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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 457–478.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the universe and its immutable laws, but also the metaphysical principles of living beings, the totality of corruptible things, and creatures from the domain of physis . Engaging with the idea of nature as plastic and multifaceted in its richness, this article shows that contradiction is a dialectical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 333–363.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and Ordained
Power (Bergamo, It.: P. Lubrina, 1990); and Antoine Côté, “God and the Principle of
Non-Contradiction,” International Philosophical Quarterly 38, no. 3 (1998): 285 – 98.
40 Côté, “God and the Principle of Non-Contradiction,” 285 n. 1, notes that the only
exception appears...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 419–435.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of the grotesque, dened by Geoffrey Galt Harpham
in his On The Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature as
“phenomena that both require and defeat denition: they are neither so reg-
ular that they settle easily into our categories, nor so unprecedented that we
do not recognize them...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 119–145.
Published: 01 January 2022
... resolves nor unifies its two opposing principles, but instead subjects them to an eschatological perspective that makes political economic discourses of quantity into a kind of apocalyptic accounting. 9 Wynnere and Wastoure emphasizes the interplay of countable and uncountable quantities in list-like...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 41–59.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Vivian Nutton In 1538 Vesalius issued two complementary works for students, Tabulae sex anatomicae ( Six Anatomical Plates ) and the Institutionum anatomicae secundum Galeni sententiam libri quatuor ( Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen ). The former is well known, the latter...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 467–492.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Alastair Minnis Scholastic intentionalism was a complicated and hardly consistent affair. Theologians sought security of meaning in the principle that a biblical author's intention could be found in the literal sense of his text. But the ultimate author of scripture, God, could have inscribed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 463–495.
Published: 01 September 2010
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of the attitudes, principles, and practices that have come to be associated of
late with the monarchical republic as dangerously both puritan and popu-
lar. Central to that critique was the notion of “popularity,” and so I will be
considering John Whitgift as a theorist of popularity, and thus as a leading...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 55–85.
Published: 01 January 2023
... the principle of a divinely ordained church order. Here Travers made use of rabbinic interpretation explicitly, moving beyond Calvin's tendency to use rabbinic exegesis more implicitly. Yet, like those who defended Calvin against allegations of Judaizing, Travers denied subordinating Christian to Jewish...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (3): 463–472.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of this turn for the project of Marxist critique.
Given the spectrum of contradictions inherent in the feudal-capitalist
transition as postulated within classic Marxism, it should come as no sur-
prise that much of the subsequent history of Marxist thought has remained
unsettled regarding...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
... biblical play is also arguably his most medieval play, as its allegorical structure and homiletic themes mimic those of the medieval morality play. While Shakespeare's play participates in the religious celebration of the new monarchy, it does so with rich irony, revealing stark contradictions in English...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 223–247.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that they touch upon.
I propose, through a rereading of certain episodes in the eleventh-
century texts of the Life of Nikon and the Life of Irene of Chrysobalanton,
to highlight the contradictions they manifest with regard to holy presence
and the artist’s role in fleshing out a sacred countenance...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., and duplicitous courtier-priest.1 These
contradictions belong partly to Skelton’s moment, for he is the poet of a
transition. His idiom has roots both in the waning literary culture of the
English fifteenth century and in the rising Tudor regime whose patronage
he so ardently desires, and he presents...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 375–399.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., for Marcus, the version of Donne projected by the 1633 Poems con-
firms not only her deconstructivist principles but also her aesthetic taste
more generally. In her words, the collection is
a striking melange of sacred and secular that refuses to
separate John Donne from Jack. Verse epistles...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 95–146.
Published: 01 January 2004
... greater stability
of form than can ever be the case. The so-called “constant” is less constant
than it is assumed to be.18
Style is made of a contradiction. It is the constant form in process of
continuous change. As one critic pointed out, style cannot resist “the alter-
ation of time...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 January 2024
.... Not only are the astrological references in these sections of Cardano's tract partially or entirely missing, they also offer unmistakable contradictions. Just to mention one obvious example, it is hard to understand why a similar line close to the right eye of a male figure in book 10 denotes an “unstable...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 215–239.
Published: 01 May 2003
... did sustain the bitterness of suffering.3
I find this unpersuasive as an interpretation, largely because much in the
text contradicts it. The interpretation leaves out of account the opening
words of the biblical narrative, from which it’s clear that Abraham is not
God: “tentavit Deus Abraham...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... for the expression of natural diversity, complemented by new visualizations in the illustrated manuscripts. The concept of propriétés articulates the principles of diversity from elemental commonalities, through groups and subgroups such as birds and birds of prey, down to individual species. The Livre encourages...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 515–539.
Published: 01 September 2020
...R. Malcolm Smuts Historians have typically represented James I as a king whose foreign policy was driven by a principled commitment to peace, religious reconciliation, and royal legitimacy that led him to avoid military engagement in confessional conflicts, notably the Thirty Years’ War. But his...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 285–311.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Stephen McGrade, trans. John Kilcullen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 3. On Ockham's understanding of the limits to obedience, see Arthur Stephen McGrade, The Political Thought of William of Ockham: Personal and Institutional Principles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974), 157...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the -ini hypothesis. Indeed, Fulk has written elsewhere that wundini is a paradigmatic instance of the principle that an editor's decision not to alter a manuscript reading can be more conjectural than changing it. 30 Kiernan, meanwhile, reads the manuscript form not as wundini but wundmi...
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