..., and by the relentless, ineluctable focus on the self of the evangelical Christian who must follow that absolute commitment to divine grace alone. jsimpson@fas.harvard.edu © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 evangelical theology Calvinism predestination human virtue early modern elegy Any...

... that of the artist, or vice versa (Thoreau and Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32:2, Spring 2002. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2002 / $2.00. Walden being a prime example). That there are such associations, often very strong, between sixteenth-century...

...” and “early modern” concep- tions of the sexual and the spiritual. I The structural organization of John Donne’s first printed book of poetry makes no obvious sense.1 Published posthumously in 1633, the collection eschews even the basic generic distinctions so familiar to Donne’s modern audience...

... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33:2, Spring 2003. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2003 / $2.00. from an investigation in the ecclesiastical Court of High Commission in 1638, where a confession by one Giles Creech was used. This document itself is a major...

... influence on literary history. jw476@duke.edu 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...

... linguist and friar Antonio da Rho, Beccadelli cites not only Virgil, but also Catullus, Martial, and Juvenal; see Beccadelli to da Rho, quoted in Beccadelli, Hermaphrodite , 154–63, at 156–59. 15 Ugo Rozzo, “Italian Literature on the Index,” in Church, Censorship, and Culture in Early Modern Italy...

...Margaret F. Rosenthal The album amicorum , or album of friends, is a singular visual example of early modern travelers' fascination with swiftly changing fashions, regional customs, family lineage, and manuscript decoration. A type of souvenir scrapbook, the album amicorum preserves in its pages...

..., after the anti-Jewish massacres of 1179–80. 97 Carmi, trans., Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, 373. 98 Cecil Roth, “A Hebrew Elegy on the York Martyrs of 1190,” in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 16 (1945–51): 213–20. 554 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies...

... with the wider world.] Christensen, Ann C., ed. A Warning for Fair Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theater . Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. lxii, 246 pp., 19 illus. Paper $99.00. [Critical edition of the 1599 play A Warning for Fair Women , a true...

... it might be tempting to dismiss the “puffery” of elegies or commendatory poetry as so much conventional flattery, the terms of praise invoked can tell us much about historical stan- 146  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.1 / 2009 dards for literary value.13 It is striking to note...

... of the first folio of Shakespeare.7 Near the end of his life, Cosin nevertheless claimed to have given to Peterhouse “1031 volumes of good books, fairely and well bound; which cost him about 300 [pounds8 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47:3, September 2017 DOI...

... and the everyday 8. Sexuality 9. The monstrous and demonic 10. Science and medicine 11. Visual culture 12. Theater Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:2, Spring 2007 © 2007 by Duke University Press 1. Editions...

... and economies 12. Households, codes of conduct, and the everyday 13. Theater and spectacle 14. Animalia Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32:2, Spring 2002. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2002 / $2.00. 1. Editions...

...Sarah Mayo This article analyzes the ability of archival resources to make the especially transient and unstable performances of early modern mountebanks accessible and meaningful for performance studies research. Because mountebanks were itinerant performers and medical practitioners whose...

...” in a singular process that could never be mimetically reenacted? Through an examination of annihilation and ravishment in Donne we can begin to answer these questions. Nothingness, as a metaphysical category, natural scientific phenom- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 44:2...

... of the Blest in this census of Greek insular utopias. Then in early modern Europe and beyond the Strait of Gilbraltar we seek in vain to discover the location of Las Islas Fortunatas and St. Thomas More’s Utopia.4 Bacon’s New Atlantis (or Ben Salem) is lost in the vast expanse the Pacific. On maps...

... writer who offered a strategy for a history in the absence of monuments was Edmund Spenser. Like Doctor Dee, he phantasized about the substance of things unseen and created his own history, indeed his own chronicle.4 Most early Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:2...

... but also represents her as a captive of erotic desire, a slave of unruly passion, and a prisoner of the law. This multifaceted vision of royal incarceration is animated by a heterogeneous tradition of ideological writing in medieval and early modern England and Scotland. Three strands of a rich mosaic...

...Constance Furey This essay seeks to understand the assumptions about marriage bequeathed to us by early modern Protestants by exploring the Puritan interest in mandated affection. For Puritans, obligatory love was the foundation for the covenant between believers and God and the reason why...

... 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...