...Stephen H. Rigby © by Duke University Press 2004 Historical Materialism: Social Structure and Social Change in the Middle Ages Stephen H. Rigby...

... to better identify the drivers of historical change across medieval and early modern periods. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2025 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All...

... acknowledges all these changes, often in a tone of regretful melancholy. This essay analyzes the losses he records as he comments on the 430 to 500 woodcuts that make up his books, which, under pressure from historical shifts, call the epistemological claims of the genre into question. Duke University Press...

... How do we conceptualize and explain religious change in medieval and early modern Europe without perpetuating distorting paradigms inherited from the very era of the past that is the subject of our study? How can we do justice to historical development over time without resorting to linear grand...

...Steve Hindle The relationship between the historical demography and social history of early modern England is long and complex. In the early stages of their development in the 1960s and ’70s, the two disciplines were entwined, working beneficially together in a historiographical project...

... into cultural change. This essay examines the hagiographical and academic treatments of St. Margaret Clitherow and her incorruptible hand in order to propose a new mode of attunement to the historical significance of religious phenomena. This attunement is developed theoretically using the resources...

... it means to think of these as historical periods in the first place. That is, demography provides exciting and, in some cases, novel ways of thinking about the very old problems of continuity and change in history and culture. Even a broad sketch of the demography of England from the late Middle Ages...

...Joanna Picciotto This special issue is a response to three remarkable developments in the humanities: religion's return to the center of scholarly attention, an outpouring of work on the changing nature and historical conditions of intellectual labor, and the widespread revival of interest...

.... But with the Middle Ages’ loss from history, what is further lost is the possibility of rec- ognizing alternative models of historical change that emerged in the pre- modern period.13 This essay revisits the canonical histories of Gibbon and Burckhardt by returning to their literal point of origin...

...,” argues Fredric Jameson in a maxim several times discussed in this collection.1 Periodization, Jameson suggests, proves essential to the very business of thinking historically: without borders marking off points of temporal difference, it would be impossible to conceive or express historical...

... oriental scholarship? What does the dynamic role of such sources tell us about how divines understood historical changes within British, Christian, and rabbinic traditions? This essay begins by revisiting the historiographical treatment of oriental scholarship within puritanism and conformity...

... historical significance and honor as the name “England.” 396  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.2 / 2013 To understand the profundity of the fear inherent in an alteration of the royal style, it should be remembered that English apprehension about a change in name...

... be denying historical change. It does, however, mean, we submit, that we have in this approach a more historically accurate and sensitive basis for understanding that change. a Notes 1 The JMEMS statement of purpose is published inside the front cover of each issue. 2 On this idea...

... the cycle’s text and performance in relation to mod- els of historical change — in the former case, changes in religious ideology and polemic; in the latter, changes in constructions of civic identity and power. My own reading of the contradictory circumstances through which we know the Chester cycle...

... and Robert- son’s) one-sided caricature of Darwinism. With natural selection, Darwin bequeathed to the study of medieval drama a perfectly fruitful, nonteleologi- cal analogy for historical change, of which Chambers, with some important modifications, has made the best use to date. However...

... confessional identities are the cause, not the product of historical change.14 Such an assumption contravenes a basic principle of historicism — that of historical specificity — in so flagrant a way that the point need not, perhaps, be further belabored. True, Shuger notes in a footnote that the tract...

... of a fully elaborated Trinitarian theology were, indeed, historical changes under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the Church’s bridegroom who, true to his promise, had never abandoned the Church.19 It was Wycliffite heresy, rather than Catholic orthodoxy, which saw the marks of history in the Church...

... Hogan / Tudor Shock Doctrine  471 Earlier on in the book, as well as in The Origin of Capitalism, she explains these changes in agrarian relations already occurring in the English country­ side as the earliest historical emergence of capitalism. What this entailed in Ireland was the replacement...

... pertaining to the Life Questions came about” (82, my emphasis). His chapter on the political control of the churches in the Reformation and modern liberal states displays historical changes from the Middle Ages “that enable us to explain the situation in which we find ourselves today” (131, my...

... in the nineteenth century and privilege skin color, but curiously concludes that those who trace racism back to the sixteenth century are guilty of making antiblack racism a “constant feature of white people’s psyche” and of disregarding historical change (300). 16 Medievalists, on the other...