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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Matthew Milner Recent work in historical philosophy on the Aristotelian concept of qualities — that is, hot, cold, wet, and dry, the fundamental causal agents of the natural world — offers a moment to reconsider the connections between medicine, religion, and natural philosophy in late medieval...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., and the physical and mental constitutional nature of people and nations up to the early twentieth century. Central to this conception of the body and its environment is the perception of causal connections between a place, including its climate, season, water, and food, and the people born into it. This essay...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Stephen Gaukroger One of most surprising aspects of the shift from scholastic natural philosophy to the new mechanist natural philosophies in the early decades of the seventeenth century is the retention of a doctrinal conception of knowledge. There was an assumption not only among scholastics...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
... with the natural rather than the unnatural, with wonder rather than with fear. This notion not only complicates the human/nonhuman binary but also encourages us to consider how premodern thinkers understood the unnatural and, indeed, if they truly believed in such a concept at all. 1 See Dana Oswald...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... for the expression of natural diversity, complemented by new visualizations in the illustrated manuscripts. The concept of propriétés articulates the principles of diversity from elemental commonalities, through groups and subgroups such as birds and birds of prey, down to individual species. The Livre encourages...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 135–161.
Published: 01 January 2014
...David Marno This essay traces shifts in meditative practice from Saint Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises to the experimental philosopher Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections , showing how Boyle's text participates in the evolution of the concept of “attention” as it changes from a spiritual...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 373–400.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in a literary text, and language as a system and its relation to performative speech acts. Considering the prevalence of oaths in Shakespeare's texts, the first part argues that the perfomative requirements of this speech act demand a minimal conception of literary character as an entity that can perform...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 553–575.
Published: 01 September 2021
... with his vision of the intrinsically harmonious natural world. While this might be seen to confirm Jacob's view that early eighteenth-century philosophically infused rituals expressed underlying conceptions of nature, it just as readily supports the idea that Toland saw the propositional and ritual forms...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
...-pampered Luxury
Now heaps upon some few with vast excess,
Nature’s full blessings would be well-dispensed
In unsuperfluous even proportion. (767 – 72)1
Such praise of virtue forms a persistent motif in Milton’s later prose, and
critics have argued that the Lady’s spirited...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
Published: 01 May 2009
... such as William of Conches,
Bernard Silvestris, and Alan of Lille, Chenu claimed, that Western human-
ity first experienced “a sudden perception of man’s physical environment”
which aroused an interest in “earthly reality.”1 Once the “concept of nature
had been put into circulation” it permeated all fields...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 271–303.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Richard Strier Duke University Press 2007 a
Martin Luther and the Real
Presence in Nature
Richard Strier
University of Chicago...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 457–478.
Published: 01 September 2019
... inevitably conjures up the supernatural and therefore also its own supersession. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 medieval natural philosophy cosmology concept of nature physical matter principle of contradiction ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., even secular, than religious or theological. All contributions combine the detailed study of specific texts and problems with wider historical, theoretical, or philosophical inquiry. premodern concepts of the natural world ecological criticism human and nonhuman relations philosophy medicine...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2022
... Bosanquet (London: Penguin, 1993), 25–26: “The philosophic conception of the beautiful, to indicate its true nature at least by anticipation, must contain, reconciled within it, the two extremes which have been mentioned, by combining metaphysical universality with the determinateness of real particularity...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 January 2000
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tuted by “the ancients”:
Because special functions of a peculiar nature are assigned to the
bodies of women which lack any counterpart in men—that is,
menstruation, conception, birth, and the diseases arising from
these states (which often...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 603–628.
Published: 01 September 2016
... progressive conception of historical time? Indeed, the genre of
declensionist narrative is a quintessentially modern one that has been vari-
ously inflected as an expression of metaphysical pessimism (E. Burke, Scho-
penhauer), bourgeois self-loathing (Flaubert, T. Mann), pervasive cultural...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 131–155.
Published: 01 January 2012
... that pagans
have a mistaken conception of their ultimate end as a whole, but he argues
that they may not be mistaken about all the proximate ends that compose
the ultimate end. If they are right about the relevant proximate end, they
have the natural moral virtues (ST 2-2, qu. 23, art. 7).17...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., if ultimately centrally directed, enterprise exemplified in the
persona of the experimental natural philosopher.”9 Yet it is now clear that
the persona of the experimental philosopher retained significant elements
of the traditional conception of the philosopher. In his book on “the good
life...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 January 2001
...Robert Bartlett © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-02 Bartlett 2/26/01 6:56 PM Page 39
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Medieval and Modern Concepts of
Race and Ethnicity...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 January 2012
... sufficiency and to echoing Aristotle on magnanimity. Milton’s thinking on the virtues and their acquisition is eclectic. This essay traces the effect on Milton’s thinking of the gravitational pull of the literary in two senses: Milton’s conception of himself as inspired author and his attraction...
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