... into question the capacity of memorials of any kind to carry the burden of remembrance. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 early modern English memorials St. Albans Abbey Church physical monuments poetics of memorialization forms of cultural memory...

... has noted the connection between English state formation and the central- ization of archives in London, corollary processes that allow a monopoliza- tion of narrative and representational power.11 Unlike the other major plan- 314 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern...

... among both the elite and lower classes.7 As Moffat points out, the rise of English among the elite classes represented not a move toward inclusion for Anglophones but an era- 42 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.1 / 2002 sure of their ethnic distinction; their own language became...

... Year, 1400–1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 175–76. 10 Steve Hindle, “Beating the Bounds of the Parish: Order, Memory, and Identity in the English Local Community, c. 1500–1700,” in Defining Community in Early Modern Europe , ed. Michael Halvorson and Karen Spierling (Aldershot...

... and Early Modern Studies / 34.1 / 2004 9 Davies, First English Empire, 8–9. See also, Patrick Wormald, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, vol. 1 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 449–76, for an assessment of the development of law and the English state. 10 Davies...

...; Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45:2, May 2015 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2880935  © 2015 by Duke University Press and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.3 Bacon urges English...

...” and Middle English Romance: The Matter of Just Memory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), 180; Arthur B. Ferguson, Utter Antiq- uity: Perceptions of Prehistory in Renaissance England (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993), 124. A notable exception is Andrew Escobedo’s fineNationalism...

... Given this history of contention over the inscriptions, the monu- ment itself has long been interpreted as a site of struggle over English 396 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.2 / 2001 JMEMS31.2-06 Dolan 4/30/01 9:39 AM Page 397 national memory...

.... As Sargent notes, a number of other Middle English treatises dis- cuss the reform of this trio of faculties, including Walter Hilton’s The Scale of Perfec- tion (87). 56  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.1 / 2016 34 Livre de Seyntz Medicines, 3: “vous prie, Sire, pur...

... conclusions about early modern English performance in light of new research and theory. The article deploys new thinking about performance historiography, arguing that such perspectives unsettle the easy placement of an event in historical chronology, disrupt archival logic, and insist on a degree...

... A. Forging the Kingdom: Power in English Society, 973 – 1189. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. x, 310 pp. $100.00, paper $25.00. Handler-­Spitz, Rivi. Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xiii, 239 pp.; 5 figs...

... and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity Press,  On the popularity of the cult of Saint Zita in late medieval England, see Caroline M. Barron, “The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England,” in Peregrine Horden, ed., Freedom...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33, no, 2 (2003): 261 – 80; David Aers, “New Historicism and the Eucharist,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33, no. 2 (2003): 241 – 59; Ken Jackson and Arthur Marotti, “The Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Studies,” Criticism 46...

... the level of spectacle and formality that had devel- oped in France and Italy (131) and that there is little medieval English evidence 318 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.2 / 2020 that tells us consistently about the moments before the gallows journey, the size and response of the crowd...

... Shows, see Philip Butterworth, Magic on the Early English Stage (Cambridge: Cam- bridge University Press, 2005), 113. 53 Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern England and Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 360...

... Tatti Renaissance Library, vol. 44. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. xxxvi, 298 pp.; 10 illus. $29.95. [Facing-­page Latin text and English translation.] 226  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.1 / 2011 Christine, de Pizan. Debate of the “Romance of the Rose” [Le...

...- sert the Savior of the World] 122 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 34.1 / 2004 Latin, the language of chant and of clerics, the language in which the mysteries of Christianity were conveyed to increasing numbers of peo- ple whose native language was Old English and who...

... and just after Skelton’s lifetime there is little agreement among late medieval and early modern English commentators about the nature of Janus’s identity. I want to suggest here that this is because of the specific ways in which Janus’s identity was commonly construed. Unlike other clas- sical...

... how an investigation of the shoes and other crafted objects staged in the play may shed new light on a neglected economy of female artisanal labor in early modern London and its transformative impact on the material culture of the early modern English stage. Examining a range of evidence, including...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.2 / 2009 audiences of individual romances with their different cultural contexts are left out of consideration, the producers of Middle English romances are too easily blamed for failing to meet literary expectations established by French romances originally...