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Bodies of Evidence: Judges and Surgeons at the Crime Scene in Early Modern France
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
... early modern crime scene investigation forensic medicine medical examiners legal judgment reading bodily signs Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 [email protected] ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 January 2024
... that might help them determine whether a suspect was guilty or innocent. Indeed, in the late Middle Ages and throughout the early modern period, the science of physiognomy was defined as an act of judgment (“iudicium physiognomicum”). As we will see, it played a crucial role also in criminal courts. Yet...
View articletitled, Physiognomy and Visual Judgment in Medieval and <span class="search-highlight">Early</span> <span class="search-highlight">Modern</span> Europe
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Shakespeare's Comedy of Judgment
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 503–531.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Jason Crawford Early modern English literary culture was thick with tales of divine judgment. Texts ranging from true-crime pamphlets to Thomas Beard's vast collection The Theatre of God's Judgements (1597) promised to disclose God's work in history, and they found signs of that work in stories...
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The Art of Conjecture: A Window into the Heart
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 January 2024
... part, medieval and early modern jurists presented their views on the law in the form of commentaries, treatises, and manuals or pratiche . And, while each of these forms did allow for innovations, they tended to obscure the changes they introduced, reinforcing the notion that law was, above all...
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“Not a drop of tears, or any sweat from fear came from her”: Interrogating Mind, Body, and Emotions in Early Modern German Witch Trials
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Laura Kounine In early modern German witch trials, how defendants looked and moreover how they behaved on trial—physically and emotionally—was crucial to whether they were deemed innocent or guilty. This was particularly the case in trials of witchcraft, a crime that often left little tangible...
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Francesco Casoni and the Rhetorical Forensics of the Body
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
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tion for lesser crimes, were insufficient for the imposition of capital punish-
ment. Furthermore, like many other late medieval and Renaissance jurists,
he believed it prudent, in such circumstances, to torture the suspect...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 387–395.
Published: 01 September 2021
... voices otherwise silent in drama-focused studies? To offer a more concrete sense of the affordances of this approach, we want to contrast it, briefly, with more typical approaches to a famous scene in early modern drama: the deposition of Richard II in Shakespeare's history play. A traditional...
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Elizabeth, Mercilla, and the Rhetoric of Propaganda in Spenser's Faerie Queene
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 283–312.
Published: 01 May 2001
... the dimmed skye, / And with their brightnesse daz’d the
straunge beholders eye” (21.7–9). The scene draws attention to its own
superficiality: “that most magnificke did appeare” (22.3). Things “seem”
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The Act of Libel: Conscripting Civic Space in Early Modern England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 375–398.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., as quite simply “the primary scene of writing in early modern
England,” Fleming’s argument confronts the reductive reading of writing on
walls as being by definition transgressive. In place of the notion of trespass,
Fleming argues that wall-writing was a commonplace activity. Not only was
it widespread...
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The Cursed and the Holy Body: Burning Corpses in the Middle Ages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of Constance (see fig. 1). Although many scholars
cite the image of the burning of Hus from this chronicle, the accompanying
scene of the transport of his ashes to the Rhine is usually overlooked.45
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Black Servant, Black Demon: Color Ideology in the Ashburnham Pentateuch
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2001
... of the angel is another
scene of mourning, and further to the right, a camel, horse, mule, and sheep
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bend over their dead firstborn in anthropomorphic attitudes...
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Microhistory and Microcosm: Chinese Migrants, Spanish Empire, and Globalization in Early Modern Manila
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 167–192.
Published: 01 January 2017
... sixteenth century. For Davis, al-Wazzan represents
“the possibility of communication and curiosity in a world divided by vio-
lence.”8 Others have drawn different conclusions about the early modern
world through their investigations of cross-cultural brokers. Sanjay Sub-
rahmanyam, acknowledging...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Julianne Werlin In England, the period from the late Middle Ages through early modernity was bookended by demographic change. On one edge, there was the Black Death and subsequent plague pandemics, which halved the population, reshaping English society in their wake. On the other...
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A Theater of the Soul's Interior: Contemplative Literature and Penitential Education in the Morality Play Wisdom
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 253–283.
Published: 01 May 2008
... exteriorizes the soul’s inner faculties: Anima is recast in the
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middle of the drama as her three “mights,” Mind, Will, and Understanding.
As in the Augustinian contemplative tradition from which the play draws,
the inner faculties...
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Women on the Edge: Madness, Possession, and Suicide in Early Modern Convents
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 January 2015
... / 2015
suicide was a heinous secular crime that could devastate family fortunes,
since a verdict of felonious suicide triggered the automatic confiscation of
goods and property. In early modern England, where a reputedly greedy
crown led the juggernaut of state-formation, over 95 percent of those...
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Language Goes on Holiday: English Allegorical Drama and the Virtue Tradition
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of turning language into possession rather than gift, and thus
in constant need of reminders of who he or she is.
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The title of this essay is, of course, from Remark 38 in Wittgen-
stein’s Philosophical Investigations...
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Survivors of Witch Trials and the Quest for Justice in Early Modern Germany
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 349–375.
Published: 01 May 2020
... just as thousands of other early modern witchcraft investigations were based on allegations motivated by ill will, spurred by deep- seated fears of magical harm, and with recourse to confessions elicited under torture. For the imperial judges, however, the case was not so clear- cut. We can...
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Governing the Wolf: Soul and Space in The Merchant of Venice
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Donovan Sherman This essay reads Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as a manifestation of early modern England’s anxiety over the soul. As something both essential and unrepresentable, the soul existed in the popular imagination as potentially monstrous or divine, distanced from both the body...
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The Imaginary “Commons”
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 549–577.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., but it is suggestive not only for think-
ing of Shakespeare’s stage career but for considering questions of periodiza-
tion in our investigation of the idea of “the commons” and their role in the
political drama that crosses the alleged divide separating the late medieval
from the early modern. In many history...
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“And he hath enough”: The Penitential Economies of The Merchant of Venice
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
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5 Timothy Gorringe, God’s Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence, and the Rhetoric of Salvation
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 131.
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6 The following account is heavily indebted to Gustaf Aulen, Christus Victor...
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