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...Clare A. Lees; Gillian R. Overing © by Duke University Press 2004 Signifying Gender and Empire Clare A. Lees King’s College London London, United...

...Guy Halsall © by Duke University Press 2004 Gender and the End of Empire Guy Halsall University of York York, United Kingdom The problem...

...Ulrike Wiethaus © by Duke University Press 2004 Body and Empire in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Ulrike Wiethaus Wake Forest University...

...Beverly Bossler © by Duke University Press 2004 Gender and Empire: A View from Yuan China Beverly Bossler University of California, Davis...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Laurie Ellinghausen The “sailor ballads” of the early British Empire employ popular song not only to investigate sailors’ hardships and victories, but to explore the character attributes of seafaring men. This article argues that the range of attitudes and concerns...

...: Chinese Migrants, Spanish Empire, and Globalization in Early Modern Manila Jonathan Gebhardt University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania I One...

... of the Empire of Great Britain (1611) and the Colonial Archive Mark Netzloff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

... deprived medieval studies of one of the great critical minds of the twentieth century, but also provided Hall with good advice that likely benefited his career. Medieval studies has indeed found it very difficult to reckon with the legacies of empire that Hall's work has done so much to uncover...

...Seth R. Kimmel This essay demonstrates that the political efficacy of the first New World maps was paradoxically contingent upon their empirical indeterminacy. Pilots, cosmographers, and monarchs struggled to formulate and monopolize still-unstable cartographic conventions—the problem of longitude...

...Roland Greene This essay analyzes the figures of language and of landscape that allow Edmund Spenser to consider in an international context the virtue at the center of Book V of The Faerie Queene , justice. How, he asks, is justice projected from one society into another in an act of empire...

...’ writing casts new light on ideas of time in a period much-occupied with contentions between theologians and those engaged in empirical enquiry. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a “So short a space of time”: Early...

...Adam Herring This article examines vision and cultural authority among the leadership of the Inca Empire of Andean South America. In Inca political society, seeing was cultural being. The essay addresses the spaces in which Inca acts of perception took place, as well as the architectural frameworks...

... of methodological perspectives, cultural constructions and parallel concerns common to both empires as well as a number of inherent differences. Articles address the emergence of new historical, political, social, and aesthetic possibilities for these two imperial powers in both Old World and transatlantic contexts...

... of factually suspect medieval writers like Geoffrey of Monmouth, combining credible documents, vague claims, and outright fabrications to craft justifications for empire expansion that eclipsed what any of Dee’s contemporaries had argued. And while Dee’s fictions have perpetuated his reputation as a “conjurer...

..., casting envy in terms of personal culpability and urging inner reform. As a subjective stance rather than an empirical thing with ontological existence, envy and its dangers could, theoretically, be eradicated through individual will. Sir George Sondes His plaine Narrative to the World primogeniture...

... was acquitted provisionally after three years in jail. Remarkably, she had the strength to produce an account of her ordeal and to bring her case before the highest court of justice in the Empire. The historical literature on witch trials has long been polarized by the quest for the most “accurate” death tolls...

... a key role in witchcraft cases. Through a close reading of a seventeenth-century trial of witchcraft from a history of emotions perspective, this article examines the ways in which the body, mind, and soul were interrogated in the heartland of early modern witch persecutions: the Holy Roman Empire...

... empirical proof of transubstantiation. However, the artificiality or absence of these effects ultimately signals that eucharistic change is not an observable phenomenon that can be confirmed with the senses. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Middle...

...Sara Horrell; Jane Humphries; Jacob Weisdorf E. A. Wrigley identified the responsiveness of nuptiality and marital fertility to changes in male wages. Others have theorized the importance of women’s decision‐making in the timing of marriage, but without much empirical evidence. Combining new long...