...), 1 29, at 20. 47 James Davis, Spectacular Death: Capital Punishment in Medieval English Towns, in Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed, ed. Joelle Rollo- Koster (New York: Routledge, 2017), 130 48, at 130. Significantly, Davis notes that English executions lacked...

... before, Italian merchants from Genoa, Venice, and other Italian ports had brought goods back and forth from the Mediterranean to London, and it was from those Italian merchants that English traders had first learned the tricks of an emergent international capitalism, based on the new bank- ing...

... Hogan / Tudor Shock Doctrine  471 Earlier on in the book, as well as in The Origin of Capitalism, she explains these changes in agrarian relations already occurring in the English country­ side as the earliest historical emergence of capitalism. What this entailed in Ireland was the replacement...

... in medieval English legal and literary culture. 84 As Rolle would translate Psalm 72:8, “Thai thought and thai spake felony; wickedness in heigh they spake.” 85 Felony was, at its heart, a state of mind. Felony was also a category of crime for which capital punishment was generally the assigned penalty...

... to indulgences, as a positive facet of late medieval English religion” (41). Nicholas Orme comments, “Like many well-known pictures of the past, . . . the tar- nished image of indulgences is not altogether accurate. The theory on which they were based was perfectly rational, and their operation...

... the orthodox atonement theory of reformed churches. In England this can be seen in the work of the most influential English Calvinist, William Perkins (d. 1602). Perkins's A Golden Chaine, or The Description of Theologie never questions Calvin's assumption that the satisfaction demanded by God is punishment...

... the new space of the playhouse and the new space-­less-­ness of “the market,” “the customer’s will to believe was a stipulated or conditional act, a matter less of faith than of suspended disbelief.”6 This “suspended disbelief,” by Agnew’s account, was itself part of a larger shift in the English...

...- 114  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.1 / 2015 tion for lesser crimes, were insufficient for the imposition of capital punish- ment. Furthermore, like many other late medieval and Renaissance jurists, he believed it prudent, in such circumstances, to torture the suspect...

... Judgements , sig. A4r. 12 On the literature of late medieval confession and its early modern transformations, see Sarah Beckwith, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011), 15–56; Beckwith, “Language Goes on Holiday: English Allegorical Drama...

... of the Sacrament as well as about the Trinity manuscript, see Norman Davis, ed., Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments, EETS s.s. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970); and John C. Coldewey, “The Non-Cycle Plays and the East Anglian Tradition,” The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English...

... to put Mary Stuart on the English throne. The Censure of a loyall Subiect, George Whet- stone’s pamphlet on the Babington plot to kill Elizabeth and give the crown to Mary, goes so far as to blame the Jesuits for bringing men, despite their natural inclinations...

... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 217 – 23; Giovanni Romeo, Aspet- tando il boia: Condannati a morte, confortatori e inquisitori nella Napoli della Controri- forma (Firenze: Sansoni, 1993). See also two complementary Italian and English essay collections: Adriano Prosperi, ed...

... of Jeremiah for poetic adaptation?2 They were hardly the only poets among their contemporaries to do so. There were many other Baroque adaptations of the book of Lamentations, including multiple translations into English as well as Spanish and Portuguese.3 Several com- posers also set Latin and English...

... biblical play is also arguably his most medieval play, as its allegorical structure and homiletic themes mimic those of the medieval morality play. While Shakespeare's play participates in the religious celebration of the new monarchy, it does so with rich irony, revealing stark contradictions in English...

..., 1400–1600 (in preparation). 13 J. Kohler and Willy Scheel, eds., Die peinliche Gerichtsordnung Kaiser Karls V. Consti- tutio Criminalis Carolina (Halle a.S., 1900), §116 (Straff der Vnkeusch, so wider die Natur beschicht). English translation in Crompton...

... of the period. 13 Masha Raskolnikov, Body against Soul: Gender and “Sowlehele” in Middle English Alle- gory (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009), 1 – 9, 22 – 26, surveys treatments of grammatical gender in medieval allegory and postmodern theory. 14 Robert Greene, Penelope’s Web...

... to conform with postmedieval political and religious projects, thereby obscuring or blurring the evidence for those earlier practices. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 medieval and early modern English theater and spectacle performance analysis archival documents historical...

... is a problematic term, of course. Richard Helgerson’s Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), shows that the Renaissance English imagining of nationhood was by no means monolithic. However, the case of France was different; I believe...

.... The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Volume II. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xi, 310 pp. $95.00. Certeau, Michel de. The Mystic Fable, Volume Two: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Edited by Luce Giard. Translated from the French 656  Journal of Medieval and Early...

... with around 1,300 fresh slaves.33 Others aimed their attacks in a more concentrated fash- ion, sailing to the coasts of Valencia and Granada to seek prizes among the English and Dutch merchants who came with seasonal regularity to load 66  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.1 / 2007...