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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...