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...Daniela Frigo Duke University Press 2008 Translated by John Watkins University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota a Prudence and Experience: Ambassadors and Political Culture...

...Sari Katajala-Peltomaa; Raisa Maria Toivo This special issue of JMEMS takes up the classical debate on the “shared” and the “individual” through the concepts of “lived religion” on the one hand and “experience” on the other. The collection presents the state‐of‐the‐art within the emerging field...

... a collective ritual and only became individualized and interiorized in the later Middle Ages, though early medievalists have recently presented evidence challenging this view. However, the debate has hitherto paid little attention to the variety of lived experiences and social contexts of “confession,” the act...

... experiences. As products of their communities, breviaries represent shared experiences and offer insights into the devotional lives of individual friars, reflecting lived religion beyond normative theology. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2025 Dominican order...

... perspectives have in common, however, an understanding of dancing as a shared experience and intercorporeal communication that created spiritual communitas . [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2025 medieval exempla dance bodily experience lay religious...

..., in 1430, recounted in detail their experiences of seeing a heavenly procession. These witnesses, however, made little attempt to decipher the meaning of what they saw. That interpretation came only much later, as seventeenth‐century authors fit it into their narratives of Jaén's central role...

...Raisa Maria Toivo This article investigates how Communion was shared as an experience of “lived religion” in early modern Finland. The article draws on church teaching and legal materials concerning Communion to investigate what scripts were available that shaped experience, and it draws on court...

... Renaissance. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 English Renaissance cartography topography spatial representation mapping ordinary experience commonwealth identity • • Archiving Ordinary Experience...

...Denis Crouzet Duke University Press 2008 a “A strong desire to be a mother to all your subjects”: A Rhetorical Experiment by Catherine de Medici...

... approaches to the material world, which rejected the “common sense” of Aristotelian empiricism: “writers became less confident about the reliability of the senses and more aware that ordinary experience of the natural world does not always provide access to truth about it.” 9 This epistemic position...

... contemplative experiences to a greater audience. Because these experiences, unlike visions, involved embodied ecstasies that are inseparable from the contemplative who experiences them, communicating them involved narrating the self as well as the experience. Methley’s position as a Carthusian, simultaneously...

...Alexandra Walsham Fervent Protestants validated their individual and collective status as God's elect children by recalling the spiritual “experiments” he had wrought within their hearts and souls. By investigating their written testimonies of the emotional and corporeal effects which the Holy...

...H. M. Cushman The representations of the midwife Salome and the Apostle Thomas in the N-Town and Chester plays complicate the relationship between two modes of knowledge: “clergie” or male clerical learning, on the one hand, and knowledge derived from sensory experience on the other. The plays...

...Luis R. Corteguera How did artisanal methods and practices inform the new science of politics attributed to Machiavelli and elaborated by others? Historians of science have noted how artisans’ direct observation of nature and knowledge acquired from hands-on experience informed their methods...

... ideal to a mental faculty. In the Spiritual Exercises , attention is an experience that is not independent of the spiritual ideal of attending to God but rather a sign and trace of the latter. Boyle sought to relax the strict regime of earlier meditations by offering a new recipe: his reformed program...

... sense he himself is the forest. Both the eponymous king Perceforest and his great-nephew and heir Gallafur experience dream visions in which their subjectivities appear in vegetal form: Perceforest's depressive mental state manifests itself as an overgrown forest landscape, while Gallafur sees his body...

... is united with Christ through her pain. Analysis of five late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts reveals that the legend is fashioned as a practical guide to the experience and rituals of childbirth. The legend also suggests that the act of engaging with Margaret's life (whether through prayer...

... the fate of souls after death felt particularly urgent and important evidence for the afterlife was provided by spirits traveling back and forth between this life and the next. Insisting on a bodily experience of a spiritual space, rather than a visionary one, the knight Owein provided powerful eyewitness...

... of the confessional divide, in a deep suspicion of, as well as a longing for, the possibilities of satisfacere , making or feeling “enough” in matters of spiritual restitution. In The Merchant of Venice , this fraught understanding of penitential experience takes special shape around the Jew Shylock. Shylock's...

... the context of his experiences in the Norman world of southern Italy understood interactions between Christians and Muslims far differently from his contemporaries in northern France. This is a world in which the lines between Islam and Christianity were more fluid than we would at first expect. While...