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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 379–408.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Frances E. Dolan © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.2-06 Dolan 4/30/01 9:39 AM Page 379 a Ashes and “the Archive”: The London Fire of 1666, Partisanship...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 163–186.
Published: 01 January 2014
... a fragment of the True Cross in the fire to test whether it could withstand the flames. The intellectual premise for her experiment with the holy relic can be found in her own écrit or conversion narrative. Analysis of this narrative demonstrates that Anne's application of philosophical skepticism...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
... who have often assumed that a legal tradition must have bound authorities to this peculiar form of punishment. Robert Moore, in particular, considers punishment by fire of heretics as a kind of by-­product of the progressive expansion and consolidation of centralized secular and ecclesiastical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... chastitie, have gotten all the Nuns of my house with childe. Therefore I in charitie have for your soules health appointed you this pennance. At that word all the countrie-fellowes set fire in the thach, and the house began to burne, you see (quoth shee) either burn to death, or else heere lye knives...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 567–596.
Published: 01 September 2012
... be struck from a stone, and then all the lights ceremonially relit from this new fire. The hymn Inventor rutili was sung during the processional.53 The hymn features a great deal of imagery relating to fire. Christ is allegorized as the source of all light, whose palace is decorated...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 117–139.
Published: 01 January 2016
... alchemy (“the art which makes the impure into the pure through fire” [143 and natural magic (137). The mysteries of Healy / Medicine, Metaphor, and “Crisis” in the Social Body  123 the firmament were revealed through an intuitive interaction between the “light” of nature...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 141–165.
Published: 01 January 2016
... there is a man.6 Discussing the heart in 1621, Robert Burton notes that its left side “hath the form of a cone, and is the seat of life: which as a torch doth oil, draws blood unto it, begetting of it spirits and fire.” Accordingly, “as fire is in a torch, so are spirits in the blood.”7 Elsewhere...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... The poem draws its material from vernacular English sermons, biblical judgment accounts, and patristic writings. 5 It opens with some of the Fifteen Signs of Doom common in medieval literature: stars falling, sun and moon darkening, the sea rising, and a global fire. Then, Christ and his angels descend...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 137–171.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... . . . They say that the winds ruin houses and break down trees, and the fire burns them; but the Viracocchie devour everything, they consume the very earth, they force the rivers, they are never quiet, they never rest, they are always rushing about, sometimes in one direction...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 503–531.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., the delight in cruelty, and plenty more. Some of these vices, in his hands, come in for extensive attention: murder alone gets nine chapters, sexual sins even more than that. Beard promises in his preface that with each new tale of a whoremonger consumed by fire or a victim miraculously preserved to expose...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 561–584.
Published: 01 September 2001
... acutely the terrifying moment in which a damned soul experiences “a sodain flash of horror first, and then he goes into fire without light” (Sermons, 2:239). “Goodfriday” hopes for a very different kind of fire, one that will “Burne off my rusts, and my deformity,” but Donne nevertheless remains anxious...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 413–442.
Published: 01 September 2008
... with this it turns greenish; and again, whenever new flesh also is decomposed by the fire of the inflammation, a yellow matter is commingled with the bitter substance. At different times, bile may thus be sharp or bitter, black or yellow, red or green.15 Phlegm is likewise varied...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
... dede. Fire ne water salt not hurte the. And if a woman trawell of childe, take þis crose and lay it one hyr wome and she shalbe hastely be delyuerede with joy with-outen perell, the childe to haue Cristendom and þe moder purificacion of Haly Kirk. 29 [This cross measured 15 times is the true length...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 699–724.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., the languor of love compels the lover to sing, makes his tears grow hot, and where the Maker’s fervor is, there sometimes is the perceptible fire of love] (140).41 Although song is involved in this passage, here, as elsewhere, Methley reserves his alliterative flourishes to describe lan- guor...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 269–291.
Published: 01 May 2020
... in the plural never maumet, always maumez suggesting that idols move in packs. Always multiple, dead, parodic, the challenges that idols present nonetheless provide these narratives with a fundamental kinesis. Idols are fuel for the hagiographic fire. The charges Katherine lays on Maxentius represent...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 425–438.
Published: 01 September 2010
... grace to Henry has been mani- fest in the victory over the French at Agincourt and in the king’s killing of Lollards, his sharp sentence “by which they are given to fire and death.” Henry V is “a new Joshua who has lifted the shield of faith through the death of the Lollards, ‘and especially...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 September 2007
... and the head put it, “Scientia enim thesaurus est” [Knowledge is the real treasure]. Such treasure, the commentator continues, “is not possible for a thief to steal, a mouse to gnaw through, a maggot to demolish, water to wash away, or fire to burn up.”15 And so, what happens when someone sets out...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2009
... is the comparison between the destruction of most of Don Quijote’s library and the fire that destroyed Jonson’s library. Gayton also makes a direct connection between Cervantes, the romances, and Jon- son’s Epicoene. Its two fake knights, Daw and LaFoole, attempt to construct chivalric characters...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 17–43.
Published: 01 January 2014
... of Eclanum; Julian has twitted Augustine with both hating sex and talking endlessly and indecently about it, archly noting that even Adam and Eve covered their nakedness. Augustine fires back, “It is worse to praise what they felt in their shame than to strip it bare, you most shameless man...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 83–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
... a subjectivity whose amorous desire has been quelled. Mount Etna’s fire devours the fire of Venus (“faces Veneris ethnica flamma vorat” [II.vi.4 the envier’s cheeks are pallid, and “Nature’s parts are weak with cold” [Frigida nature cetera membra] (II.vi.6).29 It is envy’s status outside the range...