...Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This volume explores new ways of understanding medieval and early modern conceptualizations of nature in light of current developments in critical animal studies, ecocriticism, new materialism, as well as our expanding knowledge of premodern...

...John T. R. Terry; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Modern scholarship on early medieval views of nature tends to rely too heavily on binary interpretations of positive and negative representations. This article uses an early ninth-century Anglo-Latin poem, Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus (“On the abbots...

...Miranda Griffin; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Across a range of medieval French texts—from the genres of romance, lai , and hagiography—scenes are found involving the discovery and scrutiny of a puzzling, hairy entity that cannot speak for itself, existing outside the confines of human civilization...

...Mary Franklin-Brown; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Alone among the French romances of Alexander the Great penned in the twelfth century, Thomas de Kent’s Roman de toute chevalerie reproduces the story of Alexander’s illegitimate birth from the principal Latin source. According to this account...

...Raphaële Garrod; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This essay historicizes Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the “animal outside” as ingenuity by exploring early modern French polemics stemming from the humanist reception of the Machiavellian simile stating that the prince should deploy both the lion’s...

...Laura Sumrall; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Confronted with the possibility of demonic illness, the physician Johann Weyer (d. 1588) writes that the physician’s work ends and the priest’s work begins when the “evil” of an illness “surpasses natural limits.” This limit, delineating the domain...

...Maaike van der Lugt; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Medieval discussions about breastfeeding were saturated with moral and social meanings and arguments about how a good mother should behave and what makes for a happy, healthy baby. At the center was the question of who should breastfeed, the mother...

...Alice Lamy; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman The medieval Latin West has a long tradition of cosmological writings that stress the difficulty of conceptualizing nature as a single totality. “Nature” is subject to multiple definitions, torn between the sensory and the intelligible. “Nature” involves...

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...Kellie Robertson; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Late medieval writers were enamored with metaphors of scale for imagining mankind in relation to the rest of the created world. This article takes the minor mundus — the idea of the human as a “lesser world” patterned after the greater, cosmic one...

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... such as this, is nonsensical. Much recent criticism (my own included) has been devoted to a relentless demystification of the courtly lyric. Thus, for example, Sarah Kay comments on these same stanzas of lyric that Gaunt / A Martyr to Love 479 stanza V’s...

... or the catastrophe (“suffering with”) enacted by creation. In addition, by portraying the Crucifixion as generating an ecological catastrophe, Christ III extends and questions a current critical understanding of nature. Kay and Zeeman articulate this understanding: “[N]ature is . . . cut through...

... John Milton and Charles I. But eventually interest waned: the last direct continuation was published in 1651; the last three folio editions in 1655, 1662, and 1674. Dennis Kay writes that with the Restoration came a change of taste that was to lead to a marked decline in Sidney s literary reputation...

... move, Sarah Kay has challenged the critical tendency to dismiss female characters in epic as the result of “romance influence.” Because the Chanson de Roland ’s homosocial 90 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 31.1 / 2001 JMEMS31.1-04 Kinoshita 2/26/01 6:59...

... Edited by Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman Volume 49 / Number 3 / September 2019 Current developments in critical animal studies, ecology, and material his- tory and the expanding frontiers of our knowledge of premodern philoso- phy, science, and encyclopedism mean that ideas about “nature...

...: March 1, 2018 Versions of the Natural from Antiquity to Early Modernity Edited by Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman Volume 49 / Number 3 / September 2019 Current developments in critical animal studies, ecology, and material his- tory and the expanding frontiers of our knowledge of premodern...

... culture. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2018 658  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.3 / 2017 Versions of the Natural from Antiquity to Early Modernity Edited by Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman Volume 49 / Number 3 / September 2019 Current developments...

... philosophers and kings” [philosophountes homou kai basileuontes] ( Ep. ad Them. 253b-54b). Julian professed amazement at such a suggestion. It sounded to him as if Themistius, the specialist on Aristotle and no slouch on Plato, had mis- read the masters’ teachings regarding the proper balance...