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Monteverdi as Reader of Petrarch
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (3): 663–680.
Published: 01 September 2005
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English Bibles and Their Readers, 1400–1700
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 415–435.
Published: 01 September 2017
... during the period, a material history of reading intersects with a less material history of interpretation. Evidence from early bibles and their users of all sorts—known biblical scholars, literary figures, or anonymous readers—sheds light on how readers confronted the changing problems of interpretation...
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“In the hands and hearts of all true Christians”: Herbert’s The Temple (1633 – 1709) and Its Readers
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 115–137.
Published: 01 January 2020
... of The Temple . By investigating readers’ marks in over 120 copies of the book published between 1633 and 1709, it confirms that The Temple was received with enthusiasm and active readership. While marks in the book often suggest that it was sometimes used for the “commonplacing” of sententious phrases...
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“O Multiplied Misery!”: The Disordered Medical Narrative of John Donne's Devotions
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 167–188.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Jessica Tabak John Donne composed his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) to share a revelatory experience of illness with readers. Yet, in the book's final chapter, Donne himself indicates that bodily pain is nearly incommunicable. This raises a question: How can Donne hope to share his...
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“Pricking in Virgil”: Early Modern Prophetic Phronesis and the Sortes Virgilianae
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 557–571.
Published: 01 September 2015
... fragments in new contexts. The practice presents a tension between assigning the prophetic book agency over the fate of the reader and the reader actively mining (and interpreting) the text for knowledge to be extracted and applied to life. The sortes Virgilianae thus involves both phronetic reading...
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Nothing Was Funny in the Late Middle Ages: The “Tale of Ryght Nought” and British Library, MS Egerton 1995
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Lisa H. Cooper London, British Library, MS Egerton 1995 is a well-known miscellany of the late Middle Ages, filled like others of its kind with practical and didactic texts meant to assist its readers in their attempts at social, economic, and spiritual self-improvement. But it also contains...
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Glossing the Vulgate after the Reformation: The Marginalia of the Catholic Tutor, Thomas Marwood
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 561–586.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., printers, and readers scrambled to restore paratexts soon thereafter. Among the readers who marked up their bibles was Thomas Marwood, a later seventeenth-century tutor for a Catholic gentry family. Investigating how Marwood creatively imitated the scholastics' dense theological commentary and opposed...
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Gathering Good Corn from the Weeds: Theological and Pastoral Engagements with the Prickynge of Love in Post-Reformation England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 301–340.
Published: 01 May 2018
... an unlikely source for reformed Elizabethan readers in which to recognize valuable religious lore. But, in fact, these readers go far beyond repudiating “papistical” errors to demonstrate both the past roots of their own reformed theologies and the continuing pastoral utilities of much of the medieval text...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2020
... modern life writing, particularly in domestic contexts. Teresa’s autobiographical texts were mediated for new audiences: religious orders and lay readers, both Catholic and Protestant. Teresa quickly established cult status in large part through readers’ engagement with the record of her life. Analysis...
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Provoking Performance: Printed Dialogue and Early Modern Publics in Christopher St. German's Salem and Bizance
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 431–451.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in early modern politics has long been recognized in connection to the theater and theatricality, St. German's work demonstrates that early print also invoked the bodily interactivity and iterability characteristic of performance in order to script readers’ use of the relatively new medium. St. German's...
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Medieval Engagement with Authorial Intention
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 519–543.
Published: 01 September 2023
... behind the words. For medieval readers, connecting with an author's thoughts mattered, above all, because they understood reading to be a form of interpersonal engagement. The text is not simply an impersonal artifact, good for stimulating certain sorts of responses, but it is an expression...
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From Rabbis and Millenarians to High Church Orthodoxy: Edward Bernard (1638–1697) Reads the 1646 Amsterdam Vocalized Mishnah
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 149–178.
Published: 01 January 2023
...-known. However, it was long believed that seventeenth-century Christian readers ignored the book, a view that has only recently begun to be challenged. This article joins that challenge and introduces a vital new source: a copy in the Bodleian Library that has been heavily annotated by a Christian...
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From Rags to Paper: Alchemy, Chymistry, and the Perfective Art of Papermaking
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Margaret C. Maurer Early modern paper, formed from the fibers of recycled linen rags, captured the imagination of early modern writers, translators, and readers. Drawing on paper's material properties and history, seventeenth‐century chymists — including Thomas Tymme, Michael Maier, and Otto...
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“They Saw Mute Creation Trembling”: Forms of Catastrophe in the Old English Christ III
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 January 2022
... of creation's sympathy with Christ appears throughout medieval theology, Christ III 's treatment of this motif raises two sets of questions about medieval depictions of catastrophe, one set focused on represention of ecological catastrophe and one focused on causes of catastrophe. Christ III leads the reader...
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Needles and Pens: Sewing in Early English Books
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 523–542.
Published: 01 September 2015
... structural binding supports to unexpected, idiosyncratic stitching done by readers in paper pages, speculating that print opened up and diversified opportunities for crafting text rather than closing off the book from manual interventions more familiar to us from medieval manuscript culture. © 2015 by Duke...
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The Macrohistory of Microhistory
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... The article posits five further traits of microhistory: its insistence on the dense connectedness of things; its professed ignorance or very partial knowledge; its invitation to the reader to share doubt; its bridled intimacy with the elusive past; its half-baffled engagement with story as device...
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The Desert War of a Carolingian Monk
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 75–119.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and readers on a journey to reconstruct a military campaign to Hunia (Hungary) in 819, the reasons for that military venture, the nature of the army's travel, and the scribe's role and progress in making his book. But why was Ellenhart there at all and what did he choose to copy while on campaign? To answer...
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Bodies Hardened for War: Knighthood in Fifteenth-Century England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of these genres were standard reading for fifteenth-century English readers ranging from gentry to royal families. Even if they were not knights, many in this audience saw themselves in knightly terms, making it useful to pair these texts to consider how knightly bodies were represented to such an audience. Long...
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Taking Apart the Wycliffite Bible: Patterns of Selective and Integrative Reading
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 461–486.
Published: 01 September 2017
... many contain the full New Testament, others include only select books or even select chapters of scripture and combine those translations with exegetical, devotional, or pastoral texts. This article explores how producers and readers took apart and reassembled Wycliffite translations to open up varied...
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Toward a New Cultural History of the Geneva Bible
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 487–516.
Published: 01 September 2017
... role in shaping the English reader. Two of its innovative paratextual features are of particular importance: the breaking down of chapters into enumerated verses, facilitating the easy extraction of individual passages, and the expanded use of annotations, animating and enabling the application...
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