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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 49–78.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... Overall, this study reemphasizes the fact that without understanding social contexts we can never properly understand the intentions of pilgrim-authors. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 medieval pilgrimage writing Riccoldo of Monte Croce library of Santa Maria Novella monastery...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2022
... social context as a variety of form, this article articulates a reciprocal relationship between aesthetics and the social world that reveals the limitations of The Fortunes of Men 's attempts at consolation. It attends to the questions of what and who is excluded by the social forms of Old English verse...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 11–30.
Published: 01 January 2025
... a collective ritual and only became individualized and interiorized in the later Middle Ages, though early medievalists have recently presented evidence challenging this view. However, the debate has hitherto paid little attention to the variety of lived experiences and social contexts of “confession,” the act...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2025
... rights reserved. medieval and early modern religion history of “lived religion,” communal and individual experiences social contexts historical change This special issue of JMEMS takes up the classical debate on the “shared” and the “individual” through the concepts of “lived religion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
... sociability in sixteenth-century Italy. To this end, understanding the social and cultural context within which Italian men grew and cared for their beards during the period will help explain the meaning of a unique feature of Bruno's play, while examining Bruno's play will in its turn help dramatize more...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
... belief by only a
comma and a conjunction.26 Ironically, in a scene that insistently isolates the
Lady from all others, the language used to describe her vision of the virtues
carries with it echoes of the social context necessary for learning virtue. The
Lady’s address to the virtues highlights...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2012
... against church corrup-
tion; instead, Aers suggests, he points us to a remnant that sustains genu-
ine Christian charity, while leaving us at the same time with a disquieting
worry: can such a remnant really provide the necessary communal context
for the social formation and sustenance of virtuous...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 487–516.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of biblical passages in contemporary social and political contexts. This essay rethinks the interpretive procedures and the cultural contexts of the notes, which, though influential in Elizabethan England, reflect the condition and polemical discourses of their exiled Marian community. Consequently...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 505–521.
Published: 01 September 2015
... into the many ways that women of all social ranks contributed to the making, weaving, writing, printing, etching, annotating, composing, and publishing of English literary culture. This essay takes a fresh look at the authorship of Isabella Whitney, the earliest identified woman to publish secular English verse...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of methodological perspectives, cultural constructions and parallel concerns common to both empires as well as a number of inherent differences. Articles address the emergence of new historical, political, social, and aesthetic possibilities for these two imperial powers in both Old World and transatlantic contexts...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (2): 233–264.
Published: 01 May 2019
... are bound up with the female protagonists’ masculine gender presentation. These narratives explore how subjectivity can be made or remade through the translation of discursive conventions that encompass linguistic, social, and familial constructions of gender. They also point to ways of connecting gender...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 269–304.
Published: 01 May 2002
...—perhaps only implicitly, even inadvertently—
they challenged political and ecclesiastic institutions in ways that made their
textual inscription more difficult and less likely.
To explore this hypothesis, this essay investigates some of the likely
social and dramatic contexts omitted by the 1393...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 199–231.
Published: 01 May 2020
... about the conception of shame in a social context.13 My article is intended to join and develop the important work on the his- tory of shame founded by such scholars as Carlin Barton, who has studied the early imperial culture of shame and its changes; Robert Kaster, who has described differences...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2003
... that
reason, to be particularly suggestive from a comparative perspective. Instead
I shall hope to suggest some of the possibilities of more systematic compar-
ative investigation and discussion between specialists by comparing inter-
pretations of the social context and implications of these crises...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 147–166.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., recounted from his point of view (that of
women is exceedingly rare), yet necessarily in relationship to social context,
personal reputation, and kin, family, and community. As such, pardon let-
ters are textual performances, collaboratively authored, that require complex
reading practices...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., rather than on the finished product or the source material
where attention is more often directed, can reveal that might otherwise be
hidden about the functioning of these cultural productions within their
specific social contexts.
Manuscript transmission and bricolage
My first example...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 173–196.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in medieval
culture. The question remains: what context would eleventh-century
English readers have had for a representation of the social expectations that
were specific to Greco-Roman public bathing?
The principal redactions of the Latin text don’t diverge vastly in
this chapter, though some...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in 1425 reinscribed and naturalized certain categories in order to shore up particular hierarchies calls similar repertoires into question. This entertainment hides its relation to the social context within which the performance occurs. Contemporary readers may recognize a parallel configuration...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 23–45.
Published: 01 January 2003
... linear pro-
gression from “old Israel” to “new Israel” or fierce religious conflict between
contentious “sister-religions”—both mask the political and social contexts in
which Christians “invented” a tractable Jewish past and, indeed, risk repli-
cating the very processes of conquest and appropriation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 507–509.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., artisans can be recognized by specific social
practices; indeed, these social practices come to constitute artisanal identity
as much as labor relations and actual work. In the premodern context, arti-
sanal identity is largely relational, defining itself from and against those who
share overlapping...
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