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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., and yet they were linked with and responded to each other in complex and interesting ways. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern legal judgment moral theology Augustine belief physical evidence Examining the intellectual, cultural...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
.... . . . For since God alone knows the interior of our souls, men can only know it by exterior signs, like we know the interior workings of a clock, by its exterior face. 7 early modern crime scene investigation forensic medicine medical examiners legal judgment reading bodily signs Copyright ©...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., deliberative intent of Old English legal codes. Postmodern displacement of intention from human authors onto personifications of larger collective forces has a powerful nineteenth-century precedent. Durdel reveals how intentionalism was a cardinal ethical and philological goal in early modern English...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
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of the godly, meant the practice of Catholicism.6 In a way that anticipates
recent controversies over the legality of posting the Ten Commandments in
United States courthouses, early modern fundamentalists sought even more
radically to replace English with Mosaic law. As Archbishop Whitgift com-
plained...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 9–32.
Published: 01 January 2024
... allow us to make the hypothesis that physiognomy, in the early modern period, was not just a part of judicial procedure, being among the clues judges could take into account before making an actual judgment. At a certain point, another level of interaction between law and physiognomy appeared, which...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
... them nicely boiled and roasted.1
Thomasin presents a harsh picture of the contemporary treatment of heretics
with a witty play on the word geriht (“dish” or “judgment Leopold’s treat-
ment of the heretics on behalf of the devil makes Leopold look fiercer in his
punishment of heretics than...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2013
... judgment. The response of merely increasing
legal oversight, encouraging contracts and formal bonds, turns into simply
a deferral of the original crux; after all, is not the legal institution (or the
Sovereign, or the State, or the Bank) itself just one more symbolic Other,
on a vast scale? What...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 493–518.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Elizabeth Papp Kamali In medieval English texts, a common refrain, drawn from scripture, urged that only God could search the mind and heart of a sinner, and that those who judge others might face their own grave judgment on the last day. This sits uneasily with the task of issuing a felony verdict...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 545–571.
Published: 01 September 2023
[email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Anglo-Saxon laws English royal lawmaking legal intention legislative purpose We ought to be reluctant to think of these early [English and Welsh] kings as intentionally or even consciously creating new law, although their work...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of the will of an individual judge. Rather arbitrium is a form of reasoning and involves the exercise of judgment. It also requires that the judge follow the laws. That Zavattari, like Casoni, addressed questions of judicial procedure in a dialogue is suggestive. For the most part, medieval and early modern jurists...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Mary Lindemann Scholars of medical history have discovered that the notion of “monstrous births” presented challenging legal issues in the early modern world. Were such offspring–often conjoined twins– “monsters” in the civil sense? Were they, for example, able to make a will, inherit, contract...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 603–628.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and commitments licensing those judgments.
604 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.3 / 2016
Such a way of proceeding, particularly in a book sharply critical
of what are diagnosed as the many troubling entailments of the Reforma-
tion, appears fundamentally at odds with the principal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 593–615.
Published: 01 September 2024
... a room for Elisha, Bernard maintains the biblical emphasis on the Shunammite woman’s judgment and resolution. The Shunammite woman who appears several times in Of Domesticall Duties seems quite different from the scriptural figure or the more common early modern interpretation. In all...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 349–375.
Published: 01 May 2020
... behind a population of uprooted, dispossessed, and traumatized individuals. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 German witch trials Margareth Los case legal proceedings justice personal costs of witch hunts Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
... as for legal judgment”; The Harmonies of “The Merchant of Venice,” (New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978), 32.
82 Harry Berger, “Marriage and Mercifixion in The Merchant of Venice,” in his Making
116 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.1 / 2010
Trifles of Terrors...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 January 2000
... a secret can also be a mortal event. In
northern Europe the early modern witch panics were complicated, uneven,
and often deadly struggles between juridical, clerical, and community belief
systems about the nature and effects of hidden knowledge. The struggle...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 449–462.
Published: 01 September 2000
... 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 ©...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 275–301.
Published: 01 May 2013
...”)
in the gate he made to spy on her (241; 660).
Mélusine’s parting gift to the now discredited Raymond is two
rings which will guarantee protection from lawsuits and in battle. Raymond
and his heirs will never be defeated “in a trial or legal judgment in court or
in combat” [en plait ne en...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 January 2000
... not illegal,” states Randolph Trumbach, speak-
ing of England, “there are no detailed descriptions of sex between women
in the legal sources that parallel those for sodomy between men.”21 In her
study of early modern Seville, Mary Elizabeth Perry draws the conclusion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 431–451.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in early modern politics has long been recognized in connection to the theater and theatricality, St. German's work demonstrates that early print also invoked the bodily interactivity and iterability characteristic of performance in order to script readers’ use of the relatively new medium. St. German's...
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