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Writing Friendship, Mourning the Friend in Late Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 251–291.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Benjamin A. Saltzman Mourning the death of a friend posed a problem for late Anglo-Saxon monasticism. Newly reformed under the authority of the Benedictine Rule and the Regularis Concordia , religious were precluded from developing personal friendships so as to protect a world in which all things...
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Strangers to the Mother Tongue: Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and Early Anglo-Saxon Studies
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 293–316.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Hannah Crawforth This essay pays long overdue attention to E.K's glosses of native English words in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579). Spenser's practice of using native English words is indebted to the emerging discipline of Anglo-Saxon studies, especially to the methodology...
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Rome: Capital of Anglo-Saxon England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 147–172.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Nicholas Howe © by Duke University Press 2004
Rome: Capital of
Anglo-Saxon England
Nicholas Howe
University of California, Berkeley...
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Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus and the Anglo-Saxon Ecological Imagination
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 479–500.
Published: 01 September 2019
... contemporary Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. An understudied text, Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus provides an opportunity to understand how early medieval people could situate nature at a narrative’s center, crediting it with the capacity to shape religious behavior and belief. Æthelwulf’s work should be seen among...
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Making or Declaring Law? Legislative Intent and Privileged Speech in Anglo-Saxon England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 545–571.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Stefan Jurasinski Celebrated by a generation of literature scholars, lamented by E. D. Hirsch, the disappearance of the author and authorial intentions as means of interpretation has a history with branches in the study of pre-Conquest England. Long before the twentieth century, Anglo-Saxon...
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Magic That Works: Performing Scientia in the Old English Metrical Charms and Poetic Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2015
...James Paz Is it possible to reach a deeper understanding of early medieval science through poetry of the period? This article examines how Anglo-Saxon scientia was performed in a practical way, as a kind of craft, in the Old English metrical charms and poetic dialogues of Solomon and Saturn...
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Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art: The Case of the Main Narthex Portal at Vézelay
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 657–698.
Published: 01 September 2012
... in the early twelfth century, and a number of Anglo-Saxon manuscript illuminations, produced in the monastic scriptorium at Winchester in the tenth century. A careful examination of these works of art reveals that the makers of the portal at Vézelay, in a triangular process of creation, drew on the earlier...
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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
... of Anglo-Saxon attitudes to Rome, a city that inspired both hope and horror in early English minds. Legendary Germanic identity is thus identified as an early medieval production and as a means of understanding history that encompasses both different times and different cultures. Copyright © 2019 by Duke...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 445–456.
Published: 01 September 2019
... philosophy, medicine, and encyclopedism. The articles engage numerous disciplines, including philosophy, history of science, history of ideas, and Anglo-Saxon, French, and English literary studies; their approaches represent a broad range of Anglophone and Continental European academic traditions...
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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
...Lucy Donkin In 1519, soil from the Campo Santo Teutonico next to St. Peter's in Rome — a burial place thought to contain earth from Jerusalem — was spread over the extramural cemetery in the Saxon town of Annaberg. This article asks how the reception of the soil from Rome was shaped by the local...
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Reading Queenship in Cynewulf's Elene
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 47–89.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Elene, the only extant pre-Conquest poetic account of the legend,
that this essay takes as its subject.
Because Elene is one of the longest Old English poems that sur-
vives and because it deals with a host of issues central to Anglo-Saxon liter-
ature and culture—namely, cross worship...
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Northumbrian Identity in the Eighth Century: The Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments; Style, Classification, Class, and the Form of Ideology
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 95–146.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in the production and consumption of knowledge.
The use-value of “style” bears little, if any, systematic quantitative relation
to its value in cognition. One of several unsettling aspects of the now out-
dated but still fecund modern texts that laid the foundations for studying
Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture...
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Signifying Gender and Empire
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of Northumbria with its imper-
ial pretensions gave way to a south equally eager to stamp its territories with
an imperial symbolic (and ultimately more successful in so doing). North-
umbria makes rich use of Roman, British, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon sym-
bols in its bid for territorial domination...
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The Naked Truth of the King's Affection in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in which incest continues to haunt the story’s narrative logic well
after Antiochus and his violated daughter have disappeared from view.1
Clare A. Lees takes up the Old English version as part of her consideration
of desire and knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England. “What the Apollonius
offers Anglo-Saxon...
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Recasting England: The Varieties of Antiquarian Responses to the Proposed Union of Crowns, 1603–1607
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 393–417.
Published: 01 May 2013
... by locating its origins, especially Parliament’s, in England’s
Gothic past. Here the case was made that contemporary English law was
nothing more than the customs practiced by the Germanic tribes, especially
the Saxons, who filled the void left by the Romans.7 It is important to note...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2022
... Gayk, “Apocalyptic Ecologies: Eschatology, the Ethics of Care, and the Fifteen Signs of the Doom in Early England,” Speculum 96, no. 1 (2021): 1–37. For the Fifteen Signs in pre-Conquest England, see Brandon W. Hawk, “The Fifteen Signs before Judgment in Anglo-Saxon England: A Reassessment,” JEGP...
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Tota integra, tota incorrupta : The Shrine of St.Æ thelthryth as Symbol of Monastic Autonomy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 227–268.
Published: 01 May 2002
... altar, just as the exalted lady, entirely
whole, entirely uncorrupted, rests in the tomb which, we believe,
had been prepared for her at God’s command by the hands of
angels.]
This description of the shrine of Æthelthryth, Anglo-Saxon queen and
abbess, comes from an inventory...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 419–440.
Published: 01 May 2015
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Gillespie, Vincent, and Anne Hudson, eds. Probable Truth: Editing Medi-
eval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century. Texts and Translations,
vol. 5. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2013. xiv, 549 pp.; 9 figs., 14 tables. EUR
135.00.
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts...
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Body and Empire in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 41–64.
Published: 01 January 2004
... I’s imperial
rule (963–73).3 During the decade of Hrotsvit’s most active literary pro-
ductivity, the Saxon ruler increased the centralization of royal power by sub-
duing and unifying dukes ruling over other Germanic tribes. Otto I also
reversed the ecclesiastical politics of his father Heinrich...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 January 2022
... as passive occurs near the passage's beginning, where the sun “wearð adwæsced” [ was extinguished] (1132b). 25 As Bedingfield writes, the sun was associated with Christ in the Latin liturgy for the Tenebrae service used in Anglo-Saxon churches. 26 Unlike the sea, stones, and other elements, which act...
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