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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 251–291.
Published: 01 May 2011
...—including friends—must be held in common. Within this context, two Old English documents, so-called Rules of Confraternity , were inscribed in the early eleventh century into two manuscripts at New Minster, Winchester and Sherborne, establishing provisions for a reciprocal exchange of prayers following...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 345–368.
Published: 01 May 2011
... recommends in this work of folding will into time is monosyllabic prayer. He models this in his monosyllabic prose style, creating an aesthetic correlative of contemplative work. His choice to embody this work in monosyllables reveals his motivation for vernacular composition: English, unlike Latin...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to the poem’s portrayal of childbearing in relation to seventeenth-century birthing prayers and affect theory, this article demonstrates how Hutchinson’s figuration of the body belies any notion of her poem as “Christian cliché.” The article argues that the political value of Order and Disorder stems not from...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 45–68.
Published: 01 January 2014
... altered by the dissolution: prayer, otium , and withdrawal. As Tudor society sought to reshape or relocate these elements, writers including Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare explored and appropriated them, crafting within their literary texts a place for the monastic impulse. Writers of the period...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2016
... is united with Christ through her pain. Analysis of five late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts reveals that the legend is fashioned as a practical guide to the experience and rituals of childbirth. The legend also suggests that the act of engaging with Margaret's life (whether through prayer...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 405–432.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to procure his or her desires. This fundamental structure animated, for example, prayers for the dead, confession, and petitions to the saints. Yet these intercessory practices would be largely dismantled by Protestant Reformers, who argued that human intercession “darkens, and almost buries...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 135–161.
Published: 01 January 2014
... bookend the period that is most relevant for my
purposes here. Though writing in rather different social and cultural envi-
ronments, Clement and Evagrius both insisted on the conflation of theology
and devotion, the knowledge of God with a prayer to God, in the practice of
Christian life...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 91–123.
Published: 01 January 2003
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Two of the master texts of the English Reformation—John Foxe’s Acts and
Monuments (also known as his Book of Martyrs) and Archbishop Thomas
Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer (also known as the Prayer Book)—share...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 387–402.
Published: 01 September 2003
....
The version of the monk-as-woman anecdote preserved under the
name of Bessarion amplies the gural dimension of its presentation and
thus its rhetorical utility:
On another day, when I (Doulas) came to his cell I found him
(Bessarion) standing at prayer with his hands raised toward...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 287–321.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to the saints, and
purchased mediating images for their own private use. Even when material
things were not a physical part of the practice of prayer, medieval Chris-
tians often engaged the idea or memory of objects, as when meditating on
the implements of the Crucifixion known as the arma Christi...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
... culture, as seen, for example, in the popular sequence of fifteen prayers addressed to Jesus called the Fifteen Oes . A five-inch cross, evoking the five wounds, multiplied fifteen times, delivers a height of seventy-five inches, which was what at least one authority held Christ's height to be. “Cryste...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 299–332.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., or because God and the relic miraculously open it in response to his prayer. Roger takes the opening of his flesh as a sign that God approves of his desire to have a piece of the relic, so he carves off a portion of the Cross and inserts it into his thigh. His thigh then miraculously closes over so...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 141–165.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., or dynamism was very Protestant: special
emphasis was placed on the individual’s feelings during prayer, on the power
of the Holy Spirit, and on the importance of Christ as Savior.
Writing specifically on prayer some time before his death in 1662,
the bishop and friend of Donne, Brian Duppa...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 699–724.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and song or in his inclu-
sion of autobiographical detail. Methley also focuses on the name of Jesus,
a devotion that came to be associated with Rolle; the treatise, in fact, ends
with a verse prayer to the name of Jesus that is reminiscent of similar verses
in Rolle’s English writings (153 – 54).40...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 341–364.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 48.2 / 2018
lic texts, ceremonies, locations, practices, prayers, and images has been the
focus of intense study over the last decade. In terms of religious piety and
practice, the historiographic picture of a dramatic rupture from the Catho-
lic past...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
Published: 01 May 2009
... then we would
find it in places of prayer, in liturgy, in devotional texts, in spiritual treatises.
But we do not. People’s religious experiences appear to have been focused
not on universal or general nature but on the particular, on the local — the
salvation of this body, this community...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 241–262.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in the medieval era were those that encouraged a more or less predictable infrastructure of events: a prayer or visit to a holy shrine, tomb, or site that results in the miraculous attainment of something desired or required. The very regularity of the process ensured that the miracles performed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 301–340.
Published: 01 May 2018
... rich mosaic of material relating to spiritual guid-
ance, the discernment of spirits, and the management of spiritual ambition.
It presents an unswerving Christocentric focus of sustained meditations and
prayers, often conveyed through a fully mobilized repertoire of invocation,
metaphor...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 145–166.
Published: 01 January 2002
... are typically births, deaths, and marriages, but
they may also include other kinds of data important to the family, such as
prayer formulas, medical treatments, meteorological observations, accounts
of participation in public rituals, or the depredations of war and plague.14
It must be emphasized...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of Holy Oats 225
The intentional quality and formal nature of language recasts how
we ought to consider its role in cures and the very nature of a curative ingre-
dient. Prayer, invocation, and speech were what set charms and similar prac-
tices apart from simple medical cures. If words were...
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