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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 457–478.
Published: 01 September 2019
... inevitably conjures up the supernatural and therefore also its own supersession. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 medieval natural philosophy cosmology concept of nature physical matter principle of contradiction ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 299–332.
Published: 01 May 2024
... around them. In the medieval period, matter was understood not as inert but as suffused and animated by distinctive virtus or virtue, and this was true of both human and nonhuman matter. As Holly Crocker writes, “herbs, metals, and other physical bodies were imbued with powers attributed to the divine...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 573–594.
Published: 01 September 2015
... style than the spoken word.”29 Once com-
mitted to stone and wood, these dangerous ideas threatened to take durable
form in both minds and physical matter. Protestants strategically stationed
these messages in what one scholar has termed the “liminal spaces” of resi-
dential thresholds and facades...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 519–542.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., the crystal glass mirror holds forth the
false promise of ideation divorced from material and temporal causation.
What distinguishes the steel glass is its capacity to reflect temporality, to
reflect, that is, the passage of time as a particular property of the divinely
created universe of physical matter...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 347–377.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the writing arts of Renaissance England and the “almost magical way of thinking about the physical properties of language . . . [and] the ostentatious materiality of sixteenth-century literary writing—the fact that it is born of and bound in matter.” 4 By the sixteenth century, this “graffiti” had become...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... Hildegard posits a divine force coursing throughout the
physical world, the four elements, breathing divinity into matter and all
of creation.20 This idea would seem to be what Chenu was looking for in
the twelfth century. But it is not nature; this force is God, or more specifi-
cally the Holy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2008
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nificant reality: in early modern Europe, bodies in the strictly physical sense
mattered greatly.4
Is, however, such an investigation ahistorical, generated perhaps by
twentieth-century concerns with, for instance, the disabled?5 I think not.
Early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 May 2015
... portrays the “vanity,” or emptiness, of the art of rhetoric, which mis-
takes words for things and thus interrupts the pursuit of true knowledge:
It seems to me that Pygmalion’s frenzy is a good emblem or
portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., not hysterical. Nervousness was a sign of guilt, but so was being obdurate, which meant that the suspect was cold-blooded and therefore unable to feel guilty and penitent. 5 And while both men and women were accused of, and tried for, witchcraft, physicality was often made to matter more in trials of women...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., grace itself was a quality which grew and remitted like heat or
cold, and which could saturate objects in addition to people. Seeing grace as
a quality suggests how the oats’ holiness might be a matter of physics.
Grace as a quality
Medieval theories of grace developed over a millennium...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
... thereof, no matter how much people might wish to do so. The anatomists, who caution the Empress against dissecting monsters, are not aligned with any particular animal—that is, they are not animal-men—but serve a similar purpose in that they are there to educate the Empress and may well be animal-men...
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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 (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 (2014) 44 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 January 2014
... it. Moreover, once we move from the realm of
physics to that of biomechanics, the constraints on the intrinsic inactivity of
matter become even more striking. Here, the inertness of matter leads Des-
cartes to reject any goal-directedness in physiological processes, including
the development...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 271–303.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., and therefore the “community” of the
living with the dead.2 And it took away the Mass, attempting, as Stephen
Greenblatt has recently alleged, to separate the spirit from “the limitations
of matter” and “the taint of the flesh”; in so doing, it contributed to the
death or (at least) “disenchantment...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 395–420.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., 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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Steven Bruso This essay examines representations of knightly physicality in two fifteenth-century English texts: the Middle English Secreta Secretorum and Knyghthode and Bataile . These neglected texts are examples of mirrors for princes and Vegetian military manuals, respectively, and both...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 January 2016
... proponent of the
case-history, wrote (and was translated into English) and as figures such
as Hoccleve and Margery Kempe developed the genre of “autobiographi-
cal” narrative, stories that attend both to the physical and mental/spiritual
aspects of sickness.7 The three authors on whom I focus wrote...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 531–548.
Published: 01 September 2014
... poems, polemical treatises, and letters —
present the bodies of Edmund Campion, Alexander Brian, Edmund Geninges,
and Robert Southwell as didactic tools, healing relics, and emblems for per-
secution and resilience. In these texts, physical suffering is a concomitant of
holiness, testifying...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 333–369.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in a painting created shortly after the arrival of the Roman soil: the altarpiece commissioned for the Annenkirche by Annaberg's Bergknappschaft or mining society and dedicated in 1521. 20 The unusual attention that the work pays to physical matter makes it worth examining in some detail in the context...
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