..., even secular, than religious or theological. All contributions combine the detailed study of specific texts and problems with wider historical, theoretical, or philosophical inquiry. premodern concepts of the natural world ecological criticism human and nonhuman relations philosophy medicine...

... or the catastrophe (“suffering with”) enacted by creation. In addition, by portraying the Crucifixion as generating an ecological catastrophe, Christ III extends and questions a current critical understanding of nature. Kay and Zeeman articulate this understanding: “[N]ature is . . . cut through...

... to 606  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.3 / 2014 interpret ecological forms beyond their representation or iconography.74 Eco- materiality can provide us with critical terms for thinking about late medi- eval art well beyond rural Brittany. Perhaps we perceive ecomateriality more...

..., is extant only in this manuscript, as far as I know, but was likely composed earlier, perhaps in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. 9 It has not received much critical attention. After transcription in the nineteenth century, it appeared in 1917 in another transcription and study of its possible...

..., c. AD 650–1100 . Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. vi, 167 pp., figs., maps, diagrams, tables, and color photos throughout. Paper $50.00. Willard, Thomas, ed. Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Perceptions of the Environment and Ecology . Arizona Studies in the Middle...

... JMEMS 43:1, 07 Lupton 10.1215/10829636-1902576 In theater and in life, holiday often sets the stage for hospitality, in the form JMEMS 43:1, 08 Kok 10.1215/10829636-1902585 of seasonal festivities and life-­cycle events that respond to ecological and JMEMS 43:1, 09 Cornett 10.1215/10829636-1902672...

... Edited by Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman Volume 49 / Number 3 / September 2019 Current developments in critical animal studies, ecology, and material his- tory and the expanding frontiers of our knowledge of premodern philoso- phy, science, and encyclopedism mean that ideas about “nature...

...: March 1, 2018 Versions of the Natural from Antiquity to Early Modernity Edited by Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman Volume 49 / Number 3 / September 2019 Current developments in critical animal studies, ecology, and material his- tory and the expanding frontiers of our knowledge of premodern...

... in the culture of the sacred object. Critical approaches to the status of religious objects across the period have often reflected this narrative of rupture: before the Reformations, belief that the divine inhered in the material world, and after the Reformations, concern about idolatry; before the Reformations...

... should prompt us to examine not only what is new about this new geological era, but also whether human and decidedly literary conceptions of critical novelty and finality hamper an understanding of ecological decline. 10 The “Anthropocene” designates a geological, stratigraphically measurable turn...

... in critical animal studies, ecology, and material his- tory and the expanding frontiers of our knowledge of premodern philoso- phy, science, and encyclopedism mean that ideas about “nature” and “the natural” in the medieval and early modern period urgently need revisiting and retheorizing. The field...

.... Peter Comestor's Lectures on the Glossed Gospel of John: A Study with a Critical Edition and Translation [ Glosae super Iohannem glosatum ]. Texts and Studies in High Medieval Scholastic Thought. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2024. ix, 402 pp. Hardcover, ebook. [First critical...

... deterioration (Taine, Burckhardt, Nietzsche), or of a pseudo-­scientific stadial historiography (Spengler, Toynbee). Now, Gregory’s The Unintended Refor- mation appears to present us with an argument at once sharply critical of the course of modernity after the Reformation yet premised on modernity’s axi...

..., and Aquinas brokered rapprochements between Aristotelian virtue ethics and Abrahamic monotheism. 7 Espousing a heightened Augustinianism, Luther would jettison this settlement by reasserting the debilitating condition of original sin against the self-perfecting yearnings of the virtues. Critical...

... for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: 1. Editions and translations 2. Reference 3. Historiography, historians, and critical theory 4. Biographical studies 5. Formations of empire, nation, and state 6. Islamic studies...

... in the Early Iberian Lyric Anthony P. Espósito University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Protecting the textual ecology The fall 1995 issue of La...

... by libraries. Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Historiography, historians, and critical theory Formations of empire, nation, and state Cities and urban life Witchcraft...

... In something of a neo-Romantic moralizing fashion, a few scholars have turned to investigations of what they perceive as a medieval “enchant- ment” with nature, where a sacramental perception of the twelfth-century world holds lessons for a flailing twenty-first-century political ecology.25 Over against...

.... It is not marked by ecological zones but by complex, overlapping, ethnolinguis- tic, commercial, and cultural identities. The Mediterranean has appending seas, the Black, the Red, the Aegean, and the Adriatic. But the Atlantic is far away; and the direction of significant interest and attachment is, in any...

... They show how scientific taxonomies represent a standardization of what was (and is) known in other frameworks. Popular taxonomies include nonscientific categories, such as fish, which persist in common parlance because they group beings via their ecological roles, morphological frames, or topological...