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The Conditions of Mercy: Bunyan, Labor, and the Literal Sense

William Revere
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 403–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-8219614
Published: 01 May 2020
... in part two of The Pilgrim’s Progress , particularly in the figure of Mercie, Bunyan offers up a new valuation of the exemplarist potentials of labor. Part two expands rather than contracts Bunyan’s exploration of the active life of dissent, reimagining questions of embodiment, habituation, imitation...
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The Body Debated: Bodies and Rights in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Germany

Mary Lindemann
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 493–521.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2008-005
Published: 01 September 2008
...Mary Lindemann Scholars of medical history have discovered that the notion of “monstrous births” presented challenging legal issues in the early modern world. Were such offspring–often conjoined twins– “monsters” in the civil sense? Were they, for example, able to make a will, inherit, contract...
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Risky Business: Theological and Canonical Thought on Insurance from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Giovanni Ceccarelli
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 607–658.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-31-3-607
Published: 01 September 2001
..., of the multitude of contracts in which the repayment of a loan is anticipated or deferred. Second, the relationship among God, nature, and mankind begins to be modified by masters in Paris in 1277, after the condemnation of many deterministic theological propositions.2 A new natural philosophy is founded...
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The Black Death, Girl Power, and the Emergence of the European Marriage Pattern in England

Mark Bailey
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11333374
Published: 01 September 2024
... a month of starting their contract in a sample of four towns; see Elaine Clark, “Medieval Labor Law and English Local Courts,” American Journal of Legal History 27, no. 4 (1983): 330–53, at 345 n. 6. 99 See Horrell, Humphries, and Weisdorf, “Forgotten Family.” Humphries, “Plague, Patriarchy...
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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

Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, Jacob Weisdorf
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11333387
Published: 01 September 2024
... employed on annual contracts. Children Women, annual pay Women, day pay Men, annual pay Half century % % % % 1250–1299 2.0 0.9 2.6 9.6 1300–1349 6.5 1.9 4.4 18.8 1350–1399 2.3 1.0 3.7 8.2 1400–1449 2.6 4.8 2.3 3.4 1450–1499 0.9 6.7 1.9 6.2 1500...
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The Substance of Shadows: Imagination and Credit Culture in Volpone

Brian Sheerin
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 369–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2082005
Published: 01 May 2013
...-­giving, promising, contracting, and profiteering point to someone wrestling with boundaries of obligation more than attempting to enforce them. As with the antiusury tract-­writers described above, Jonson locates the real danger of Volpone not so much in any particular economic practice...
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The Last Temptation of Faustus: Contested Rites and Eucharistic Representation in Doctor Faustus

Jay Zysk
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 335–367.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2081996
Published: 01 May 2013
.... And yet in the scenes that follow, from the spell spoken over the conjuror’s circle to the interlude at Rome to the signing of the contract with Lucifer, Marlowe draws on both the affective textuality and efficacious language of the missal, as well as the Eucharistic theology of the Mass...
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Relational Virtue: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Puritan Marriage

Constance Furey
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 201–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-1473154
Published: 01 January 2012
... Puritans did not invent covenantal theology, of course, but they accorded it more importance than most Christians before or since, and dis- putes about how to interpret the covenant were decisive for Puritan piety. According to this theology, those who are saved are bound to their God by a contract...
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The Lies of the Painters: Artisan Trickery and the Labor of Painting in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Sacchetti’s Trecentonovelle

Shayne Aaron Legassie
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 487–519.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2338581
Published: 01 September 2013
.... (169.5) [And so the contract was made, specifying the where, the when, and the how. The said Buonamico, as is customary among paint- ers, wanted to work enclosed by platforms and scaffolding; and for many days he put in order all of the lime and the colors...
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Laudian Feminism and the Household Republic of Little Gidding

Debora Shuger
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 69–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2389497
Published: 01 January 2014
... a contract: not a civil contract, but, since it concerns the foundational principles of the com- munity and is binding on its members, a genuine social contract, although for a supernatural society. A second scene of contracting occurs shortly thereafter. John Col- lett (Susanna’s husband), who...
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The Invisible Spouse: Henry VI, Arthur, and the Fifteenth-Century Subject

Thomas A. Prendergast
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 305–326.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-32-2-305
Published: 01 May 2002
... In the mid–fourteenth century, Lucas de Penna, the Neapolitan jurist, gave explicit voice to this notion: There is contracted a moral and political marriage between the Prince and the respublica. Also, just as there is contracted a spiritual and divine marriage between...
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Taking the Measure of Global Space

Bruce R. Smith
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 25–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-1902531
Published: 01 January 2013
... discov- ered and partially excavated in Shoreditch, but nothing definite is yet known about the size of the stage there: the builder’s contract for the Fortune The- ater (dated Jan. 8, 1600) takes the recently built Globe Theater as a reference point and specifies that the stage will be “contrived...
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Labor and Social Reproduction in an Industrializing English Village, ca. 1680–1780

Steve Hindle
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 637–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11333439
Published: 01 September 2024
... that the Newdigate family was the most significant employer: in the 1680s, there were 27 domestic staff resident at Arbury Hall; a further 7 farm servants retained on annual contracts to maintain the home farm; a large but shifting constituency of approximately 30 male craftsmen and agricultural laborers hired...
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Grieved and Disordered: Gender and Emotion in Early Modern Patient Narratives

Olivia Weisser
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 247–273.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2081969
Published: 01 May 2013
... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.2 / 2013 and fear, on the other hand, contracted the heart, which trapped the blood and spirits inside and deprived the body of heat. This process could cause ill- ness, as well as exacerbate existing or dormant diseases. Alice Thornton, for example, describes...
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Unwritten Virtues, Selves, and Texts: Early Modern Self-Erasure

James Simpson
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 415–443.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9966065
Published: 01 September 2022
..., shocked fascination. As in Herbert's “The Temper (1),” the sinner presents himself as undergoing torture by God: there we find Herbert to cry punningly from the rack to his torturing creditor God: “Stretch or contract me thy poor debtor!,” where the call to “contract” in the legal sense underlines...
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Eucharistic Sacrifice and the Social Imagination in Early Modern Europe

William T. Cavanaugh
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 585–606.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-31-3-585
Published: 01 September 2001
... the metaphor, most famously in Hobbes’s “Leviathan”— 592 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.3 / 2001 but it is constructed on the basis of contract, into which each individual enters to protect person and property from all the others. The social con- tract creates a state that polices...
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The Technology of Reflection: Renaissance Mirrors of Steel and Glass

Rayna Kalas
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 519–542.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-32-3-519
Published: 01 September 2002
...” of any guild, but most glassmakers practiced their trade independent of guild regulation. When governed at all, glass- making was regulated by contract law and legislative governance. This is evi- Kalas / Technology of Reflection 529 dent from legal documents...
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“The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday

Natasha Korda
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 573–597.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2338608
Published: 01 September 2013
... of guildsmen’s wives and daughters, and expanding or contracting to include or exclude female wage ­labor as needed during periods of high or low demand.44 Women’s occupational opportuni- ties also shifted with marital status, as do those of both Margery and Jane. Whereas Margery’s marriage to Eyre...
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The Giant's Faction: Spenser, Heywood, and the Mid-Tudor Crisis

James Holstun
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 335–371.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2007-004
Published: 01 May 2007
... to disestablishment assured that the integration never became complete. Third, an economy based in small production by a peasantry largely free of servile ties became a capitalist economy based in the wage labor of an agrarian proletariat largely free of land, and so compelled to enter into wage contracts...
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Leprosy in the Medieval Imaginary

Susan Zimmerman
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2008-007
Published: 01 September 2008
... their periods, because by doing so he can contract leprosy . . . this stink will corrupt a man’s entire insides.” Further, the fetus itself is likely to fall victim to the venom: “Chil- Zimmerman / Leprosy in the Medieval Imaginary  563 dren who are conceived [during...
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