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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2024
... research to offer new interpretations of the effects of plague, patterns of marriage, evolving forms of labor, and the morality of crime and charity, among other subjects. Together, they illustrate how quantitative studies in historical demography can shed light on key transformations in culture...
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Plague Strikes Back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361–62 and Its Demographic Consequences in England and Wales
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 457–491.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of the Pla Virulence Gene at the End of the Second Plague Pandemic,” Scientific Reports 10 (Sept. 3, 2020), article 14628, at doi:10.1038/s41598-020-71530-9; Alexander Immel et al., “Analysis of Genomic DNA from Medieval Plague Victims Suggests Long-Term Effect of Yersinia Pestis on Human Immunity Genes...
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Forms of Catastrophe
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 January 2022
... English lyric about three fourteenth-century catastrophes: a revolt, a plague, and an earthquake. The six essays that follow approach the dynamics of catastrophic form in their own ways while sharing a set of assumptions about how catastrophe invites formal experimentation. Form, these essays agree, can...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 175–188.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Catastrophe Narrative structures, lyric effects Architectural space Mapping geographical space Law and justice Jewish studies...
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The Black Death, Girl Power, and the Emergence of the European Marriage Pattern in England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
... a month of starting their contract in a sample of four towns; see Elaine Clark, “Medieval Labor Law and English Local Courts,” American Journal of Legal History 27, no. 4 (1983): 330–53, at 345 n. 6. 99 See Horrell, Humphries, and Weisdorf, “Forgotten Family.” Humphries, “Plague, Patriarchy...
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Place, Health, and Disease: The Airs, Waters, Places Tradition in Early Modern England and North America
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
... This was reiterated by books on health
regimen and in plague treatises.10 They warned that fens, marshes, stand-
ing water, and, in towns, sewers and dung hills were linked to dirt, ill air
or miasma, and to putrefaction and hence to disease and death. In the early
modern period, miasma and putrefaction were...
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Death and the Maiden
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 269–305.
Published: 01 May 2012
... or plague ravaged
England (and, indeed, most of Europe and Asia). This plague killed like
no disease, famine, or war before or since. At least one- third and possibly
a full half of the English population died within two years. Worse yet, the
plague returned, again and again. The later fourteenth...
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Charity, Neighbors, and Gender in London Godly Sermons: John Downham and William Gouge
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 593–615.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by signature numbers, and throughout I adopt the more common spelling of Downham for the author’s surname. 16 As the analysis in Cummings, Kelly, and Ó Gráda, “Living Standards and Plague in London,” 9–10, shows, St. Bartholomew became less affluent while St. Margaret acquired wealthier parishioners...
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Magic That Works: Performing Scientia in the Old English Metrical Charms and Poetic Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2015
... on the environment, about
the ethics of science past and present, about our uses and abuses of non-
humans, about the effects that knowledge and technology can have upon
human identity.
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In a recent article, “The Physics of Holy Oats,” Matthew Milner identifies...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 119–145.
Published: 01 January 2022
... creates new economic realities that crack open old containers of socioeconomic identity. The personification allegory ironically makes personal what the poem actually reveals to be an interlocking series of impersonal processes, from the spread of the plague to its effects on the political economy...
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Forgotten Family: The Influence of Women and Children on the Nexus of Wage Earning and Demographic Change in England, 1260–1860
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
.... 47 Humphries and Weisdorf, “Wages of Women in England.” 46 John Hatcher, Plague, Population, and the English Economy ; John Hatcher, “Understanding the Population History of England, 1450–1750,” Past & Present , no. 180 (Aug. 2003): 83–130; Mark Bailey, After the Black Death: Economy...
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Black Servant, Black Demon: Color Ideology in the Ashburnham Pentateuch
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2001
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the questions are compelling enough to merit a close study. Why are blacks
the objects of God’s wrath in this manuscript, when in all other illustrations
of the tenth plague the victims are white? Was the use of black-and-white
color symbolism different or similar to modern...
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Grieved and Disordered: Gender and Emotion in Early Modern Patient Narratives
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 247–273.
Published: 01 May 2013
...-century patients attributed illness to gossip. Thornton’s refer-
ence to a “plague of slandorous tounges” is no mere metaphor.43 Thornton
first mentions the damaging effects of slander in 1667 and then again a year
later when she learns that her husband fell ill while traveling to Malton to
clear...
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Reconciling the Privilege of a Few with the Common Good: Sumptuary Laws in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 597–617.
Published: 01 September 2009
... environment. Com-
paring sermons with contemporary legislative practices suggests the unity of
the two discourses; however, this did not guarantee their success at limiting
waste and promoting charity. Indeed, the continual reiteration of the laws
leaves the impression that their effect was more...
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Creating Family Identity in Books of Hours
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 145–166.
Published: 01 January 2002
... are typically births, deaths, and marriages, but
they may also include other kinds of data important to the family, such as
prayer formulas, medical treatments, meteorological observations, accounts
of participation in public rituals, or the depredations of war and plague.14
It must be emphasized...
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The Work of Alchemy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 575–599.
Published: 01 September 2000
... elements and shift its emphases over
time. Paracelsus (1493–1541), for example, emphasized mining as a prac-
tical venture and made his brand of alchemy a force for empiricism, while
the influence of John Dee (1527–1608) linked the practical effects of
alchemy...
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The Substance of Shadows: Imagination and Credit Culture in Volpone
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of collective “imagining,” becomes fascinating to Ben Jonson in particular as something utterly fragile and yet vitally necessary for both productive and creative social order. Jonson’s drama Volpone (1606) demonstrates the ability of “credit culture” to sustain itself through theatrical effects of collective...
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Leprosy in the Medieval Imaginary
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
... when compared, for example, to those of plague during the medieval
pandemic, the disease inspired a range of mostly negative practices that
were disproportional to its threat to community welfare. To some degree,
implementation of regulatory procedures decreed by the Third and Fourth
Lateran...
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Memory on the Wall: Graffiti on Religious Wall Paintings
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 167–198.
Published: 01 January 2002
...” [In 1577 there was
the greatest plague in Lombardy]; “1745 la morte nelle bestie” [1745 death
for the animals]. There are a few positive records, such as this one: “1661 ali
17 genaro si e seminato de la avena a fato bono proffito” [1661 on the 17th
of January we sowed oats, made good profit]. Also...
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America Abridged: Matthaeus Merian, Johann Ludwig Gottfried, and the Apotheosis of the De Bry Collection of Voyages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 67–92.
Published: 01 January 2011
... were plagued and injured by the devil, as recounted
by Jean de Léry (see fig. 2). According to Léry, the diabolical punishment
for the Tupis, just at the time when they are discussing their heathen beliefs
with their Protestant visitors from France, is carried out by various animals
and birds...
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