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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
... Judgment in Anglo-Saxon England: A Reassessment,” JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 117, no. 4 (2013): 443–57. 2 Aelius Donatus, De comoedia , in Commentum Terenti , ed. Paul Wessner, 3 vols. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1902–5), 1:28 (VII.4). Unless otherwise noted, translations throughout...
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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 419–440.
Published: 01 May 2015
... 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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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (3): 663–665.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... The Bowge of Court and the Afterlives of Allegory  369 – 91 Crawforth, Hannah Strangers to the Mother Tongue: Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and Early Anglo-­Saxon Studies  293 – 316 Dailey, Patricia Children of Promise: The Bodies of Hadewijch of Brabant  317 – 43 Journal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 January 2002
... another “tool of oppression.”8 Thorlac Turville-Petre’s recent study of English nationalism aug- ments Moffat’s point, arguing that the categories of Francophone and Anglo- phone, noble and common, Anglo-Saxon and Norman were not as neatly defined in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth...