... Public Contemplative in Late Medieval England: Richard Methley and His Spiritual Formation Katherine Zieman University of Notre Dame...

... England. Though hidden and obscure to most modern scholars, how qualities operated in contemporary remedies, such as those for horses suffering from founder, raises questions about the nature of vernacular knowledge of philosophical and theological concepts and their relation to lived everyday life. We...

... also represents her as a captive of erotic desire, a slave of unruly passion, and a prisoner of the law. This multifaceted vision of royal incarceration is animated by a heterogeneous tradition of ideological writing in medieval and early modern England and Scotland. Three strands of a rich mosaic of...

... positions emerged concerning English institutions and national identity. This article argues that these various renderings of English ancient constitutionalism reveal a protean and heightened sense of England’s juridical past. It contextualizes these divergent narratives in the identity crisis engendered by...

... Seventeenth-Century­ England Peter Harrison University of Queensland Queensland, Australia In his Disquisition concerning the Final Causes of Natural Things (1688), English natural philosopher Robert Boyle observes...

...Robyn Malo As much recent work on recusancy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England has shown us, the Protestant Reformation did not instantaneously wipe out the remnants of Catholic belief. This essay takes up sixteenth- and seventeenth-century recusant prose and verse accounts of the...

... in Post-Reformation­ England Patricia Phillippy Kingston University London, United Kingdom An archaeology of belief In Simon Gunton’s harrowing account of the destruction of...

...: Knighthood in Fifteenth-­Century England Steven Bruso Fordham University Bronx, New York In what is perhaps one of the most memorable scenes of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the poet...

... France and England Jeffrey Jerome Cohen George Washington University Washington, D.C. Living with the other, with the foreigner, confronts us with the possibility or...

...Sara M. Butler Duke University Press 2006 a Degrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval England Sara M. Butler...

...Holly Dugan © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a Scent of a Woman: Performing the Politics of Smell in Late Medieval and Early Modern England...

... Place, Health, and Disease: The Airs, Waters, Places Tradition in Early Modern England and North America Andrew Wear The Wellcome Trust Centre for the...

...Thomas A. Hamill This essay examines the ways in which cockfighting in early modern England operates as an allegorical mode, as a trope for conscribing social relations and phenomena as distinct as male subject-formation and the realization of eschatological truth. Focusing on two distinct...

... Remaking a Bishops’ Bible in Seventeenth-Century­ England Adam G. Hooks University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa The Bishops’ Bible, first published in 1568, is a...

... doctrinally 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...

...David J. Davis This essay reconsiders the place of divine revelation in late medieval and early modern England. It explores the language of ravishment and divine “raptus” as a ritualized discourse to describe divine revelation present in mystical texts, by figures like Julian of Norwich and Walter...

... • • “A Tomb Once Stood in This Room”: Memorials to Memorials in Early Modern England Philip Schwyzer University of Exeter Exeter...

...Katherine Hunt Change-ringing, a new way of ringing existing church bells based on a series of mathematical permutations, was extremely popular in seventeenth-century England and continues today. The close relationship between change-ringing and contemporary cultures of combination is established...

...Lee Manion This essay addresses questions about genre, periodization, and conversion in early modern England by examining changes to the crusading romance. Despite their perceived Catholic leanings, the crusading romance and the romance in general were subsumed into a larger set of “heroical...

... George Sondes His plaine Narrative to the World primogeniture in early modern England noninheriting younger son politics of envy history of emotions ...