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... textual modes of translation connect with translation’s role in subject formation in medieval texts, focusing on two narratives about female cross-dressing, the Vie de Sainte Euphrosine and the Roman de Silence . Gender emerges in these texts through multiple intersecting modes of translation which...

... Poma teaches us, the essay delinks from interpretations grounded in the sources upon which De Bry composed his engravings and narratives. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 a Crossing Gazes and the Silence...

.... It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. a Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean John...

...David Aers; Russ Leo Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation: How A Religious Revolution Secularized Society (2012) is a book whose aspirations dovetail with the aims of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies . The journal fosters scholarship that crosses current disciplines...

... seventeenth century. Their life stories, set against the backdrop of an early modern “global city,” shed light on the cross-cultural interactions that were critical to early modern globalization, as they contributed to the cultivation of global trade and participated in the far-reaching projects of Spanish...

...Michael Cornett “New Books across the Disciplines” is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a cross-disciplinary survey of recent publications. Its scope ranges from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Coverage is comprehensive for the large majority of North American and British...

... negotiation to a complex sociocultural landscape underlying the processes of diplomacy-in-the-making. The field of New Diplomatic History has since burgeoned. This current special issue hews closely to the cross-disciplinary nature of newer diplomatic history, and it responds to critical challenges that have...

...Danila Sokolov This essay undertakes a cross-cultural interpretation of Giles Fletcher the Elder’s diplomatic mission to Muscovy (1588–89). It brings Fletcher’s official report on his embassy to the court of Emperor Fyodor in conversation with its Russian counterpart, in addition to placing...

...Siobhain Bly Calkin This article analyzes an English miracle narrative in which a portion of the Holy Cross is implanted within a knight's body in the Holy Land and is translated to Cornwall. The text raises important questions about what implantation means for the relic and human matters so...

... 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...

...Michael Cornett “New Books across the Disciplines” is a bibliographic resource that facilitates a cross-disciplinary survey of recent publications. Its scope ranges from late antiquity to the seventeenth century. Coverage is comprehensive for the large majority of North American and British...

... and Thomas Nashe. Special attention is given to the sermons preached at Paul's Cross to show how the complex social space surrounding the pulpit was crucial in enabling preachers to express the critique against excesses in apparel. Duke University Press 2009...

... to the courts of Muslim and Greek Orthodox rulers. The cosmopolitan potential of chivalry finds its limit in Tafur’s writing about Constantinople. Marked by circumspection about the kinds of cross-cultural and interfaith exchanges that characterized Mediterranean courts, the Andanças ’ treatment of Greek...

...Julia Reinhard Lupton This essay uses the concept of affordances, borrowed from design theory and environmental psychology, in order to map the use of space in act 1, scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet . Hospitality provides a socio-symbolic script for objects and persons in action that crosses theatrical...

... a fragment of the True Cross in the fire to test whether it could withstand the flames. The intellectual premise for her experiment with the holy relic can be found in her own écrit or conversion narrative. Analysis of this narrative demonstrates that Anne's application of philosophical skepticism...

... and divine body on the cross. Through an ecocritical study of the chapel’s healing fountain and its double-sided jubé, this essay examines the persistence of the natural within the sacred. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 a Water and Wood...

... Things are not only what they are; they constantly pass beyond themselves, and give more than they have.  — Jacques Maritain At the center of the Christian world, at least according to most medieval mappa mundi, is the cross. In these images, X marks the spot, the axis that orients the world...

... and the idea of Northumbrian identity in the eighth century, is intended as a contribution to that project. Modern scholarship of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture can be said to have begun in 1927 with the publication of W. G. Collingwood’s Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age. Collingwood’s aim...

... Radegund “is comparable to Helena in both merit and faith.”6 And Baudonivia’s sixth-century Vita Radegundi likens Radegund’s efforts to secure relics of the True Cross to Helena’s, claiming that “what Helena did in oriental lands, Radegund the blessed did in Gaul.”7 The practice of using Helena...