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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
... the trial in Speyer, Archduke Ferdinand intervened in the affair and demanded that the case be dismissed.32 Furderer s death in 1532 preempted a decision about his legal status, but it did not end the matter. Margareth Los was determined to pursue her case and proceeded to sue the widow and children...
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Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 January 2000
... to the city some two
years before the legal proceedings. Ennel Helmstat, a female witness, had
questioned Katherina Hetzeldorfer and had passed on what she learned to
Hans Welcker. When interrogated in court, Welcker, like Helmstat, con-
firmed having heard...
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Recasting England: The Varieties of Antiquarian Responses to the Proposed Union of Crowns, 1603–1607
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 393–417.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., this article shows that there was no monopoly on
what counted as an autochthonous legal heritage. Faced with a perceived
(and exaggerated) elimination of English statehood, the antiquaries both
complemented and complicated the conventional common law assump-
tions so replete in the parliamentary debates...
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Collaborating across Generations: Thomas Heywood, Richard Brome, and the Production of The Late Lancashire Witches
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 339–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
... shared a commitment to a regulatory juridical process:
they agreed upon bringing in the witches, first into the Lancashire assizes,
then into London.75 The Late Lancashire Witches, particularly the characters
of Arthur, Doughty, and Generous, dramatizes the embrace of legal routine
and the self...
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Building Paper Embassies: A Prehistory of The Compleat Ambassador
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 541–564.
Published: 01 September 2020
... brother, initiated legal proceedings over Ursula s right to the Carisbrooke Priory, and lost.39 The letter shows that Cecil kept an eye on Walsingham s interests during the latter s absence in France. The last two of Meisei s additions to the Ambassador are part of Walsingham s regular correspondence...
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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
..., Proceedings, and Usage of Parliament , ed. David Lidderdale, 19th ed. (London: Butterworths, 1997), 69. 94 Campbell, “Stubbs and the English State,” in Anglo-Saxon State , 247–68, at 267. 71 “Cum igitur constet, ad salutem populorum, regnorum incolumitatem, vitamque omnium quietam et beatam...
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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
... been described as “the rise of Protestant legalism.”5 Beyond
the potential prosecution of sexual crimes such as those dramatized in the
play, another grave consequence of the legalistic movement was the promo-
tion of Mosaic law allowing the death penalty for idolatry, which, for many...
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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
... / The Cursed and the Holy Body 133
proceedings in this case followed a well-regulated order guided by a thought-
ful consideration of the serious legal issues.
An orderly legal deliberation seems even more unlikely when we
compare the case at Orléans to other similar events. In 1030, the authori...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 387–395.
Published: 01 September 2021
... is ultimately irreducible to any “archive” of recorded texts—e.g., the manuscript illuminations, handbills, trial proceedings, liturgical and civil ceremonies, printed debates, epic poetry, newsbooks, and secret society rituals that our contributors examine—we acknowledge that repertoire is also always...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 659–686.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in the Central
Middle Ages. International Medieval Research: Selected Proceedings of the
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, vol. 6. Turnhout:
Brepols, 1999. xx, 196 pp.; 7 maps, 2 tables, 5 plate. EUR 40.00.
Truman, Ronald W. Spanish Treatises on Government, Society, and Religion...
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George Herbert and the “Discipline” of History
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 349–378.
Published: 01 May 2001
... for their excessive legalism. Of the bishops he writes: “I
dislike that laws be contemned, or disturbers be unpunished. But laws are
likened to the grape, that being too much pressed yield an hard and
unwholesome wine” (15). Of the Puritans he observes that “they carry...
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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
..., a reality that persists into the eighteenth century, as legal treatises such as Prévost's acknowledge ( Principes de jurisprudence , 188–89). 29 Blégny, La doctrine des raports de chirurgie , 22. 28 Porret, Sur la scène du crime , 145. Some early seventeenth-century jurists nevertheless did...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., 1603 –1649. Woodbridge, Suf-
folk: Boydell, Press, 2006. x, 278 pp. $85.00.
9. Law
Andersen, Per, Mia Münster-Swendsen, and Helle Vogt. Law before Gra-
tian: Law in Western Europe, c. 500–1100. Proceedings of the Carlsberg
Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History, vol. 3. Copenhagen...
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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
... that after Lateran IV more widespread lay confession brought new issues into view: “the choices of lay people, the distinction between legal liability and internal guilt, how rules should be applied if they are counter-productive or impose conflicting imperatives.” Emily Corran, “Moral Dilemmas in English...
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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
... operates by feigning companionship and sympathy
toward young men, skillfully confusing the boundaries between informal
and legally binding debt relationships. Lodge pantomimes the common
lure: “If you want money,” says the usurer to his new acquaintance...
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Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 January 2001
.... Edward I ruled a number of
countries, with their own languages and customs, just like Charles IV’s Holy
Roman Empire. There was no requirement that political boundaries coin-
cide with linguistic or legal ones, simply a recognition that each ethnic
entity had...
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“Not a drop of tears, or any sweat from fear came from her”: Interrogating Mind, Body, and Emotions in Early Modern German Witch Trials
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
... witch trials judicial procedure witchcraft beliefs history of emotions gender relations Anna Müller, put on trial for witchcraft in 1616 in the duchy of Württemberg, perplexed her interrogators with her physical comportment during the proceedings: The convict presents herself as fresh...
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The Technology of Reflection: Renaissance Mirrors of Steel and Glass
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 519–542.
Published: 01 September 2002
...–126. All of the known legal documents
pertaining to Gutenberg have been collected and translated by McMurtrie in this
Kalas / Technology of Reflection 541
collection. The proceedings that mention mirror-making were the result of a suit...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 179–208.
Published: 01 January 2003
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term project documenting oral and written source traditions of Anglo-
Saxon legal, historical, religious, and imaginative writing.]
Connolly, Philomena. Medieval Record Sources. Maynooth Research Guides
for Irish Local History, vol. 4. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. 71 pp.; 4
illus., 1 map. Paper...
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Rastell's Pastyme of People : Monarchy and the Law in Early Modern Historiography
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 275–308.
Published: 01 May 2000
... instances of wealthier citi-
zens taking the side of the less fortunate, and Rastell seems to have taken
these role models to heart, for in his Coventry legal work “Rastell’s sympa-
thies appeared to be with the commoners and craftsmen against the ruling
classes.”11 His practice “required him...
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