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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 331–373.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Patricia Simons The ubiquity and charm of pissing putti in early modern imagery has inured us to their valence, for an important proof of masculinity in the European tradition is to be able to emit fluids from the penis, usually with some force, and significantly while standing erect. In early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... d'Alexandre,” 40. 44 Cruse, Illuminating the “Roman d'Alexandre,” 47–53. 45 Cruse, 49. 46 Kristi Reese identifies this image as a parody of pisse-prophecy; see “Mediating Medieval Medicine: Ecclesiastic Commentary through Visual Parodies of Pisse-Prophecy,” The Middle Ground Journal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 271–298.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and sprung up high from the aforementioned host, as if it were a child who pissed, and the Jew was all covered and bloodied and played his character very well. Afterwards, not content with this, he threw the aforementioned host into the fire, and through a device, it raised itself from the fire and attached...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 173–190.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., “the bravest show” by the “Pissing-­Conduit,” the little Conduit by the Stocks market off Cheapside (3.2.181 – 82). The “two brave drums and a standard bearer” in this procession (3.2.183) parody the “warlike music” and “troop of labourers” of Middleton’s earlier entertain- ment and serve here...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 509–531.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that “[t]here's not a Pissing-post but weares a Bill, / That doth Proclaime his admirable skill.” 56 The concept of the mountebank bill in fact encompass two separate kinds of documents: those posted to notify potential audiences of the mountebank's presence and performance in town, and the instructive...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 January 2012
... who lacks natural reverence toward God. “Mankynde, vbi es?” (771). “Hic hyc, hic hic, hic hic, hic hic!” shouts New Guise (775). The very capacity of language to denote is being called into question here. Titivillus has turned Mankind’s prayers to piss and shit; here New Guise’s words answers...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 549–583.
Published: 01 September 2014
... overthrown. The iconoclast responds to the object’s power with open force or parodic inversion: in Yaxley, Gunton reports, sol- diers “break open the Church doors, piss in the Font, and then baptize a horse and mare, using the solemn words of Baptism, and signing them with the sign of the cross...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 571–595.
Published: 01 September 2009
... marginalized to a chapel underneath the sanctuary or the choir; there was “little room for the sacred” (53). 17 As prestigious as St. Paul’s school was, members of the clergy still complained that the school boys regularly broke windows and pissed on the door of the church of St...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
... — to a broader role for the state, an expansion of what can be called judicial sovereignty. • • • In the summer of 1555, when summoned to appear before the Venetian Inquisition on charges of heresy, Casoni was pissing blood. Doctor Alvise Ribera, one of the physicians...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of the stoue, and licking his head and eyes all ouer with your tongue, put him into his Pen, and then taking a good handfull of bread, small cut, put it into his trough, and then pissing into the trough, also giue it him to eate, so as he may take his bread out of the warme...