...Allison Adair Alberts This essay argues that the South English Legendary 's life of Saint Margaret, patron saint of childbirth, reflects the devotional practice of imitatio Christi when it represents labor pains not as the shameful curse of Eve but as a miraculous moment in which the mother...

...Randall Ingram © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.1-05-Ingram.101-124 12/21/99 4:33 PM Page 101 a First Words and Second Thoughts: Margaret Cavendish, Humphrey...

...Ryan McDermott The miraculously incorruptible hand of St. Margaret Clitherow, a recusant martyr in York under Elizabeth I, was hidden for centuries. It has also eluded academic scrutiny. It therefore provides a test case for what constitutes a significant object of study for historical inquiry...

...Margaret Healy In the political turmoil of mid-seventeenth-century England, both socio-political utopias and dystopias were repeatedly imagined through corporeal images and medical metaphors and narratives. The new iatrochemistry—Paracelsian and subsequently Helmontian medicine—featured especially...

...Margaret F. Rosenthal In the past two decades, the multifaceted discipline of the history of medieval and early modern dress has benefited from reconceptualizations of the long, late Middle Ages and Renaissance as having undergone a revolution of consciousness, belief, and thought with global...

...Margaret F. Rosenthal The album amicorum , or album of friends, is a singular visual example of early modern travelers' fascination with swiftly changing fashions, regional customs, family lineage, and manuscript decoration. A type of souvenir scrapbook, the album amicorum preserves in its pages...

...Margaret A. Pappano; Nicole R. Rice As an economic category, artisans are typically bounded by two historical markers: on one side, the rise of urban centers in the medieval period, and on the other side, the reorganization of commodity production as a result of industrial capitalization...

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... Materialism: Saints and Idols in the Katherine Group Hagiographies Johannes Wolf St. Peter s College Oxford, United Kingdom Katherine, Margaret, Juliana: the martyrs of the Katherine Group hagiog- raphies are made and memorialized in struggle. Through the course of these three works, which are strongly...

..., her younger sister Margaret Clement, Margaret’s mentor Elizabeth Woodford (the last two at the Augustinian convent of St. Ursula’s, Louvain), and six Syon women at the Birgittine house at Termonde, twenty miles northwest of Louvain. Katherine Palmer has been considered their leader. Peryn’s...

..., the body of the queen. Yet where the historical texts focus on the disquieting visibility of Margaret’s body, the Arthurian text details the way in which the gaze upon the queen remains unfocused as Guenevere slips in and out of view. Where Margaret’s body is represented as so public as to create...

... Modern Studies / 44.1 / 2014 So Margaret’s heartfelt declaration that she knows of no one more ordinary argument of misleading to be found, both in small and great matters, than this of going along in company with others. . . . and for the most part, how much better-­natured...

.... The contemporary Bedfordshire physician John Symcotts refers to it as “Matthias Lucatellus his precious ointment or balsam,” and the personal receipt book of one Margaret Baker labels the recipe as “A most precious balm made only by Matthew Lucetella an Italian newly arrived and never sold here before, which only...

... 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 will have her as either his wife (if she...

... . . . The Dissolution of the Monasteries . . . Agrarian and Religious Strife . . . The Origin of English Sea-power . . . The Armada . . .” and so on. (44) In her fourth chapter, Woolf provides something of a premodern history or genealogy of her own, beginning with Lady Winchelsea and Margaret...

...- seventeenth- century Antwerp. In the life of Mary Cotton (in religion Sr. Mary of the Blessed Trinity), we find this intriguing connection between Henrietta Maria s court and the exiled convents through the complex figure of Margaret Cavendish: [W]hen she [i.e., Mary] came to be Religious the Dutchess of New...

... the quarters or hour strike.”24 Another nun, compelled to perform devotions on every hour, was said to be woken “with the Clook” by an angel. Margaret of Jesus (Margaret Mostyn [1625 – 1679 “obliging her selfe to wake euery time the clock stroke, to doe some deuo- tion, some times she lay with a bord...

... to idolize the image of Elizabeth partici- pates in a political and personal history that involves the romance tradition as well. Popular romances such as Sir Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia, Henry Roberts’s Pheander, the Maiden Knight, and Margaret Tyler’s translation of Diego Ortuñez de Callahora’s...

... guild with which they may have originally been affiliated. A play of St. Katherine performed “in the Little Park” in Coventry in 1490/1, likely associated with the St. Katherine guild founded in 1343,53 may be the origin of the unusual hagiographic pageant—featur- ing St. Katherine, St. Margaret...

... and preserves her work precisely by encourag- ing its cutting, pasting, and reuse across multiple media. Whitney’s challenge to the gendered dichotomies of reading and writing is given an explicit voice in a slightly later text, Margaret Tyler’s pref- ace to her translation of a Spanish romance...