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Fate, Human Character, and Divinatory Perception in Early Modern Metoposcopy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Armando Maggi Metoposcopy, the early modern divinatory practice that reads the pattern of lines on a person's forehead for their signification, has been the object of studies primarily focused on the discipline's historical evolution. This article analyzes the complex origins of this practice, its...
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View articletitled, Fate, Human Character, and Divinatory Perception in <span class="search-highlight">Early</span> <span class="search-highlight">Modern</span> <span class="search-highlight">Metoposcopy</span>
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., or blushes, or trembles, were more powerful, as they were often believed to point to a guilty conscience and thus a high probability that the suspect was guilty. Similar distinctions also informed the many works on metoposcopy (the art of reading foreheads) that were published in the early modern period...
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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Gender, Colonialism, and the Queerness of Dreams: Seventeenth-Century Dreamwork
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 187–213.
Published: 01 January 2014
... peoples of Catholic France and “New France”—through the lens of gender. In the case of early modern Atlantic dreaming, gender and its confusions in the social imaginary are not tied to the historical practice of female-bodied persons. The femininity investigated here is positional and symbolic...
