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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
... evidence in its wake. Indeed, notions of the body are integral to understanding early modern witchcraft beliefs, particularly at a time when the boundary between mind and body was viewed as porous and permeable. This was a time when emotions were seen to have physical consequences, and this belief played...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., and yet they were linked with and responded to each other in complex and interesting ways. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern legal judgment moral theology Augustine belief physical evidence Examining the intellectual, cultural...
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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 597–617.
Published: 01 September 2009
... approaches. Because of the physical distance separating the documentary evidence, rarely have comparisons been made between sumptuary laws from different geographical areas. This study offers just such a comparison of the laws enacted in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and England between the thirteenth...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2010
...-Reformation plowman has long been read as an uncomplicated spokesman for an anticlerical Protestantism. This article argues, in contrast, that these plowmen are evidence of a continuing interest in a medieval Catholic symbolic imagination centered on work–as physical labor and as spiritual labor, such as good...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 9–32.
Published: 01 January 2024
... Renaissance physiognomy legal procedure in Venice physical evidence Antonio Pellegrini Giovanni Ingegneri In 1545, the Venetian humanist Antonio Pellegrini published his I segni della natura ne l'huomo ( The Signs of Nature in Man ). 1 In dialogue form, this work reproduces a conversation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 167–188.
Published: 01 January 2016
... new physical evidence — a manifestation of spots,
or, as we shall see shortly, a raising from one’s sickbed — resolves an old one.
Similarly to the self-perpetuating (and perpetual) string of skeptical ques-
tions that structure Augustine’s meditation on time, Donne’s twenty-three
devotions...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the tai-
lor Ernst amply demonstrates. And Horn’s petition adroitly addressed both.
The prospective bridegroom indicated that he grasped the moral implica-
tions of physical development, providing literally physical evidence. “My
bride,” he observed, “not only...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 17–43.
Published: 01 January 2014
... This is an analogy with the case of the
biblical patriarchs’ long lives, and it works like this. Instinctively, we dis-
miss as absurd what Virgil says about Turnus’s size. But physical evidence
has accidentally survived to prove our instinct wrong. Instinctively, we dis-
miss what Genesis says about...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 105–139.
Published: 01 January 2021
... have also pointed to evidence of virtual, imagined, or spiritual pilgrimage as viable alternatives to physical Jerusalem pilgrimage for many laypeople.5 We do not know the name, social status, or religious affiliation of the designer of MS 426. However, its texts bear witness to and incorporate recent...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
... the eyes and hands of surgeons to be capable interpreters of physical evidence, the manuals for the reporting surgeon produced in this formative period promoted a semiologically based, sensory epistemology that grounded the affirmation of surgical authority in the emerging discipline of forensic medicine...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 247–273.
Published: 01 May 2013
... handwriting — physical evidence of the author’s
survival — in similar terms: “I should reioyce much to see you[r] hand
writing it be no great trouble to you it shall much adde to the helth of my
inferme and sickly body.”74 The sheer volume of these statements in personal
correspondence spanning...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 May 2017
... as a direct result of his physical engagement with the bodily evidence of the Resurrection: My Lord and my God with syght do I se That thu art now quyk, which henge deed on rode. More feythful than I, ther may no man be, For myn hand have I wasch in thi precyous blode...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 403–412.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., for example, by new modes of evaluating archaeological
evidence, as well as by studies — to cite only a few instances represented in
this collection — that analyze the representation of disease in nonmedical
literature such as travel treatises (Finucci), that consider the function of dis-
ease...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 141–159.
Published: 01 January 2021
... or that they per- ceived their enclosure as being restrictive. I also included evidence that could support a more etic argument for resistance. For instance, I presented very brief descriptions of the restriction of the nuns physical mobility that was an aspect of enclosure; their use of mental means to violate...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 January 2024
... criminal trials physiognomy readings of the body judicial evidence If our faces were not similar, we could not distinguish man from beast: if they were not dissimilar, we could not distinguish man from man. —Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience” From the earliest days of civilization...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 January 2010
... on the human body. Blacman’s image thus not only
rehabilitates the body politic, against the evidence of its disaggregation dur-
ing Henry’s reign, but also reframes the cult’s emphasis on Henry’s physical
likeness and identification with English men and women, an emphasis that
works against...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 25–48.
Published: 01 January 2013
... a right triangle. It is as if de Witt imagines the per-
formance to be taking place within a triangle, viewed from within a square.
What we know about the physical structure of the 1599 Globe sug-
gests a similar geometric disposition of space: a rectangular platform 43 by
27.5 feet set...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 335–367.
Published: 01 May 2013
... his intended pact with Lucifer and touching on the inco-
herence of the word and the flesh. What Lowell Gallagher calls the “textual-
ity of the blood” enacts a corporeal interruption that results in lexical failure.
“What puzzles Faustus,” Gallagher argues, “is the evidence that the physical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 May 2013
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ties. Likewise, an awareness of how qualities grew and interacted is evident
in the culture surrounding good works through which grace increased in a
believer’s soul. A vernacular physics of grace and intentions gives us a way to
explain encounters with relics and the appearance of saints’ names...
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