...Nancy Bradley Warren The very word monasticism brings to mind images of walls and enclosures, suggests qualities of isolation and separation. As recent work on both medieval and early modern monastic foundations has demonstrated, though, the convent wall was actually quite permeable...

... (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, – Herbert L. Kessler, “An Apostle in Armor and the Mission of Carolingian Art,” Arte medievale nd ser. , no.   – T. A. Heslop, “The Implication of the Utrecht Psalter in English Romanesque Art,” in Romanesque Art...

...Katherine Zieman This essay explores the late medieval rhetoric of self-representation and conceptions of audience through an examination of the writings of the fifteenth-century Carthusian monk Richard Methley. Methley is considered as a “public contemplative” — a writer who offers his own...

...Alexandra Walsham This reflective essay focuses upon the theoretical problem of explaining religious change in medieval and early modern Europe without perpetuating inherited paradigms of progress and modernization. First, it assesses and challenges prevailing models of periodization through...

...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...

... but also represents her as a captive of erotic desire, a slave of unruly passion, and a prisoner of the law. This multifaceted vision of royal incarceration is animated by a heterogeneous tradition of ideological writing in medieval and early modern England and Scotland. Three strands of a rich mosaic...

...Sabrina Corbellini; Margriet Hoogvliet This essay investigates how a specific group of laypeople, individuals and groups of literate artisans in late medieval French and Italian towns, participated in distinctive ways in contemporary devotional reading culture. Through an analysis of colophons...

...Peter Godman This article combines medieval and modern studies, reconstructing the context in which one of the most celebrated manuscripts transmitting Latin and vernacular poetry of the Middle Ages, the Codex Buranus (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, clm. 4660), was produced and examining both...

...Arabella Milbank This essay questions the current critical attitude toward medieval understandings of the body. It tests the limits of the contemporary “corporeal turn” by reassessing a textual crux in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love . Contesting the dominant, defecatory reading...

...Anke Bernau Reading Thomas Elyot's Dictionary , this essay examines the legacy of medieval chronicle and fable for the early modern period. Elyot's influential work, here considered in its 1542 edition as Bibliotheca Eliotae , contains entries for both “Albion” and “Britannia,” topics which plunged...

...Siân Echard © by Duke University Press 2000 House Arrest: Modern Archives, Medieval Manuscripts Siân Echard University of British Columbia...

...Jennifer Summit © by Duke University Press 2000 Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome Jennifer Summit...

...David Hanlon © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.3-04.Hanlon 9/1/00 5:04 PM Page 479 Islam and Stereotypical Discourse in Medieval Castile and León...

...Robert Bartlett © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-02 Bartlett 2/26/01 6:56 PM Page 39 a Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity...

...Jeffrey Jerome Cohen © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-05 Cohen 2/26/01 7:00 PM Page 113 a On Saracen Enjoyment: Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval...

... commentaires bibliques de l’époque romane: Glose ordinaire et gloses périmées,” Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 4, no. 13 (1961): 15 – 22. 20 Ralph Hanna, Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St. John’s College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 155 – 56...

...Linda Lomperis © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-06 Lomperis 2/26/01 7:02 PM Page 147 a Medieval Travel Writing and the Question of Race...

...Claire Sponsler © by Duke University Press 2002 a In Transit: Theorizing Cultural Appropriation in Medieval Europe Claire Sponsler University of Iowa...

...Catherine Sanok © by Duke University Press 2002 a Performing Feminine Sanctity in Late Medieval England: Parish Guilds, Saints’ Plays, and the Second...

...Victor I. Scherb © by Duke University Press 2002 a Assimilating Giants: The Appropriation of Gog and Magog in Medieval and Early Modern England...