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Literacy After Iconoclasm in the English Reformation
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 305–330.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and statues was to be replaced by learning to read the English Bible. Literacy, however, isn't easy, even now. Taking up the issues of iconoclasm and literacy from the perspective of recent research in cognitive neuroscience, this essay explores the reformers' misunderstandings about how people could...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 443–456.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., as these essays posit alternative, dispersive, and layered models for the book. By showing that cutting and pasting can rightly be recognized as acts of reading and writing, as specific intellectual gestures, these essays upset much of what has hitherto been known or assumed about literacy, composition...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 511–517.
Published: 01 September 2012
....
Thinking about the contents of the Syon nuns’ library highlights
the importance of texts as monastic cultural productions par excellence
and recalls the fact that monastic literacy, particularly nuns’ literacy, has
received considerable critical attention in recent years.9 The bookish Brigit-
tines...
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Archiving Ordinary Experience: Small-Format Cartography of the English Renaissance
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 359–390.
Published: 01 May 2017
... audiences the authority
that attends literacy by inviting them to participate in a public print sphere
that did not depend on its readership’s lexical prowess.3
However, since these prints chart neither the records of the great
nor the remnants of the excluded, they have fallen through...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 161–180.
Published: 01 January 2020
... in the larger operations of literacy, and we explore several interconnected methods for teasing out the implications of these accounts. The reviewing enterprise and the topic of readership Like so many digital collections that support complex cultural analysis, the WWiR collection of reviews is a proxy. What we...
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Rekindling the Light of Faith: Hymn Translation and Spiritual Renewal in the Fifteenth-Century Observant Reform
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 567–596.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Latin grammar. Katherine Zieman,
for example, proposes a category of “liturgical literacy,” which designates a
mode of interacting with Latin liturgical text that also incorporates musi-
cal ability, swift decoding of script, and good memorization, without giving
priority to any one...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 199–224.
Published: 01 January 2002
... and translations
2. Reference
3. Biography
4. Appropriations
5. Rhetoric, literacy, and learning
6. Dreams and visions
7. Biblical imagination
8. Church, reform, and devotion
9. Gender and works of women
10. Witchcraft
11. Medicine...
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Margery Kempe as Mankind: Scripted Devotion and East Anglian Performance Culture
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 323–345.
Published: 01 May 2023
...: AMS Press, 1989). 26 King, “Morality Plays,” 242. 27 For discussion of the role of memory in Margery's literacy, see R. C. Ross, “Oral Life, Written Text: The Genesis of The Book of Margery Kempe ,” Yearbook of English Studies 22 (1992): 226–37; Sue Holbrook, “Order and Coherence...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (3): 667–669.
Published: 01 September 2006
... modern literature, and
the place of literature in early modern diplomacy; diplomacy, race, and eth-
nicity; diplomacy and discourses of secrecy; diplomatic literacy; the dispatch
as genre; the ambassador as displaced person; queer diplomacy; diplomacy
and the rise of the nation state; diplomacy...
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Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 January 2016
... generically
very different texts, but many of their influences and audiences were shared.
Scholars are well aware that the last quarter of the fourteenth century saw
an astonishing rise in vernacular literary production and that this in part
stemmed from developments in literacy and bureaucracy over...
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The Act of Libel: Conscripting Civic Space in Early Modern England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 375–398.
Published: 01 May 2002
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outlined above, this response does not appear to me in any sense a gullible
one. Rather it suggests a high degree of literacy in reading a material text of
this kind. Moving from the location to the text known to be the queen’s, the
material trace is individualized as the product of a reading experience...
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The Book and the Fetish: The Materiality of Prospero's Text
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 433–468.
Published: 01 September 2002
... as an embodiment of the unbounded ambi-
tion of Baconian science and a remnant of the culture of medieval magic, as
an idealization of a superior European technology and a materialization of
European letters and literacy, as the enchanted “book” of the theater and the
corporeal incarnation of the sorcery...
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Jargon and the Matter of Medicine in Middle English
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 395–420.
Published: 01 May 2012
... curative care
and literacy in late medieval Britain simultaneously increased experiences
of medicine’s obscurity and of textual incomprehension. Medieval men and
women confronted a set of therapeutic models and explanatory terms that
often failed — failed, that is, to be understandable to readers...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 655–673.
Published: 01 September 2013
... 158.00.
Grote, James. Medieval Literacy: A Compendium of Medieval Knowledge
with the Guidance of C. S. Lewis. Louisville, Ky.: Fons Vitae, 2011. xix, 365
pp.; illus. throughout. Paper $34.95.
Härtel, Helmar, et al. Katalog der mittelalterlichen Helmstedter Handschrif-
ten, Teil 1: Cod. Guelf. 1...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2020
... particularly to the emergence of dis- tinctions about kinds of readers. Centrally concerned with the vocabulary of assessment and evaluation, and its implications for changing ideas about readership and authorship, their findings reveal anxieties about reading in an age of increasing literacy, where...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 427–431.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
colonizing power which has enslaved him: insofar as they do represent a
fetishized literacy itself, he is right. Reifying unlettered Ariel’s and Caliban’s
actual physical labor, Prospero’s books, according to Kearney, reveal the
“magic” of New World productivity to be based on slavery.
Ester...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 473–485.
Published: 01 September 2013
... cultural forms. Because of their lim-
ited access to literacy, many of these forms were oral and performative: the
elaborate cycle drama of late medieval England is a preeminent example, but
there are plenteous records of processions, plays, and ceremonies, as well as
protests and revolts...
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Crossing Gazes and the Silence of the “Indians”: Theodor De Bry and Guaman Poma de Ayala
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 173–223.
Published: 01 January 2011
...
for him to join “in día” as “India.” One may wish to dismiss this linguistic
error as being insignificant because Guaman Poma’s literacy in Spanish was
simply not as good as his literacy in Quechua. But the irony is that Chris-
topher Columbus made an equally egregious mistake when he called...
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The Department of Hybrid Books: Thomas Milles between Manuscript and Print
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 457–485.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of pure orality or pure literacy, it is difficult to
imagine a post-Gutenberg text that consists of only speech, script, or print.1
And the hybrid book, neither solely printed nor handwritten nor illustrated,
provides the modern reader with an unexpected feast: copious manuscript
notes...
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Children of Promise: The Bodies of Hadewijch of Brabant
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 317–343.
Published: 01 May 2011
... on, understanding,
and living scripture.17 As D. H. Green has shown, “Even if [women read-
ers were] uneducated and unable to read [a text] in the literal sense,” this
kind of visual or aural reading entails a form of devotional literacy, for “[i]n
devotional and mystical literature, especially popular...
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