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The Sacred Object
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 457–467.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Shannon Gayk; Robyn Malo This special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies explores the many continuities between medieval and early modern ideas about the sacred object. Until recently, the European Protestant Reformations were usually understood to mark a sharp break...
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Manuscript as Sacred Object: Robert Hegge’s N-Town Plays
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 503–529.
Published: 01 September 2014
... modern collector, Robert Hegge. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 a
Manuscript as Sacred Object:
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Imitatio Rerum : Sacred Objects in the St. Giles’s Hospital Processional
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 469–502.
Published: 01 September 2014
... how the paintings in the St. Giles’s Hospital Processional represent sacred objects not as the “props” of Christian ritual but as the subject of ritual and the subjects of ritual action. Attending to the imbrication of objecthood and subjecthood in the Processional’s text and images, the essay...
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Sidney Montagu and the Sacramental Sign: Memorial and Sacred Objects in Post-Reformation England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 549–583.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Patricia Phillippy Following three-year-old Henry Montagu’s death in 1625, his father installed a memorial comprised of three objects in Barnwell All Saints Church. In addition to an alabaster monument, Sidney Montagu incorporated into his memorial program a thirteenth-century piscina (a basin...
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Water and Wood: Ecomateriality and Sacred Objects at the Chapel of Saint-Fiacre, Le Faouët (Brittany)
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 585–615.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the surrounding forest shaped sacred objects in and around the rural healing chapel. The ecological characteristics of healing waters intersected with understandings of the salvific theology of the blood of Christ; the hewn ecology of the oak jubé or rood screen framed the ontological complexity of Christ’s human...
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Embodying the Historical Moment: Tombs and Idols in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 617–643.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Suzanne Conklin Akbari The sharp divide between sacred and secular objects is ultimately an arbitrary one: sacrality is less a quality inherent in the object itself than a product of the way in which the object is seen. This is particularly evident in medieval universal histories, in which all...
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Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and Private
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 7–52.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Nicholas Terpstra The theatrical capital punishments of the early modern period blurred distinctions between private and public and between object and subject in their treatment of the prisoner’s body. Where did these rituals originate? Italian confraternities devised distinctive forms of offering...
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“In Things”: The Rebus in Premodern Devotion
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 287–321.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Jessica Brantley A hybrid of letters and pictures arranged to signify a sentence or phrase, the rebus transforms objects into ideas more explicitly than any other kind of communicative system. Its fundamental mechanism of representation enacts a connection between words and things and evokes...
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“The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 573–597.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Natasha Korda Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599) is filled with shoes. Every aspect of shoes’ social lives is enacted onstage: they are manufactured before our eyes, bought and sold, given as gifts, displayed as signs of status, and flaunted as objects of fashion. This essay considers...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (2): 159–184.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Thomas C. Sawyer This essay theorizes codicological intentionalism as an array of critical methods for interpreting medieval manuscripts as self-sufficient objects of study that condition the meanings available to the texts they contain. Building upon recent work published by Sebastian Sobecki...
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Virtual Reality: Virtue, the Eucharist, and Translation in the Writings of Thomas More
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 483–501.
Published: 01 September 2022
... other, it is not surprising that More's concerns with the sacrament, virtue, and the virtual also involve language. In the Dialogue Concerning Heresy , More strenuously criticizes Tyndale's translation of scripture. This essay also examines the ways in which More's objections to Tyndale's translation...
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The Author's Three Bodies: Codicological Intentionalism and the Medieval Text
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 573–596.
Published: 01 September 2023
... materialist with historicist certainties and probabilities; it offers a viable methodology for reconciling textual with authorial objectives. 58 My claim is that the author never died, as opposed to Seán Burke's reborn author who was a delayed casualty of Enlightenment agnostico-atheism, a phenomenon...
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From Rabbis and Millenarians to High Church Orthodoxy: Edward Bernard (1638–1697) Reads the 1646 Amsterdam Vocalized Mishnah
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 149–178.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Thomas Roebuck The vocalized edition of the Mishnah (the ancient compilation of Jewish oral teachings) published in Amsterdam in 1646 has long been an object of fascination to scholars. The story of its creation at the confluence of Jewish publishing and Christian millenarian enthusiasm is well...
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John Gower Illustrated: The Archer Images, Astronomical Science, and Poetic Identity
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 287–321.
Published: 01 May 2023
... their dependence on conceptual models, graphical interfaces, and technical objects commensurate to the described world. 20 On T-O diagrams and geographical traditions informing the presentation of the earth, see Amanda J. Gerber, “Earthly Gower: Transforming Geographical Texts and Images in the Confessio...
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Fate, Human Character, and Divinatory Perception in Early Modern Metoposcopy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Armando Maggi Metoposcopy, the early modern divinatory practice that reads the pattern of lines on a person's forehead for their signification, has been the object of studies primarily focused on the discipline's historical evolution. This article analyzes the complex origins of this practice, its...
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Signs of Shared and Personal Experience in Dominican Breviaries
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 January 2025
... the order's unity. This article explores the breviary as both a personal and communal object, examining its liturgical content as an expression of lived religion. It argues that the breviary, often overlooked by scholars, can in some cases reveal a negotiation between individual and communal religious...
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Marking and Remaking a Bishops' Bible in Seventeenth-Century England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 599–607.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., who turned the book into a family archive and an object of private devotion. This volume represents a vivid example of the broader shift between public and private reading, the continuity of church-state authority across the seventeenth century, and the continuing tension between this authority...
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“A Tomb Once Stood in This Room”: Memorials to Memorials in Early Modern England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 365–385.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in St. Albans Abbey Church are of interest both as evidence of the local reception of Shakespeare and Drayton and as situated verses that challenge the dichotomy between text and object. Drawing attention to the impermanence of physical monuments, they also acknowledge their own ephemerality, calling...
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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
..., was a way of justifying the continued presence of these pre-Reformation objects into and beyond the seventeenth century. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 change-ringing in early modern England uses of church bells mathematical permutation anagrams philosophy and combination...
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The Sanctity of St. Margaret Clitherow: Conversion and Incorruptibility
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (3): 519–552.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ryan McDermott The miraculously incorruptible hand of St. Margaret Clitherow, a recusant martyr in York under Elizabeth I, was hidden for centuries. It has also eluded academic scrutiny. It therefore provides a test case for what constitutes a significant object of study for historical inquiry...
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