January 2009
... crisis, nor on affirmations of religious orthodoxy. Instead, it concentrates on a shared spiritual formation involving Jesuit meditational techniques. Jesuit meditational practice relied on sensorial imagery, and this type of acute sensorial experience is found in both Donne's and Quevedo's reworkings...
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The Madness of Hugo van der Goes: The Troubled Search for Origins in Early Netherlandish Painting
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 321–365.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in progress.” 6 Creation unfolds as a series of choices. The value of proposing an artist's compositional sequence is that it draws the historian nearer to the processes of decision and revision. Observing change over the course of a career permits a view of how an artist learned from his experience, how...
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Caught Looking: Under the Gaze of Inca Atawallpa, 15 November 1532
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 373–405.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in the early modern Andes. Recent
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scholarship has pointed out the ways native Andean visual codes were
inscribed into ostensibly European structures of pictorial composition and
fields of legibility, and conversely, how European...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2020
... composition. Texts, personalities, historical figures, and events are recast for different and new audiences. If reception is the evidence of having reached an audience, even an audience of one, then dissemination is paramount. Receivers are also often agents of transmission. We are familiar, from Robert...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2022
... and convention in the exclusive spaces of the monastery and the aristocratic hall. Both the potential and the limitations of Fortunes of Men , and of wisdom poetry more generally, rest on the material conditions of its composition, and we must therefore find a way to account for both the poetic and social forms...
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Forgotten Family: The Influence of Women and Children on the Nexus of Wage Earning and Demographic Change in England, 1260–1860
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
... pressure on agricultural resources that then depressed men’s wages. We used econometric techniques to separate these two possibilities and determined that population growth acted to depress men’s pay, while fertility itself was unresponsive to men’s remuneration. The lack of evidence for a mechanism...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2022
... discussion includes a detailed account of the foundational theories of Eduard Sievers and Andreas Heusler (the former of which forms the basis for Bliss's metrical theory). 23 Lewis E. Nicholson, “Oral Techniques in the Composition of Expanded Anglo-Saxon Verses,” PMLA 78, no. 4 (1963): 287–92...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... Scott has
described “hidden transcripts” and techniques such as disguise or conceal-
ment by which the ostensibly powerless resist domination. Usually the sub-
ordinates appear to assent to the public script by which the dominant group
performs its power; and there may be sites and occasions (often...
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Marginal Geography: Pedagogical Design in Medieval Commentaries on Classical Poems
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
... hand, developed and organized interpretive techniques for reading classical poems while also prompting new compositions. Similar to the compositional training for which these diagrams were composed, geographical diagrams relied on analytical comparison, culling information from poetic texts to connect...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 161–180.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., we first sought to elicit what we might term a verbal thematics of eigh- teenth- and nineteenth- century review culture, working with a technique called topic modeling. 9 Then, using the results of that analysis to guide our attention to an especially salient vocabulary cluster, we went back...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 May 2024
... as if to complement the turmoil of the distraught lover. 5 However, such blank spaces between poems form a part of Petrarch's mimetic technique, as John Freccero argues, and they do not speak to the author's control over the text itself. Unfinished, interrupted, and abandoned texts that exceed and challenge...
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Competing Humanisms: Debating Cultural Identity in Leonardo Bruni’s Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Weltanschauung to a different one, I would like to suggest that the Dialogi also, perhaps especially, documents the choice between two concurrent Weltanschauungen, that is, between two cultural alternatives that were still to be debated at the time of the composition of the Dialogi. These alternatives...
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Northumbrian Identity in the Eighth Century: The Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments; Style, Classification, Class, and the Form of Ideology
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 95–146.
Published: 01 January 2004
..., about how it might have been understood by those who
made it and those who used it, about what might have affected it and what
its effects might have been, if they are in mind, must give way to judgments
about form and technique, precedence and posteriority. Of course, the art
historian whose...
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The Audacity of Judging Mind in Medieval England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 493–518.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of a defendant's heart and mind which, like the hand of a proband in the era of trial by ordeal, might be declared fair or foul. This essay explores how techniques for unearthing intentionality through circumstantial inquiry—techniques developed in the context of classical rhetoric and adapted for priests hearing...
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Trusting Women's Visions: The Discernment of Spirits in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the illusory nature of signs, as opposed to reparative reading practices or the “hermeneutics of trust,” which calls for restoring their meaning. In a climate when discretio spirituum came to prominence, Julian responded to the suspicious techniques developed to interpret women's visions and bodies...
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How to Read Heresiology
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 471–492.
Published: 01 September 2003
... exploration of
the rhetorical techniques and the discourses adopted by early Christian writ-
ers. IfI concentrate on a period somewhat later than the one Clark has
made her own, it is with a lively consciousness both that the period covered
by what we often call “the early Church” needs...
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Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty: Race, Genealogy, and Acculturation in al-Andalus
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 January 2004
... importance thanks to its fertile landscape,
skilled agricultural techniques, and profitable role as the intermediary between
the gold merchants of sub-Saharan Africa and European buyers of gold, but
it was not really an empire in the Umayyad period. At its zenith, the Umay-
yad’s territory consisted...
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