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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 299–332.
Published: 01 May 2024
... conjoined and their respective agencies. Drawing on ideas about prostheticized bodies developed in disability studies can help scholars better understand the ontological questions raised by the melding of human and nonhuman matters, the profound vulnerability this entails for the devout human subject...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... Attending to the formal aspects of Christ III , critics might see that this poem illuminates how language communicates suffering's ineffability without attempting to render it fully knowable. Christ III 's forms do this particularly in relation to the nonhuman world: as creation responds to Christ's...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to understand the place of humans in relation to nonhuman beings in the world. Focusing on this shared fascination between texts helps to establish a deeper comprehension of how premoderns viewed their connection to the natural world. It would be careless to suggest that these two texts, which heavily...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., even secular, than religious or theological. All contributions combine the detailed study of specific texts and problems with wider historical, theoretical, or philosophical inquiry. premodern concepts of the natural world ecological criticism human and nonhuman relations philosophy medicine...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 January 2013
... from exposing the necessarily distant nonhumanness that constructs the illusion of the cohesive human. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a
Governing the Wolf:
Soul and Space...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 233–262.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... At the same time, since the dreamer’s own action of look-
ing seems to encourage the trees to grow, the passage raises the question of
human versus nonhuman agency, and indeed the question of who or what
might be considered human in the first place. These trees, like humans,
organize themselves...
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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 (2022) 52 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., then, lies not in a simple binary of human/nature or active/passive, but rather in how men's agency intersects with the natural world: in a relation of resigned antagonism to wolves, weather, and fellow men, or in imitation of the Creator who shapes raw materials into objects of beauty—a song, a gold cup...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
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of cultural studies.9 From these perspectives, I argue, the cockfight becomes
not just a significant and signifying early modern sport or pastime, but a
site for renegotiating human and nonhuman relations, an exemplum of the
functions and limits of anthropocentrism, and a test case for the simultane...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... are mentioned, this remains a kit for making a taxonomy of aquatic living beings, with the work left to readers. Taxonomical work is carried out more fully in relation to birds. The introduction to book XII suggests an initial division between those that like and dislike human company. Voices provide...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 119–145.
Published: 01 January 2022
... materialist theory, which Katherine Little has recently argued emphasize the agency of nonhuman things while diminishing the capacity of humans to affect the social relations that give those things meaning and power over people's lives. Katherine C. Little, “The Politics of Lists,” Exemplaria 31, no. 2...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 497–507.
Published: 01 September 2021
... offstage social codes of gesture, movement, behavior, clothing, spatiality, speech, and refiguring them through its distinctive, always changing, highly conventional means. Theater is a practice and a site that represents other human and nonhuman media in and as action, and the body it uses functions both...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 567–591.
Published: 01 September 2022
...). This vulnerability makes the human creature reliant on the care of others, summoning relational virtues such as gratitude and trust: “only man is born in such a state that he must be long dependent entirely on the help of others,” so that he “owe[s] the gift of life not so much to himself as to the kindness...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 145–172.
Published: 01 January 2013
... on
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place-making efforts. My interests are phenomenological, not historical: I
want to understand how human appearing as well as the appearing of things
unfolds within the special light cast by welcoming. The tools and techniques...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to the study of nature in the Middle
Ages is Sarah Stanbury’s “EcoChaucer,” which explores how Chaucer relates, through
rhetorical, metaphorical links, humans and objects in the natural world such as trees
and flowers. Such an investigation places Chaucer studies within the field...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 275–301.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., even as her
human form takes on nonhuman features.
This is but one example among many in which the Roman de
Mélusine challenges readers, both medieval and modern, to reconsider the
concept of motherhood in unexpected ways: first in terms of hybrid bod-
ies and then in relation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 315–337.
Published: 01 May 2016
... calls for the use of a nonhuman “image” of Christ in place of
an actor. As I will show, the Croxton play also paradoxically enacts anxieties
about the nature and propriety of dramatic activity itself; as Derrick Hig-
ginbotham writes, it “focuses on impersonation as both potentially unscru-
pulous...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 421–459.
Published: 01 May 2012
... between a magical,
virtually nonhuman element, which he associated with the power of the imagination
to lift itself away from the constraints of reality, and an all- too- human element, which
he associated with the artisans’ trades that actually made the material structures...
