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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 147–166.
Published: 01 January 2017
... they also represent a genre of life narrative that profits from the insights of literary and feminist theory. This essay reads the rich harvest of fifteenth-century Burgundian pardon letters as collaboratively authored textual performances as it explores the relationship of these micronarratives...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (3): 433–434.
Published: 01 September 2018
... or of striking continuities across what seems a cultural revolution. Articles in this special issue address foundational questions about the nature of the self over time (continuous across a single life-narrative or cleaved in two by a momentous event); reconciliation with or a break from different social...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 163–186.
Published: 01 January 2014
... Europe,
I foreground the place of unbelief in the story of Anne de Gonzague’s con-
version.8 Using her own écrit, or conversion narrative, this article situates
the princess’s conversion within the broader context of her life in Paris and
revisits the nature of her associations with the Condé...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 223–247.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Carolina
Perception of an object costs
Precise the Object’s loss —
— Emily Dickinson, Poem 1071
Early in the narrative of the eleventh-century Life of St. Nikon, the reader, or
listener, is made privy to a touching episode of family melodrama.1 Nikon’s
relatives, intent upon retrieving him...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 305–330.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Ellen Spolsky Believing that the destruction of church imagery was necessary to the amendment of Christian life, the religious reformers in sixteenth-century England aimed to change minds as well as church furnishings. Image worship was to be replaced by reading, and learning from pictures...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 559–592.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in terms of the questions they provoked about the meaning of life and the nature of death, and about the divine economy of rewards and punishments. This essay places mortalist thinking in relation to competing historiographical narratives of Reformation and secularization in early modern England, paying...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 479–500.
Published: 01 September 2019
...” of an unknown Northumbrian monastic community), as a window into the ways in which early medieval people saw their natural world not as a passive space for human activity, but as an active participant in religious life. This reading comports with ecocritical interpretations of Æthelwulf’s poem alongside...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 January 2021
... University Press A Pilgrimage to Purgatory: Overcoming Doubt through Vernacular Narrative Conventions in the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii Hannah Weaver Columbia University New York, New York Pilgrimage and purgatory are both mechanisms for expiating sin. In this life, pilgrimage is a penitential...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
... source for early microhistory and produce compelling new under-
standings of crime and identity through a heightened critical awareness of
legal sources informed also by recent feminist theory and the new literature
on “life narratives.”6 The perspective from life narratives helps them reveal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2020
... distinct phases establishing Teresa de Ávila as an exemplar for the spiritual life and for the writing of the exemplary life narrative. The example of Teresa de Ávila can be understood through multiple frames: her influence is directly textual (through the translation and recep- tion of her writings...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 January 2017
... seems a cultural
revolution.
We invite submissions to this special issue on conversion that
address foundational questions that continue to engage reflection. What is
the nature of the self over time — continuous across a single life-narrative or
cleaved in two by a momentous event? Does...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 669–671.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and in sometimes striking continuities across what
seems a cultural revolution.
We invite submissions to this special issue on conversion that
address foundational questions that continue to engage reflection. What is
the nature of the self over time—continuous across a single life-narrative...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 193–198.
Published: 01 January 2017
... habitable. This act of know-
ing implies definition, and we usually define something by tracing its limit,
its finis. Natalie Zemon Davis’s marvellous book, Women on the Margins, for
example, tells us about early modern women’s life experience by presenting
three outlier cases that push the limits.1...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2020
... as it was pitched at Continental as well as Irish audiences. Clarke s discussion of the Spanish saint, Teresa de Ávila, concentrates on translations of her life narrative into English. She reveals the centrality of exiled communities of women to the generation of these translations and locates them...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 603–628.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Thomas Pfau This essay takes up a variety of issues arising from within the narrative offered in Brad S. Gregory's The Unintended Reformation . This book has been widely perceived to be informed by a Catholic metaphysic, even as Gregory continues to disavow that framework, or declares...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 January 2016
... bodies,
illness, and treatment. Instead, he should make what has happened fit with
a patient’s idea of himself (the patients all seem to be male), placing the
episode of illness and treatment within the patient’s narrative of his own life
(“causes plesable to the pacient The patient should end up...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 227–268.
Published: 01 May 2002
... at Ely subsequent to her death. The story of
Æthelthryth’s life and of the entombment of her incorruptible corpse figure
largely in this monastic narrative, for the shrine—as a material extension of
the founder’s preserved corporeality—is invoked as the organizing symbol
for the community’s identity...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 539–566.
Published: 01 September 2012
... gen-
dered physiology.
For the most part, the nuns’ descriptions of temporal activity relate
to general contemplative ideals. As in so many details, the English Carmel-
ite narratives echo Teresa de Jesus’s Vida. She laments the “pestilential pas-
times” of her early life when she indulged...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 167–188.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., John Donne: Life, Mind, and Art.
188 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.1 / 2016 John Donne Devotions upon Emergent Occassions illness narrative physical pain and suffering body and spirituality © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 531–548.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Instead, as John Geninges
explains, her act advertises “how acceptable a thing it is in [God’s] sight to
esteeme highly and reuerence the sacred reliques of his chosen Saynts” (Life
and Death of Mr. Edmund Geninges, 90). The narrative presents her success
as partly the result of her virginity...
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