... history to encompass material practices that persisted across the medieval-early modern divide, we find in English book culture a deeper tradition of “craft” textualities than modern catalogs and bibliographic protocols permit us to see. This essay traces the spread of needlework in books from basic...

... of “craft,” “art,” and “knowledge,” which began to create cultural divisions between artisan and artist, artisan and scientist. The essays in this volume explore artisan culture from a variety of perspectives, analyzing the representation of premodern artisans as distinctive cultural producers...

... how an investigation of the shoes and other crafted objects staged in the play may shed new light on a neglected economy of female artisanal labor in early modern London and its transformative impact on the material culture of the early modern English stage. Examining a range of evidence, including...

... altered by the dissolution: prayer, otium , and withdrawal. As Tudor society sought to reshape or relocate these elements, writers including Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare explored and appropriated them, crafting within their literary texts a place for the monastic impulse. Writers of the period...

...Christine A. Jones An artisanal practice with no domestic precedent in the seventeenth century, hot beverages had a dubious charm for Europeans. Unlike mirror-making and ceramics, the craft of the “coffee-man” resulted in something new that was edible and that proved physiologically surprising...

...James Paz Is it possible to reach a deeper understanding of early medieval science through poetry of the period? This article examines how Anglo-Saxon scientia was performed in a practical way, as a kind of craft, in the Old English metrical charms and poetic dialogues of Solomon and Saturn...

.... These articles reflect the openness and self-reflexivity that often characterize microhistorians and their craft. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. microhistory historiography...

...Thomas Robisheaux In November 2015, a group of practicing microhistorians was brought to the Duke University campus to engage in a public roundtable discussion on their craft of historical writing. The participants—Peter Arnade, Thomas V. Cohen, Paul Edward Dutton, Jonathan Gebhardt, Sara...

... of factually suspect medieval writers like Geoffrey of Monmouth, combining credible documents, vague claims, and outright fabrications to craft justifications for empire expansion that eclipsed what any of Dee’s contemporaries had argued. And while Dee’s fictions have perpetuated his reputation as a “conjurer...

... practice. Masons understood ritual, the core of Masonic “craft,” as a philosophical activity in itself. Supporting this claim requires a critique of the prevalent view that Freemasonry was uniquely compatible with specific Enlightenment philosophical constructs—constitutional monarchism in political...

... implications that we still recognize today. A widening of the number and variety of crafts and industries, a proliferation and multiplication of skills and artisanal productivity that crossed regions, the ingenuity of pioneering ideas, and an unprecedented movement of goods, all had far-reaching influences...

...Paroma Chatterjee This study offers a close reading of the processes involved in crafting a Byzantine holy portrait by focusing on certain episodes in the Life of Nikon and the Life of Irene of Chrysobalanton , hagiographies dated to the eleventh century. The article argues that the anxieties...

... through the poem, the essay draws out examples of medieval agents participating in the craft of forgiveness with varying degrees of inadequacy when compared with Jesus Christ, the embodiment of forgiveness. It focuses on two versions of community in the poem: the political model of forgiveness in the Mede...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43:3, Fall 2013 DOI 10.1215/10829636-­2338581  © 2013 by Duke University Press locates the essence of his craft in the mental activity of design is the product of the moment in which Vasari wrote. In 1563, Vasari became the first head of Florence’s...

..., and these offices were virtually shut off to the artisan class.30 Heather Swanson explains that the “power of this mercantile elite could not be challenged by craft groups. On rare occasions a spectacularly successful individual artisan left his own craft to join the merchants and it was as a merchant he...

..., that is to say, “men and women who worked with their hands in craft production . . . or carried out complex practical tasks such as farming or navigation.”18 Awareness of the important scientific knowledge derived from their activities in workshops, laboratories, and the outdoors has led to a major...

... was both a reflection of divine ideation and a practical instrument through which that ideal might be emulated. This kind of contemplation was considered to be an active craft. In medieval discourses on devotion, the mirror is evoked as a figure for pious contemplation and private study. In her...

... ships, fulfill their desire to “wage the holy war by sea,” and send warriors “to fight the unbelievers across the sea” (Muqaddimah, 209). The man sometimes called “the father of sociology” thus describes seapower in terms of crafting identities, controlling shores, and intimidat- ing one’s...

... of the old religion, it is said to be “founde at Rome in the Riuer of Tiber” after the flood of receded. In contrast to the spirituality of the Reform- ers, the Popish Ass is a Catholic relic, a monstrous example of Rome’s super- ficiality, its “shewe and appearaunce of truth,” not to mention its “craft...

... of Catholic buildings — is recast at the intimate scale of pictorial representation. The pages of Des fortifications et artifices display meticulously crafted, object-­like depictions of Protestant temples, châteaux, and farmhouses, meant to be the pictorial corollaries...