... of knowledge beyond the bounds of written sources, enriching both his mental library and the written account of his travels.42 Notes I thank Kathryne Beebe, Michael Cornett, and the anonymous reader for JMEMS for their suggestions and helpful editing, which have improved the final version of my article. 1...

... the end of the volume. I identify the map s likely sources, before considering its function within the wider miscellany. The manuscript Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 426, vol. 2 (hereafter MS 426) is the second of a two-volume item listed as a single manuscript in the library s printed and online...

... in these sources, from one single book, for example, a Book of Hours with silverwork and a silk binding in the possession of the butcher (beccaio) Antonio di Luca d’Antonio di Domenico (1485), to midsize libraries and to larger collections with more than twenty books.50 The doublet maker ( farsettaio...

... might affect interpretation of that past. From this multidisciplinary perspective, deeper insight is offered into how pilgrims’ libraries shaped not only pilgrimage, but medieval culture in general. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51:1, January 2021 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8796210 © 2021...

... and religious maxims, this article demonstrates how Herbert’s poems also attracted more nuanced literary engagements. The sale and acquisition of the book in private and public libraries in the late seventeenth century likewise suggest that The Temple held a dual role, sometimes positioned in relation to other...

..., Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 416 is a mid-­fifteenth century manuscript containing a compilation of texts. It opens with part two of Peter Idley’s Instructions to His Son, which draws upon John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes. This is followed by Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes, a text that has been called...

.... For paperback reprint edi- tions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With few excep- tions, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith...

... and hierarchi- cal social structure on the mutable body. This essay argues that Vesalius’s anatomical illustrations, especially the musclemen and bonemen series, and Spenser’s allegory of the body in book II of The Faerie Queene expose what it means for a body to be a source of knowledge about nature...

... reprint editions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With few exceptions, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith...

... Darnton s concept of a communications circuit, with the multiple agents of book history; his reader is a purchaser, borrower, or club or library member.1 But the agents involved in dissemination from the perspective of early modern culture are multi- farious and grounded in the many modes of reception...

.... For paperback reprint edi- tions, original publication dates are given in parentheses. With few excep- tions, books appearing here have been published within the previous two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. Thanks go to David Aers and Valeria Finucci...

... midway between the single, amiably crowded point of infinite density, explored in Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics and Einstein’s curved universe.3 But, like the utopian mental world encompassing all of human history within the metaphorical wall of Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la cité des dames (1405...

... into a holy counting frame. Threaded beading on the nails of Wellcome 632 possibly suggests a similar intention to count by groupings, although rubbing makes it impossible to determine. Figure 3. Nails of the Crucifixion dripping with blood. London, British Library, Harley Roll T 11. Original source...

... “superstition” and thus to extend scientific knowledge into the early Middle Ages, long before the much-lauded achievements of the “Renaissance” and “Enlightenment.” From this vantage point, Anglo-Saxon ways of perceiving and knowing do not mirror or anticipate modern mental habits that split science and poetry...

... The value of the almanac to scholars of early modern literature and culture has been wide-­ranging. As archival texts, early printed almanacs have served as crucial sources of evidence for historians and literary scholars working on popular literature, the English calendar and time, knowledge...

... Fordham University Bronx, New York The medieval heart connected more than veins and arteries. Viewed as the dwelling place of the soul and the source of the body’s life, it was the privi- leged site of relationships between body and soul, affect and cognition, self...

... in an Early Modern Illustrated Album Amicorum: British Library, MS Egerton 1191 Margaret F. Rosenthal University of Southern California Los Angeles, California...

... tables, 13 maps, 12 illus. Paper $42.95. [Half of the sources are from classical, medieval, and early modern periods.] Folengo, Teofilo. Baldo, Volume 1: Books I  –  XII. Translated by Ann E. Mul- laney. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, vol. 25. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007...

... source matter for unsanctioned readings of authorized texts. These scholars would have us track Michel de Certeau’s “poachers” in order to uncover the intellectual liberty and eccentricity hidden in an era that increasingly demanded conformity; thus, bible margins are where we might come closest...

...—and in so doing, restored suspense to the experience of Doomsday. 18 For the most recent edition of Cynewulf's signed poems, see The Old English Poems of Cynewulf , Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, ed. and trans. Robert E. Bjork (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013). 19 Thomas D...