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...Patricia Simons The ubiquity and charm of pissing putti in early modern imagery has inured us to their valence, for an important proof of masculinity in the European tradition is to be able to emit fluids from the penis, usually with some force, and significantly while standing erect. In early...

... for a more fluid and “connected history” to understand the full scope of English Reformation thought and its engagement with non-Western churches and traditions. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...

... in various disciplines should think of the boundaries among the Abrahamic religions on a collective as well as an individual level, not so much as fixed but as porous and fluid, and in almost constant motion. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher...

... 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...

..., cockfighting in Markham’s text reduces discourse to matter, social forma- tion to fluid exchange. The potential unevenness of that exchange forces us to mind the Balinese landlord’s moan, to consider what happens when cock- fighting texts become less usable, or veer away from their otherwise transpar- ent...

...” for some of his students (GH 28r). In another “privata anatomia” performed for German students, Fallop- pia taught them the different means of treating abdominal dropsy, includ- ing surgically opening the abdominal wall in order to relieve the abdominal cavity of some of the fluid (GH 144v – 45v...

...- logical phenomena of water and wood shaped the devotional images of the jubé in the chapel of Saint-­Fiacre by keeping the vitality of natural elements present in sacred objects. Water and wine: Fluid ecology and the blood of Christ The fountain of Saint-­Fiacre is located about a half...

.... There is the “acid phlegm,” which origi- nates in black and acid bile, and becomes salty through heating. But there is also another sort, which involves air and is produced by dissolution from new and tender flesh. And when this is inflated and enclosed by a fluid, and when as a result...

... were not transcripts, as is the case in modern musical notation: often they did not fix the music at the moment of original scribal copying, but were added to, embellished, and annotated over a period of many years. The material form of manuscript epitomized the fluid and adaptable combination...

... it, “[O]riginally the mumia of the tombs was considered to be the resinous, aromatic exudate which came from the bodies of ancient Egyptians and which received a special virtue because it contained the fluids of the body.” Karl Dannenfeldt, “Egyptian Mumia: The Sixteenth Century...

..., that the sanctified body is its own place, able by a kind of pious alchemy to make gold from lead, or manna from poison. His conviction is neatly conveyed by his reference to “the very same measure of melancholic matter,” as if he imagines Satan decanting carefully calibrated test tubes of fluid, in order...

... as a “redemption” of the female body from some contemporary condemnatory and “monstrous” associations of poros- ity, breach, and fluid release.4 In less gendered readings, Julian’s corporeality is understood precisely as a conscious antithesis of the contemptus mundi tradition; in this view, the spiritual...

... contains a more fluid definition of culture. The Chronicle shows that the diversity of language along with class difference make medieval cultures particularly difficult to define. In fact, the text illustrates the tensions between and negotiations within cultures and subcultures. However, Mannyng makes...

... and imperial identity—a similar repertoire is consciously used to bolster the idea of England by the later West Saxons.4 To such fluid mappings of space—north, south, east, and west— that are the matter of empire and the result of the interplay between physical and cultural geographies, we might add...

... indeed able to “shed tears from their eyes, or drops of blood, or make some movement as if they were alive.” 17 Such miraculous shedding of body fluids, was, in the medieval and early modern European imaginary, originally connected with the Virgin of Saidnaya , a late ancient Syriac icon...

... kind of boldness. Norman racial characteristics were, therefore, fluid. The Norman race had “improved” over time, but not, it seems, primarily because of exogamy, sexual mixture with other races. To modern racists who believe race is innate and immutable this last...

... and sometimes mentioned in individual entries, as ways of understanding relationships between species, such as here: “le chat resamble au liepart de pies et de tete et de oreilles” (304v) [the cat resembles the leopard in its paws, head, and ears]. Such groupings remain fluid: the lynx, for example, resembles...

... performances—quotidian and ritualized, occupational and festal, carefully prescribed and improvised—reveal about medieval and early modern culture? What is the role of the premodern spectator in ostensibly nondramatic performance, and in what ways does the fluid and disruptive nature of performance...

.... In the seventeenth century, the split between the fluid body of empirics and the mechanical bodies of learned scholars and practitioners became even more pronounced. These dynamics take shape against the backdrop of Vesalius’s skeletons and the circulation of a visual archive of the body that responded...

.... In the reading that follows, I attend to the tension between these fluid processes of manipulation and Shylock’s conflicting belief in the utterly unrepresentable and untransferable. My proposal is that this tension repli- cates early modern anxieties over the soul: the threat that Shylock embodies...