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...Robert Pasnau Abstract The Middle Ages developed a rigorous semantic account of how thought mediates between words and things. Modern literary theory, in contrast, has been characteristically skeptical about whether anything is gained by attempting to discover the thoughts of the author that lie...

..., 94–95. 53 Medieval Literary Theory , 96 54 See Peter King, “Abelard's Intentionalist Ethics,” Modern Schoolman 72, no. 2/3 (1995): 213–31. 55 Peter Abelard's Ethics , ed. and trans. D. E. Luscombe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), 54; cf. xvii–xviii, xxxii. 56...

... of personality in the visual and literary arts of the period. But nowhere was its influence greater than in the practice of criminal law. This special issue explores the varied ways that jurists and judges drew on theories—ancient and modern—of how to read the human body, the face especially, in order to help...

... they also represent a genre of life narrative that profits from the insights of literary and feminist theory. This essay reads the rich harvest of fifteenth-century Burgundian pardon letters as collaboratively authored textual performances as it explores the relationship of these micronarratives...

...,” in A Matter of Interpretation: A New Edition , ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), 3–48. 38 Cicero, De inventione , 293 (bk. 2, sec. 43). 37 Cicero, De inventione , 285 and 287 (bk. 2, sec. 40), the latter detailing an issue raised in modern literary theory...

... has diplomacy figured significantly in the dialogue with his- tory that has transformed literary studies within the last three decades. In some ways, nothing could be stranger than the literary critic’s lack of atten- tion to diplomatic theory and practice. Many of the most familiar figures...

...Eleanor Johnson This essay argues that Chaucer’s much- unloved “Monk’s Tale,” rather than being a failure or misfire on Chaucer’s part, actually constitutes a high- water mark of the bold and experimental literary theory that characterizes much of Chaucer’s later career. In this case, the Monk...

... of textual scholarship have hindered our literary and his- torical perceptions of this central medieval genre.6 As a result, a new textual biography — a previously unknown textography — is produced. Because Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:2, Spring 2009 DOI...

... in Theory,” in The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Volume 1: To 1550 , ed. Roger Ellis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 71–92. 3 See further the introduction to Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses, and Dare A. Baldwin, Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social...

... of New Diplomatic Studies. By incorporating various elements of international relations theory in their study of early modern diplomacy, the contributors to this special issue seek to complement existing analyses of early modern diplomatic dis- course and the theoretical problems that have come...

... constitute meaning and identity. At once simple and revolutionary, the exhortation to study performance as performance, rather than through interpretive practices born of formalism and literary theory, has had far-reaching implications. On the one hand, performance studies encourages a consideration...

... to the Canterbury Tales and their narrative situations are discussed, in which authorial intention looms large: the “dramatic,” the “detached,” and the “animated.” Then a case is made for the unavoidability of intentionalist readings by drawing on cognitive literary theories, in particular the intentional stance...

... an obstacle: if it is the place of crisis—the garden agon Stewart 146 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.1 / 2003 describes—the garden is also an activity in crisis precisely over the issue of theory. Locating the making of gardens within the more familiar context of “landscape...

... These biblical stories offer paradigms of a preputial allegory. A preputial literary theory may also explain why Jean de Meun associates the foreskin with allegorical interpretation in his addition to the 22  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.1 / 2016 Roman de la Rose, where he...

... the identity is always a collective one. Traditional literary studies, art history, and other disciplines tended to focus on cases in which individuals deliberately constructed their own iden- tities, a model that is somewhat anachronistic for the medieval period, rest- ing as it does on modern notions...

... much can a single colophon tell us? Like Paul Dutton, Sara Petrosillo also uses microanalysis to hunt through medieval and early modern texts for clues about an overlooked phenomenon —in this case, women’s experience of the womb. Petrosillo, a literary scholar, suggests that the kind...

..., in Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1993), 51–67. 14 For scholastic concepts of authorial intention, see Alastair Minnis, “Scholastic Literary Theory: Intentionalism and the Desire for Stable Sense,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53, no. 3 (2023): 467–92. 13...

... like Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams. 44 In the conclusion to his own volume (subtitled “Political Criticism”), Eagleton summarizes his view of poststructuralism and other developments in literary theory as follows: “Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies . . . literary theory reveals its...

...–50. 35 Rita Copeland, “Rhetoric and the Politics of the Literal Sense in Medieval Literary Theory: Aquinas, Wyclif, and the Lollards,” in Interpretation, Medieval and Modern, ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti (Woobridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1993), 1–23, at 14. 36 Stanley Fish...

... Corónica, a journal devoted to medieval Spanish studies, marked a watershed of sorts. Under the guest editorship of Michael Solomon, a cluster of articles appeared whose goal was to provoke a dialogue between contemporary literary and cultural theories...