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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 227–260.
Published: 01 May 2018
...’ Creed. The work thus offers a new way of conceiving both women’s affective piety and the relationship between vernacular and clerical theology. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 A Christian Mannes Bileeve Apostles’ Creed medieval affective spirituality reason and emotion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 247–273.
Published: 01 May 2013
....
As these two episodes show, early modern patients tended to attri-
bute emotionally caused ailments to social stimuli, such as the death of a
loved one or perilous credit relations. In her work on eighteenth-century
German women, Barbara Duden notes how the bodily effects of emotions
presupposed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 199–231.
Published: 01 May 2020
... specificity of those contexts (498). 12 For reasons of space, I must omit such things as Augustine s important and influen- tial discussions of shame and emotions, as well as remarks by Eastern Church fathers on the topic, including Gregory of Nyssa s positive account of shame in his Homilies on Ecclesiastes...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Laura Kounine In early modern German witch trials, how defendants looked and moreover how they behaved on trial—physically and emotionally—was crucial to whether they were deemed innocent or guilty. This was particularly the case in trials of witchcraft, a crime that often left little tangible...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 519–543.
Published: 01 September 2023
... emotional engagement with a text makes engaging with the author's intention mandatory. As we have seen, one can learn from a text apart from any concern for its original intent, and one can, and should, subject a text to moral scrutiny in ways that go beyond intentions. But to engage emotionally with a text...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 83–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
... the practi-
cal, daily demands on emotions and ethical behavior.4 In the discourse sur-
rounding the sacrament of confession — primarily the penitential treatises
directed at both priests and laity — one’s relationship to others is refracted
through incredibly detailed analyses of feelings...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of the eyebrows, or perhaps most especially in more transient states such as moments of blushing or growing pale—information about the underlying character, thoughts, and emotions of an individual. And it was on the basis of these claims that the ancients first elaborated what they came to call “physiognomy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 321–344.
Published: 01 May 2014
... by a revival of anti-Stoicism, and “both the
humanist and the Reformation traditions provided powerful defenses of the valid-
ity and even the desirability of ordinary human emotions and passions” (42). See also
Christopher Tilmouth, Passion’s Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 97–120.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Alexandra Walsham Fervent Protestants validated their individual and collective status as God's elect children by recalling the spiritual “experiments” he had wrought within their hearts and souls. By investigating their written testimonies of the emotional and corporeal effects which the Holy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
... ac ratione
puts it — Casoni and his contemporaries nonetheless believed that the inter-
nal states of the body (emotions, thoughts, guilt) could be read on the body’s
Martin / Rhetorical Forensics of the Body 105
various surfaces.18 In their view, therefore...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 283–312.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of reason and emotion through
fictions.
In the legend of Britomart, guile is a tool of justice as much as it is
of evil. The guile of a dream furthers Britomart’s quest; through her mas-
tery of the vision at the Temple of Isis, she gains the ability...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 249–272.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of expectations about the emotional
performance of Philip and Henry as monarchs. Taken together, this evi-
dence suggests that Philip’s outburst of anger that resulted in the hewing
of the ancient elm of Gisors could be viewed in one of two ways, depend-
ing on who was looking. It was either an emotionally...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 561–584.
Published: 01 September 2001
... devotion in seventeenth-century England move
away from identification with the spectacularly gruesome suffering of the
crucified Christ toward the apprehension of the extravagant mercy ensuing
from Jesus’ victory over sin and death on the cross. There are many reasons
for this change, but a central...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 January 2024
... interpretative methodology. To Casoni, the careful elaboration of inferences, along with the proper use of loci , and a reasoned interpretation of signs (both natural signs and signs of conscience) enabled judges to read, through the opaque surfaces of the body, the interior states of those brought...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (1): 103–118.
Published: 01 January 2008
... this overall rational approach toward
her negotiations with the Huguenots, but she also resorted to strong expres-
sions of emotion. On December 16, 1578, for example, Catherine reported
to Henry III about her difficulties convincing Henry of Navarre to open the
conference with the deputies from...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 January 2012
... poetry demonstrates that they were
attuned to the ways artistic language brings emotion and reflection together.
This is a crucial reason why the Puritan vision of relational virtue is more
readily available in poetic texts that cross religious language with marital
metaphor than...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 January 2024
... et praesentium docet], and thus also supports divinatory conjectures. 6 This conclusion is a personal interpretation of the traditional view of prudentia , which, according to Thomas Aquinas, is “right reason applied to action,” that is, an act consisting “in applying to action the things...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 533–565.
Published: 01 September 2022
... citizens and articulates a worldview which understands the health and vitality of the community to be dangerously threatened by the ability for powerful emotions like pity to be stirred by unworthy objects like false beggars. Harman insists that those with the means to relieve their poorer fellows must...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 January 2025
... meaning and sharing it are crucial constituents of this process. 3 Therefore, experience is one of the mechanisms that connects individuals to their societies. On an individual level, experience is a holistic phenomenon connecting the somatic and the cognitive: emotions with corporeality, the sensate...
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The Compounded Body: Bodily Knowledge Production in the Works of Andreas Vesalius and Edmund Spenser
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 153–182.
Published: 01 January 2018
... the eyes” or “vividness,” has a strong emotional
resonance. As Stephen Pender points out, “it has an irresistible, emotional
gravity. By making the absent present, it plays strongly on the passions.”20
Vesalius positions his text as an intermediary between the past and present,
between Galen...
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