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Eros in the Flesh: Petrarchan Desire, the Embodied Eros, and Male Beauty in Italian Art, 1500–1540

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Stephen J. Campbell
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (3): 629–662.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-35-3-629
Published: 01 September 2005
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The Artless Devil in The Book of Margery Kempe

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Kimberly Fonzo
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 245–269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11130344
Published: 01 May 2024
...Kimberly Fonzo This article argues that the devil's appearance in chapter 59 of The Book of Margery Kempe is a creative adaptation of Legenda aurea hagiographies in which a devil takes on the guise of a woman to seduce male saints. Like a male saint, Kempe is tempted with a sexual spectacle...
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Forgotten Family: The Influence of Women and Children on the Nexus of Wage Earning and Demographic Change in England, 1260–1860

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Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries, Jacob Weisdorf
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11333387
Published: 01 September 2024
...Sara Horrell; Jane Humphries; Jacob Weisdorf E. A. Wrigley identified the responsiveness of nuptiality and marital fertility to changes in male wages. Others have theorized the importance of women’s decision‐making in the timing of marriage, but without much empirical evidence. Combining new long...
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Ordering Chaos in Old English Wisdom Poetry

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Renée R. Trilling
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 69–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9478482
Published: 01 January 2022
..., the poem contains its existential anxiety within the strict metrical forms of the alliterative long line. Its structure balances assorted visions of death with images of joy, but traditional Old English formulas afford very specific ideas of joy that describe an idealized heroic male world. By reading...
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Labor and Social Reproduction in an Industrializing English Village, ca. 1680–1780

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Steve Hindle
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 637–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11333439
Published: 01 September 2024
... the ways in which social formations were reproduced, not only through the compensated labor of adult males, but also through the informal, unpaid work of women that made such “breadwinning” work possible. 62 Hindle, 138–39 (ribbon weavers), 177–78, 189 (blacksmiths), 236 (nail smiths), 267 (laborers...
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Rape Narratives, Courtly Critique, and the Pedagogy of Sexual Negotiation in the Middle English Pastourelle

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Carissa M. Harris
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 263–287.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3491798
Published: 01 May 2016
..., including peer education models and the use of risk avoidance discourse. The genre's narrative diversity and pedagogical possibilities are particularly evident in a unit of three pastourelles copied in the early sixteenth-century Welles Anthology along with male-voiced poems of courtly love and misogynist...
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Midwifery Anatomized: Vesalius, Dissection, and Reproductive Authority in Early Modern Italy

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Jennifer F. Kosmin
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 79–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-4280864
Published: 01 January 2018
... and the processes of reproduction were contested. A close examination of the use of anatomy, both rhetorical and real, in the Fabrica , in male-authored midwifery manuals, and in the formal regulation of midwifery in seventeenth-century Italy reveals the ways in which authority and anatomy were contested in early...
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The Compounded Body: Bodily Knowledge Production in the Works of Andreas Vesalius and Edmund Spenser

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Amanda Taylor
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 153–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-4280891
Published: 01 January 2018
... offers an idealized representation of the presumably male body, that idealization is also inextricably linked to nonidealized, even abject bodies, so that these early modern notions of bodily knowledge production both undergird and challenge assumptions about gender and class. Copyright © 2018 Duke...
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Bodies Hardened for War: Knighthood in Fifteenth-Century England

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Steven Bruso
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 255–277.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3846323
Published: 01 May 2017
... before large, muscled male bodies were popularized in 1980s and 1990s action cinema, these medieval texts foreground the necessity of building muscular bodies to knightly identity, while simultaneously describing them through a rhetoric of hardness that characterized their envisioned use as physical...
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Handling Knowledge: Holy Bodies in the Middle English Mystery Plays

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H. M. Cushman
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 279–304.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3846335
Published: 01 May 2017
...H. M. Cushman The representations of the midwife Salome and the Apostle Thomas in the N-Town and Chester plays complicate the relationship between two modes of knowledge: “clergie” or male clerical learning, on the one hand, and knowledge derived from sensory experience on the other. The plays...
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Manly Matters: The Theatricality and Sociability of Beards in Giordano Bruno's Candelaio and Sixteenth-Century Italy

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Douglas Biow
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 325–346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2009-025
Published: 01 May 2010
...Douglas Biow Beards, both real and fake, acquire a special status in Giordano Bruno's Candelaio as symbolically charged objects that reveal not only much about the characters and their functions within the play, but also much about social norms and expectations regarding the performance of male...
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The Patronage of the Body: Burial Sites, Identity, and Gender in Fifteenth-Century Venice

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Stanley Chojnacki
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 79–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2830028
Published: 01 January 2015
..., however, was between men’s and women’s affiliations to religious institutions. Men usually opted for burial in male monasteries, chiefly those with their family’s tombs, another indication of enduring identification with their natal lineage. The great majority of women, by contrast, patronized female...
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Cockfighting as Cultural Allegory in Early Modern England

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Thomas A. Hamill
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2008-026
Published: 01 May 2009
...Thomas A. Hamill This essay examines the ways in which cockfighting in early modern England operates as an allegorical mode, as a trope for conscribing social relations and phenomena as distinct as male subject-formation and the realization of eschatological truth. Focusing on two distinct...
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“There's the Rub”: Searching for Sexual Remedies in the New World

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Valeria Finucci
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 523–557.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2008-006
Published: 01 September 2008
... and Peru, to find an animal Viagra-equivalent in that expanse of lands where marvels were contained. The duke's discreet fantasy of resurrecting the flesh, anchored in male anxiety, narcissistic excess, and a peculiar dream of domination, occupies hardly a footnote in the multinational project...
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Figure 1. The wage series, expressed as welfare ratio (nominal wage / cost of subsistence basket). Sources: Male day laborer, Clark, “Long March of History”; male annual worker, Humphries and Weisdorf, “Unreal Wages?”; female day laborer and female annual worker, Humpries and Weisdorf, “Wages of Women in England”; boy, Horrell and Humphries, “Children’s Work and Wages in Britain”; cost of subsistence basket per day from Allen, “Data” spreadsheet as used in Humphries and Weisdorf, “Wages of Women in England.”

The wage series, expressed as welfare ratio (nominal wage / cost of subsist...

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in Forgotten Family: The Influence of Women and Children on the Nexus of Wage Earning and Demographic Change in England, 1260–1860 > Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1. The wage series, expressed as welfare ratio (nominal wage / cost of subsistence basket). Sources: Male day laborer, Clark, “Long March of History”; male annual worker, Humphries and Weisdorf, “Unreal Wages?”; female day laborer and female annual worker, Humpries and Weisdorf, “Wages More
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Figure 7. Deficit/surplus in family subsistence with only parents working and the days of work needed from each child to meet “respectable” subsistence. Source: This measure is extracted from Horrell, Humphries, and Weisdorf, “Beyond the Male Breadwinner.”

Deficit/surplus in family subsistence with only parents working and the day...

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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 7. Deficit/surplus in family subsistence with only parents working and the days of work needed from each child to meet “respectable” subsistence. Source: This measure is extracted from Horrell, Humphries, and Weisdorf, “Beyond the Male Breadwinner.” More
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Is There a Harlot in This Text? Hagiography and the Grotesque

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Patricia Cox Miller
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 419–435.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-33-3-419
Published: 01 September 2003
... With this new emphasis on transformation rather than translocation, Brown now Žnds “the issue of his male gender . . . that much more interesting,” “ for maybe holy men were not ‘men. ’” Figures like the angelic Symeon the Stylite, he suggests, “had transcended the categories of gender as normally de...
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At the Limits of (Trans) Gender: Jesus, Mary, and the Angels in the Visionary Sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534)

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Jessica A. Boon
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 261–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-4402227
Published: 01 May 2018
... male nor female) or, on the other, absolute plenitude (both male and female The principal scholars of Juana’s work have all analyzed Juana’s gender ambiguity as formative for her the- ology. Ronald Surtz suggests that Juana’s androgyne experience led her to consistently emphasize the feminine...
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Body and Empire in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

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Ulrike Wiethaus
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 41–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-34-1-41
Published: 01 January 2004
... for women’s status, with the exception of aristocratic women, appear to have been negative.5 Scholars agree that in terms of gender arrangements, a war- based social order tends to devalue femininity and male effeminacy.6 The result is a decline in the esteem of women and scorn for receptive (i.e., “fem...
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The Lady Appears: Materializations of “Woman” in Early Monastic Literature

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David Brakke
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 387–402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-33-3-387
Published: 01 September 2003
..., but with male authors’ fantasies about or rhetor- ical uses of women, no more than the gendered literary “traces” of elusive “real women.”2 Imagine, then, the surprise of a group of lay tourists—and perhaps our surprise as well—when their representative monk turned out to be really a woman...
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