... convents, usually ones with no family connections, demonstrating a preference for postmortem association not with family but with a community of celibate women. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 noble Italian women and gender death and burial early modern wills and inheritance...

..., but from a far different position in the social order. Thus, by deploying, and deviating from, conventions 418  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.2 / 2009 of complaint (and earlier mock-wills), Whitney signals a crucial difference from More as well as an affinity: both utopian...

...  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.1 / 2012 concerning our supernatural end, a “kynde-­witted” person is like a blind man in worldly battles (XIV.48  –  57). More decisively, manifesting himself as the Samaritan, Christ teaches Wille to follow Faith’s figurative teaching...

... will as dead on arrival. And we have already seen 544  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.3 / 2010 from Luther’s explication of Psalm 1 that for him there can be no separation between willing and working, desire and practice, because these are the root- ­stock and the fruits...

...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...

... conscience direct unto, & my practice, God willing, to follow it. (Conversations, 134) It is a hallmark Little Gidding moment, this sense of isolation, alienation, and heroic resolve to follow conscience against culture: a stance bound up with their conviction that early modern Europe...

... Early modern England experienced a vital shift from the landscapes of cus- tom and stewardship to that of property. Whereas land had once been seen as a shared arena for fulfilling social responsibilities by engaging in time-­ honored activities, “the ‘law of property’ champion[ed] the rights...

... the encounter as a matter of fortuitous accident, and not one of willed intention. As Amy Boesky explains, “the ideal com- monwealth is found rather than made, [and] the text of utopia is discovered 464  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.2 / 2012 [in conversation] rather than written.”9...

... expect fame and glory, in life and death.]4 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 44:2, Spring 2014 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2647328  © 2014 by Duke University Press Neither wife, widow, nor young woman awaiting betrothal, Corinna defines a utopian space...

.... Having introduced the 254 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.2 / 2001 JMEMS31.2-02 Logan 4/30/01 9:34 AM Page 255 upcoming gift of the Bible, described Elizabeth’s willing reception of that yet-to-be-received gift, and reiterated her quip about...

..., and this reluctance (or inability) to wed was to become a defining feature of late medieval and early modern life. Bachelor began at this time to acquire its modern meaning of a never- married but marriageable man (such men gainfully occupied them- selves as journeymen, soldiers, and wage- laborers...

... intensified precisely during the period when politi- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:1, Winter 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-014  © 2009 by Duke University Press cal relations had deteriorated into war. During the 1570s, the translation of Spanish works surged...

... concluded with an account of the end-­things, but was left unfinished at Thomas’s death). In the second part, Aquinas examines the movement of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:1, Winter 2012 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1473082  © 2012 by Duke University Press...

... conception of the 590  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.3 / 2016 good. So Gregory tells us that Protestants rejected “Christian experiential knowledge”: This experiential knowledge was simply the first-­hand participa- tion in the inherited, shared practice...

... ðin wille helpan” [I will help you] (25 – 26). Not only do these statements identify the ability of the “I” to help the suf- 224  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.2 / 2015 ferer, but they assert his or her ability to do so in the present moment with these very words...

... in these years of crisis, demonstrating that, on the contrary, political writers drew upon medical ideas and metaphors selectively and often inconsistently in order to lend persuasive authority to their arguments. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 early modern chemical medicine medical metaphor...

... a new direction in relations Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:1, Winter 2008 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2007-022  © 2008 by Duke University Press Mariia Ivan III Sofiia Borisovna Paleologa...

... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 48:2, May 2018 DOI © 2018 by Duke University Press Bale and Stephen Batman similarly understood that the “profytable corne” embedded in the “ancient” monuments of the past was needed to seed a new pastoral theology in the bright new age...

... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33:3, Fall 2003. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2003 / $2.00. their endangered history, but he also enlisted their help in the still pressing struggle against the forces of heresy, schism, and paganism. 7 Even so, Char- rier...

... II,” which was fol- lowed by Alan Bray’s 1982 comprehensive study Homosexuality in the English Renaissance.4 Since then, scholars led by David Thurn, Jonathan Goldberg, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43:1, Winter 2013 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1902540­­   ©...