...Marie-Louise Coolahan The cultural dynamics of reception are best understood as a reiterative process of reshaping and reframing. Reception as an object of critical study embraces first the history of how texts were read, disseminated, and consumed across media, languages, and geographical regions...

... in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). 88 Woolf, Common Reader, 40. 89 Woolf, 40. Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia cultural reception book publishing eighteenth-century reading habits Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 ...

... a disregard and even a distaste for the form of the story as it is related in Middle English. Such comments reveal how the modern reception history of medieval English romance is biased by French romance’s appeal to those literary and cultural qualities that modern readers tend to value — aesthetic...

...Philip Schwyzer The century after the Reformation witnessed a profusion of artworks commemorating lost or failed monuments. In different ways, these memorials to memorials sought to register, if not necessarily to repair, a rupture in cultural memory. Early modern memorials to memorials could take...

... into closer conversation. This rapprochement is particularly intriguing for the study of textual reception, since it opens up for analysis the points of connection between an individual text and the full network of cultural connections that constitute its circulation, readership, and reception: authors...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Pilgrimage and Textual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Production, Exchange, Reception, focuses on the production, exchange, and reception of such pilgrimage texts. The production of pilgrimage texts is the focus of essays by Chris- tine Gadrat...

... and early modern periods, high and low cultures, and a diversity of literary genres. I will make no attempt to impose a false uniformity on the rich array of contributions that compose this special issue. However, certain common themes do emerge, setting the stage for future inquiry. I want...

.... They illustrate how English Protestant scholarship reinforced stereotypes, while also prompting self-reflection and inspiring the reconstruction of England's own traditions and cultural assumptions. Expanding English ecclesiastical, theological, exegetical, philological, and cultural interests, the volume calls...

... understanding of early modern women, writing, and textual reception, and overlooks the ways in which print, scribal, and oral cultures intersected in sixteenth- century England. The significance of prosopopoeia as a rhetorical figure extended far beyond the humanist schoolroom and the male writers trained...

..., Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001); Richard K. Emmerson, “Contextualizing Perfor- mance: The Reception of the Chester Antichrist,” Journal of Medieval and Early Mod- ern Studies 29...

... of Norwich (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), 379. On the political implications of Julian of Norwich's intersubjectivity, see Nancy Bradley Warren, The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350–1700 (Notre Dame, Ind...

... and paratext, contributors to this volume are invited to rethink the cultural role of the Bible using a wide range of material evidence. Many questions remain about the history of biblical reception: How were the so-called Wycliffite bibles really used? What do readers’ marks tell us about reception...

... Press Life Writing for the Counter- Reformation: The English Translation and Reception of Teresa de Ávila s Autobiography Danielle Clarke University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland On December 19, 2017 in Paris, the art world was stunned by a record- breaking sale of a self- portrait by a seventeenth...

... from larger cultural and political changes, limiting the historical nature of the argument to an analysis of previous scriptural, patristic, and medieval theological writings on eucharistic sacrifice. Other approaches concentrate on the economic implications of cutting off the system of mass...

...Brett Mottram Studies on the Renaissance reception of Virgil as an epic, georgic, and bucolic poet typically overshadow Virgil’s reception as an author of light, ludic verse. In 1428, Maffeo Vegio (1407–1458) wrote his Supplementum to Virgil’s Aeneid , an earnest attempt to complete the revered...

... its scholarly and “popular” reception, with attention to the musical settings by Carl Orff. Preliminary to a three-volume edition of the Carmina Burana being prepared for Oxford University Press, the study seeks to distinguish the main issues for future research and to stimulate interdisciplinary...

.... x, 568 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Elior, Ofer, Gad Freudenthal, and David Wirmer, eds. Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson's Philosophical, Halakhic, and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries . Studies in Jewish History and Culture, vol. 62. Officina...

... the built environment of the 1599 Globe Theater, we discover not one measure of space but ten: (1) geographical, (2) temporal, (3) fictional, (4) characterological, (5) social, (6) political, (7) interpersonal, (8) performative, (9) receptive, and (10) phenomenal. The confluence of the ten measures of space...

... dense repository of cultural memory.”4 In a similar vein, Paul Strohm and Jean Howard suggest that literary texts, particularly performed ones, establish “a social imaginary” that sees a culture both preserving and selectively recuper- ating its past. While a taxonomy of period divisions provides...

... shows how apparently diabolical signs can indicate God's divine presence. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Julian of Norwich discernment of medieval women's visionary experience sanctity and heresy trials Revelation of Love divine revelation and bodily reception...