... revelations were a ected by the changing eld of early modern vision. Although divine revelations, particularly biblical revelations, were not considered to be the same sort of phenomena as the appearance of ghosts or specters, revelations were delineated, and delimited, by the language of sight...

... couplets, and counters Milton s presumed disre- gard for scripture with obsessive marginal annotations of relevant biblical 378 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.2 / 2020 verses (on some pages, almost a 1:2 ratio of marginalia to poetry). Joseph Wittreich has suggested that Sir Allen...

... Modern England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsyl- vania Press, 2013), 84. 9 Helen Wilcox notes the “radical process” of a woman appearing in print in early modern England in 1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England Fleck / Biblical...

... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47:3, September 2017 DOI 10.1215/10829636-4200032  © 2017 by Duke University Press commentary, maintaining that “all serious poetry written by [medieval] Christian authors, even that usually called ‘secular,’ is always allegorical when...

...Thomas Fulton Bibles were among the most circulated books in medieval and early modern England, the most studied and most read, and as such they provide a profoundly valuable archive for the history of reading. Because the biblical text underwent intense and often contentious hermeneutic scrutiny...

.... The poem’s interest in this mix of freedom and compulsion is all 206  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.1 / 2012 the stronger if the capitalization of Lot (“thy Lot to lose thy friend”) brings to mind the biblical character who figures the problem of longing for those left behind...

... be. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:1, Winter 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-012  © 2009 by Duke University Press The search for relevant contexts depends at least in part upon the dating of the poems. In Quevedo’s case, the date is not in dispute, since the author...

... catalogue would invite no such comparison.14 Among books advertised for sale, then, The Temple s blend of theol- 118 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.1 / 2020 ogy and literature appears less marketable than its separate components of religion or poetry. The book s mixed character may...

... influence on literary history. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 early modern English lyric poetry clerical profession priest poets church structure prosopography Except in rare cases, writing poetry has never been a particularly remunerative pursuit. Most...

... not concerned to demonstrate that what we call “nature” was called “creation” by medieval thinkers. Nor do I wish to examine the social construction of Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:2, Spring 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-021  © 2009 by Duke University Press...

..., penitential ethics, and biblical hermeneutics. The contributions also explicate the way a premodern or early modern discourse deploys and sometimes defines intentionalism. One article (Minnis) moves arguments about the hermeneutics of intentionalism toward the adjacent discourse of American Constitutional...

... and Nicolette Zeeman, “Versions of the Natural,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 49, no. 3 (2019): 445–56, at 448. For more on the Old English formal and thematic tendency to think dialectically, see Renée R. Trilling, “Ordering Chaos in Old English Wisdom Poetry,” Journal of Medieval and Early...

... British Poetry . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xvii, 656 pp., 3 figs. Hardcover, ebook. Bidwell-Steiner, Marlen, and Michael Scham, eds. Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature . Foro Hispánico, vol. 66. Leiden: Brill, 2022. vi, 206 pp. Hardcover, OA ebook. Bloom, Rori. Making...

... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46:1, January 2016 DOI 10.1215/10829636-3343099  © 2016 by Duke University Press lays the groundwork for investigating more fully the poetics of the prepuce in the Middle Ages. Already James Shapiro has treated the impact of Saint Paul’s...

.... The Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World . London: Routledge, 2019. xv, 330 pp., 16 color plates. $196.00. Cox, Virginia, and Shannon McHugh, eds. Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact . Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, vol. 16...

... as a conceptual tool with which to sort the medieval from the early modern continues to exert a powerful critical force.6 For successive generations of literary scholars, Skelton’s poetry has served as the location of an eruption of just such a novel, distinctive, and self-reflexive identity...

... Conception of the Calling For the Refor- mation replacing individualism with collectivity, see Ramie Targoff,Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 14 – 35. 5 Malcolm Mackenzie Ross, Poetry and Dogma...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.1 / 2003 sance Studies, 2002. xi, 330 pp.; 6 figs. $40.00. [Studies of poetry on monarchic status and royal policy, with an edition of selected verse.] Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by A. P. Martinich. Broadview Liter- ary Texts. Peterborough, Ontario...

..., over a thousand early modern English references to Cervantes and his works.] Saunders, Corinne, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry. Blackwell Com- panions to Literature and Culture, vol. 67. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley- ­Blackwell, 2010. xviii, 683 pp.; 6 figs. $199.95. Schoenfeldt, Michael...

.... The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity. New York: Fordham University Press, pp.; illus. paper Lavinksy, David. The Material Text in Wycli te Biblical Scholarship: Inscription and Sacred Truth. Woodbridge, Su olk: Boydell Press, xiv, pp.; illus. Littlejohn, W...