...David Marno This essay traces shifts in meditative practice from Saint Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises to the experimental philosopher Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections , showing how Boyle's text participates in the evolution of the concept of “attention” as it changes from a spiritual...

... modern collector, Robert Hegge. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 a Manuscript as Sacred Object: Robert Hegge’s N-Town­ Plays Gail McMurray Gibson...

...Rhonda Knight © by Duke University Press 2002 a Stealing Stonehenge: Translation, Appropriation, and Cultural Identity in Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s...

..., particularly Robert Henryson’s “Sum Practysis of Medecyne,” made jargon a poetic opportunity. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Jargon and the Matter of Medicine in Middle English...

... examine the details of this debate the matter becomes ambiguous, with repentance and grace causally entangling each other like the chicken and the egg. An examination of the repentance of Robert the Robber (in Langland) and King Claudius (in Shakespeare) suggests that a better way to distinguish the two...

... present in these texts signals a larger cultural conversation about these men’s fitness as husbands to the nation’s women, fathers to its children, and members of its communities. Although protoimperialist and mercantilist writers such as John Dee, Robert Hitchcock, and Edward Misselden stressed...

...John Watkins Scholars of contemporary international relations have long noted the rise of such nonstate agents as global corporations and NGOs on the world stage. With that shift in mind, John Robert Kelley has questioned the continued viability of an institutional definition of diplomacy...

...Ryan Netzley In celebrating a poet-overseer who turns everything on an estate, even social opposition, to account, country house poems treat form itself as a managerial technique whose expansion regulates catastrophe. Ben Jonson's, Thomas Carew's, and Robert Herrick's procataleptic presentations...

... . The discussion is focalized through the emendations to line 1382a, where an ambiguous series of minims leads to different editorial choices in Klaeber's first three editions of the poem, in his second supplement to the third edition, in the fourth edition produced by R. D. Fulk, Robert D. Bjork, and John D...

.... As Robert Boyle put it, the study of nature would instill “sentiments of devotion and particular virtues.” This feature of experimental science represents a significant link with the classical notion of philosophy (including natural philosophy), which stressed the importance of the moral formation...

... of the executions of four priests: Edmund Campion and Alexander Brian in 1581, Edmund Geninges in 1591, and Robert Southwell in 1595. In the narratives of these deaths, we can see how English Reformations not only occasioned new relic-making by English Catholics, but also, paradoxically, resulted in relic cults...

... Goodman, John Milton, John Wesley). There is evidence of a parallel development in scientific circles, as practitioners like Robert Boyle reflected on the necessary role of implicit faith in the collective production of knowledge, a project to which the ideal image of the self-determining individual...

... to a cosmopolitan perspective that substitutes the vitiated courtesan for the virgin queen. This essay considers Behn's play–as well as its antecedent, Thomas Killigrew's Thomaso –as part of a trajectory of dramatic, poetic, and prose works, including Robert Greene's Friar Bacon and Friay Bungay , Sir Walter...

...Robert Pasnau Abstract The Middle Ages developed a rigorous semantic account of how thought mediates between words and things. Modern literary theory, in contrast, has been characteristically skeptical about whether anything is gained by attempting to discover the thoughts of the author that lie...

...Robert Davis Duke University Press 2007 a The Geography of Slaving in the Early Modern Mediterranean, 1500 – 1800 Robert Davis...

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...Robert Bartlett © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-02 Bartlett 2/26/01 6:56 PM Page 39 a Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity...

... antisacrament that inverts the rites of Christianity. Robert the Monk, in his Historia Iherosolimitana, describes the way in which pagans torture Christians and violate sacred churches: “They overturn the altars, having defiled them with their own filth, they circumcise Christians, and take...

... and before Glutton speaks by presenting two cases of repentance that function as counter-examples to the extreme resistance of Covetousness. Evan the Welshman and Robert the Rifler, however imper- fect their repentance is, do show sorrow for their ill-gotten gains and recog- nize their lack and need...