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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 477–492.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Ideologies of Diplomacy: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Representation in Early Modern England Jane Yeang Chui Wong Nanyang Technological University Singapore In 2008 John Watkins edited a special issue for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Toward a New Diplomatic History of Medi- eval and Early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 369–391.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Brian Sheerin Discourses of economic exchange and of theatrical participation at the turn of the seventeenth century each began to rely on a rhetoric of “crediting”: both lending and theatergoing, that is, demand a trust in the circularity of expenditure, whereby what is given out may return...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of Pygmalion—the artist who brings an ivory statue to life—evokes the wax simulacrum and thereby makes explicit the shared terrain of philosophy, poetics, and rhetoric around questions of knowledge and representation. Consequently, this essay uses Pygmalion as a hinge that links these disparate periods...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (3): 565–586.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Jan Hennings; Edward Holberton This article examines interactions between diplomatic representation, state bureaucracy, and rhetoric in early modern diplomacy. It analyzes manuscripts in the hand of the poet Andrew Marvell, which he wrote as secretary to the Earl of Carlisle’s 1663–64 embassy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 509–531.
Published: 01 September 2021
... perceived reality, echoing antitheatrical rhetoric that equates theatricality to deceit. 35 Literary representations of mountebanks, on the other hand, bask in the mountebank's ambivalence as a kind of playful dramatic and poetic mode. 36 These approaches follow Carol Symes's characterization of early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 287–321.
Published: 01 May 2023
...J. Allan Mitchell Three manuscript copies of John Gower's Vox Clamantis contain large frontispiece images of a fashionable archer shooting at a suspended globe, headed by the short poem “Ad mundum mitto mea iacula, dumque sagitto.” The text-image ensemble aligns with Gower's ethical and rhetorical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Steven Bruso This essay examines representations of knightly physicality in two fifteenth-century English texts: the Middle English Secreta Secretorum and Knyghthode and Bataile . These neglected texts are examples of mirrors for princes and Vegetian military manuals, respectively, and both...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 699–724.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Katherine Zieman This essay explores the late medieval rhetoric of self-representation and conceptions of audience through an examination of the writings of the fifteenth-century Carthusian monk Richard Methley. Methley is considered as a “public contemplative” — a writer who offers his own...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (3): 619–642.
Published: 01 September 2006
... rhetoric — in the serious eighteenth-
century literature on insect life. And, across the deepening divide between
science and poetry, Bernard Mandeville’s allegorically didactic poem, The
Grumbling Hive (1705), around which he composed the later political com-
mentary of his Fable of the Bees (1714...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 January 2011
... University.
importantly, fruits and vegetables, fish and fowl, not human body parts. The
image makes evident that the representation of sameness, which Ralegh is so
careful to suggest throughout his text, is in fact a rhetorical positioning that
can be politically and economically advantageous...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 223–247.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of visual representation in Byzantium are encoded in those episodes in the narrative in which an artist prepares to make a saint's portrait. In the process, the episodes offer provocative ruminations on the relations between a representation and its prototype, words and images, sight versus hearing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that served medieval students’ training in Latin composition and understanding of the ancient world. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 geography medieval commentary on classical Latin poetry maps and diagrams classroom pedagogy rhetoric Medievalists have...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 251–282.
Published: 01 May 2001
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Comparing three contemporaneous accounts of Elizabeth Tudor’s corona-
tion entry by focusing on their representations of the tableau and inter-
actions at Cheapside, one stop along the procession route, reveals disjunc-
tions which suggest differently motivated rhetorical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 227–268.
Published: 01 May 2002
... a performative image that carefully defines her guardians as inde-
pendent of external authorities.
These self-representations are rhetorical conventions of miracle
writing worthy of close textual examination. In their discussion of the mir-
acles of St. Foy, for instance, Kathleen Ashley and Pamela...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 387–402.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., but with male authors’ fantasies about or rhetor-
ical uses of women, no more than the gendered literary “traces” of elusive
“real women.”2 Imagine, then, the surprise of a group of lay tourists—and
perhaps our surprise as well—when their representative monk turned out to
be really a woman...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 January 2000
... to
own, to control, the representational force of the secret was a matter, liter-
ally, of life and death.
For scholars who engage the distant past, exploring medieval and
early modern notions of secrecy is also a historical event. Etymological evi...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 159–195.
Published: 01 January 2015
... Bullen Presciutti, “Dead Infants, Cruel
Mothers, and Heroic Popes: The Visual Rhetoric of Foundling Care at the Hospi-
tal of Santo Spirito, Rome,” Renaissance Quarterly 64, no. 3 (2011): 752 – 99. On tex-
tual and visual representations of infanticide in institutional foundation...
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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
... offers an idealized representation of the presumably male body, that idealization is also inextricably linked to nonidealized, even abject bodies, so that these early modern notions of bodily knowledge production both undergird and challenge assumptions about gender and class. Copyright © 2018 Duke...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 January 2000
... one vari-
ation within a rather elastic set of representations. Immovable stereotypes
of the Ottoman Turk as an ahistorical, irrational, despotic, and fanatical
“Other” are more characteristic of nineteenth-century Orientalism than of
early modern...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 121–146.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Sara Petrosillo This essay examines representations of the womb across late medieval and early modern performance. The N-Town Mary plays and the Elizabethan tragedy Gorboduc are separated by less than a century but are rarely examined in light of one another. Using microhistorical methods...
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