... modern law and judicial process a Francesco Casoni and the Rhetorical Forensics of the Body John Jeffries Martin Duke University...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.1 / 2015 47 Andrea Zorzi, “The Judicial System in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Cen- turies,” in Crime, Society, and the Law in Renaissance Italy, ed. Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 40 – 58, at 43...

... Pasquier’s belief in the wisdom of the Salic law and its exclusion of women from royal power. The introduction of the 332 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.2 / 2002 flea motif can also be described as displaced anger, registering his ambiva- lence toward the host-guest relationship...

... of torture as a means of judicial inquiry. Sec- ond, the court s scope of action was very limited. Less than one percent of early modern German witch trials came before the Reichskammergericht. In France, by contrast, about a quarter of all witch trials were reviewed by the realm s highest court of appeals...

... crown, 304 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.2 / 2020 spikes, the direction in which the head faces, London Bridge, Micklegate Bar. It is this process of ad hoc framing and reframing that submits the dis- membered body part to the logic of artifice, a logic that is outside of time. Once...

... to one of humanity’s greatest enigmas. Suicide was “a very special way of dying,” to borrow a phrase from the landmark study of self-­murder in early modern England by Michael MacDonald and Terence Murphy.4 For Renaissance Europeans, suicide was an act that simultaneously violated natural law...

... imagined genealogical history, or “effective” history as he also termed it, as the “transformation of history into a totally different form of time.” He Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30:3, Fall 2000. Copyright ©...

... to discern whether they were sincere in these convic- tions, or whether they were simply invoking the discourse of loyalty in order 170  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.1 / 2017 to pursue a vendetta against don Juan Felipe, using the Spanish judicial apparatus as a tool to achieve...

... and collective coercion of bodies” (169), “a mechanism that Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31:2, Spring 2001. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2001 / $2.00. JMEMS31.2-05 Graham 4/30/01 9:38 AM Page 350 coerces...

... from which 362 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 30.2 / 2000 to secure this view, but they do expose in their play just such tendentious judicial and magisterial alliances. In this case the alliance was not based on a mutual belief in the witches’ guilt: the circuit judges...

... University Press 2015 medieval corpses judicial process of burning relationship between saints and heretics a The Cursed and the Holy Body: Burning Corpses in the Middle Ages...

... every shred of her earlier peripatetic character through judicious omission of place and dynastic names, so gaining prized stabilitas or stability in the process.39 The newly stabilized Brigid was being remade for a new age of heroic but enclosed virginity, just as at the same time the early Christians...

... of the historical record are themselves telling, of Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32:2, Spring 2002. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2002 / $2.00. course. Indeed, when another St. Katherine pageant was presented in Lon- don, some hundred years later...

... date is actu- ally the beginning, not the end, for a particular work: publication should be seen as a continuous process rather than a singular event, and even for a 148 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.1 / 2020 purchaser in the mid- eighteenth century, the works of Philip Sidney...

... in the political thought of Marsilius of Padua and early Conciliarists, see the final work in Francis Oakley's outstanding trilogy on European political thought, The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300–1650) (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015), 172–239. Alongside...

... the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682); cited in Norman Jones, God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989), 30. 69 My argument thus differs from scholars who emphasize Shylock as the embodiment of a capitalist...

... foreigner.” Diccionario de Autoridades, 3 vols. (Madrid: Edi- torial Gredos, 1990), 1:644. 55 Christine M. Rose’s analysis of Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale complements mine in 28  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.1 / 2009 that she finds that the vicious pagan mothers...

...,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42, no. 2 (2012): 307–32. 24 Justice, “Did the Middle Ages Believe in Their Miracles?,” 6. 25 Justice, 7. 26 Barber in Contesting the Logic of Painting offers a considered view of the conflicting notions on the validity of the sacred...

... On the contrary, reading the master-­craftsmen alongside the journeymen of the political trade will lead to a deeper understanding of the nature of early modern politics and its broader social context. It will not always be possible to trace the process by which everyday experience led to political...

... hinged on actions. So the history of time tangles with a history of narra- tion’s habits.38 In this connection, we should reflect on how law helped shape how Europeans dealt with time. Barbara Shapiro has observed that it was as much the law as science that created the early modern notion...