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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 457–478.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Alice Lamy; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman The medieval Latin West has a long tradition of cosmological writings that stress the difficulty of conceptualizing nature as a single totality. “Nature” is subject to multiple definitions, torn between the sensory and the intelligible. “Nature” involves...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 173–223.
Published: 01 January 2011
... as a moment of a longer history
whose “beginning” can be traced back to the Christian cosmology and its
God creating the world or even to the five attempts to create the world in
Mayan cosmological narrative, I mean instead that something “new” mate-
rialized that eventually made possible — a few...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 553–575.
Published: 01 September 2021
... into propositions. They don't draw participants into a particular belief system, nor express preformed beliefs. Rituals, instead, produce new bonds among participants, perpetuate certain attitudes, and articulate “particular cosmological or ideological constructs” in bodies and material objects in a spatiotemporal...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 117–139.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of Hippocrates and Galen.4
However, the Galenic model of the body with its attendant Aris-
totelian cosmology, which had reigned supreme for centuries, faced serious
challenges to its authority through the course of the early modern period.
Vesalian anatomy, Paracelsian “chymical” medicine...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 505–518.
Published: 01 September 2000
... for this Celestial Pen—exactly as
the enterprise or imprint of Cide’s pen was reserved solely for its creation.20
The Celestial Pen and the Tablet, inseparably wedded to one
another in Islamic cosmology, are, as Laleh Bakhtiar reminds us, similar to
another...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 545–554.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of
the universe. If God is omnipotent, then maybe he initiated evolution. This
good debating point could have been made in the space of an op-ed essay.
Instead, Gregory tries to squeeze the argument into his larger model, which
often works decently for his other topics. For cosmology, however, it fails...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 141–165.
Published: 01 January 2016
... body and
heart, and then I explore contemporary attempts to detail the physiology
of the crucified Christ. Before doing this it will help to give some working
definitions of the spirits of the Christian body, and then to sketch out their
relation to the Bible and to classical cosmology...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 373–405.
Published: 01 May 2014
... / 44.2 / 2014
Vision was among the primary capacities of Atawallpa as a semi
divine leader. His gaze, and the sight of all effective Inca leaders, consti-
tuted a focused, emissive energy. The Inca ruler presided over an empire
of the sun, and the cosmological basis of his worldly authority...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 105–139.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of modern taxonomies for dealing with the messy materialities of medieval texts. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 medieval Holy Land pilgrimage manuscript analysis Jerusalem map geography and cosmology virtual pilgrimage Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51:1, January...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 201–221.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Publishing, 2007. viii, 378 pp.; 27 illus.
$99.95.
North, John. Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xxvi, 876 pp.; 21 color plates,
201 halftone illus. Paper $39.00. [Revised and updated version of The Nor-
ton History of Astronomy...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
... physique et les representations figuratives,” Mélanges de l’École française de Rome: Moyen Âge 108, no. 1 (1996): 95–164; and Obrist, “Wind Diagrams and Medieval Cosmology,” Speculum 72, no. 1 (1997): 33–84. 37 Hiatt, Terra Incognita , 51. 38 Jeffrey F. Hamburger, “ Haec figura...
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 407–427.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Humili-
ation,” the series of meditations and prayers that Donne wrote under the
title Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. At the center of this work, Donne’s
tenth meditation turns from a moving request for a divine remedy for his
illness to a cosmology that introduces his theory of annihilation...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2021
... Christi College, MS 426, O Doherty shows how the running concerns in this manuscript with geog- raphy and cosmology are placed in the service of scholarly understanding and devotion. Beebe s essay considers interpretations of the late medieval practice of imagined, or virtual, pilgrimage by both...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., cosmological history, and social
organization. For some scholars, like Thomas Cummins, Guaman Poma
insists upon the Andean artist’s “intense and solitary intellectual struggle”
creating both pictures and words and whose achievement might well com-
Quilligan...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 147–172.
Published: 01 January 2004
....
If Jerusalem stood at the center of the earth in Bede’s cosmology, as it did
for his contemporaries, Rome figured in his historical imagination as capi-
tal city when he engaged with the here and now of the English church and
people. Jerusalem appears but twice in the Ecclesiastical History, and in each...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 573–594.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Cosmology (Prince-
ton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), 11; and the chapter “Graffiti” in Juliet
Fleming, Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England (Philadelphia: Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), 29 – 72.
28 Kate van Orden, Street Songs and Cheap Print...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 January 2018
...-
dence for the cosmological and theological notion of intelligent design. The
dissection of a human body in the sixteenth century was, first and foremost,
a ceremony and a celebration of the awe-inspiring intelligence and goodness
of God; and the hand, “organ of organs,” represented the most...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of colonial mimesis. As such “the tales of Amazons
and Canibals seem to be good examples of this process of symbolic convergence, since
native cosmologies were not less concerned with issues of the proper status of women,
or the profanity of eating human flesh, than were Europeans ones...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (3): 643–666.
Published: 01 September 2006
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tables. $75.00.
9. Islamic studies
Akkach, Samer. Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architec-
tural Reading of Mystical Ideas. SUNY Series in Islam. Albany: State Univer-
sity of New York Press, 2005. xv, 262 pp.; 8 photographs, 49 figs. $80.00.
Alam, Muzaffar.Th e Languages...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 419–443.
Published: 01 May 2007
...
Modern Europe. Essays and Studies, vol. 7. Toronto: Centre for Reformation
and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 292 pp. Paper $28.00.
436 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.2 / 2007
11. Visual culture
Akkach, Samer. Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Archi-
tectural...
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