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“In the hands and hearts of all true Christians”: Herbert’s The Temple (1633 – 1709) and Its Readers
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...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., and from the doctrine of creation ex nihilo to the threat of Doomsday. But it also attends for the first time to many of the early modern marginalia in the manuscript, marks that reveal how several later readers responded to and ultimately transformed the themes of material and social value that Egerton...
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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 415–435.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., printed annotations and paratextual devices, forms of textual circulation, and the nature of literary allusion and cultural reuse. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 English and Latin Bible manuscript annotation history of the book and reading reader marks...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Eleanor Johnson This essay argues that Chaucer’s much- unloved “Monk’s Tale,” rather than being a failure or misfire on Chaucer’s part, actually constitutes a high- water mark of the bold and experimental literary theory that characterizes much of Chaucer’s later career. In this case, the Monk...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 451–453.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and
paratext, contributors to this volume are invited to rethink the cultural role
of the Bible using a wide range of material evidence. Many questions remain
about the history of biblical reception: How were the so-called Wycliffite
bibles really used? What do readers’ marks tell us about reception...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 599–607.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in the history
of readership have shifted attention away from production and toward the
reception of bibles. Readers’ marks and other signs of use possess a tanta-
lizing potential to reveal hitherto invisible or overlooked acts of readerly
engagement with the scriptures.1 Yet, just as often...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 523–542.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Alongside the pen-
and-ink indexes, reference tools, and navigation aids that have become hall-
marks of this new history of print, analogous reader pathways can be discov-
ered that are less familiar to scholars because they were forged with needle
and thread. Figure 6 reproduces one example...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 345–371.
Published: 01 May 2008
... because the patterns seem to
assemble themselves out of the latent possibilities of their own forms. Taken
thus, printed flowers appear to address themselves to the fundamental ques-
tion of how, before meaning, marks can mean.
Sixteenth-century readers may have had ways of thinking about...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 January 2011
... least his use of the language of eating echoes the state-
ment in the address to the reader that “people are devoured” by Spain and
its “Indian Golde.”13
The Discoverie employs the symbolic power of the cannibal within
colonial discourse to mark difference, a power that, according to Peter...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 443–456.
Published: 01 September 2015
... familiar with the pro-
cesses of intellectual and material cutting and stitching that produced man-
uscripts, we have been much slower to notice that early modern readers cut
Fleming / Renaissance Collage 445
as they read, and read by cutting, printed books...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 315–337.
Published: 01 May 2016
...
as part of the audience’s world, at least partially and temporarily, through
the potential use of space and performative utterance, both of which repeat-
edly mark “frame shifts” in the play as a whole.26 These shifts could also
operate for the imaginative reader, although such a reader could...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 161–180.
Published: 01 January 2020
... differences between the WWiR and WWO collections. When invoking readers in the aggregate, authors of both reviews and WWO texts overwhelmingly do so through a phrasing that marks a connection ( our readers, my readers moreover, the language of review- ing does so in a way that identifies the reviewer...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 347–377.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., visual, and material history of the musical trope called the “false relation,” a type of musical dissonance. 15 See, for example, Katherine Acheson, ed., Early Modern English Marginalia (London: Routledge, 2019); William H. Sherman, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 359–390.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construc-
tion of Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010); and William Sher-
man, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2009).
51 Mark Amsler, Affective Literacies...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 617–643.
Published: 01 September 2014
... that the sense of sacrality associated
with an object depends very much on context.2 Such work makes it clear
that the sharp divide between sacred and nonsacred (or sacred and secular)
often made by modern readers is, ultimately, an arbitrary one. Sacrality is as
much a product of the way in which...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 587–597.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... On the use of
manicules in sixteenth-century reading, see William H. Sherman, Used Books: Mark-
ing Readers in Renaissance England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008).
Rankin / Tudor Courtly Reading of a Wycliffite Bible 597
...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 521–544.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and ownership marks in manuscripts and a study of wills and book inventories, a distinct artisanal devotional culture can be reconstructed, as it becomes visible in the ways that artisans combined their social, vocational, and religious identities. This is also testified by the artisans’ appropriation...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 545–560.
Published: 01 September 2017
...
The same episode occurs in Mark’s Gospel (12:41 – 44), with a few additional
details, including Jesus’s position (“he sate ouer against the treasurie an
explanation of the value of two mites (“which make a farthing and the
audience for his remark (“his disciples The passage in Mark also varies...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 557–571.
Published: 01 September 2015
...). Furthermore, the seeker must
“thrust” a pin between the book’s pages; indeed, the book is said to be held
by another person “at the pricking.” Pins were a familiar part of writing and
reading practices since they were used, perhaps especially by readers who
did not want to leave a permanent mark...
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