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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 315–337.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., the play not only reinforces the anti-Semitic association of Jews with commerce, but also directs part of its antiludic anxieties at Christian mercantile culture, thus deploying its anti-Semitism to criticize the culture that largely underwrote late medieval drama. In all of this, the play participates...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 305–334.
Published: 01 May 2007
... by Duke University Press
ence an individual connection with God; rather, Christ’s body and blood
forge the bonds of community and remind people of their obligation to treat
others with generosity and love.
As a massive cultural event celebrating civic unity, the York mystery
plays palpably...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 2022
... a political vision organized around what he and his culture regarded as a virtue: rational obedience to political authority. In his Appeal , the explosive text that was written for the trial of London's mayor in 1384, Usk makes use of charged language tied to the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in order to depict...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 559–591.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., arguing that their official discourses, knowledge-gathering, and writing practices were aligned to mercantile nationalist discourses about “other” cultures. 7 This work has built upon the recent reconceptualization of European companies as participants in wider commercial cultures of the Indian Ocean...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 January 2000
..., the predominant
academic model for East-West encounters. Said presents “orientalism as a
dynamic exchange between individual [Western] authors and . . . large
[Western] political concerns.”3 Marlowe’s plays, on the other hand, arise
from a culture in which...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 January 2007
... roles, strategies, and modes of action
that they learned from the foreign mercantile communities in which they
did business. This meant that the English Protestants, who had no coreli-
gionists in the region except for merchants and factors, engaged in a kind of
cultural and commercial adaptivity...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 457–485.
Published: 01 September 2015
... themselves have been most at home in that imaginary
space on the University Library’s second floor that we have come to think of
as The Department of Hybrid Books. As Walter Ong and D. F. McKenzie
have long since reminded us, all books are hybrid books: just as it is now
impossible to find cultures...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 519–545.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., as is evident in much recent
work produced by medieval scholars.4
Of the scholarship produced within both medieval and Victorian
studies, a substantial proportion has been devoted to exploring the role of
medievalism in the formulation of cultural, political...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 519–542.
Published: 01 September 2002
... what
it is not: a new-fangled import, the crystal glass mirror. Whereas the steel
glass is identified with the estates of the realm, with land and domestic
resources, with social custom and degree, the crystal glass is identified with
mercantile trade, with fluid and artificial value, with sudden...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 January 2002
... in the city
council chamber, at the center of Dutch mercantile life.85 Like Antigon and
other town giants of Flanders studied by Van Gennep, the London giants
function as cultural others, “whose defeat or domestication was essential to
the constitution of the town as a political body.”86 At the same time...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (1): 163–195.
Published: 01 January 2007
.... Historicizing readings of the Decameron
tend to contextualize it in the Black Death of 1348 and, more broadly, “the
mercantile world of fourteenth-century Tuscany.”2 Yet as is well-known,
Boccaccio spent a formative part of his youth in Angevin Naples: “with-
out Boccaccio’s experience of Naples...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 119–145.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., but never so many as now by the ninth part.] 18 Penn Szittya, “Domesday Bokes: The Apocalypse in Medieval English Literary Culture,” in The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages , ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992), 374–97, at 374. 19 Szittya...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 473–485.
Published: 01 September 2013
... into the ranks of the mercantile class. Artisans
are often defined in opposition to merchants because of their ties to local
rather than foreign markets and the cultural perception of their rootedness
(often more imagined than real) in contrast to the merchants’ mobility. Yet
precisely because the master...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 427–431.
Published: 01 September 2002
... to perceive that the trade in imported cloth was, in fact, an enabling
condition for the export of English wool and of real benefit to an emerging
mercantile economy, the vast majority of writers saw such stuffs as a threat
to traditional values associated with aristocratic hospitality based on land
tenure...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 May 2020
... present in these texts signals a larger cultural conversation about these men’s fitness as husbands to the nation’s women, fathers to its children, and members of its communities. Although protoimperialist and mercantilist writers such as John Dee, Robert Hitchcock, and Edward Misselden stressed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 229–252.
Published: 01 May 2008
.... For scholars of early modern culture, cross-dressing
has equally served as a lodestone, orienting and obfuscating early modern
gender difference. These debates have examined early modern cross-dressing
as both a historical and theatrical practice, querying how English audiences
understood the boy...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 359–390.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of cultural capital that charted England as the domain of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This archive, which has been neglected in favor of beautifully illustrated, large-format cartography, reveals very different conceptions of how space, place, and nationhood intersected. At the dawn of the realm's...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 285–314.
Published: 01 May 2008
... but of excessive and
multiple presence, as a community in pieces: as a diverse entity defined by
“blurred boundaries” and full of the “clash of mercantile and military inter-
ests”; as a “resistant and fragmented locality” characterized by conflict; and
as a culture and polity unable “to speak with a single...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 623–653.
Published: 01 September 2013
...
of knowledge that they deemed essential to the French appreciation of caf-
feinated drinks. Unlike trades that thrived on the protection or diachronic
transmission of knowledge — or as Evelyn put it, “secrets” — hot beverages
created a dynamic triangulation among mercantilism, artisanal production...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of Shakespeare’s engagement with both
contemporary as well as late medieval English religious culture in terms of
these questions — in terms, that is, of changing definitions and valuations of
enough which follow from Reformation debate and polemic. I focus on the
Journal of Medieval...
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