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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (1): 35–74.
Published: 01 January 2006
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2011
... influenced European perceptions of the voyages to the East. Secondly, the essays examine the impact that the visualizations for which the collection was so famous had on other texts of the period, specifically on how racial difference was registered in terms of skin color, clothing,and writing itself...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 January 2011
... together to produce a unified allegory.
Britton / Allegory and Difference 125
The racialized body, most notably marked as di fferent by skin color
and clothing in early modern travel literature, presents problems for Ralegh’s
allegory, problems that he...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 113–146.
Published: 01 January 2001
... of analysis find a
natural point of overlap in exploring the cultural work of the Saracens,
whose dark skin and diabolical physiognomy were the Western Middle
Ages’ most familiar, most exorbitant embodiment of racial alterity.3 Most
scholarship on Saracens has been...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2001
... In other words, the child’s skin
was darker than the somatic norm of the Roman citizen. A people’s relative
position to the sun accounted for their skin color; thus, Scythians were too
pale from underexposure and Ethiopians too burnt from overexposure.5...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 January 2001
... appears not as a supernumerary or an afterthought on the periph-
ery, but as a spectacular figure, splendidly clothed with flamboyant head-
gear. Ordinarily he stands apart from Mary and the infant Jesus, who are
venerated by a white-skinned elderly king, plainly dressed...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... (“prepuce”) from the verb
putare (“to think24 Following this etymology, the “fore-skin” literally
is a form of “fore-thought.” And so medieval scholars could catalogue the
praeputium along with other, seemingly more obvious tools of cognition
such as disputare (“to dispute”) and computare...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2016
... on medical
language as jargon, Virginia Langum’s on surgery, confession, and skin, and
Daniel McCann’s on therapy and devotion are further enriching this field.5
The study of medical discourse and its flexibility connects with work on the
history of the emotions, on affect and feeling, on disability...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
... reading of the skin and the members, offering tactile methods for revealing imitation bruises: Everything depends on the care taken to report things well. There are men who darken themselves in places to pretend they are hurt. This can be discovered as you consider the member being examined. If it has...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
... represents
a standard way of looking at the matter of hair — and by extension the
growth of beards — in Renaissance Italy. “The material of the hair,” Bene-
detti asserts in his Anatomice, “is made from the excrementitious humor and
smoky vapor carried from the entire body to the skin.”14 Hair, like...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 595–620.
Published: 01 September 2007
... the overlap
between ideologies of skin color and other kinds of difference, such as those
defined by class, nationality, and, most important, religion. This may be
partly due to the fact that until recently, early modern literary scholarship
privileged cross-cultural contact in the Americas...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of the manus (forearm plus hand) was of particular impor-
tance for a variety of reasons. First of all, the subtlety of its skin and its
layers, and the complex warp of tendons, muscles, and veins that compose
Maurette / Vesalius and the Wonders of the Human Hand 113
it, made...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., identified in the nineteenth century as an infec-
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:3, Fall 2008
DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-007 © 2008 by Duke University Press
tion of Mycobacterium leprae, were easily confused with other medieval dis-
eases affecting the skin...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 January 2001
... a distinction based on an inherited biological feature, skin
color, while the latter points to cultural differences between groups. Recent
large-scale immigration into the United States from Asia and Latin America
has complicated the issue by posing the question of whether...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 413–442.
Published: 01 September 2008
... unseen, through the skin, as insen-
sible transpiration.
It was a revelation. Over one and a half times the sum of perceptible
wastes apparently streamed out the pores every day, as unperceived vapors!
Although the idea of porous elimination was ancient, no one had ever sus-
pected...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 167–198.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., as it was then called) and other skin diseases, as well as for veterinary
cases, in particular for pigs (his attribute) and horses. He was a most useful
saint in rural areas.30
Graffiti as a devotional act
But whether inscribed on Anthony or on Sebastian, on the Virgin or on the
apostles, or even on narrative...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 585–615.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
renown for miraculously healing skin ailments complemented that of the
ancient fountain in the proximity of the chapel.10
The chapel of Saint-Fiacre was thus named and built in relation to
586 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.3 / 2014
Figure 2.
Key sites around...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 January 2001
... / 31.1 / 2001
JMEMS31.1-07 Jordan 2/26/01 7:03 PM Page 169
One is born into an ethnic community. There may be somatic
markers of the genealogy (dark skin/light skin, nappy hair/straight hair,
slanted eyes/straight eyes, full lips/thin lips, various eye...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 247–273.
Published: 01 May 2013
... suffered from an
“overpowering fear.”25 The harmful effects of emotions were evident even in
corpses. John Harris, author of The Divine Physician, explains how in cases
of grief “instead of a heart they find nothing but a dry skin like to the leaves
in Autumn.”26 To prevent such a fate, both...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 379–404.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... Expressing unto us the piercing, not with whipps and scourges ; nor of the neiles and thornes ; but, of the speare-point . Not, the whipps and scourges , wherewith His skin and flesh were pierced ; nor the nailes and thorns , wherewith his feet, hands and head were pierced ; but, the Speare...
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