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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 139–159.
Published: 01 January 2020
... in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). 88 Woolf, Common Reader, 40. 89 Woolf, 40. Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia cultural reception book publishing eighteenth-century reading habits Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 623–653.
Published: 01 September 2013
... volume and discourse on globalism. In the eighteenth century, that globalism underwrote the vogue of urban pleasures enjoyed on France’s tables. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a
Exotic Edibles:
Coffee, Tea...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 467–491.
Published: 01 September 2008
...José Pardo-Tomás; Àlvar Martínez-Vidal Consultation by mail had been common in medical practice more or less since the time of its consolidation in Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but this mode of communication vastly expanded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 161–180.
Published: 01 January 2020
... by the detailed tex- tual models in these collections metadata and markup. Our focus is on the late eighteenth century, but the collection whose reception we are study- 162 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.1 / 2020 ing extends back to the sixteenth century, and these methods apply more broadly...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 513–543.
Published: 01 September 2016
...- and early sixteenth-century readers, one would never
know from reading Gregory that à Kempis not only remained a best-selling
religious author throughout the seventeenth century, but actually grew in
popularity in the eighteenth century, his book reissued continually under
a bewildering variety...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 January 2017
...: Naissance de la prison (Paris: Gallimard, 1975),
for the docile body. For good treatments of historians’ turn to body history, see Bar-
bara Duden, The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century
Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991), 1 – 49...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 January 2009
... for coffee moved Wolfgang
Schivelbusch to attribute chocolate’s lower popularity to religious ideological
difference. He writes that
chocolate appeared in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
as coffee’s opposite. The latter . . . was markedly anti-corporeal
and anti-erotic...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 543–556.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and Material Meaning 551
She also noted that the binding almost certainly dates from the eighteenth
century, because the plates have been pasted into a blank book, and tape has
been used under the pastedowns.9
Even before it was decorated with fabric, the book was a collabora-
tion in a way we...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 345–371.
Published: 01 May 2008
... to every turn which is required to
represent a figure answerable to the rules of drawing.”16
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers were accustomed to
Fournier’s “ciphers,” “forms,” and “figures”; and they projected the habits
and assumptions of their own print world back onto those...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
... climate, geography, and peoples is
Clarence J. Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western
Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1967).
7 Fynes Moryson, An itinerary containing his ten yeeres...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
... – 62; and Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political
Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 1985), 37 – 50.
21 In “The Paradoxes of Political Liberty,” Skinner enters the debate between proponents
of a negative notion...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 561–586.
Published: 01 September 2017
...” to the eighteenth-century urban missions —
the two missions remained interdependent.52 But a tutor like Marwood
could not remain in the household forever. He had to be sure that the books
he left behind were useful. Dawnay, again, explained what would not be use-
ful: the plain scriptures...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 487–516.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and transmis-
sion, the rolls tacked to the Temple door were then collected, edited, and
eventually assembled into the Old and New Testaments as they are pre-
sented in these early printed texts. Starting with the “higher” critical schol-
arship of the late eighteenth century, biblical scholars would come...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 67–92.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of eighteenth- century Europe, the Weimar of
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In the opening chapter of his autobiography
Dichtung und Wahrheit, which first appeared in 1811, Goethe fondly recalls
the start of his love affair with literature. Among the few titles he remembers
after a lifetime of reading...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 459–481.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., “The Organization of the
European Textile Industry from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century,” Journal of
European Economic History 17 (1988): 583 – 602.
3 On the consumption of goods across the social spectrum and throughout Europe, see
Eileen Power, The Wool Trade in English Medieval...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 413–442.
Published: 01 September 2008
... thousand years ago, might solve their suffering here and now. Yet they wouldn't dream of seeking succor in the works of Galen. Why? How have the beliefs and practices that guided Western medicine up through the eighteenth century come to seem, paradoxically, more alien and distant than ancient Chinese...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 595–620.
Published: 01 September 2007
... obscured before it was appropriated as
the major influence on “Renaissance” thought.23 Bernal regards the “Aryan
Model” of Greek civilization as an eighteenth- to nineteenth-century prod-
uct, but the process of its formation began in the early modern period.24 The
marginalization of Arab and Jewish...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 January 2013
... of punishment repurposed through the mechanics of
city comedy.
37 The notion of policing of the borders of the human by subjugating animals sounds
a popular theme among animal studies in eighteenth-century scholarship. See Felic-
ity Nussbaum, The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 149–178.
Published: 01 January 2023
...) , ed. Allison P. Coudert, Sarah Hutton, Richard H. Popkin, and Gordon M. Weiner (Dordrecht, Neth.: Springer, 1999), 1–8, at 8. A far fuller continuation of Popkin's story is to be found in David B. Ruderman, “The Study of the Mishnah and the Quest for Christian Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century...
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“In the hands and hearts of all true Christians”: Herbert’s The Temple (1633 – 1709) and Its Readers
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 115–137.
Published: 01 January 2020
... more general pat- terns of ownership and readership of the book in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The first half will discuss the presence or absence of The Temple in public and private libraries, arguing that the book s genre sitting between the binaries of profit and delight, use...
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