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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 45–68.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Joshua Phillips The dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s and early 1540s had significant effects on Tudor England, transforming traditional understandings of work and religious devotion. This article examines three elements of social life, associated with monasticism, that were drastically...
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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...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 January 2014
... in these terms. Simone Weil's famous assertion that every school exercise is like a sacrament challenges us to reconsider the limited vocabulary we employ to describe the nature of the mind's work in both “religious” and “secular” contexts. To this end, essays explore intersections between devotional practice...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Marika Räsänen The breviary was essential to the devotional life of Dominican friars, allowing them to celebrate the daily office individually when they were unable to join the communal liturgy. The Dominican vocation, rooted in the apostolic life and itinerant preaching, required a commitment...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 113–133.
Published: 01 January 2014
... philosophy as a ratio- nal and independent activity is important to the role it plays in lending support to religious beliefs. Boyle’s remarks about “virtues” and “sentiments of devotion” sug- gest a rather different kind of connection between science and religion, how- ever, one that blurs...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 115–137.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and William London emphasized one or another dimension of The Temple s genre. In a period in which booksellers made the choice between selling The Temple as a literary or as a religious work, the new public libraries seemed reluctant to actively acquire a devotional text that might be connected with secular...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 227–260.
Published: 01 May 2018
... religious devotion The Thinking Heart of Female Spirituality and the Apostles’ Creed in A Christian Mannes Bileeve...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 215–240.
Published: 01 May 2021
... outside of lollard textual and religious culture. 17 Somerset has already highlighted what Book shares with lollard writings, but I consider Book alongside other lollard texts to demonstrate that the dialogue between devotion and dissent is one of the “discursive resources” that lollard writers use...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 301–340.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Perry and Westphall / Gathering Good Corn from the Weeds 303 miscellany containing ve religious texts for the sum of pence The manuscript, now Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B was one of several collected by Batman containing Middle English devotional texts, including Piers Plowman, Ancrene...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 425–438.
Published: 01 September 2010
...David Aers; Nigel Smith This special issue is devoted to the English Reformations and current historiography. The title intentionally pluralizes the traditionally singular noun Reformation to signify a scope that includes both the early Reformation (through to 1547) and continuing senses...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 341–364.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Hilton, as well as in Protestant biblical commentaries, devotionals, and poetry throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. English reformers like John Bale, knowingly or otherwise, developed a ritualized language of divine revelation that was rooted in the mystical tradition, and this discourse...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Thomas C. Devaney Modern histories of the shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Capilla (Our Lady of the Chapel) in Jaén, Spain emphasize the continuity of devotions at the site and the importance of tradition in local religious culture. The shrine's origins lie in the testimony of four witnesses who...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 141–159.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Kathryne Beebe There is growing interest among historians of late medieval and early modern Europe in the concept of resistance for understanding women and power. Researchers are beginning to look beyond religious women’s overt and well-documented forms of opposition to reform efforts...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 105–139.
Published: 01 January 2021
... and of the place of the Holy Land within it becomes a kind of virtual pilgrimage: a form of vicarious wandering that prompts religious contemplation and devotion. The article, which includes discussion of the manuscript’s unique and previously unstudied Jerusalem map, thus reminds us to keep in mind the inadequacy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
... reasons underlying the connection and their significance for devotion. medieval English metric relics textual amulets mathematics of measurement religious devotion Passion of Christ Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 [email protected] The measure of the side wound...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 January 2020
..., advancing the idea that spiritual fulfilment arises out of domestic piety, and that household spaces can facilitate religious devotion in ways parallel to religious spaces. These models were developed out of long- standing Catholic traditions and practices, not least the Ignatian model of meditation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 473–485.
Published: 01 September 2013
... guilds, a strong culture of artisan associa- tion still prevailed, and craftworkers “managed to preserve craft culture and assert trade rights.”13 As seen in the Venetian glassworkers’ combination of arte and scuola, collective religious devotion was likewise integral to artisan cul- ture...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 561–584.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Iudaeorum (1611), which I discuss in detail in “The Gender of Religious Devotion: Amelia Lanyer and John Donne,” in Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance, ed. Debora Shuger and Claire McEachern (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 209–33...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 January 2002
... with that locus. As a result, the saints and the confraternity chapel retain their devotional power even as a secular and civic message is inscribed in them. The original meanings of that religious location are not obliterated by the addition of the inscriptions recording the town’s chronicle. In fact...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 615–634.
Published: 01 September 2012
... objectives in their reform of monasticism.39 In the broadest sense, this campaign was an assertion of order and a demonstration of religious devotion. Isabel and Ferdinand took the throne upon the death of her half-­brother, Enrique IV, who had been criticized for laxity in religious matters...