... and chief allegorist of the sixteenth century are scarce. Through an examination of these texts, this article argues that both works share an identifiable bodily epistemology that positions knowledge production in the bodies of all, including women and lower-status men. Even as this bodily epistemology...

...” of pilgrim-authors — the full range of written and oral resources at their disposal in the complex processes of knowledge production in pilgrimage narrative. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51:1, January 2021 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8796234 © 2021 by Duke University Press The Authority of Written...

...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...

... Goodman, John Milton, John Wesley). There is evidence of a parallel development in scientific circles, as practitioners like Robert Boyle reflected on the necessary role of implicit faith in the collective production of knowledge, a project to which the ideal image of the self-determining individual...

... and an abbess that reveals deep connections to May games. Festivity constituted a mode of embodied knowledge, a somatic and kinesthetic process that conditioned playgoer responses. This essay demonstrates how examining nondramatic performance, including quotidian, ceremonial, and ritual practices, allows...

... Khanmohamadi, In Light of Another s Word: European Ethnography in the Mid- dle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). medieval and early modern pilgrimage historiography writing and reading knowledge production textual exchange and reception Copyright © 2021 Duke University...

.... This issue starts with naming: Jonathan Sawday’s essay is concerned with the geographically and anatomically layered history of accepted nomen- clature, an enterprise very much at the center of the politics of knowledge production in the Renaissance. In mapping the natural environment and man’s...

... operations, while also indicating a correspondence between image making and the production of knowledge. As we can see, the theory of memory as a series of images impressed in wax originates in Greek philosophical works that have an epistemological and metaphysical focus. However, in its...

... that constitute the majority of documents within the archive. The forms of writing that emerge out of the Ulster plantation pay witness to important transformations in the role of historical memory in the production of knowledge. Sixteenth- century historians...

..., Bacon was not the first to recognize workers as thinkers and thinkers as workers.28 The degrading constructions of “maker’s knowledge” in the classical tradition are easily analyzed as the philosopher’s defense against the threat posed by the artisan’s ability to make knowledge productive...

... as social theory and as institution- alized intellectual history. The most arbitrary survey of various modern critical traditions in the West suggests the sheer limitlessness of the Marxist premodern as a domain of knowledge production and theoretical consolidation. Max Horkheimer’s...

..., that is to say, “men and women who worked with their hands in craft production . . . or carried out complex practical tasks such as farming or navigation.”18 Awareness of the important scientific knowledge derived from their activities in workshops, laboratories, and the outdoors has led to a major...

... was an endorsement of practice as the pre- mier site for extramural knowledge production, for the laity “han [have] in her [their] undirstondyng naturali þe same logik whiche clerkis han craftli or doctrinali.”88 Pecock sought to guide these processes by situating practice and its knowledge within a “mingling...

... Picciotto’s Labors of Innocence.62 Picciotto finds in the seven- teenth century a set of thinkers and writers, like Bacon, Winstanley, Hooke, and Milton, who think of the work of the intellectual as the collective labor of useful knowledge production. I am suggesting that there is another figure...

... of knowledge that they deemed essential to the French appreciation of caf- feinated drinks. Unlike trades that thrived on the protection or diachronic transmission of knowledge — or as Evelyn put it, “secrets” — hot beverages created a dynamic triangulation among mercantilism, artisanal production...

..., wealth, and the accompanying notion of disinterestedness, that serves to enable the production of socially determined notions of both trust and truth. In the seventeenth century, “[t]he condition of securing knowledge about the nature of nature was the possession of knowledge about the nature...

... in the production and consumption of knowledge. The use-value of “style” bears little, if any, systematic quantitative relation to its value in cognition. One of several unsettling aspects of the now out- dated but still fecund modern texts that laid the foundations for studying Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture...

... that may accompany it — that a new body of knowledge is possible. By looking at the educational, legal, and spiri- tual aspects of postmortems and autopsies, for example, or even at cadaver stories that center on the manipulation of body parts meant to shock and incite ridicule, as in gallows humor...

... presse as heretofore hath been accustomed.”2 The wording of the decree suggests a practice that was varied, decentralized, and (as such) contentious in early English book production. More surprising, because much less visible, is the fact that sewing figured in the consumption of early...

... that are both informed by historical inquiry and alert to issues raised by contempo- rary theoretical debate. We expect that essays will be grounded in an inti- mate knowledge of a particular past and that their argumentation reveal a concern for the theoretical and methodological issues involved...