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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 379–404.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the Crucifixion: reading the Passion “with due attention” reveals through its carnality an eternal message of divine love and integrates it within a broader pattern of scriptural reading. Andrewes's openness to the roles of mental and ocular sight in worship commits him to explaining how outward surfaces reveal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 461–486.
Published: 01 September 2017
... scripture with Christian traditions and to find thematic coherence across biblical texts. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Wycliffite Bible translation Middle English manuscripts scriptural reading manuscript compilation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 January 2023
... debate, noting that the meaning of the term Hellenist was “controverted,” but that both of the main scholarly interpretations supported multiple congregations. This was because, as Selden and Lightfoot outlined, “dispersed Jews” readscriptures in Greeke,” while proselytes would at best acquire...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in which the play appeared offers important context for understanding the possible range and implications of its dramatization of biblical reading. Before looking closely at Shakespeare’s scriptural language, it is worth asking why he might have written such an elaborately biblical play...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 587–597.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Mark Rankin This analysis of Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.2.15 indicates some ways in which the English Bible may have been read by social elites during the mid-Tudor period. The presence of the Cambridge manuscript within the royal collection followed a precedent set by several of Edward...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (1): 169–191.
Published: 01 January 2019
... childe” strives to understand sin, guilt, and culpability within the constraints of humanity’s limited self- knowledge. Julian both works within and transcends established scriptural and penitential traditions of representing childhood, childlikeness, and the related quality of meekness, a key virtue...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 215–240.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in Christ's religion. It is this self-conscious dialogue that allows the Book author to combine scriptural reading with imitatio Christi to develop a specifically female mode of spirituality founded on love and energized by the spirit of the dissenting culture within which the author's theology is deeply...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 91–123.
Published: 01 January 2003
... column after column of prescribed Scripture read- ings—seems to bear little resemblance to Foxe’s listing of Protestant heroes. Both calendars, however, are similar in their sequential arrangement of those contents, and furthermore, the sequentiality of the Prayer Book’s calendar raises the same...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 573–594.
Published: 01 September 2015
... By their daily scriptural reading, the Huguenots would enter into harmony with a physically expansive geography of believers they might never encounter during their mortal lives. It is interesting to note the treatise’s deracinated illustrations of architecture with regard to this theological...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 439–461.
Published: 01 September 2010
... salutary, then it “shall be lawful” for them to correct his text or at least produce a version that they are happy with. This passage ends with a piece of advice on how to read scripture. Tyndale recommends a process of study and comparison, but he is absolutely confident that at the end...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 467–492.
Published: 01 September 2023
... inspired) authors were supposed to have exercised considerable control. In reading through these accounts, sometimes it is hard to wonder if anything could possibly be excluded from some version of literal sense. The newfound prestige of this sense of scripture, and indeed its fashionable currency...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 561–586.
Published: 01 September 2017
... experience. Finally, it reconsiders dualistic interpretive frameworks of conformity and nonconformity, resistance and community, for understanding early modern Bible reading generally. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Latin Catholic Bible Vulgate post-Reformation exegesis vernacular scriptural...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 249–268.
Published: 01 May 2012
... to declare just one thing, “Which is the very [true] Church?” “Barnes” directs her to read “the new testament of Tyndale’s translation, and other books of his, and of his own . . . and therein should she find the truth.” The woman replies that scripture is hard; besides, teachers expound...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 437–460.
Published: 01 September 2017
... exegesis, in which allegorical or other “spiritual” readings presented just one set of interpretive options alongside ever more sophisticated theories of scripture’s literal sense(s), and the important role bibliographical form could play in shaping an author’s engagement with other texts, the Bible...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 487–516.
Published: 01 September 2017
... has revealed how much a text’s packaging shaped readers’ constructions of meaning and their subsequent reuse of reading material.16 The unmediated scripture that reformers aspired to eschewed “false glosses,” as Tyndale wrote in 1536. For him, the church had “nayled a vayle of false gloses...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 May 2017
... as an expression of frustration with readings of this episode that would have been common in the sermons to which she alludes. She uses this same formula, swem and hevynes, to describe her affective response to another instance in which a church official barred her from scriptural knowledge and clerical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 527–557.
Published: 01 September 2010
... This passage brings together with extraordinary economy several of the strands I have been following in my readings of Piers Plowman alongside Luther and Julian of Norwich. Here are the “wordes of holy writ,” the senses of scripture, along with the sacramental waters of baptism administered...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 117–147.
Published: 01 January 2023
... grammarians”—and Tanh.um ben Joseph ha-Yerushalmi (d. 1291). 30 Pococke was particularly drawn to those elements of Ibn Janāh.’s and Tanh.um's writings marked by the exegetical tradition of peshat. —“an empirical, contextual reading of Scripture that adheres to the rules of language, biblical literary...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 365–394.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... How to interpret scripture, who was permitted to do so authoritatively, in what languages should scrip- ture be read: these were the problems at issue in the sixteenth century; and earlier, already in Valla’s day, scripture and its relation to these questions of reading, writing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 January 2012
... by Christ to those who would follow him. While there is considerable support in the Summa theologiae for the claim about Christ’s indispensable role in the moral teaching of Aquinas, it may nonetheless be surprising to at least some who claim an acquaintance with that ethics — to those whose reading...