...Monica H. Green © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.1-02-Green.5-40 12/21/99 4:29 PM Page 5 a From “Diseases of Women” to “Secrets of Women...

...Pannill Camp In eighteenth-century Europe, ritual performance behavior was consciously used for philosophical purposes. The richest documented instances of this involved Freemasonry, a voluntary fraternal order that drew tens of thousands of men, across Europe and beyond, into a secretive ritual...

...Jennifer F. Kosmin Although Vesalius, like his contemporaries, had only extremely limited opportunities to examine or dissect the human gravid uterus, it is the image of the anatomist laying bare the (un)pregnant female body and revealing its secrets that graces the title page of the 1543 edition...

... and its texts to examine “performance” conceived more broadly. With case studies that range from a pig-clubbing “game” in medieval festivals to the gnomic utterances of secretive eighteenth-century philosophical rituals, these essays ask how we study a medium that has, by its nature, disappeared. How...

... a Introduction Ann Marie Rasmussen Duke University Durham, North Carolina A secret is a social event. Knowledge of a secret can create community; igno- rance...

... Secretorum from the wider corpus of pseudo-­Aristotelian Secret of Secrets: when referring to the wider tradition, I use Secretum, and when referring to the spe- cific Middle English translation, I use Secreta. 16 I will be using an edition of Pembroke College, Cambridge, MS 243, which...

.... 29 Moreover, Hill adds, the eyes are “messengers of the minde and next to these is the forehead.” 30 In Cefalogia fisonomica , Ghirardelli even more enthusiastically states that the forehead is “the theater of the entire human being” [theatro di tutto l'huomo] and thus is the “most secret...

... since they were the result of recent technological innovations and since the Venetian Coun- cil of Ten was especially strict in guarding the trade secrets of the glass industry in Murano, the primary site of glass production in Venice.28 Glass- making also tended to be a family trade, so...

... Par- naso (1614) [ Journey to Parnassus] that “extravagances” born of his “narrow wit” have secret resonances, that is, hidden meanings: Nunca á disparidad abre las puertas Mi corto ingenio, y hállalas contino De par en...

... to change recycled linen rags into paper, including the retting of rags at the beginning of the process and the sizing of paper with a gelatin-alum mixture at the end. However, papermaking was an artisanal trade secret, relying on the skilled labor and knowledge gained from generations of trial and error...

... agent that would transmute baser metals to gold and (in some systems) produce an elixir to cure all disease. The stone was seen as a scientific/technological artifact and a pious penetra- tion of God’s secrets, and these two faces of alchemical work coexisted...

.... Such individuals were almost always subject to the suspicion that their Christianity was a mask; that they practiced Jewish rites and recited Jewish prayers in secret; in short, that, even if they weren’t apostates, they were Judaizers — and, if this could be demon- strated, they could fall, as did...

... of her mourning offspring and her fellow Christian believers. There was no better way to glorify God than “by declaring and communicating” such “soul-secrets and soul-Experiments.” It was “the nature of true grace to be diffusive and communicative”: those who “tasted of divine sweetness” could not “chuse...

... by their effects when they are not seen by their light.” And, “in like manner, Christ often strikes the soul, and darts a secret beam into the heart without alarming either the eye or ear of the person wrought upon.” And this, South explains, “is called both properly and elegantly by St. Peter...

.... Were one of the king’s subjects to discover that the king had wit- nessed “the foolish impertinence” of a woman, it would give the subject a certain amount of power over Henry—over Henry’s hoard of secrets. The unspoken anxiety that lies behind this anecdote is that those who could con...

..., but the ability to read and interpret these marks was a special expertise of James, an aspect of his claim to be able to find out secrets, and thus a feature of his claims to absolute knowledge. Lambe adopts this role and in so doing appropriates a “scenario” when in similar fashion he allegedly tells Wayneman...

... considered state secrets and closed to access.8 The centrality of its documents, and the necessary practices of secrecy sur- rounding their accumulation and dissemination, ironically made the office sufficiently inconspicuous that King James could forget its existence, only...

... are, of course, “in” on this open secret of cartography’s function as political fiction. But in the effort to read early-sixteenth-century “prose cartography,” as Mariano Cuesta Domingo calls it, there has been a tendency to presume cartography itself as an increasingly accurate descriptive enterprise...

.... 70 Philippe de Vignulles, Gedenkbuch des Metzer Bürgers Philippe von Vigneulles aus den Jahren 1471 bis 1522 nach der Handschrift des Verfassers , ed. Heinrich Michelant (Stuttgart, 1852), 244: “Alors par ung secret, qui estoit fait, sorti grand abondance de sang et sailloit en haut parmi ladite...

...,” Calandrino asks his comrade to keep the flirtation a secret from Nello, who is the relative of his wife. Calandrino invokes the bonds of professional collaboration to selfish ends in a conspiracy against the patron and a fellow painter, while giving short shrift to the actual foundation...