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...Carissa M. Harris This essay focuses on Middle English pastourelles, a popular but understudied medieval lyric genre centrally concerned with women's experiences of the threat of sexual violence. This genre offers contemporary audiences a rich and valuable resource for understanding medieval ideas...

... • Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve Marion Turner Jesus College Oxford, United Kingdom A disintegrating body may...

...Lisa H. Cooper London, British Library, MS Egerton 1995 is a well-known miscellany of the late Middle Ages, filled like others of its kind with practical and didactic texts meant to assist its readers in their attempts at social, economic, and spiritual self-improvement. But it also contains...

... 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Middle English mystery plays theology knowledge clerical learning sensory experience Handling Knowledge: Holy Bodies in the Middle English Mystery Plays H. M. Cushman Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts In the climax of the N-T­ own and Chester...

...Oren Falk © by Duke University Press 2000 The Son of Orfeo: Kingship and Compromise in a Middle English Romance Oren Falk...

... Decolonizing the Middle Ages: Introduction John Dagenais UCLA Los Angeles, California Margaret R. Greer...

...Catherine Brown © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.3-07.Brown 9/1/00 5:05 PM Page 547 In the Middle Catherine Brown...

... a The Difference the Middle Ages Makes: Color and Race before the Modern World Thomas Hahn University of Rochester...

...Joëlle Rollo-Koster © by Duke University Press 2002 a From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Late Middle Ages Joëlle...

...”: The Transformation of Gynecological Literature in the Later Middle Ages Monica H. Green Duke University Durham, North Carolina Writing about...

... Stoic tradition medieval theology moral agency social harmony Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:2, May 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8219530 © 2020 by Duke University Press Our Inner Custodian: Shame and Moral Agency in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Ritva Palmén University...

...Romedio Schmitz-Esser This essay looks at the practice of burning corpses in the Middle Ages. Much research has concentrated on the later medieval period; however, the punishment of burning and its specific motivations and rationales for crimes such as heresy, witchcraft, and magic go back to much...

... for understanding the history of vernacular theologies and their experimentation with different rhetorical modes for reshaping belief and practice. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Middle English devotional literature Book to a Mother lollard writings clerical authority female...

... that pierced him, and his side wound. They visually dominate the roll: at the top, an empty tau (or T-shaped) cross; in the middle, three nails; at the bottom, the side wound. I consider them in succession and compare them to other related measures (see table 1 ). Table 1. Measurements of Middle...

...John H. Arnold Historians have long debated to what extent there was a shift in the sacrament of penance marked by the injunction at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) for all Christians to make annual confession. It has long been suggested that in the early Middle Ages confession was primarily...

...Myra Seaman This article offers an alternative story of the transmission of Middle English verse romance to the one traditionally told by textual scholarship, one rooted in stemmatics' focus on genealogical descent and its principal interest in origins. Like the medieval romance hero himself...

..., particularly Robert Henryson’s “Sum Practysis of Medecyne,” made jargon a poetic opportunity. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Jargon and the Matter of Medicine in Middle English...

...Stephen H. Rigby © by Duke University Press 2004 Historical Materialism: Social Structure and Social Change in the Middle Ages Stephen H. Rigby...

... of tragedy? In The Tragic Imagination (2016), the distinguished Anglican theologian Rowan Williams presents a grand narrative maintaining the compatibility of “the tragic imagination” and Christianity. Yet the story neglects, without any comment, the entire Middle Ages. This special issue of JMEMS explores...