... specific statements through their material properties, visual form, and conspicuous display. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8219566 © 2020 by Duke University Press The Severed Head as Public Sculpture in Late Medieval England Sonja Drimmer University...

... of church design. But how was such a new form incorporated into traditional architectural language? This article examines one formal aspect in the design of flying buttresses: the column, an iconographically potent form that communicated the idea of support through its several-millennia-long history of use...

... in the Americas, adapting conventions of representation designed to elicit dis- tinct genre- specific responses. By looking closely at the text and images in several sets of prints and commentary in Benzoni, De Bry, and Vecellio, I hope to show how differently the makers of these books stimulated...

..., which comment critically on the his- torical conditions out of which they emerged. My intention in what follows is to focus more specifically on processes of critical historical understanding at work in several premodern travel texts, and in so doing, to shed new light...

... to Ascanio Condivi, “nothing gave him greater pleasure” than dissecting human bodies.36 His attention to detail is remarkable and his craft obsessive and meticulous. So why did he blatantly magnify hands and head disregarding the rules of proportion? Several answers have been given to this question...

... objects acquire the aura of the sacred. While the Barnwell monument engages with a high church view of the sacraments as signs of remembrance, the manuscript box reveals Montagu turning from the sacramental to the superstitious. This object displays how religious faith and personal belief bleed into each...

... demonstrates both wider patterns of use and the contradictory nature of the evidence. This book was presumably first used as it was intended, but it was subsequently removed from its exalted place at the pulpit. The bible was used by several different owners, most notably the seventeenth-century Moreton family...

... know it by exterior signs, like we know the interior workings of a clock, by its exterior face. 7 If read attentively by the practiced judge and duly recorded by the scribe—who is cast as a partner in this work of observation—such exterior signs displayed on the body's surface or in its...

...Lindsay Diggelmann In 1188, an eye-catching display of royal anger resulted in the destruction of the ancient elm tree at Gisors by Philip II of France. Building on recent reappraisals of anger and other emotions in the medieval context, this essay seeks to understand how contemporary observers may...

... declining health and state of mind to the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars in Rome. “With her usual fits of illness,” the nuns reported in their correspondence, “she has now reached such a severe state that between day and night she is always out of her head for some nineteen hours. If something...

... in illness. In what follows, I examine how men and women in seventeenth-­century England articulated this relationship between the social, emotional, and physical in varying ways, by emphasizing different factors and stimuli. While women like Alice Thornton fell suddenly and severely ill in response...

... in the compositor s work an impression perhaps created by the list that followed it in the compositor s manuscript. On page 192 the first full page of the Ambassador that contains one of the letters from the manuscript list the running head reads Several Letters to the Lord Burleigh. Every other run- ning...

... drapery, scratched-­out pasture, and other smoother textures, in a consis- tently steeply receding space (see fig. 5).7 Whereas Dell’s Crucifixion (fig. 3) is similarly consistent, arranging figures of mostly homogenous size and build in tiers with similar head lev- els, his Resurrection (fig...

... braine-sick head, not to comliness and decorum.”18 The point might be further pressed to suggest that possessing a “touch” of these nations is likened to being physiologically contaminated by them. The full title of Dekker’s aforementioned pamphlet displays the notion that sinful behavior...

...Natasha Korda Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599) is filled with shoes. Every aspect of shoes’ social lives is enacted onstage: they are manufactured before our eyes, bought and sold, given as gifts, displayed as signs of status, and flaunted as objects of fashion. This essay considers...

...: “This new system 524  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.3 / 2015 of print culture . . . opened up unpredictable possibilities for the design and display of textile work by women. The needle could be a pen.”6 Sewing, in these accounts, approaches the rarified world of the lit...

... rich history. The play, therefore, is not “bodied forth” from “airy nothing,” but from the material remnants of the mystery stage it has translated. Notes Like the ass’s head, this essay has undergone several translations. In gratitude to many keen and helpful readers, I...

... a Moralizing Apparel in Early Modern London: Popular Literature, Sermons, and Sartorial Display Roze Hentschell Colorado State University...

..., and his body too [was deformed], more than anybody else in his time. He had a big head, black and acute eyes, long cheeks, a tilted neck, and coarse calves, big feet and mouth; moreover, he was potbellied, hunchbacked, and he stuttered. His name was Aesop. And as he grew up, he surpassed everyone...

..., and 1631 “are yet in Remembrance with many thousands of you.” 60 The bill contains several receipts, the two most prominent of which include dates on which the remedies were tested: the “Artificial Balsamum” displayed at Smithfield on October 20 and 21, 1651; and the burn ointments “tryed” at Smithfield...