.... Overall, this study reemphasizes the fact that without understanding social contexts we can never properly understand the intentions of pilgrim-authors. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51:1, January 2021 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8796246 © 2021 by Duke University Press The Dominican Educational...

... intentions. He did have some deep convictions, especially his abhorrence of theological justifications for rebellion and regicide, but even his efforts to combat such arguments were shaped by practical political calculations as well as purely theoretical concerns. Although he took ideas seriously, a closer...

... before Roland Barthes pronounced his fatwa on authors and authorship in 1968, in fact, the “intentionalist fallacy” had long excised the author and his or her intentions from serious interpretation. Defenses of intentionalism are routinely dismissed as “conservative.” The self-inflicted disciplinary...

.... Defenses of intentionalism are routinely dismissed as “conservative.” The self-inflicted disciplinary damage caused by this proscription has been considerable: other practitioners in the human sciences (notably in law and ethics) place intention at the center of their heuristic practice; they remain...

... in 1968, in fact, the “intentionalist fallacy” had excised the author and his or her intentions from serious interpretation. Defenses of intentionalism are routinely dismissed as “conservative.” The self-inflicted disciplinary damage caused by this proscription has been considerable: other practitioners...

... commentator Robert Kilwardby saw sensible things themselves as “primae intentiones” in his De ortu scientiarum. Scotus held intentions as “extramental similitudes” generated by objects themselves.20 All sens- ing involved some form of intention. First intentions, by moving the will through passions...

... for decades. Long before Roland Barthes pronounced his fatwa on authors and authorship in 1968, in fact, the “intentionalist fallacy” had long excised the author and his or her intentions from serious interpretation. Defenses of intentionalism are routinely dismissed as “conservative.” The self-inflicted...

... dismiss authorial intention and prefer to work instead within interpretative frameworks generated by hypo- stases such as, say, Power or Textuality. The antihumanist hermeneutic schools of the twentieth century repudiated authorial intentionalism, hav- ing lost faith in individual persons as sources...

... negotiates the doctrines of justice and mercy as well as the nature of action. Speaking for another Intercession is a particularly generous form of borrowed speech, or borrowed selfhood, in which the intentions of one person are furthered or carried out by another.3 I am in need...

... the principal operating power of your soul, which is your will. For as many intentions or desires — no more and no less — may be (experienced) in one hour within your will as atoms in one hour (of time The temporal hour and the contemplative will are created alike in being...

... eyes from his intent away: For he in slights and iugling feates did flow, And of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. (V.ix.13) The “mysteries” of Malengin’s “legierdemayne” evoke the enticing, bewitch- ing magic of Catholic rituals...

... and the force of an oath. Such a minimal figure must be the bearer of intentionality. One can be held responsible for an oath only if the utterance carries at least a minimal degree of intention and responsible agency. This is equally true of fictional characters, otherwise fiction would...

... legislation, which itself was inspired by sermons. I do not wish to suggest the primacy of moral intentions, but rather to highlight a relationship that was neither casual nor isolated.2 This nexus is suggested in an explicit manner in the prefaces to the laws, which contain frequent moral appeals...

... of Intention and Three Forms of Homicide and on Two Forms of Knowing and Understanding Human Affairs).10 As he himself testified in his appearance before the Holy Office in 1555, “My profession is in the law, and I am occupied in legal studies, and I have composed many works on this subject.”11 Finally...

..., a reflex of the Reformation and a way of dealing with the schism and violence produced by the Reformation. Reformation theologians, that is, may have been theologi- cally well-­intentioned, but their schismatic disputes produced unsustainable violence within European societies. That appalling...

... of political intent and an intriguing challenge to the diplomatic status quo of the Franco-Norman border zone. Furthermore, two later texts are of interest. William the Breton’s Philippide and the anonymous History of William Marshal, both composed in the early thirteenth century (in other words...

... the encounter as a matter of fortuitous accident, and not one of willed intention. As Amy Boesky explains, “the ideal com- monwealth is found rather than made, [and] the text of utopia is discovered 464  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.2 / 2012 [in conversation] rather than written.”9...

... to appear as it does.20 Even beyond the insistent abstraction of their “arabesque” forms, flowers thus raise the question of meaning — this time as it relates to human intention in the context of mechanical reproduction. For who could be said to have meant these marks as they emerged from the press...

... to Marotti, the appearance of random dis- organization that Marcus values is actually an intentional blind—the result of a conscious attempt to “protect the reputation of Dean Donne from moral taint.”3 376 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 30.2 / 2000 However, this ingenious...

.... The precise diplomatic chan- nel between complaint and censorship here is unclear. From 1619, how- ever, King James had taken a much more active roll in suppressing works both in print and on stage in the interests of protecting Anglo- Spanish relations.2 As such, both the intentions and success of De la...