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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 199–231.
Published: 01 May 2020
...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Ritva Palmén Current approaches to understanding shame are rooted in controversial and even radically contrasting assumptions about shame and its relevance for social interaction and individual well-being. Classical and medieval sources themselves embrace surprisingly...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... Niles, and in Kevin Kiernan's Electronic Beowulf . The emendation proposed by Klaeber in his second supplement is imbricated in the shameful history of Old English studies and the project of constructing legendary origins for whiteness. Kiernan and the fourth edition editors each reject Klaeber's...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Allison Adair Alberts This essay argues that the South English Legendary 's life of Saint Margaret, patron saint of childbirth, reflects the devotional practice of imitatio Christi when it represents labor pains not as the shameful curse of Eve but as a miraculous moment in which the mother...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 17–43.
Published: 01 January 2014
... of Eclanum;
Julian has twitted Augustine with both hating sex and talking endlessly and
indecently about it, archly noting that even Adam and Eve covered their
nakedness. Augustine fires back, “It is worse to praise what they felt in their
shame than to strip it bare, you most shameless man...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 January 2000
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larly when, with the rest of the common diseases afflicting them,
the shameful parts [pudendorum loca] are affected. For because of
the condition of the female body, their organs are receptive to all
diseases, which women often render quite severe from...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 387–402.
Published: 01 September 2003
...” is expelled
from the (male) monastic community, as Bessarion speaks of “we” monks in
contrast to “women. ” The function of this woman is to shame male monks.
Shaming men, Clark has taught us, is one of the most ubiquitous
functions of the “ woman ” that ancient Christian authors...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 403–417.
Published: 01 September 2003
... The tattoo is, then, a
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sign of shame and subjugation, whereby the body is marked by another and
also marked as “other. ” Y et here as elsewhere—most notably in the dis-
course of martyrdom and the gure of the crucied Christ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 571–595.
Published: 01 September 2009
... on these themes, Stubbes’s
book is a sort of urtext for complaint against fashion.
Stubbes’s derision of fashionable apparel is necessarily shaped by
a Christian perspective.25 He reminds the reader that clothing was “given
us of God to cover our shame, to keep our bodies from cold . . . and to put...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2020
... recognized, remorse, fellow- feeling, mutuality, and trust carried deeply gen- dered associations: as a figure called Shame jeers at Faithful in the Valley of Humiliation in part one, a tender conscience was an unmanly thing (PPr 72). The story of female companionship in part two, which gives central place...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 249–272.
Published: 01 May 2010
... no moral underpinning. It reflects the monarch’s frus-
Diggelmann / Hewing the Ancient Elm 261
tration at military failure, and his shame at the fact that his men have suc-
ceeded only in destroying a defenseless tree:
When the King of France heard about...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the Abbess fears that shame will fall upon her house if the nuns’ pregnancies are discovered. Yet the solution she ultimately concocts—a fire at night—is so spectacular that it draws a gigantic crowd. Indeed, she could hardly have come up with a more compelling way to attract attention. Far from hiding...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 149–172.
Published: 01 January 2010
... by the ethically power-
ful if politically impotent Katherine.
Reform Catholicism: “Mend ’em for shame my lords”
Katherine first appears inAll Is True in a role that by Shakespeare’s time had
more than a patina of antiquity about it: as mediatrix between her husband
and the common people, a successful...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 393–416.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of Veritie and Chastitie
that results in their side-by-side placement in the public stocks, subversively
chained together and publicly shamed. In the stocks and outside the tav-
ern, these uncontrollable women upstage the male characters that surround
them, undermining any chance for positive reform...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 593–615.
Published: 01 September 2024
... donatio (IV.ix.3)—unadvised giving. While Downham chooses to translate, loosely, most of the full line from Seneca, he repeats turpissimum —“most shameful or foul” as well as “worst”—in the original Latin after having already paraphrased it earlier in the paragraph: “a gift ill giuen is to bee reckoned...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 65–88.
Published: 01 January 2010
....
Several critics have written persuasively of this theme of the play
in terms of the “covering” action that shame involves: hiding and seeking,
from this point of view, can be associated with the play’s relentless impulse
to strip its victims bare and expose them to a pitilessly shaming gaze.40...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 321–365.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of untainted bodies in perfect integration with the land. In other words, to paint the Fall is to fail. The only option is to indicate where history is heading by admitting premonitions of uncertainty, instability, and shame into the picture plane. Paintings of paradise needed to operate proleptically...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 503–531.
Published: 01 September 2022
... fathers and sharp-tongued wives. In his most elaborate prank of all, the play's presiding trickster orchestrates an ordeal of shame for a conventionally mismatched couple, an old Moor married to a young Venetian. The whole play is suggestive of a comic morality drama, a spectacle of vices mocked...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 275–308.
Published: 01 May 2000
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honor without causing poverty, feebleness, or shame, which of
themselves been evil things, it followeth well that riches, power,
nor honor be not very perfect good things only of themselves,
because as I said, they cannot be attained without causing of evil
things...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 511–544.
Published: 01 September 2009
... along with their dress, wanting to
look now like the French, now like the Spanish. And certainly, to
their damage and shame, they openly reveal their lack of stability
and firmness, because such men never acknowledge that in other
times they ruled the other nations...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 439–461.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in these our days of free profession to
blush for shame.1
John Foxe’s depiction of early-sixteenth-century Lollards was clearly designed
to make his Elizabethan contemporaries reflect upon their failings as godly
Protestants. Foxe depicts Lollardy, in this passage and throughout Acts...
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