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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 323–345.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Emma W. Olson This essay reads The Book of Margery Kempe alongside the morality plays of the Macro manuscript — The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom , and Mankind — to argue that the Book shares important features with them. Kempe's documentary mission relies on morality play formulas and themes...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 321–354.
Published: 01 May 2006
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Sarah Beckwith This article explores the virtue tradition in the English theatrical tradition of morality theater and its fortunes on the professional stage. It explores questions of recognition in allegorical drama by examining “mankind” and “mercy” in the morality play Mankind , the appropriation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 609–631.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Kellie Robertson; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Late medieval writers were enamored with metaphors of scale for imagining mankind in relation to the rest of the created world. This article takes the minor mundus — the idea of the human as a “lesser world” patterned after the greater, cosmic one...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 65–88.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., using the example of Mankind , this essay examines how the actor, seen as engaged in both collaborative and competitive play, can illuminate certain strategies in Shakespeare's work. Examples drawn from Richard III, Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing , and King Lear illustrate how different kinds...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2012
... Mankind con-
strue the challenges, and thus the proper response to Wyclif and his follow-
ers, in divergent ways. Ought we align ourselves with the pure remnant that
alone sustains the proper meaning of cardinal virtues and vices? Cultivate a
sympathetic identification capable of overcoming envy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
...,” however, the most important
descendant of St. Nemo and the many iterations of nihil is the character
Nought in the morality play Mankind — a personification that effectively
combines the concepts of no one and no thing and so highlights the easy
slippage from one to the other. Dated to ca. 1465...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 117–139.
Published: 01 January 2016
... every particular man is but one member or branch of
mankind. . . . And the whole earth is this Lord’s man. (Winstan-
ley, The True Leveller’s Standard, 1649)7
These commentators drew variously on medical models of the body to pre-
scribe cures and explicate new political systems...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 167–188.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the
bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”1 This collective model of selfhood imagines that
“every man” is a vital “piece” of a single entity, “mankind,” with each death
knell that tolls signifying a “diminish[ment]” common to all men. Yet, for
Donne’s...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and agriculture, was an art that could be used to induce nature toward perfection that otherwise would not be achieved. For Tachenius, chymistry's ability to invent substances that could not be found in nature demonstrated chymistry's supreme importance to mankind. As we will see, papermaking, too, was imagined...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 227–260.
Published: 01 May 2018
... decree in the Creed habitually made its
way into people’s lives inside and outside the church Cloistered religious
would have recited the Creed before sunrise and after sunset in celebration
of the mystery of a triune God who, in his love for mankind, “was cruci ed,
died, and was buried...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 257–281.
Published: 01 May 2009
... issues in Piers Plowman that do not end up narrating
the whole poem).
Christ imagines himself in the Vale of Jehoshaphat (XX.411), taken
as the future scene of the resurrection of mankind in accordance with the
prophecy of Joel 3:2, 12 – 13. It is harvest-time, the day of judgment when...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 January 2014
... and the consensus gentium. It is, however, the informing stance
of the Little Academy, whose distrust of inherited beliefs, cultural traditions,
and official teachings runs deep. What seemed “so ancient, so universal, so
constant an opinion of all mankind” that Hester Collett wonders whether it
72...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 January 2024
.../enciclopedia/filippo-finella_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ . 27 Thomas Hill, The Contemplation of Mankinde (London, 1571), chap. 15, fol. 30v. On Hill, see Francis R. Johnson, “Thomas Hill: An Elizabethan Huxley,” Huntington Library Quarterly 7, no. 4 (1944): 329–51. Hill alludes here to Christianus...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2020
... part of mankind; and may as well talk Arabic to a poor day labourer.19 In 1659, after Bunyan had preached in a barn at Toft, near Cambridge, as if in anticipation of Locke s remark, he provoked an incensed and sneering response from a professor of Arabic at Christ College, Cambridge (also lec- turer...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 315–337.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of the Passion. The sacrament
itself is about the folding of time through the omnipresence of Christ’s
sacrifice and mankind’s redemption. The Eucharist is simultaneously a
commemoration and a miracle taking place in the present, and thus the
play, too, participates in that folding, even...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 121–146.
Published: 01 January 2017
... their monologue and speech. Coch
contextualizes this awareness by referring to Thomas Raynalde’s 1545 widely
popular English medical textbook, The birth of mankinde, otherwise named
the Womans Booke, which pits womb against woman in the Hippocratic
tradition of the “wandering womb” believed to cause...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 431–448.
Published: 01 September 2000
... World is a striking repetition of the moves made by
Dante and Petrarch to seal off the Sixth Age: he names the island on which he lands
“San Salvador.” If the Savior will not come to mankind, then mankind will come to the
Savior...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 333–363.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... It is because the connections made here
are unintuitive that they have the power to impress, and to suggest even
more impressive ones.
Julian uses various forms of verbal echoes in a manner similar to
Bonaventure’s. Thus, the lord/servant parable explores the significance of
mankind’s fall...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2022
... ond gesceapo ferede æghwylcum on eorþan eormencynnes. Forþon him nu ealles þonc æghwa secge, þæs þe he fore his miltsum monnum scrifeð. (93–98) [So the protector of troops wondrously shaped and arranged the skills of men throughout middle-earth and guided the destinies for each one of mankind...
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