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... of Archbishop Matthew Parker and his scholars, who sought precedents in Anglo-Saxon legal and ecclesiastical sources that would support their progressive agenda to return to the model of the church in the English past rather than seek any new reformation of the contemporary church. Spenser in his poem seeks...

...-length discussion of the use and hermeneutics of hurch vestments, however, reveals a consistent problem at the heart of ecclesiastical attire: how the changing “fashion” of actual garments worn by the clergy in this period no longer accorded with the traditional, often biblical prescriptions...

...Nicole D. Smith A Christian Mannes Bileeve is a little-known Middle English commentary on the Apostles’ Creed that was read by women religious to learn ecclesiastical doctrine. It presents, in a unique way, the figure of the thinking heart to reconcile the gendered binaries of Latin and vernacular...

... and sexuality. Ecclesiastical support for a Castilian woman preacher during the early decades of the Inquisition is even more surprising, since Juana claimed that she experienced a sex change before birth. Although Juana identified publicly as a nun and therefore as female, such rubrics as trans or intersex can...

... problematic in Elizabethan England. This essay analyzes the engagements of Stephen Batman and an anonymous ecclesiastical annotator with the Pricking of Love , a deeply affective late fourteenth-century devotional treatise. The medieval text, infused with fervent Christological and Marian piety, would seem...

... outlived the ecclesiastical institution and appealed broadly to the English populace long after the Reformation. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Crusades early modern English crusading romance violence and conversion Huon of Bordeaux Seven Champions of Christendom ...

... of medicine from that of ecclesiastical healing, was as imprecise as it was absolute. This article uses the regurgitated knife and related symptoms associated with demonic illness to explore how diverging understandings of demonic and natural action informed medicine in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century...

...Russ Leo Published in four volumes between 1671 and (posthumously) 1704, Geeraardt Brandt's monumental History of the Reformation and other Ecclesiastical Transactions in and about the Low-Countries challenges abiding assumptions about Reformation, confession, and modernity. Recasting...

.... They illustrate how English Protestant scholarship reinforced stereotypes, while also prompting self-reflection and inspiring the reconstruction of England's own traditions and cultural assumptions. Expanding English ecclesiastical, theological, exegetical, philological, and cultural interests, the volume calls...

... of the church in the 1570s. Elizabethan ecclesiastical controversy in turn helped “invent” central features of avant-garde conformity by prompting Richard Hooker's use of Jewish precedent to stabilize the church from the 1580s onward. Mutual claims to the Hebrew doctors exposed disagreement over how...

... include the admin- istrative structure of the church, its methods of instruction, and liturgical forms and customs. The more specific is the administration of ecclesiastical justice, “the exercise of the power of censure, admonition, excommunica- tion...

... between the Christianization process and the appropriation of landscape in early medieval Churraetia.1 More specifically, I will attempt to reconstruct the spread of Christianity by examining the physical locations selected by ecclesiastical authorities and Christian communities for the erection...

... that two notions equivalent to that of colonial racial purity crystallized in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Castile and León: the aristocratic notion of agnatic lineage and the ecclesiastical theory of apostolic succes- sion. I shall further argue that the equivalence...

.... The estates are organized 288  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.2 / 2008 in a rough hierarchy, with ecclesiastics and laypeople in equally rough alter- nation: Pope, Emperor, Cardinal, Empress, Patriarch, King, and on down to characters of middle rank, Mayor, Carthusian, Gentlewoman...

... thought to think much about religion. The tendency has been to regard only secular arguments and authorities as being properly political, and to dismiss arguments drawn from the Bible or concerned with questions of religious or ecclesiastical authority as being inherently “reli- gious,” and thus...

... on— can be theorized as visual, bound in the quotidian and the local, and affected by a complex tangle of secular and ecclesiastical, economic and political vectors. “By style is meant the constant form.” That is how Meyer Schapiro began his 1953 essay “Style,” perhaps “the most diplomatic yet...

... their mark on secular society and the local economy. Convents could act as creditors and influence the course of ecclesiastical Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42:3, Fall 2012 DOI 10.1215/10829636-­1720598  © 2012 by Duke University Press disputes...

... themselves, their ecclesiastical supervisors, or their secular patrons. Contrary to received scholarly opinion, the implemen- tation of the papal bull Periculoso in 1294 was thus not particularly detri- mental to these female communities. Jordan demonstrates that enclosure was, though, a useful tool...

... ecclesiastical dignitaries. Pope Paschal con- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34:1, Winter 2004. Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2004 / $2.00. tributed generously to the rebuilding of the scolu after the fire of 816, a fur- ther reason perhaps...