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Pilgrimage, Print, and Performance: Giuliano Dati’s Roman Cantari
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 January 2021
... Romae (1494). Composed in the popular cantare verse form, which was strongly associated with public performance, these works are an unusual example of printed guides to Rome aimed specifically at an Italian audience. Situating Dati’s cantari within the broader culture of the Roman pilgrimage...
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Translating Gender in Thirteenth-Century French Cross-Dressing Narratives:: La Vie de Sainte Euphrosine and Le Roman de Silence
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 May 2019
... textual modes of translation connect with translation’s role in subject formation in medieval texts, focusing on two narratives about female cross-dressing, the Vie de Sainte Euphrosine and the Roman de Silence . Gender emerges in these texts through multiple intersecting modes of translation which...
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The Monstrous Birth of Alexander the Great: Thomas de Kent’s Roman de toute chevalerie and Twelfth-Century Natural Science
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 541–561.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Mary Franklin-Brown; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Alone among the French romances of Alexander the Great penned in the twelfth century, Thomas de Kent’s Roman de toute chevalerie reproduces the story of Alexander’s illegitimate birth from the principal Latin source. According to this account...
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Corresponding with Infidels: Rome, the Almohads, and the Christians of Thirteenth-Century Morocco
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Brett Edward Whalen Under Popes Honorius III, Gregory IX, and Innocent IV, the thirteenth-century papacy opened an unprecedented diplomatic dialogue with the Almohad dynasty in northern Africa. Working in conjunction with members of the new mendicant orders, above all the Franciscans, the Roman...
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“And he hath enough”: The Penitential Economies of The Merchant of Venice
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Heather Hirschfeld This essay explores the penitential structure of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice in the context of the Reformation reorientation of human agency in matters of atonement. It suggests that the Protestant attack on the Roman sacrament of penance resulted, for both sides...
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Marranos and Nicodemites in Sixteenth-Century Venice
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 577–599.
Published: 01 September 2011
... a comparative analysis of Nicodemites and Marranos in early modern Venice. Through a careful analysis of the records of the Roman Inquisition, the article argues that, while the standard model of religious dissimulation fits the case of the Nicodemites or crypto-Protestants quite well, it breaks down...
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Luther’s Attack on Self-Love: The Failure of Pagan Virtue
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 131–155.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Terence Irwin Luther’s denials (in his Commentary on Romans ) of the natural capacity to acquire moral virtues rest on three assumptions. (1) Virtue requires the pursuit of virtuous action for its own sake. (2) In the state of sin, human aims and motives are all controlled by self-love. (3) Insofar...
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Magical Politics from Poitou to Armenia: Mélusine, Jean de Berry, and the Eastern Mediterranean
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 275–301.
Published: 01 May 2013
...E. Jane Burns The fourteenth-century Roman de Mélusine by Jean d’Arras is a story of dynastic expansion and political legitimization that extends far beyond the territorial battles fought by the French royal family during the Hundred Years War. In fact, Jean d’Arras’s narrative of Lusignan history...
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Windmills over Oxford: Quixotic and Other Subversive Spanish Narratives in England, 1606–1654
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2009
... manifest in James Mabbe's earlier translations of Spanish romance, Rojas's Celestina and Aleman's Guzman , and their own pro-Roman-Catholic politics, played out in the real and literary landscapes where Spanish and English interests met–in the Low Countries. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009...
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Via Rome:: Medieval Medievalisms in the Old English Ruin
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Rory G. Critten Examining the complex imbrication of Roman and legendary Germanic history in the Old English poem The Ruin , this essay addresses the notion of medieval medievalisms: the processes by which identities subsequently defined as medieval were conceived within the medieval period itself...
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Scaling Nature: Microcosm and Macrocosm in Later Medieval Thought
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 609–631.
Published: 01 September 2019
... — as a point of departure for exploring medieval debates about what it meant to be an embodied human that stood simultaneously apart from and yet within the natural world. It argues that microcosmic thinking was particularly prominent in the tradition of the Roman de la Rose , because it allowed writers...
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“Not a drop of tears, or any sweat from fear came from her”: Interrogating Mind, Body, and Emotions in Early Modern German Witch Trials
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
... a key role in witchcraft cases. Through a close reading of a seventeenth-century trial of witchcraft from a history of emotions perspective, this article examines the ways in which the body, mind, and soul were interrogated in the heartland of early modern witch persecutions: the Holy Roman Empire...
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Marginal Geography: Pedagogical Design in Medieval Commentaries on Classical Poems
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Amanda Gerber This article explores the nature and significance of geographical diagrams in medieval commentaries on classical Roman poems. It situates these diagrams within larger conversations about cartographic traditions and the pedagogical contexts for which these diagrams were originally...
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Earth and Ore: Materializing Transalpine Relations on the Eve of the Reformation
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 333–369.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of a silver mining community. In this way, the article offers new perspectives on the transalpine connections of the Campo Santo Teutonico, the role of the substance of the landscape in creating and criticizing links with the Roman Church at the start of the Reformation, and the relationship between...
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The Restoration of All Things: John Bradford’s Refutation of Aquinas on Animal Resurrection
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 323–342.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Alastair Minnis On July 1, 1555, John Bradford was burned at Smithfield, one of the Protestant divines executed during the reign of Mary Tudor. Shortly before his death he wrote a treatise entitled The Restoration of All Things to counsel a devout woman of his circle. This expounds Romans 8:21–22...
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Pygmalion’s Wax: “Fruitful Knowledge” in Bacon and Montaigne
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Jenny C. Mann This essay documents the mutual interactions of philosophy and poesis in early modern theories of knowledge. It does so by following the trajectory of the wax image, or simulacrum, from Greek philosophy to Roman rhetoric and onwards to early modern philosophy and poetry. Ovid’s fable...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 177–191.
Published: 01 May 2021
... attention back to Germany and a Roman empire that no longer existed. That is why Familiares 1.4 and 1.5 single out, among several other places in Northern Europe which he reports having visited, two German towns, Aachen and Cologne. The letters offer testimony of Petrarch's attitude toward “barbarians...
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Ecology and Apocalypse in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (2): 353–378.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Mary Trull Lucy Hutchinson's epic Genesis poem, Order and Disorder: Or, The World Made and Undone (1679), views humanity's place in the natural world through both John Calvin's providential theology and Lucretius's materialism in his ancient Roman epic, De rerum natura . Hutchinson reads...
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Gender and the End of Empire
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of the “Fall of the Roman Empire” continues to excite debate
among historians and archaeologists, fifteen centuries after Odoacer deposed
the usurper Romulus in 476. Similarly, there is an ever-growing corpus of
work on women’s history and, to some extent more recently, gender in late
antiquity...
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Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 517–536.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., whose mandate
included “the systematic and scientic exploration ” of the Roman cata-
combs. Two years after that, on May 11, he joined de Rossi (as he would
elsewhere on other occasions) to view San Callisto’s papal crypt, where a
month earlier de Rossi had recovered the precious...
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