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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 285–314.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Amy Appleford © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a
The Dance of Death in London:
John Carpenter, John Lydgate, and
the Daunce of Poulys
Amy...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 January 2025
... argues that didactic textual representations of dancing reveal elements of lived religion. The imagined dancing in preachers’ exempla served as a warning against illicit behavior, while for the audience it could evoke corporeal praying and an alternative way of celebrating liturgical feasts. Both...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2015
... issue do not revolt against the prospect of death, do not neglect what in the early modern period was called “the art of living and dying,” but perform their own version of the “dance of death” as they reconstruct in multifaceted layers the social and at times the political reality of dying present...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... So, too, are the embodied experiences of audience members. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, holidays were often observed with dancing, music, athletic combat, unscripted roleplaying, and crossdressing. In the professional playhouses, these same communal rituals functioned as commodified...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 January 2013
....
Hospitality bears on questions of space and its theatricalization
insofar as entertaining involves making room for guests, both physically
(where will they sit, slouch, sleep, eat, dance, or check their e-mail?) and exis-
tentially (the guest might be a ghost, or a kidnapper, or allergic to peanuts...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 497–507.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., and religious life. Bodies might be expected, at nearly any social level, to know the rudiments of dancing, at least of the kind of dancing that might be expected, or afforded, at certain kinds of celebration, at festivities, fairs, and the like. Bodies are sexed and gendered: the meanings and practices...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 261–300.
Published: 01 May 2018
... concerning episodes
in which Christ, Mary, the angels, and the saints enacted the festive version
of heaven that many late medieval Christians imagined — eating, drink-
ing, playing games, dancing — with the novel addition of elaborate alle-
gorical pageants ( guras) intended to present and reinforce...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 567–591.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the marriage ceremony as a legal and spiritual performance that marshals powerful fictions in response to real risk. As the others accept the hands of their partners in gestures formalized by rhyming couplets, they join a dance choreographed by Hymen: Peace, ho, I bar confusion, ’Tis I who must make...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2025
... in exempla put on certain topics like dancing—reveal the needs of a particular context, as argued by Räsänen and Katajala-Peltomaa, respectively. The element that unites the contributions to this special issue is the focus on sharing an experience in situational lived religion. The question...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 137–171.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.1 / 2011
I will close this comparison of Benzoni and the De Bry artists with a
contrast between cultural order and savage violence in their prints of Indians
dancing (see figs. 9 and 10). In his section on Nicaragua, Benzoni explains
the stages...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 173–195.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of May games and
morris dancing.
Both the prison and, by implication, the physical structure of the
Blackfriars playhouse, onto which the architecture of the jail is imaginatively
projected, figure here almost as vast machines for viewing, framing for a vul-
gar audience the spectacle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the peacock as a golden statue. In the miniature above the musicians on fol. 180v, knights and ladies select an eagle as prize for the most perfect fulfillment of a vow sworn during the earlier peacock banquet, and two miniatures on the next verso at 181v illustrate a celebratory carole (dance). 32 Echoing...
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 469–471.
Published: 01 May 2013
... version of the “dance of
death” as they reconstruct in multifaceted layers the social reality of dying
evident in medieval and early modern European materials.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: November 1, 2013
Call for Submissions 471
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 January 2013
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and dying,” but welcome essays that do their own version of the “dance of
death” as they reconstruct in multifaceted layers the social reality of dying
evident in medieval and early modern European materials.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: November 1, 2013...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 675–677.
Published: 01 September 2013
... essays that do their own version of the “dance of
death” as they reconstruct in multifaceted layers the social reality of dying
evident in medieval and early modern European materials.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: November 1, 2013
Open-Topic Issue
Volume 45 / Number 2...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., qualities that manifest both at the level of the line (meter, alliteration, and rhythmic structure) and in larger units (lists and catalogues, ekphrastic descriptions of ruin or scenes of suffering). On the other, catastrophe welcomes the precarious dance of paradox and contradiction, especially in relation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 413–442.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., the renowned Cambridge physiologist Michael Foster por-
trayed digestion in rather different terms. By his time the keyword had
become metabolism, and for Foster metabolism was less a matter of agonistic
struggle than of rhythmic dance.54 Suppose that we had a magical device, he
says, that allowed us...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 611–632.
Published: 01 September 2008
...
Studies, 2007. ix, 123 pp.; illus. throughout. Paper $38.00.
Anon. Ancrene Wisse: A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus
Christi College, MS 402, with Variants from Other Manuscripts, vol. 2. Edited
by Bella Millett, with E. J. Dobson and Richard Dance. Early English Text
Society, o.s...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 367–382.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., 377 pp. Paper $24.95. Lydgate, John. John Lydgate's “Dance of Death” and Related Works . Edited by Megan L. Cook and Elzaveta Strakhov. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS in association with the University of Rochester, 2019. vii, 195 pp...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (1): 35–55.
Published: 01 January 2008
... leverage so that the courtier, in all his
wisdom, can influence world events. If the courtier must learn to dance well
to win the grace of the prince, so be it; if he needs to be an instructor to
teach the prince how to follow virtue, so be it. All these “ends” serve a larger
end, the “final cause...
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