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The Dance of Death in London: John Carpenter, John Lydgate, and the Daunce of Poulys
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 285–314.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Amy Appleford © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 a
The Dance of Death in London:
John Carpenter, John Lydgate, and
the Daunce of Poulys
Amy...
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The Apotheosis of John Lydgate
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (1): 25–38.
Published: 01 January 2005
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“As False as Cressid”: Virtue Trouble from Chaucer to Shakespeare
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 303–334.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in an unstable universe, Lydgate locates the source of women’s mutability in the cultural contingency that accompanies masculine violence, especially war. Henryson’s bracing meditation on Cresseid’s physical demise exposes the heroic exploitation of women’s virtue, but it also constructs a tangible form...
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Living in the Past: Thebes, Periodization, and The Two Noble Kinsmen
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 173–195.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., all place The Two Noble Kinsmen
within a “medieval” tradition of Theban narratives, identified by Lee Pat-
terson, of which Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale is the most famous example. For
Patterson, in texts such as the Knight’s Tale, Anelida and Arcite, and Lydgate’s
Siege of Thebes, “Thebanness...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 511–517.
Published: 01 September 2012
... to His Son, which draws upon John Lydgate’s Fall
of Princes. This is followed by Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes, a text that has been
called Lydgate’s most political poem.1 After the Siege comes Lydgate and
Benet Burgh’s Secrets of Old Philosophers, a text that purports to be a let-
ter from Aristotle...
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Nothing Was Funny in the Late Middle Ages: The “Tale of Ryght Nought” and British Library, MS Egerton 1995
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., verse chronicles of the kings of England by
the fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate, the history of London known as
Gregory’s Chronicle — to didactic material like the Boke of Curtesy, Lydgate’s
“Dietary,” a vernacular medical treatise, and directions for bloodletting.4 It
also contains a few...
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Good King Henry and the Genealogy of Shakespeare's First History Plays
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., hagiography, historiography
The failed reign of Henry VI inspired new literary forms for representing
community even in his own lifetime, some of which anticipate, and perhaps
inform, his posthumous cult. So, for example, Fiona Somerset has shown
that John Lydgate’s long verse Life of Saints Edmund...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 447–451.
Published: 01 September 2007
... and models, to Japanese historiogra-
phy; Marisa Galvez examined the editorial histories of medieval vernacular
songbooks as both reflecting and defying modern paradigms of medieval-
ness; Amanda Walling contrasted John Lydgate’s models of periodization in
the Fall of Princes with Lydgate’s own...
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The Physics of Holy Oats: Vernacular Knowledge, Qualities, and Remedy in Fifteenth-Century England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 May 2013
... benefits. Lydgate’s Merita
Missae describes an “encrease of vertue called vegetatyfe” among the nonmir
aculous effects of the Mass.27
While sacraments and drugs were discrete forms of remedy, charms
explicitly interwove the intentionality of language and spiritual qualities
with those...
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The Severed Head as Public Sculpture in Late Medieval England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., þe dede cors [corpse] of þis worpi kny t John Lydgate, Troy Book In 1461 the severed head of Owen Tudor was transformed into public sculp- ture not once, but twice. During this, an especially bloody year in the Wars of the Roses (1455 85), a skirmish between the opposing factions led to his capture...
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Death and the Maiden
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 269–305.
Published: 01 May 2012
... martyrdoms: the power of
virgins over death itself.
For example, John Lydgate’s Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch (writ-
ten ca. relates how she, having accepted baptism against her father’s
wishes, is seen and desired by one Olibrius, pagan prefect of the region.
Olibrius determines that he...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 367–382.
Published: 01 May 2021
... recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. Welsh texts with facing-page English translations.] Lydgate, John. John Lydgate's “Dance of Death” and Related Works . Edited by Megan L. Cook and Elzaveta Strakhov. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute...
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The Author's Three Bodies: Codicological Intentionalism and the Medieval Text
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 573–596.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in Chaucer's Retraction, especially in connections with Lydgate's own policy, see Sobecki, “Lydgate's Kneeling Retraction,” 289–93. The broader question of intentionalism in Chaucer scholarship is treated by Eva von Contzen in “Who Has Intention? Chaucer Studies and the Search for Meaning,” Journal...
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Spiritual Suffering and Physical Protection in Childbirth in the South English Legendary Lives of Saint Margaret
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., with no mention of deformi-
ties.17 Lydgate’s Lyfe of Seynt Margaret prays only for the safety of the mother,
asking that the Lord be her “leche,” or physician.18 Osbern Bokenham’s
legend and a couplet version address the topic of the woman’s pain explic-
itly. Bokenham’s Margaret asks for a “good...
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Who Has Intention? Chaucer Studies and the Search for Meaning
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 597–622.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Lydgate refers the readers of his Troy Book to Chaucer if they wish to delve further into the story of Troilus and Criseyde, there is no question that Chaucer is the one and only voice in all of his texts: “Chaucer can tell you the whole story” [Þe hool(e) story Chaucer kan ȝow telle]. 22 Here...
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To Measure Is to Feel: The Mathematics of Middle English Metric Relics
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., as tradition maintained. In John Lydgate's words, “Thy lemys strecchyd & drawe out riht as lyne.” 70 Lydgate's simile points to the measuring operation itself, for the chalk line was an instrument that helped the carpenter “kepe his mesures trew and gode.” 71 In the York play The Road to Calvary...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 455–473.
Published: 01 May 2006
... with English translations.]
Lydgate, John The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr: John Lydgate’s Illus-
trated Verse Life Presented to Henry VI; A Facsimile [Lives of Saints Edmund
and Fremund]. Edited by A. S. G. Edwards. London: British Library, 2004.
23 pp., [238] manuscript pp. $100.00. [Facsimile...
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Call for Submissions
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 475–477.
Published: 01 May 2006
... with English translations.]
Lydgate, John The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr: John Lydgate’s Illus-
trated Verse Life Presented to Henry VI; A Facsimile [Lives of Saints Edmund
and Fremund]. Edited by A. S. G. Edwards. London: British Library, 2004.
23 pp., [238] manuscript pp. $100.00. [Facsimile...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (1): 197–217.
Published: 01 January 2007
... plates. $65.00.
Montrose, Louis. The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Represen-
tation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii, 341 pp.; 51 illus.
$64.00, paper $25.00.
Nolan, Maura. John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture. Cambridge
Studies in Medieval Literature, vol...
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“A Tomb Once Stood in This Room”: Memorials to Memorials in Early Modern England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 365–385.
Published: 01 May 2018
... stem from
Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, expanded by John Lydgate, whose Glorious Lyfe
and Passion of Seint Albon was printed at St. Albans in 1534; they do not feature in the
vitae produced at St. Albans itself in the Middle Ages by Matthew Paris and others.
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