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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (2): 377–401.
Published: 01 May 2019
... cry from modern audiences’ tendency to forsake the creative scholar in favor of the seductive bullshitter. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 John Dee Brytanici Imperii Limites English historiography historical credibility politics of imperial expansion ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Catholic theologians found help in the legal meaning of credulitas as a conviction based on a set of reasonable criteria, and therefore as a kind of intellectual judgment based on more or less credible testimonies. 26 In the early modern era, a few crucial religious, historical, cultural...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and Rome presented credible claims to audiences in the 1600s for being the original Mandylion of Edessa. They did so on account of their textual records, but also, and more importantly, due to their physical properties as images that reveal ancient age. This essay neither confirms nor refutes...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 635–655.
Published: 01 September 2012
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The chronicler details the military offensive’s impact upon the town and
records the sisters’ fear and deprivations.33 But, as Isobel Grundy observes,
“the chronicler does not privilege such events” over the recurrent rhythms
of community life.34 Thus, the English nuns’ historical writing was focused...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 175.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., their intended meanings, and potentially divergent interpreta- tions. Sokolov s own historical practice mirrors the caution and nuance of early modern diplomatic practice at its best. In approaching the improvisational theater of the Russian court, he balances what can be known by careful examination...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 659–670.
Published: 01 September 2020
... on speeches and gestures, their intended meanings, and potentially divergent interpreta- tions. Sokolov s own historical practice mirrors the caution and nuance of early modern diplomatic practice at its best. In approaching the improvisa- tional theater of the Russian court, she balances what can be known...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 315–344.
Published: 01 May 2008
... charged aspect of the dramatic imperson-
ation? Of what use is the text to us if it has no credibility as a social-historical
record? Lescarbot’s native may not be credible, but he is conceivable precisely
to the extent he is taken to be part of an authenticating natural scene.
As were so many...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 305–326.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., Brutus, and Arthur allows Mantel to introduce some of
the novel’s central themes: the power of old stories, the mutability and slip-
periness of historical narratives, the return of the repressed, the violence of
new beginnings. Whether they want to be or not, the Tudors, Wolsey, and
Cromwell...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 555–582.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and the corresponding issue of power struggle within church and state; (2) the discovery of the “racial and religious” other and the resultant issues endemic to Spanish colonialism, which had the unintended effect of vitiating the fabric of Catholicism's credibility; (3) the significance of immigration and refugee...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 January 2001
... were part
of their racial makeup. Yet, the Norman gens, as even its idolizers would
have confessed, had once spoken Norse and been pagan; and it strained
credibility to regard Northmen’s attacks on unarmed monks in the Viking
Age as a particularly bold...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the Marshe, which they had before abandoned, partly for the
unwholesomenesse of the soile, and partly for feare of the enemie” (referring
to the attacks by the French).14
Lambarde, William Camden in his Britannia (1586), and William
Harrison in An Historical Description of the Island...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 143–177.
Published: 01 January 2003
... experience of nature.
In his landmark essay “The Structuralist Activity,” Roland Barthes
revisits Hegel’s historical fable on the persistence of human fascination with
“the Natural in Nature” and a readily perceptible (though as yet unnamed)
presence in the natural world.2 Hegel identifies the Greek...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 467–492.
Published: 01 September 2023
... truths that transcended the intentions of inspired but merely human authors. Perhaps a text's intention was not curtailed by the temporal and historical circumstances of its composition? Further, scholastic debate rested on the assumption that truth emerges through vigorous confrontation. In practice...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 125–141.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., fictional
and historical. As we disassemble these boundaries, we return in some ways
to the textual approach of premodern and early modern readers. In sixteenth-
century Europe, the categories of history and fiction were ill-defined, but
became increasingly theorized. Attempts were made to police...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 283–312.
Published: 01 May 2001
... abstractions of
“pure” poetry.5 The historical criticism of Book V, Canto 9, of Spenser’s
Faerie Queene has thus traditionally assumed that the allegory of Mercilla’s
“rich array” is somehow allied with the position Elizabeth’s government
took against Mary Queen...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 January 2000
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but they also could and did shift to accommodate historical circumstances,
even going so far as to legitimate the arming of the Ottomans. This is not to
say that Marlowe wrote his plays to justify an alliance with an Islamic power.
What emerges from his construction...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 531–547.
Published: 01 September 2007
... by efforts to characterize
its performance and preservation as acts of historical significance. Indeed,
the desire to situate the cycle historically is regularly articulated in its docu-
mentary records. Promoters of the cycle misconstrued its history from the
moment they began writing it. For example...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 95–113.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Jaime Goodrich This essay considers how two Benedictine writers, Claude Estiennot (1639–1699) and Anne Neville (1605–1689), engaged with the generic conventions of historical writing, specifically the subgenre of monastic history. In an attempt to complicate critical narratives about early modern...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 511–529.
Published: 01 September 2007
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memorate, archive, and monumentalize the pictorial languages of Codex
Telleriano-Remensis? Agamben underscores the need to resist institutional-
izing histories most lucidly when he states, “To respond to this exigency is
the only historical responsibility I feel capable of assuming fully.”2...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 September 2003
...cally interested in urban forms of the
ascetic life, they are soon forgotten. Landscape theory would argue, how-
ever, that their brief appearance helps to facilitate the working of the illu-
sion. Their presence lends credibility to the myth by connecting it with the
real ascetic landscape...
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