... Royal entry of James I The Magnificent Entertainment archival documents performance theory representation of urban spectacle I want to talk about King James again. Specifically, I want to revisit the civic pageantry prepared for the royal entry of James I into the City of London on March 15...

... whole. It illustrates the spectacle of the scaffold, but the scaffold itself was by no means the chief locus of visual focus in England at this time. What makes this miniature so rare is not simply its representation of a beheading outside of the context of martyrdom; it is rare because the conditions...

... and social tensions explored by scholars of the Corpus Christi plays? How might we understand the public representation of feminine sanctity and its relation to the space of the late medieval town? What is the relation between the mime- sis of saints’ legends as urban drama and the mimesis of saints...

... and Magog evolves from a fully marginal other to a domesticated giant who, in urban spectacles, is welcomed at the heart of the urban space.32 The transformations of Gog and Magog empha- size the point that appropriation is not a one-time act but that it tends to be a continuing process, one in which...

... of temporalities and of the cultural concerns of both the late Middle Ages and early modern period.13 Croxton’s temporal pliability is also, surprisingly, apparent in its subject matter of host desecration and the phenomenon of transubstantiation, as well as in its uneasiness about the spectacle...

... monarch in their own territory, and that fact presses a question of the authenticity of the scripted representation. The printed script reaches for artifactual status akin to the moose, the bustards, and the rye — forms of flourishing life from a differ- ent culture. What can we make...

..., the image of the 300  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.2 / 2008 dance is often evoked in the premodern period as a representation of sociopo- litical harmony and peaceful urban community. A hundred years before the Dance of Death motif appeared in Europe, Ambrogio Lorenzetti...

.... Thanks go to David Aers and Sarah Beckwith for their collegial editorial contribution. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Reference Historiography, historians, and critical theory Theater and spectacle Embodiments Markets and economies Saints...

... Nun’s Tale’s story of the first Pope Urban in Rome offers implicit support for the Roman papacy of Urban VI, who was championed by England’s ecclesiastical leaders against the French Pope Clement VII.82 Where Petrarch offered a polemical response to the Avignon papacy in his representation...

... to order an expanding and increasingly unruly image of the world.10 Like atlases, manuscript and printed series of costumes condensed the world into images, rendering the world as legible and compact. Drawing on scien- tific modes of representation used for flora and fauna, and sources...

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... of their community, and that they treat them mercifully, honoring the bonds of charity and Christ’s own sacrifice.20 The mercers’ charter In its passionate representation of extreme material poverty and in its call for indiscriminate charity, the York Last Judgment is certainly radical...

..., for the spectacles . . . were surely not so rough and ‘amateurish’ as we might imagine.” Nevertheless, Davidson argues, Dream’s representation of provincial players “serves by its burlesque of amateur actors to set apart their play- within- a- play from the main actions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and hence...

... Fairfield in James Shirley’s Hyde Park.78 The pastimes of these shrewd urban characters are games that critique the festive emptiness or the excesses of courtly pretenders. Similarly, the witches’ sport relies on this paradigm of witty resistance to blunt the spectacle of the law that seizes them...

... River project as a disruption to London’s custom- ary spatial order. Examining Middleton’s varied representations of the New River in his city comedies and civic shows, I discuss how these reveal his responses to the commodification of public space. Creating the New River: Material structure...

... that are at once urban, domestic, agrarian, and political-­theological. This framework connects community to cosmos through its social and symbolic work. Hospitality embraces both theatrum and theatrum mundi: because hospitality as a social form involves sumptuary...

... and multiple centers of cultural forms and industrial practices and larger and more expansive social networks. Rural households were linked to urban markets, and more goods were owned by more people.3 This paradigmatic shift of attention from social structure to both practice and agency links...

... of the relation- ship between events and texts.1 The notion of the factuality of history is predicated on the erasure of this relationship, or on the simplification of the multiple valences of events to their representation in accounts and their traces in various...

.... Reference 3. Historians and historiography 4. Studies in breadth 5. Biography 6. Community, ethnicity, and identity 7. Islamic studies 8. Waging war 9. Theater, spectacle, and ritual 10. Households, codes of conduct, and the everyday 11...

... 10. Theater and spectacle 1. Editions and translations Alfonso X, King of Castille and Leon. Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, The Wise: A Translation of the “Cantigas de Santa Maria.” Translated by Kath- Journal of Medieval and Early...