..., calling 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...

...Claire Walker The wealth of recent scholarship on early modern English news culture has paid scant attention to women as consumers and producers of news. This article argues that women not only read about the tumultuous events of the Civil War and Interregnum, but that they participated in the...

... ignorant of the true mes- sage of Holy Scripture and so have no place in their worldview for divine judgement and eternal life. Burns and Ball repeatedly emphasize that early modern English mortalists, of whom their prime examples after Tyndale are the eclectic group of the young Thomas Browne...

... history to encompass material practices that persisted across the medieval-early modern divide, we find in English book culture a deeper tradition of “craft” textualities than modern catalogs and bibliographic protocols permit us to see. This essay traces the spread of needlework in books from basic...

... and Early Modern Studies / 45.3 / 2015 26 Epstein, British Embroidery, 40, figs. 42 – 44; Arthur, Embroidery, 25 – 66, plate 8. For examples of sweet bags worked by amateurs, see Morrall and Watt, English Embroi- dery, 189 – 91, figs. 40 – 43. 27 As Lisa Klein has shown, “Your...

...Barbara Fuchs This essay uses the lost Shakespeare play Cardenio and its eighteenth-century redaction, Double Falshood to think through the problem of Spanish sources in early modern English drama. I argue that the search for Shakespeare's hand in the texts has occluded the significance of the...

...Nicky Hallett The representation of time in early modern spiritual self-writing has received little critical attention. This essay seeks to redress that neglect. It focuses on the conception of time in the writings of Carmelite nuns, considering English women’s formulations alongside those of the...

... in Early Modern England David J. Davis Houston Baptist University Houston, Texas John Bale’s The image of both Churches (ca. is the rst complete com- mentary on the Book of Revelation in English, and as a...

... political philosophy of John Fortescue and George Buchanan. Much more than a broadly gendered metaphor for queenly submission, this language of royal imprisonment derives its legitimacy from discourses that touch upon the very ideological foundations of English and Scottish monarchy. © 2014 by Duke...

... the Early Modern Stage Daniel Vitkus Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida But who’s too venturous, generals should know, Instead of gold may meet his overthrow.  — The Travels of the Three English...

... with confessional myths, and it turned some of them on their heads.59 The revolution in understanding of the English Reformation is indicative: now this was seen as an unwelcome, unwanted, and haphazard development that did not spring up from below but rather was imposed from above. Contingent...

... olfaction was a crucial part of theatri- cality throughout the sixteenth century. As the 2002 production of Twelfth Night emphasized, within the context of the all-male late medieval and early modern English stages, the clothes made the woman: gender difference on the Globe’s stage was inter...

..., “English Mediaeval Graffiti and the Local Historian,” The Local Historian 92.2 (1992): 4–19, esp. 6–9. 392 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.2 / 2002 11 Max W. Thomas, “Urban Semiosis in Early Modern London,” Genre 30 (1997): 11–28, 22. For the inscriptions themselves, see E...

... Urban History, ed. Alan Everitt (London: Macmillan, 1973), 91–137. For a review of many of the more recent books cited above, see George Evans Light, “The Toper’s Cupful: Alcohol and Early Modern England since Peter Clark’s The English Alehouse (1983 Social History of Alcohol Review...

... readability of the cockfight, and of sport more broadly. I suggest that the early (and post-) modern narratives of the cockfight that Wilson’s text at once reveals and obscures should challenge our understanding of how sport may be deployed in the English Renaissance, within the realm of early modern...

... capable of assimilation.5 Especially in the early modern period, English culture assimilated Gog and Magog; although originally threatening and hostile, these fluid signifiers ultimately fused to become a symbol both of national identity and of an increasingly powerful bourgeoisie. Biblical and...

... particularly crucial for understanding the ways in which early modern authors conceptualized English obsession with apparel. The preoccupation with dress, as a manifestation of the sin of pride, was a favorite theme trumpeted from the pulpit for at least a generation. Homiletic rhetoric, however, is...

... 496  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.3 / 2015 by an English clergyman named Thomas Harrison; his description of his invention was transmitted to the German polymath Vincent Placcius, who published it in his De arte excerpendi of 1689; Leibniz’s cabinet had been made for its...

... memorializing in which known figures of the past are embedded in a new world of present performance. These processes of presenting newness worked in the context of what has come to be known as the early modern “open stage,” the usefully blank field of the stage before perspective and panel scenery. The...

... Charter, ed. Sarah Rees Jones (York: University of York, 1997), 141 – 63, at 144. 15 Records of Early English Drama: York, ed. Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret Roger- son, vol. 1 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979), 11. 16 A major example of the disruption of artisan life during the...