... and their community, at once realizing the means to the virtues and the common good. 62 This is the medieval ideal of rulership: a ruler with regnative prudence promulgating just laws for the common good of the community. This exhortation to rulers colors Love's model of obedience. At the end of her sentence...

... with “alle perfection and holynes as much as shall be necessarye in this lyfe.” 322 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 48.2 / 2018 Obedience In several of his annotations, the sixteenth- century reader responds to the Prickynge of Love’s teaching on obedience in a way that suggests...

...Holly A. Crocker This article argues that Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida continues an important late medieval poetic tradition that highlights the troubling consequences of virtue’s performativity for idealized women. If Chaucer is pessimistic about the potential for Criseyde’s ethical agency...

... of the Christian virtue of humility is characteristic of Milton, Strier con- 188  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.1 / 2012 cludes that Milton’s ethical position is “distinctively classical rather than Christian.”20 Strier’s provocative reading has been challenged by William Walker, who...

... bodily functions are a visceral metaphor for the disordered state of late medieval Scotland. Despite the theatrical power of such misogynistic stereotypes, antifeminism is not actually the endpoint of Lindsay's political satire. Rather, it is the tool through which Lindsay critiques the corrupt Catholic...

...Jennifer A. Herdt Despite a vibrant revival of the ethics of virtue, now spanning several decades, the discourse of virtue in later medieval and early modern thought and the distinctive forms this reflection takes across varying genres and social settings have been insufficiently integrated...

... and the Ten Commandments to include “the evangelical virtues, . . . the works of mercy, the seven deadly sins, and even the Lord's Prayer is probably unique.” 54 In De amore , one of the most widely circulated letters by Wyclif, obedience to the decalogue along with study of God's law evidence Christian...

.... In poems by both, however, marriage becomes the occa- sion for cultivating and enacting what I call “relational virtue.” 202  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.1 / 2012 This term, relational virtue, designates a mode of engagement with others rather than a fixed or settled...

...: Thirty Years of Medieval Exegesis, 1984–2013,” Journal of the Bible and Its Reception 2, no. 1 (2015): 87–130. The most important study on medieval exegesis remains Henri de Lubac, Exégèse médiévale: Les quatre sens de l’écriture , 4 vols. (Paris: Aubier, 1959–64). 43 Augstine, Confessions...

... of remedies to treat her fear, resembling late medieval penitential treatments of virtue and vice. 61 Julian, however, resists the constraints of penitential discourse even as she draws on its language, as Vincent Gillespie shows she so often does with regards to religious and philosophical writing. 62...

... the daughter of obedience”: a submission evincing Christian humility but also, perhaps (as with Milton’s angels) republican civic virtue, which requires that those who rule know also how to obey. Since the first gift is a Bible, given and received with appropriately pious speeches, the whole gift...

..., so that “one virtue, might be, as it were the source of all the others” — one person’s humility giving rise, for example, to a sec- ond person’s obedience in one instance, to gratitude in another (18 –  19; trans. Astell / Heroic Virtue  39 37). “I...

..., with its own rules and juridical norms, organized according to the same forms in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:1, Winter 2008 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2007-017  © 2008 by Duke University Press the different European states. No diplomacy existed that might...

... confessions” of “al commers” that Whitford corrected, expanded, and republished his text to encourage specific struc- tures of obedience in the urban familia.18 388  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.2 / 2016 Conventionally enough, Whitford includes an extended discussion...

..., as centuries of ancient and medieval Christianity had maintained about the liturgy and the virtues. That was why implicit faith had been and remained sufficient for salvation, however desirable was the formal catechesis that fostered an understanding of doctrine. 536  Journal...

... theology is as a repeated struggle with many solutions designed to carve out relatively autonomous enclaves for the robust practice of human virtue capable of laying claim on God. This is clearly a very large story, but the contours of its crucial late medieval chapter are now fairly clear...

... and is reflected in modern research literature as well.4 In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle famously writes that shame should not 200 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.2 / 2020 be described as a virtue, for it is more like a feeling than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of dishonor...

... 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...

... to incremental improvements in the virtues of charity and justice was sufficient, and, indeed, a failure to accept that many would be saved by mere implicit faith (156). For the great success of medieval Christi- anity, on Gregory’s account, was the simple fact that it was an “institution- alized worldview...

... York Throughout the several centuries comprising the “late medieval” and “early modern” periods, and across various genres of writing and areas of social performance, the commouns is invoked as the starting-point, or rationale, of proposed social actions. Never quite the entirety...