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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... proprietatibus rerum , undertaken for Charles V of France. This article surveys the system for conceptualizing nature in Corbechon's encyclopedia. The Livre 's account of animal, vegetable, and mineral life surpasses that of bestiaries and other vernacular encyclopedias, providing an idiom in French...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 323–342.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., which held that all animal and plant life will perish after the Last Judgment and not be part of the promised “new heaven and new earth,” Bradford argues that creation in its entirety—not just humanity—will joyously be freed from the suffering it has endured since the Fall. © 2015 by Duke University...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 January 2013
... that revels in its imagery
even as it forecloses on its possibility:
Thou almost make me waver in my faith,
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern’d a wolf, who hang’d for human...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 567–591.
Published: 01 September 2022
... with human and animal life. He describes man as a “gentle animal, which nature created to be peaceful and well disposed to its fellow creatures.” Of all created things, man comes into the world without any natural defenses, “naked, weak, delicate, unarmed, with very soft flesh and a smooth skin” (320...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 521–540.
Published: 01 September 2019
...-Machiavellian lawyer Innocent Gentillet during the French wars of religion. Against Gentillet and with Plutarch, Montaigne fully acknowledges the importance of ingenuity as “the animal outside” in human sociability. early modern French politics moral philosophy Gorgio Agamben human and animal life...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... imaginable.” 7 But human oppression just as often animalizes particular sorts of people, operating from a presumption of human superiority. The scenario from the streets of Paris degrades the blind participants to pig-level and disregards the pig's suffering, as do most scholarly commentators. Yet its pig...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 January 2013
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began in perception psychology, and he coined the term ecological optics
to define the way in which animal perception, including the habits of the
human animal, is ambient and tangible, a constant multisensory “keeping-
in-touch with the world.”9
Although the ground affords locomotion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 669–679.
Published: 01 September 2024
... with humans.] Kreiner, Jamie. Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West . Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2020. xx, 340 pp., 7 maps, 32 color plates, 48 black-and-white illus. Hardcover, ebook. Hengerer, Mark, and Nadir Weber, eds. Animals and Courts, c...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
... hybridity in the literature of this period, unveiling a way for a creature to be simultaneously hybrid and natural. Mandeville's Travels Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World monsters hybrid creatures animal and human relationships Several prominent scholars in early modern literary studies...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
... are conflicting systems of meaning that at once affirm and disrupt anthropological distinctions between human and animal activity and the anthropocentric ideologies that construct such demarcations. Reading the early modern cockfight challenges us to critique how we engage sport, early modern culture, animals...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 January 2018
... assembly of male onlookers. In the process of peeling away
identities, eager anatomists opened, for all to see, the new human continent
that once proclaimed only God’s handiwork.
These decades were also the times of discoveries of new regions,
different people, novel ways of life. As Columbus...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 585–615.
Published: 01 September 2014
... also profoundly shape human response, its materiality can pervade
spaces far from its original locale, and it can engage in sophisticated theo-
logical problems. Animate nature does not have to be “in nature,” wherever
that may be.73 “Ecology permeates all forms,” writes Tim Morton, striving...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 523–557.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and Peru, to find an animal Viagra-equivalent in that expanse of lands where marvels were contained. The duke's discreet fantasy of resurrecting the flesh, anchored in male anxiety, narcissistic excess, and a peculiar dream of domination, occupies hardly a footnote in the multinational project...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 513–543.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the fallen
human condition and the purpose of human life implicit in medi-
eval Christianity. . . . As [Thomas] à Kempis asked rhetorically,
in effect echoing Augustine and the entire medieval Christian
tradition, “What hinders or afflicts you more than the uncon...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
... guardian if need were
To keep my life and honour unassailed. (212 – 19, my emphasis)
The Lady’s exclamation at the center of her vision — “I see ye visibly, and
now believe” — hints at a form of learning that is more immediate than
human language and mediation: vision is separated from...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 415–443.
Published: 01 September 2022
... if he passionately wishes that he might be released from being a human creature. He longs to become a tree, with protective canopy of shade and appreciated produce of fruit. He longs to become a life form in which “trust” and “just” rhyme, as they so painfully fail to rhyme in Calvinist relations human...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 September 2008
... breezes” which “moderate the heats.”
He added, linking the health of humans with that of plants and animals,
that the breezes “invigorate every thing that grows, so they give both to man
and beast at the same time their health and refreshment.”18
There was, however, a problem. According...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 487–506.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early
Modern Literature. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 238 pp.; 8 illus. $49.95.
Höfele, Andreas. Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shake-
speare’s Theatre. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiii, 315...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 629–651.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of human physiology and sustenance.
Taking the nutritive interpretation of “nescessary” in the purse
analogy, the passage as a whole speaks of the supreme degree of God’s self-
giving, which extends down to humanity’s needs of life and nourishment.
This “lowest perte” of human need...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in aesthetic understanding.
Children, medieval and Renaissance pedagogues constantly note, need not
just moral instruction, spiritual inspiration, or social monitoring. They need
to see the beauty in the world; need to distinguish between human artifice
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