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“They Saw Mute Creation Trembling”: Forms of Catastrophe in the Old English Christ III

Evelyn Reynolds
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9478468
Published: 01 January 2022
...Evelyn Reynolds The Old English poem Christ III represents the Crucifixion not by focusing on Christ's suffering but by depicting natural disasters. In its representation of creation's upheavals, Christ III establishes an ecopoetics in which language can sketch but never fully fathom either...
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Rethinking the Twelfth-Century Discovery of Nature

Sara Ritchey
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2008-021
Published: 01 May 2009
... Cathedral in fact did not think of their work as belonging to the category of nature but to something entirely different from nature–to the order of creation. Continuing to seek “nature” in the medieval past risks overlooking or misunderstanding some profoundly suggestive materials about how people once...
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The Restoration of All Things: John Bradford’s Refutation of Aquinas on Animal Resurrection

Alastair Minnis
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 323–342.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2880911
Published: 01 May 2015
..., which held that all animal and plant life will perish after the Last Judgment and not be part of the promised “new heaven and new earth,” Bradford argues that creation in its entirety—not just humanity—will joyously be freed from the suffering it has endured since the Fall. © 2015 by Duke University...
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Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art: The Case of the Main Narthex Portal at Vézelay

Peter Low
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 657–698.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-1720616
Published: 01 September 2012
... in the early twelfth century, and a number of Anglo-Saxon manuscript illuminations, produced in the monastic scriptorium at Winchester in the tenth century. A careful examination of these works of art reveals that the makers of the portal at Vézelay, in a triangular process of creation, drew on the earlier...
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Easy Attention: Ignatius of Loyola and Robert Boyle

David Marno
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 135–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2389524
Published: 01 January 2014
... of “occasional meditation” entails surrendering to attention's “natural vagrancy” rather than resisting it. By allowing experiences that would have formerly counted as distractions to be acts of devotion, Boyle participated in the creation of a new psychological notion of attention. © 2014 by Duke University...
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They Shall No More Be Remembered by Their Name: Cartography, Anatomy, and the Renaissance Eponym

Jonathan Sawday
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 11–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-4280837
Published: 01 January 2018
...Jonathan Sawday This article explores the relationship between anatomy and geography by examining the creation of “toponymical eponyms” to name both geographical and anatomical features in the period ca. 1500 – ca. 1700. The manufacture of an eponymic system to classify and catalogue features...
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From Rabbis and Millenarians to High Church Orthodoxy: Edward Bernard (1638–1697) Reads the 1646 Amsterdam Vocalized Mishnah

Thomas Roebuck
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 149–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-10189057
Published: 01 January 2023
...Thomas Roebuck The vocalized edition of the Mishnah (the ancient compilation of Jewish oral teachings) published in Amsterdam in 1646 has long been an object of fascination to scholars. The story of its creation at the confluence of Jewish publishing and Christian millenarian enthusiasm is well...
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Bodies of Evidence: Judges and Surgeons at the Crime Scene in Early Modern France

Katherine Dauge-Roth
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-10948518
Published: 01 January 2024
... medicine, codifying and publicizing their sensory methods through the creation of a new medical genre: manuals for surgeons reporting for the courts. Blégy's report on his examination of a drowning victim by the river near Bourg d'Essone includes similar attention to bodily signs to draw distinctions: “I...
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Beyond Monstrosity: Natural Hybridity in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives

Caitlin Mahaffy
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11130403
Published: 01 May 2024
... that the hybrids featured in Mandeville's Travels and The Blazing World so readily blend with ordinary animals highlights that they are meant to be understood as natural, since animals are natural by default of creation. The depiction of hybrid creatures in these two texts effectively opens up a new dialogue about...
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Nothing Was Funny in the Late Middle Ages: The “Tale of Ryght Nought” and British Library, MS Egerton 1995

Lisa H. Cooper
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3846311
Published: 01 May 2017
..., and from the doctrine of creation ex nihilo to the threat of Doomsday. But it also attends for the first time to many of the early modern marginalia in the manuscript, marks that reveal how several later readers responded to and ultimately transformed the themes of material and social value that Egerton...
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“Touching the Author's Mind”: Judgment and Intention in Jasper Heywood's Translations of Seneca

Patrick Durdel
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 623–640.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-10689701
Published: 01 September 2023
... is the only remedy against the difficulties of translation (complexity of the Latin original, deficient sources, unreliability of the printed text). Ultimately Heywood's efforts to approximate Seneca's original “sense,” culminating in the creation of a fictional Seneca, endow the translator with an authorial...
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The Supreme Pen (Al-Qalam Al-A`ā) of Cide Hamete Benengeli in Don Quixote

Luce López-Baralt
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 505–518.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-3-505
Published: 01 September 2000
... (prophetic saying attibuted to Muhammad): “The pen has dried con- cerning what shall be: The Pen, identified by the Prophet himself with the Intellect through which creation takes place, has already inscribed everything that will happen from the beginning of creation to its...
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Pygmalion’s Wax: “Fruitful Knowledge” in Bacon and Montaigne

Jenny C. Mann
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 367–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2880935
Published: 01 May 2015
... The myth of Pygmalion gives the sculptor a godlike power of creation, endowing the artist with the power to outdo nature and awaken inanimate things into sensate life. Following Ovid’s oblique identification of Pygma- lion’s art with verbal poesis, early modern writers from Petrarch to Shake- speare...
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Sentiments of Devotion and Experimental Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England

Peter Harrison
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 113–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2389515
Published: 01 January 2014
... Valerius Terminus, in which Bacon refers to the “first state of creation” of human beings. In a number of his writ- ings, Bacon framed his justifications for the pursuit of natural philosophy in terms of the biblical narrative of the Creation and Fall. The goal of natural philosophy, for Bacon...
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Proximate Common Goods in the Context of Pluralism

Jennifer A. Herdt
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 583–602.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3644050
Published: 01 September 2016
...). The argument is that Christianity’s tradi- tional understanding of the nature of God, and the relation of God to cre- ation, is compatible with the findings of modern Western science. On this understanding, God radically transcends creation, which is created ex nihilo. Even to say that both God...
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“Good in Every Thing”: Erasmus and Communal Virtue in As You Like It

Julia Reinhard Lupton
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 567–591.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9966135
Published: 01 September 2022
... not negate the essential goodness of creation, where the Duke, echoing Genesis, finds “good in every thing.” Whereas the first days of creation in the Book of Genesis are merely “good” [tov], the creation of humanity is “very good” [tov me'od] (Gen. 1:31). 31 Building on classical rabbinic commentaries...
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Medicine, Metaphor, and “Crisis” in the Early Modern Social Body

Margaret Healy
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 117–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3343147
Published: 01 January 2016
... has foregrounded, that of a giant body: A Multitude of men are made One Person, when they are by one man, or one Person, Represented. (Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651) 118  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.1 / 2016 Formation of government is the creation...
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Crossing Gazes and the Silence of the “Indians”: Theodor De Bry and Guaman Poma de Ayala

Walter Mignolo
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 173–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2010-016
Published: 01 January 2011
... of knowledge. The key question from a decolonial perspective (confronting and delinking from the coloniality of knoweldge, from knoweldge as regulation) inquires about actors, insti- tutions, circumstances, political projects, and the ethical standing of those who engage in the creation, transformation...
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The Madness of Hugo van der Goes: The Troubled Search for Origins in Early Netherlandish Painting

Shira Brisman
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 321–365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-8929080
Published: 01 May 2021
... in progress.” 6 Creation unfolds as a series of choices. The value of proposing an artist's compositional sequence is that it draws the historian nearer to the processes of decision and revision. Observing change over the course of a career permits a view of how an artist learned from his experience, how...
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Dead Souls and Modern Minds? Mortalism and the Early Modern Imagination, from Marlowe to Milton

Nicholas McDowell
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 559–592.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2010-006
Published: 01 September 2010
... substance derived from God, of which everything is created”; or, to put it more succinctly, a concerted argument for creation ex Deo.4 Matter, for the Milton of the treatise, is consequently not evil or worthless but, as the De Doctrina has it (in Lewalski’s translation), “intrinsically good...
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