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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2022
..., the poem contains its existential anxiety within the strict metrical forms of the alliterative long line. Its structure balances assorted visions of death with images of joy, but traditional Old English formulas afford very specific ideas of joy that describe an idealized heroic male world. By reading...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2022
... to restore its audience to a state of wholesome uncertainty. By destabilizing the predictable flow of Old English meter with an unusually varied and challenging range of hypermetric verses, the poet of Christ III used metrical form to undermine the confidence of audiences in their powers of prediction...
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Magic That Works: Performing Scientia in the Old English Metrical Charms and Poetic Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2015
...James Paz Is it possible to reach a deeper understanding of early medieval science through poetry of the period? This article examines how Anglo-Saxon scientia was performed in a practical way, as a kind of craft, in the Old English metrical charms and poetic dialogues of Solomon and Saturn...
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George Herbert and the “Discipline” of History
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 349–378.
Published: 01 May 2001
....
The poem carefully describes this love as a beneficent form of
power. Identified at the end of the first stanza only as “the gentle path,” love
bursts into the poem at line 18 with transformative energy, appearing four
times in five lines in positions of heavy metrical...
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Forms of Catastrophe
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 January 2022
... a predetermined end. Yet as the metrical shifts of the earthquake lyric suggested, as forms attempt to navigate rupture, they often push against or complicate the progression of normal narrative time. They show how the catastrophe can render temporal experience as uneven, asynchronous, or multiple...
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To Measure Is to Feel: The Mathematics of Middle English Metric Relics
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., kissed, beheld, and wore these measures, drawn scaled or life‐sized, in expectation of protections in life or indulgences after death. These metric relics are considered in light of the mathematics of medieval measurement, which essentially comprised laying one body against another to deliver some kind...
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English Bibles and Their Readers, 1400–1700
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 415–435.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., printed annotations and paratextual devices, forms of textual circulation, and the nature of literary allusion and cultural reuse. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 English and Latin Bible manuscript annotation history of the book and reading reader marks...
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Assimilating Giants: The Appropriation of Gog and Magog in Medieval and Early Modern England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 January 2002
... or stigmatized in
many parts of Europe; the Jews’ exclusion here is simultaneously given con-
crete form, sanctified by God, and justified in terms of their eventual
treachery. The author’s appropriation of the names of Gog and Magog thus
plays a crucial part in his shaping of salvation history. Associated...
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Feeling Time, Will, and Words: Vernacular Devotion in the Cloud of Unknowing
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 345–368.
Published: 01 May 2011
... will is atomic, and because spiritual work, per-
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formed by time-bound human beings, necessarily takes place in atomic
time, time provides a scaffold within which spiritual work can and must
take place. For the Cloud-author, spiritual...
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Tugging at the Roots: The Errant Textography of Middle English Romance
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 283–303.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to be produced. Editors had per-
formed the task of creating the author from the text, a text that poststruc-
turalism came to define as unfixed and unfixable, regardless of the editorial
technique employed.
In the wake of textual theory that has focused on how texts are
constructed, critical...
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Unwritten Virtues, Selves, and Texts: Early Modern Self-Erasure
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 415–443.
Published: 01 September 2022
... judgment, human works and merit are wholly worthless. 3 That central strand of Protestant theology can fairly be described, indeed, as posthuman. 4 Stated as baldly as I have stated it here, however, the case requires some explication of the main carrier of early modernity (i.e., nation-forming...
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Pilgrimage, Print, and Performance: Giuliano Dati’s Roman Cantari
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 January 2021
... motivation as a peni- tentiary priest to care for the spiritual welfare of this transient community. Dati s tremendously varied output is united by its composition in the form of the verse cantare.17 This metrical form of octaves, usually in hendecasyllabic verse, emerged in Italy in the fourteenth century...
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The Penitential Psalms: Conversion and the Limits of Lordship
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 221–269.
Published: 01 May 2007
... that they form “a sort of judicial genre, in which the defen-
dant appears before the sight of the judge, atoning for his sin with tears,
and dissolving it by confessing it. He offers the best type of defense who
condemns himself.”14 Cassiodorus goes on to say that harsh self-accusation
produces fatherly...
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The Art of Changes: Bell-Ringing, Anagrams, and the Culture of Combination in Seventeenth-Century England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 387–412.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in order to address a question that has so far remained unanswered: why does change-ringing have its unusual form? Change-ringing borrowed from mathematics and linguistics, and particularly from the early modern fondness for anagrams, but went further than these other combinatorial systems in which...
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The Royal Provenance and Tudor Courtly Reading of a Wycliffite Bible
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 587–597.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of other forms of the English scripture,
including exceedingly scarce Anglo-Saxon manuscript fragments, More
must be referring to the Wycliffite version in this account, which dates from
1529.7 More held the position of Lord Chancellor when he wrote these words
and was laboring to eradicate heresy...
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Spiritual Suffering and Physical Protection in Childbirth in the South English Legendary Lives of Saint Margaret
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2016
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scripts’ common investment in childbirth reflects the nontextual traditions
and material culture associated with the saint, which primarily characterize
her as an intercessor for parturient women.
Though the South English Legendary lives of Margaret are diverse
in poetic form and content...
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Jargon and the Matter of Medicine in Middle English
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 395–420.
Published: 01 May 2012
... in buttre or in chese & gare [cause] hir ett
[to eat] it: Sator arepo tenet opera rotas” The “Sator arepo” palindrome
is recorded from the first century C.E., and can be written not only back-
ward and forward, but in the form of a square, five letters by five:
S A T O R
A R E P O...
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The Macrohistory of Microhistory
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., that Anderson offers
no method, save skirting hubris, whereby to arrive at Athenian ontos or, to
use my own provisional expression, “suchness.”16 Microhistory, clearly, is not
the only route, but it can prove very useful. Now, this suchness takes many
forms, all of which for microhistory are fruitful...
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Shakespeare's Katherine of Aragon: Last Medieval Queen, First Recusant Martyr
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 149–172.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., / Will be deceived” (13 – 17).14 But the play’s most important
intertext is Heywood’s similarly titled play about the sufferings of the young
Princess Elizabeth during the reign of her sister, Mary, If You Know Not Me,
You Know Nobody, which anticipates its concern with female sanctity and
forms one basis...
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“Pricking in Virgil”: Early Modern Prophetic Phronesis and the Sortes Virgilianae
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 557–571.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the text itself has agency over the reader’s fate. As
I will demonstrate, drawing on insights from scholars who have worked on
the history of the book and the history of reading (Anthony Grafton, Lisa
Jardine, and William Sherman, among others), the sortes Virgilianae con-
form to a practice...
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