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Credibility, Certainty, and Belief in Legal Thought and Moral Theology, or On the Afterlife of Augustine's Credulitas
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., and yet they were linked with and responded to each other in complex and interesting ways. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern legal judgment moral theology Augustine belief physical evidence Examining the intellectual, cultural...
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Bodies of Evidence: Judges and Surgeons at the Crime Scene in Early Modern France
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
...’ warnings regarding the difficulty of the medico-legal enterprise, the potential for human error, and the possibility of corruption, surgical expertise played an increasingly important role in the performance of judgment in early modern France. Coupled with judges’ own readings of the bodies of defendants...
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“And he hath enough”: The Penitential Economies of The Merchant of Venice
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
... as for legal judgment”; The Harmonies of “The Merchant of Venice,” (New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978), 32.
82 Harry Berger, “Marriage and Mercifixion in The Merchant of Venice,” in his Making
116 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.1 / 2010
Trifles of Terrors...
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Magical Politics from Poitou to Armenia: Mélusine, Jean de Berry, and the Eastern Mediterranean
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 275–301.
Published: 01 May 2013
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in the gate he made to spy on her (241; 660).
Mélusine’s parting gift to the now discredited Raymond is two
rings which will guarantee protection from lawsuits and in battle. Raymond
and his heirs will never be defeated “in a trial or legal judgment in court or
in combat” [en plait ne en...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 September 2023
... repudiated. The first such moment is Kant's Critique of Judgment (1790), formulated after more than two centuries of agonized Protestant hostility to visual religious artifacts. After two hundred years of iconoclasm, the discourse of Aesthetics faced the challenge of evangelical disgust...
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The Audacity of Judging Mind in Medieval England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 493–518.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Elizabeth Papp Kamali In medieval English texts, a common refrain, drawn from scripture, urged that only God could search the mind and heart of a sinner, and that those who judge others might face their own grave judgment on the last day. This sits uneasily with the task of issuing a felony verdict...
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Visual Judgment: Physiognomy, Law, Medicine, and Art in Sixteenth-Century Venice
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 9–32.
Published: 01 January 2024
.... As an aspect of judicial procedure, physiognomy supplied a critical tool that allowed jurists and judges in court to ground their judgment of a defendant's body when assessing the likelihood of whether the accused committed a crime. In the sixteenth century, physiognomy was still a learned academic...
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Shakespeare's Everyman : Measure for Measure and English Fundamentalism
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in which some held tenaciously to the law,
even when a central argument in Luther’s protest lay in privileging faith to
the exclusion of the works of law. In this play about judgment, a play that
formally borrows from its medieval predecessors, Shakespeare affirms that no
legal system can...
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Making or Declaring Law? Legislative Intent and Privileged Speech in Anglo-Saxon England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 545–571.
Published: 01 September 2023
... much as “arrived at through reflection, deliberation”—something that minds long exercised in matters of judgment are most equipped to discern. As is somewhat the case with the Old English verb reccean , and definitely the case with gehycgan , the verbs explaining the relationship of the king's...
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The Cursed and the Holy Body: Burning Corpses in the Middle Ages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
... them nicely boiled and roasted.1
Thomasin presents a harsh picture of the contemporary treatment of heretics
with a witty play on the word geriht (“dish” or “judgment Leopold’s treat-
ment of the heretics on behalf of the devil makes Leopold look fiercer in his
punishment of heretics than...
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The Art of Conjecture: A Window into the Heart
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 January 2024
... is not merely the expression of the will of an individual judge. Rather arbitrium is a form of reasoning and involves the exercise of judgment. It also requires that the judge follow the laws. That Zavattari, like Casoni, addressed questions of judicial procedure in a dialogue is suggestive. For the most...
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The Substance of Shadows: Imagination and Credit Culture in Volpone
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2013
... judgment. The response of merely increasing
legal oversight, encouraging contracts and formal bonds, turns into simply
a deferral of the original crux; after all, is not the legal institution (or the
Sovereign, or the State, or the Bank) itself just one more symbolic Other,
on a vast scale? What...
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The Body Debated: Bodies and Rights in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Germany
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2008
... protested the marriage. Mühlenbein’s second report
included quite fine sketches of Ernst (see fig. 5) and of the still-born infant.
The consistory then forwarded the entire bundle to the Board of Health for
its judgment. Three members produced opinions. All gave reasons...
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“Botched Execution” or Historical Inevitability: Conceptual Dilemmas in Brad S. Gregory's The Unintended Reformation
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 603–628.
Published: 01 September 2016
... judgment is ultimately inseparable from
an eschatological framework. The result is an engaging and often illuminat-
ing narrative of historical decline, punctuated by emphatic local instances of
strong moral judgment; yet it is oddly inexplicit about the theological and
metaphysical sources...
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Charity, Neighbors, and Gender in London Godly Sermons: John Downham and William Gouge
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 593–615.
Published: 01 September 2024
... literature. For instance, Robert Allen, in A Treatise of Christian Beneficence (1600), focuses on the Shunammite woman’s judgment of Elisha as a “holy man” and deserving of hospitality, giving her husband only a parenthetical mention: a “certaine Lady of Shunem, obseruing how Elisha the Lords prophet...
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The Byzantine Icon of the Virgin in the Church of the Blachernae: Michael Psellos on the Problem of Miraculous Timing
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 241–262.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and announce it immediately, but after determining his decision he delays his sentence until whatever proper time he might wish” (5.12). Indeed, God's own sense of timing is consonant with that of the Theotokos, as he sits in judgment and condemns “not whenever one might wish to transgress, but whenever one...
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Survivors of Witch Trials and the Quest for Justice in Early Modern Germany
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 349–375.
Published: 01 May 2020
... case of an absolutio ab instantia not a definitive acquittal, but rather a provisional judgment that would allow the authorities to resume the trial in the future if new, incriminating evidence were to emerge.14 And yet, despite all this injustice, Margareth Los s resilience was not broken...
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Provoking Performance: Printed Dialogue and Early Modern Publics in Christopher St. German's Salem and Bizance
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 431–451.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in the dispute. Salem and Bizance's private agreement does not suffice as an adequate resolution of the debate, since they feel that the response must be published and submitted to the judgment of a wider audience. Bizance in fact makes the sharing of an opinion about the treatise the condition of his writing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 January 2000
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readings. Her definition of fame (a fame which Cavendish well knows can-
not escape the influence that her readers’ gender schemata will have on their
judgment) as “nothing but a great noise” conceives of fame as a volatile and
changeable social and cultural process set...
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Reconceiving France: Form and Allegory in Alain Chartier's Quadrilogue invectif
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (2): 271–294.
Published: 01 May 2025
... husband remains, is represented by an incomplete line. Chartier ends this debate like one of the previous works, with an appeal for external judgment. The ladies ask the narrator to decide which of them is most miserable, but he defers to his absent lady, again expanding the boundaries of his fictional...
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