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The Body Debated: Bodies and Rights in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Germany
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Mary Lindemann Scholars of medical history have discovered that the notion of “monstrous births” presented challenging legal issues in the early modern world. Were such offspring–often conjoined twins– “monsters” in the civil sense? Were they, for example, able to make a will, inherit, contract...
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Beyond Monstrosity: Natural Hybridity in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
... hybridity in the literature of this period, unveiling a way for a creature to be simultaneously hybrid and natural. Though the hybrids in Mandeville's Travels are arguably natural monsters, Cavendish makes it abundantly clear that her hybrids are not to be understood as monsters, natural or otherwise...
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Balaam to Bottom: Artifact and Theatrical Translation in the Sixteenth Century
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 421–459.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of Protestant propaganda
mocking the wrongheadedness of the Church of Rome In a German pam-
phlet first published in but later translated into English and published
in London in Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther warned of
“Two Woonderful Popish Monsters” including a “Popish Asse” (see fig...
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On Saracen Enjoyment: Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 113–146.
Published: 01 January 2001
... monsters, racist representations inevitably conjoin desire and
disgust. The Saracens were no exception. The extended visualizations of
Cohen / On Saracen Enjoyment 119
JMEMS31.1-05 Cohen 2/26/01 7:00 PM Page 120
“lusty, black...
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Treasonous Textiles: Foreign Cloth and the Construction of Englishness
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 543–570.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and monstrosity:
An English man or woman now,
I’ll make excuse for neither.
Composed are I know not how,
of many shreds together:
Italian, Spaniard, French, and Dutch,
Of each of these they have a touch.
O Monsters,
Neutrall monsters,
Leave...
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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
... of giants or monsters, they are associated with oth-
ers who are, such as the gigantic “Og” (a biblical giant) and “Xaneth [the]
three headed.”12 In this account the races of Gog and Magog are described
as cannibals who eat “the flesh of human beings and [drink] their blood like
water and that of all...
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Unbinding the Maternal Body in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: Mee overtook his mother all dismaid, And in embraces forcible and foule Ingend ring with me, of that rape begot These yelling Monsters that with ceaseless cry Surround me, as thou sawst, hourly conceiv d And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when they list into the womb That bred them...
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Leprosy in the Medieval Imaginary
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to criticize lepers (“they be of
ill rule and are commonly beguilers and to detail their deformities, call-
ing them “horrible in manner of a monster.” Further, de Chauliac assumed,
along with most medieval commentators, some connection between visi-
tations of the disease and luxuria, notable...
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Marginal Geography: Pedagogical Design in Medieval Commentaries on Classical Poems
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Unconcerned with realistically arranged locations, medieval maps often populated their earth with mythic monsters, unobserved realms, or elementary designs that bore little resemblance to their depicted regions. 2 Mappaemundi in particular, which rarely constitute maps in a modern sense, could insert...
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The Mystery of Walking
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 571–580.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., there is the fur-
ther strangeness of the monster who poses the riddle and of the man who
answers it. The Sphinx does not walk on two legs. According to Apollonius,
the Sphinx was a monster with the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a
lion, and the wings of a bird.1 This suggests a being both more and less...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 161–171.
Published: 01 January 2021
... 1700. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press; Mission San Luis Rey, Oceanside, Calif.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2018. xiv, 281 pp., 20 figs., 8 tables. $45.00. Van de Logt, Mark. Monsters of Contact: Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 May 2023
... We may localize the introduction of melancholia to just after the rise of the Nazis before World War II, in Tolkien's famous 1936 essay on Beowulf “The Monsters and the Critics.” This highly influential work is a major early instance of a self-conscious break with nineteenth-century philology...
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Magical Politics from Poitou to Armenia: Mélusine, Jean de Berry, and the Eastern Mediterranean
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 275–301.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... The medieval clerical view that condemns differently bodied crea-
tures as foreign and threatening, often locates monsters and demons in far
distant places at the edge of the known world, whether the “Orient,” Lybia,
Egypt, Ethiopia, or India.4 The Roman de Mélusine, however, places hybrid
and unknown...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 537–561.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... $60.00.
Weisgerber, Jean. La Muse des Jardins: Jardins de l’Europe littéraire (1580–
1700). Nouvelle poétique comparatiste, vol. 5. Bruxelles: P.I.E.-Peter
Lang, 2002. 216 pp.; 12 gs. Paper $22.95.
12. The marvelous
Bovey, Alixe. Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts . Toronto...
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Probing the Limits of Microhistory
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 193–198.
Published: 01 January 2017
...
for someone to explain what “macrohistory” is; usually the term is used as a
mythical antithesis of microhistory, a Loch Ness monster that cruises deep,
dark waters but is never once sighted.) Instead, Cohen’s article offers a broad
overview of the historiographical landscape seen and evaluated from...
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Moralizing Apparel in Early Modern London: Popular Literature, Sermons, and Sartorial Display
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 571–595.
Published: 01 September 2009
...) The
preoccupation with sumptuous attire indicates a sort of unnaturalness: “new-
fangled fashions rather deforme, then adorne us: making us rather to resem-
ble savage beastes, and brutish monsters” (67). (2) The English are altogether
obsessed with foreign clothes and textiles: if attire “come not from beyond...
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Goya, Portraiture, and the (Impossible) Art of Deciphering Faces
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 165–201.
Published: 01 January 2024
... a harmonious arrangement of the character. Proverbially speaking, it is said that one who is a monster in the body is also a monster in the soul.] The literature on della Porta is of course extensive. See, recently, Eugenio Refini, “Bodily Passions: Physiognomy and Drama in Giovan Battista della Porta...
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Black Servant, Black Demon: Color Ideology in the Ashburnham Pentateuch
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2001
... ideological sign systems of color.
46 Origen, In Ex. hom. 3, 4; Paul of Nola, Carmina 17.45, 25.140, 28.241. For a
comprehensive view of attitudes about Egyptian spirituality, see K. A. D. Smelik and
E. A. Hemelrijk, “‘Who knows not what monsters demented Egypt...
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Visualizing Sacred History: Peter Dell's Resurrection and Lutheran Image Theology
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 339–379.
Published: 01 May 2016
... or framework. I take this name from the antique monster,
the Chimera, that possessed distinctive parts from different creatures.14 In
the absence of suitable terminology from Dell’s own period, I am using this
anachronistic term for Dell’s reliefs to provide a basic positive descriptor...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 429–451.
Published: 01 May 2014
... War One. London: Reaktion
Books, 2012. 552 pp.; 95 black-and-white and 66 color illus. $60.00.
Nigg, Joseph. Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling
Map. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 160 pp.; illus. in color
throughout. $40.00.
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