Search Results for early modern historical writing

...Jaime Goodrich This essay considers how two Benedictine writers, Claude Estiennot (1639–1699) and Anne Neville (1605–1689), engaged with the generic conventions of historical writing, specifically the subgenre of monastic history. In an attempt to complicate critical narratives about early modern...

...Rosalind Smith This essay builds upon work surrounding reception and the figure of the early modern woman writer to examine textual instances in which women’s writing has been “found” or manufactured: where writing falsely or tenuously attributed to historical women was circulated under...

... the offstage bodies behind the writing, represented by the writing, and using the writing? That is, I'm tempted to ask how our understanding of nontheatrical bodies changes if or when drama is on the table, particularly when we are, as is the case with regard to early modern embodiment, always already...

... they contributed to the exchange and translation of knowledge and ideas. This special issue considers issues of reading and writing before, during, and after medieval pilgrimages, as well as the methodological and historical issues at stake for both pilgrim writers and modern scholars. In particular, the articles...

... extorcione and oppressione of the pore people nor so many injuries as is nowadays. (213–14, my emphasis)16 This section demonstrates that Rastell’s text does not fit any of the standard definitions of early modern historical writing. First, his attack on those who “rule in any office” shows...

... This special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, “Microhistory and the Historical Imagi- nation: New Frontiers,” similarly engages the process of definition tracing the frontiers of microhistory. Since the beginnings of the institutionalized discourse of history...

... of the liveliest discussion concerns narrative and how microhistorians have been important in bringing narrative back into history writing, though in ways quite different from the classic historical narratives of the early twentieth century. We also turn to problems of scale in writing history —what...

..., or its constituent poems, were read in surprising juxtapositions is proposed as a model for modern critics of how to read the text in sympathy with its historical reception a circuit of reception whereby the early modern inspires the modern. Simonova s article delves into established narratives...

... to it, means that their account necessarily reifies those categories — the medieval, the early modern —  even as it seeks to call them into question. Both interpretations are driven by an underlying logic of historical difference, of which their shared imagery of death is the sign...

...Dan Breen This essay attempts to contribute to the wide-ranging discussion of periodization in medieval and early modern studies through a new reading of Skelton's Garland of Laurel . The essay argues that Skelton recreates the laurel as a symbol of continuing poetic and historical service rather...

...) and Joanna Craigwood (Cam- bridge) spearheaded the research network Textual Ambassadors Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World (2014). Sowerby and Craigwood are especially keen on exploring the links among literary patronage, literary production, and early modern cultures...

... to write history. This session featured a robust discussion of what microhistory is, how it is done, and its challenges and pitfalls for researchers. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47:1, January 2017 DOI 10.1215/10829636-3716566  © 2017 by Duke University Press...

... and hyperpluralism.”10 In another place, he similarly affirms 462  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.3 / 2016 that the goal of his book is “to explain.”11 This confirms statements in The Unintended Reformation that he aims to offer a “historical explanation of the present” (11) and to do so...

... to conform with postmedieval political and religious projects, thereby obscuring or blurring the evidence for those earlier practices. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 medieval and early modern English theater and spectacle performance analysis archival documents historical...

..., fictional and historical. As we disassemble these boundaries, we return in some ways to the textual approach of premodern and early modern readers. In sixteenth- century Europe, the categories of history and fiction were ill-defined, but became increasingly theorized. Attempts were made to police...

... How do we conceptualize and explain religious change in medieval and early modern Europe without perpetuating distorting paradigms inherited from the very era of the past that is the subject of our study? How can we do justice to historical development over time without resorting to linear grand...

... rearticulated by mutually contradictory mythologies of the besieged community and its others.101 One intention of this essay has been to explain how forms of knowledge production—history writing, documentation, cartography— were instrumental to early modern colonial...

..., national identities, the introspective subject, and historical consciousness itself.2 Yet, as de Grazia argues, the “modern divide” paradoxically misrepresents the his- torical consciousness of the very “early modern” period that is drafted to inaugurate it, a period that characterized itself...

... of the believer, and it thereby makes the 98 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.1 / 2003 Protestant heroes of the faith subject to the constraints of historical time. In the traditional Catholic calendar, the past is never really lost since the saints— hovering outside of time in a kind...

....” Beyond this, cutting and pasting can be understood as being, in themselves, acts of reading and writing, and we are particu- 238  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.1 / 2014 larly interested in essays that can combine the archival recovery of previously neglected forms of textual...