...Dan Breen This essay attempts to contribute to the wide-ranging discussion of periodization in medieval and early modern studies through a new reading of Skelton's Garland of Laurel . The essay argues that Skelton recreates the laurel as a symbol of continuing poetic and historical service rather...

...Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli The ample record of medieval and early modern sumptuary laws represents an extensive historical period and a broad geographical area. Though scholars have not completely ignored these laws, they deserve far more attention and should be explored from many critical...

..., 2018). Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 medieval and early modern English theater and spectacle performance analysis archival documents historical periodization A year or so before Hamlet premiered in London's theater district, an elderly antiquarian named John Stow...

... to define itself.1 The line, that is, is itself a product of revolutionary rupture and of revolutionary ideol- ogy. The very ideas of worlds whole unto themselves, or of past civilizations “in their own terms” are themselves products of revolutionary thought. Our conception of historical periods...

... deal of light on the medieval and early modern periods. Indeed, demographic questions get to the heart of what 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 their periodization of western history, that is both committed to historical research and attentive to the theoretical models shaping such research. Gregory's The Unintended Reformation not only meets this criteria but goes beyond by unfolding an immensely erudite narrative of modernity and its sources. It is a work...

...Margaret A. Pappano; Nicole R. Rice As an economic category, artisans are typically bounded by two historical markers: on one side, the rise of urban centers in the medieval period, and on the other side, the reorganization of commodity production as a result of industrial capitalization...

... to the figure and period. For Heinsius, moreover, tragedy is a precise philosophical resource, enabling him to investigate aspects of agency and affect that exceed the resources of history and philology; tragedy allows audiences to understand the terms of representation as well as the historicity of affects...

... can provide new insights into the interrelationship of gender and genre in the early modern period. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 early modern historical writing Benedictine monastic chronicles Claude Estiennot Anne Neville feminist formalism Journal of Medieval...

... notoriously unmarked by signs of historical difference (clocks and doublets in ancient Rome, and so forth). Shakespeare frequently writes about the Middle Ages. What he does not on the whole do is write about the period in a “medievalist” way. That is, we actually have very little sense that he...

... accept the fact of its own historicity.1 My discussion is divided into three main sections: first, some com- ments on periodization and its problems; second, a survey of some concep- tual and methodological tendencies that have enriched, complicated, but also inhibited our understanding...

... peoples of Catholic France and “New France”—through the lens of gender. In the case of early modern Atlantic dreaming, gender and its confusions in the social imaginary are not tied to the historical practice of female-bodied persons. The femininity investigated here is positional and symbolic...

..., at least in the Middle Ages, into a preeminent liminal space. Within relatively short periods of time, the Wallachian rulers were regarded as either fervent Western Catholics, eager to convert to the Western faith, or as devout Eastern Orthodox, as faithful Christians or as schismatics. Had they been...

...W. B. Worthen What does it mean to think about embodiment without bodies? This essay pursues a question central to all categories of performance—theatrical and extratheatrical—in the early modern period. It explores that question by considering the actions assigned to performers by early modern...

..., in other words, do we engage textual remnants to locate traces of embodied action? A forum midway through the issue offers speculative and provocative answers to this question, and an afterword takes a wider view of the enterprise to think through its implications for periodization and historical analysis...

... be incorporated into historical narratives of the English Reformations in order to understand fully the confessional debates, encounters, and identities of the period. 31 D. E. Eichholz, “A Greek Traveller in Tudor England,” Greece and Rome 16, no. 47 (1947): 76–84, at 77, 84. 32 J. A. Cramer, ed...

... the discussion of diplomatic issues for later historical periods, but the presentist biases of that conversation — cen- tered on nineteenth-century understandings of the nation — have limited its application to the medieval and early modern periods. Current study in the wake of new historicism tends too...

... of international relations has broadened the discussion of diplomatic issues for later historical periods, but the presentist biases of that conversation  —  centered on nineteenth-century understand- ings of the nation  —  have limited its application to the medieval and early modern periods. Nor...

... The recognition and conceptualization of the Mudéjar served to contest schematic models of art-historical periodization as they were applied to Spain, in what Rafael López Guzmán calls “transpyrenneic historiographic colonization.”16 The Iberian experience of hybridization and acculturation over the long...

.... For both the wearer and the viewer, dress does not necessarily relate to any specific historical period or any specific gender. This performativity of dress had previously found visual expression in the “talking garments” fashioned for medieval court perfor- mances, tournaments, and festivals...