...Lisa H. Cooper London, British Library, MS Egerton 1995 is a well-known miscellany of the late Middle Ages, filled like others of its kind with practical and didactic texts meant to assist its readers in their attempts at social, economic, and spiritual self-improvement. But it also contains...

...Kirilka Stavreva © by Duke University Press 2000 Fighting Words: Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docu-fiction Kirilka Stavreva St. Ambrose University...

...Heather Hirschfeld © by Duke University Press 2000 Collaborating across Generations: Thomas Heywood, Richard Brome, and the Production of The Late...

...Jeffrey Jerome Cohen © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-05 Cohen 2/26/01 7:00 PM Page 113 a On Saracen Enjoyment: Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval...

... calm late in the Hundred Years’ War. This strategic battering of marginal beings transmitted a hierarchically ordered culture from person to living person while forcefully expelling the Armagnac faction from the hierarchy's highest rank. Observing that the blind men were “treated as fairground...

...Anthony Cutler Duke University Press 2008 a Significant Gifts: Patterns of Exchange in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Diplomacy...

...Iain Macleod Higgins © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a Shades of the East: Orientalism, Religion, and Nation in Late Medieval Scottish Literature...

...Holly Dugan © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a Scent of a Woman: Performing the Politics of Smell in Late Medieval and Early Modern England...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman Mourning the death of a friend posed a problem for late Anglo-Saxon monasticism. Newly reformed under the authority of the Benedictine Rule and the Regularis Concordia , religious were precluded from developing personal friendships so as to protect a world in which all things...

...Katherine Zieman This essay explores the late medieval rhetoric of self-representation and conceptions of audience through an examination of the writings of the fifteenth-century Carthusian monk Richard Methley. Methley is considered as a “public contemplative” — a writer who offers his own...

...Sabrina Corbellini; Margriet Hoogvliet This essay investigates how a specific group of laypeople, individuals and groups of literate artisans in late medieval French and Italian towns, participated in distinctive ways in contemporary devotional reading culture. Through an analysis of colophons...

... • • Chaucer’s Bibles: Late Medieval Biblicism and Compilational Form A. B. Kraebel Trinity University San Antonio, Texas His studie was but litel on the Bible.  — Chaucer, General Prologue...

...Catherine Sanok © by Duke University Press 2002 a Performing Feminine Sanctity in Late Medieval England: Parish Guilds, Saints’ Plays, and the Second...

...Joëlle Rollo-Koster © by Duke University Press 2002 a From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Late Middle Ages Joëlle...

...Andrew S. Jacobs © by Duke University Press 2003 The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy Land Andrew S. Jacobs...

...Annabel Wharton © by Duke University Press 2003 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Rereading Late Ancient Christianity: Introduction...

...David G. Hunter © by Duke University Press 2003 Rereading the Jovinianist Controversy: Asceticism and Clerical Authority in Late Ancient Christianity...

... various notions about the workings of shame. While the Aristotelian tradition prevails in late antique and medieval philosophical psychology, it is also possible to discern a parallel tradition of shame that adapts and exploits Latin Stoic and eclectic material. This article surveys this largely...

... specific statements through their material properties, visual form, and conspicuous display. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8219566 © 2020 by Duke University Press The Severed Head as Public Sculpture in Late Medieval England Sonja Drimmer University...