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“In the hands and hearts of all true Christians”: Herbert’s The Temple (1633 – 1709) and Its Readers
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 115–137.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Joel Swann The lively contemporary reception of George Herbert’s book of poems The Temple has been clearly demonstrated by a substantial body of modern scholarship. This article shows how that body of work can be complemented through material evidence of readership drawn from from specific copies...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 161–180.
Published: 01 January 2020
.... In reading through even a small number of reviews in the WWiR collection, it becomes evident that the authors of these texts position themselves at the outset as operating in the service of readers who have too much to read, and in so doing they bring to public visibility the very phenomenon of readership...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 415–435.
Published: 01 September 2017
... during the period, a material history of reading intersects with a less material history of interpretation. Evidence from early bibles and their users of all sorts—known biblical scholars, literary figures, or anonymous readers—sheds light on how readers confronted the changing problems of interpretation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the user approaches the recep- tion evidence. As Connell and Flanders self- reflexively observe, the WWP is itself a contemporary experiment in the recirculation and reawakening of readership for early women s writing. Rather than providing transpar- ent access to primary sources, these categories...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 521–544.
Published: 01 September 2013
... a small personal library was kept (vernacular translations of clas-
sical authors, juridical books, and grammar texts).53 Such material evidence
affirms that just as new vernacular spiritual guides proposed to sanctify the
vita activa, artisans were indeed combining active work and literate devo...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 359–390.
Published: 01 May 2017
... transition into a modern nation-state, these cheap prints recalibrated the English topography to accommodate an expansive body politic. The essay ends with an exploration of how old and new archival research methods may together be deployed to continue excavating the material evidence of England's ordinary...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2020
.... These materials are part of a wide and complex network of written texts showing that the most interior of writings were explicitly conceived in terms of a readership external to the Carmelite community itself and that the focus of this most complex of prose narratives adopting the I persona represents a clear...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 January 2000
..., readers, regulatory agents, and stationers.4 Roger Chartier
has argued more recently that prefatory material reveals authors’ and pub-
lishers’ strategies for securing proper appreciation of their books, so that
prefaces offer specific evidence about contemporary writing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 599–607.
Published: 01 September 2017
... demonstrates both wider patterns of use and the contradictory nature of the evidence. This book was presumably first used as it was intended, but it was subsequently removed from its exalted place at the pulpit. The bible was used by several different owners, most notably the seventeenth-century Moreton family...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 215–239.
Published: 01 May 2003
... is made relevant for Christians: the story
suddenly becomes the story of its entire Christian readership. So far from
being “their” story, this is “our” story. We’ve seen through Abraham, to Christ
(i.e., “us”) behind him.
Seeing the motive behind such a reading doesn’t render it more per...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 361–385.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... That is because this document is a copy of the letter to Lincolnshire, not the original, a material fact that church historians have largely ignored. In the moment I am imagining here, the official copyist sits in the room where the minister and his colleagues had finalized the letter's contents, copying...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2017
... suggest, and their
circulation and readership in England reveals that they were also often read
alongside one another. In many cases, versions of both texts appear within
the same manuscript, for example, and their readership is largely comprised
of the English gentry up through English royalty...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 185–210.
Published: 01 May 2000
... on the material
evidence and surroundings of a few medieval manuscripts, I have tried to
suggest the many ways in which our attempts to bridge the gaps between
ourselves and our medieval books and texts are managed and directed. By
tracing the outlines of others’ encounters with these manuscripts...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 461–486.
Published: 01 September 2017
... interpretive questions and different modes of textual engagement. It first presents a brief survey of books catalogued as Wycliffite bibles, highlighting the diverse forms in which Wycliffite translation appears. It then shows common patterns of reading, evident across a range of books, that seek to integrate...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 565–586.
Published: 01 September 2020
... this misrepresents the bureaucratic reciprocity that underpinned their negotiations as is evident in the original papers collected at the Russian court. Miège s Relation and Marvell s papers The archival materials in Moscow throw into relief the way in which Miège developed a story of bureaucratic disagreements...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 635–655.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., 1641.16 The Civil Wars offered
excellent scope for news writers with a public readership hungry for tidings
of the unfolding struggle. The demand for news was reflected in the pleth-
ora of publications, many fly by night, but others surviving a year or more.
One estimate puts the number...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 January 2021
... to provide accessible edificatory material for the religious community.57 The latter is certainly evident in the Tractato, where affirmation of the primacy of the Lateran is clearly aimed as much at Rome s ecclesiastical community as a lay or transitory audience, and is also reflected in the Aedificatio s...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... But such a readerly assessment
requires substantial prior knowledge not only of the material circumstances
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of public bathing but of its social context. Could an eleventh-century
English readership visualize the baths with any clarity...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 227–260.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in and alongside which the work
shaped its female readership. Where the Apostles’ Creed and its commen-
taries tend to appear as components of longer texts like Cursor Mundi, Lay
Folks’ Catechism, The Mirror of St. Edmund, and Speculum vitae, A Christian
Mannes Bileeve is a stand- alone work that presents...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 13–65.
Published: 01 January 2011
... aimed at a more
affluent readership.4 As Donald Lach writes, “[T]he need fo r finer technique,
particularly for the reproduction of maps, stimulated Plantin, Mercator,
Ortelius, and others to use engraved illustrations. . . . B y the last genera-
tion of the sixteenth century prints derived from...
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