... in that a figural pose conveys gendered affections while often invoking high-­status male roles such as military general, scholar, or clergy- man. The chosen postures for the musclemen echo the portrait by Titian, General Alfonso d’Avalos Addressing His Troops (1540 – 41).34 The pose mod- eled after Alfonso...

... in the Middle Ages. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023. xvii, 181 pp., 1 fig. Hardcover, ebook. Wells, Marion A. Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature: Afterlives of the Nightingale's Song . Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Cham: Palgrave...

... commitment is completely undermined. But Lydgate recognizes late medieval gender expectations as the primary source for her shifting affection: As sittyng is to femynyte, Of nature nat [to] be vengable [vengeful], For feith nor oþe, but raþer mercyable Of mannys lyf...

..., gender, sexuality, subalternity, and new modes of intellectual history have occasionally used diplomatic sources, but they have rarely investigated the diplomatic practices that cre- ated those sources in the first place. The modern cross-disciplinary study of international relations has broadened...

... the possibilities of human agency as a central feature of the poem's meditative exploration of human contingency, arguing that the poem itself is an exercise in containing and controlling affective responses to the existential dread of pain, suffering, and death. 7 The cræft of poetry, in the Old English sense...

...Constance Furey This essay seeks to understand the assumptions about marriage bequeathed to us by early modern Protestants by exploring the Puritan interest in mandated affection. For Puritans, obligatory love was the foundation for the covenant between believers and God and the reason why...

... phenomenon that goes beyond the boundaries of gender. Corinne Saunders, for example, focuses on what she calls “the affective body” in visionary texts ranging from Mallory and Chaucer to Julian and Margery.7 Perhaps the most frequent invocation of the body in the critical reception of these texts...

..., and Ursuline missions. The larger context for these authors is the traditional European symbolism that guided their rhetoric and belief, in which it will be useful to remember that gender is a “sorter” of affects and behaviors, of forces and regions of understanding, of mobility, status...

... language. The study of medical discourse and its flexibility connects with work on the history of the emotions, on affect and feeling, on disability, on cognition and sense perception, and on form and genre. Many of the essays here consider reading as an embodied practice and explore how the practice...

... has studied the ways in which the end of the Roman Empire might have affected the status of women or the con- struction of gendered identities, there has been little or no attempt to give the negotiation and renegotiation of masculinity or femininity an active role in this dramatic, large-scale...

...- mate knowledge of a particular past and that their argumentation reveal a concern for the theoretical and methodological issues involved in inter- pretation. We are particularly committed to work that seeks to overcome the polarization between “history” and “theory” in the study of premodern...

... in “Masquing Habits,” celebrating the carnival at the beginning of the play.15 However, like many other dramatic and fictional works by Behn, this play structures imperial and colonial poli- tics around the issue of gender. In this respect, the female characters stand in for the oppressed subjects...

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... to gender and a ect theory. Herein lies the second goal of this essay, which is to show that A Christian Mannes Bileeve prioritizes the inte- gration of emotion with intellect. It does this by guring a thinking heart throughout its lessons instead of either focusing solely on emotions, or on guring...

... in ethically crucial ways: medievalism will never affect the lives of medieval people as Orientalism has affected and continues to affect the lives of living people. In addition, any theory’s creative reach is limited if it is used instrumentally, applied to a medieval body...

... sentience. This analysis reveals the investments of a medieval theory of sentience with implications for both hagiography at large and the twenty-first-century material turn. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8219554 © 2020 by Duke University Press An Old...

... Denton, Texas Gender historians studying the medieval and early modern periods have for decades focused much of their research on women and power.1 One growing area of scholarship within this general topic of interest has concentrated on religious women and the late medieval and early modern reform...

... to biopolitical changes in the constructs of race and gender contemporary to the Internet's rise. 24 Kiernan's rhetoric of praise for digital facsimiles is an example of affective responses described by Chun that have been shaped by the particular conditions of medieval studies. In this section and the next, I...

...? And to what effect? This essay answers these questions discursively and cul- minates in a discussion of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle monuments that con- siders style in terms of ideology. My intention is to show how national identity in eighth-century Northumbria—ideas about dominion and gender, and so...

... in affect. While narrowly epistemological approaches to the study of religion have long been criticized for failing to capture aspects of mental activity that can't be described in rational-propositional terms, perhaps only a small portion of anyone's intellectual life can be adequately rendered...