... the Reformation as a long series of jurisdictional conflicts that begin in the early Middle Ages and continue well into the Dutch Golden Age and beyond, Brandt illustrates how most, if not all, “theological” doctrinal conflicts are at a basic level contests of jurisdiction and imperium . Moreover, Brandt...

... resident in the same proper- ties, taking advantage of the same exemptions from City jurisdiction. St. Martin’s remained jurisdictionally independent from the City for centuries more, until the early nineteenth century when the precinct was leveled to build the new General Post Office.86 From...

...: the ends of sanctuary-­seeking were not fixed.13 The practice raised many jurisdictional questions, for canon law and common law dif- fered; locally, ecclesiastical institutions objected to violent city constables, or secular governments objected to the protection of known criminals.14 Ford...

... alone, turning their conflict into the outraged encounter of aristocratic unity with cloven monstrosity — a key move for any authoritarian theory of order. Spenser’s knights will not take any back- talk: they answer any metaphorical, verbal debate with literal assault and battery. The Faerie...

... of topography (districts, parishes, squares, roads, hills, riv- ers), jurisdiction (civic, religious, royal), or of a city’s multiply classified and stratified human inhabitants.1 As John Fitzherbert’s 1523 Boke of Surueyeng and Improumetes notes, anyone who would attempt to map even the mate- rial...

...) Beckwith / Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion 269 The doctrine of Purgatory, as we have seen, occupied a place at the center of Christendom’s ritualized strategies of familiarity, containment and control. (104)24 For all the elaboration of complexity, thick description, and conflict...

...Polly Ha This special issue seeks to expand the intellectual landscape of English Protestantism over the course of its long Reformation from the early sixteenth through the late seventeenth centuries. England's protracted conflict over its Protestant identity encouraged the diversification of its...

... break that was the Reformation. 7 Her method was to highlight a cluster of conflicts within the parish of Dunster and argue for continuities between the cultural politics of the later Middle Ages and the Reformation instantiated in this community. This issue also included a very different kind...

... different and conflicting such forms might have been, it is important to rec- ognize that they were sponsored by dynamics of reform intrinsic to medieval Christianity. Who declared, “The Christian faith . . . was once a schism”?3 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40:3, Fall...

... to perpetuate conflicts and to impose one’s presence and judgments on others’ courts. For that reason, when the first resident ambassadors appeared, they were not always met with favor. In 1464, for example, Louis XI expressed his disap- pointment with the Milanese demand to keep a permanent envoy at his...

... in this way, we can see two fellow “monks”—one writing pseudonymously as a subapostolic bishop, the other writing openly as an apostolic friar commissioned to intervene in a conflict—both describing and living out similar divine truths in very specialized polemical contexts. Dionysius's most useful...

... would have for England. His extensive network of contacts among both English and Scottish diplomatic personnel enabled him to exert influence over this area of policy. Walsingham’s view of Scotland and his preferred policy drew him into conflict with other members of Elizabeth’s government, who espoused...

... conflicts of the Western Reformations, and even to use them for their own apologetic ends. Choice and usage of religious terminology in Reformation scholarship is invariably problematic, and it is necessary to address this issue at the outset. In discussing “Greek Christianity,” this article draws...

... for their licensure, creating a complicated legal overlap. As medical practitioners, mountebanks in London fell into the jurisdiction of the Royal College of Physicians (hereafter RCP or College), who might either prosecute mountebanks for illegal practice or license them to sell medicines. 9 John Pontaeus...

... to exist during the period that in European history is conventionally designated by that term. Let us say, then, that the enterprise of studying “gender and empire in medieval China” amounts to examining gendered responses to cultural and ethnic conflict in China during the period between...

... . Critical Insights series. Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2021. xxvii, 325 pp. $105.00. [Articles (many on the premodern era) on how literature has emphasized and explored crises of various sorts, including political upheavals, social turmoil, destructive warfare, familial and personal conflicts...

..., discuss the situation of the English colony in Ireland. In the fifteenth century, that colony was defined by The Pale, the Greene / The “Scriene” and the Channel  59 area of about twenty miles around Dublin under the jurisdiction of the king of England, named...

.... This is not to suggest that violence is an inherent prerequisite to the utopian dream, but A View — and colonial utopias more generally — stand as a reminder that utopias are not the sole jurisdiction of a leftist imagination. 468  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.2 / 2012 A view...

... as a methodology. Pardon letters narrate histories of violence and misbehavior: bar- room brawls, public dustups, economic fraud, verbal spats, and more. The conflicts that they recount, ranging from comical disputes to sexual violence and murder, feature the full spectrum of society: aggrieved...

... was the range of its appeal? Were English uses of oriental scholarship merely instrumental or did they change over time and begin to include broader approaches? The 1570s were marked by the escalation of confessional conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the French religious civil wars, the Dutch...