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in Milk and Miracles: Heteroglossia and Dissent in Venetian Religious Art after the Council of Trent
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Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 6 . Zuane dei Santi, Virgin and Child (1377). Stone sculpture, ca. 150 × 50 cm. Venice, Church of Madonna dell'Orto. Photograph by Dedier Descouens. Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... ontological complexity of beings emerges, as the properties of animals, plants, and stones are enmeshed with each other and with human beings. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Jean Corbechon Livre des propriétés des choses medieval encyclopedias...
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Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus and the Anglo-Saxon Ecological Imagination
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (3): 479–500.
Published: 01 September 2019
... contemporary Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. An understudied text, Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus provides an opportunity to understand how early medieval people could situate nature at a narrative’s center, crediting it with the capacity to shape religious behavior and belief. Æthelwulf’s work should be seen among...
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The Severed Head as Public Sculpture in Late Medieval England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that was often more available for public inspection than the act of execution that preceded it. Severed heads thus assumed the role of public sculpture: they were likened to and in dialogue with figural representations in stone that inhabited the civic landscape, and manipulated by their creators to speak...
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Northumbrian Identity in the Eighth Century: The Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments; Style, Classification, Class, and the Form of Ideology
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 95–146.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in the production and consumption of knowledge.
The use-value of “style” bears little, if any, systematic quantitative relation
to its value in cognition. One of several unsettling aspects of the now out-
dated but still fecund modern texts that laid the foundations for studying
Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture...
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Stealing Stonehenge: Translation, Appropriation, and Cultural Identity in Robert Mannyng of Brunne's Chronicle
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 January 2002
... as long as the
human race: “pat myght last tille Domesday” (8619). Merlin suggests that,
for this project, they bring a wondrous structure called the Giant’s Ring over
from Ireland, relating the marvelous history of these stones to Aurelius:
In Aufrik were pei compast & wrouht;
GeantV...
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The Work of Alchemy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 575–599.
Published: 01 September 2000
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but the social and cultural work of a discourse encapsulating expansive
hopes for the natural and human worlds.4
The aim of the whole alchemical project was the discovery of the
philosopher’s stone, the transforming...
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Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art: The Case of the Main Narthex Portal at Vézelay
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 657–698.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of the household of God, built
upon the foundation of apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus
himself as the lapis angularis [literally “the stone of the corner”
but interpreted variously throughout the Middle Ages as founda-
tion stone, cornerstone, keystone, or even capstone...
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Cult Lines and Hellish Mountains: The Development of Sacred Landscape in the Early Medieval Alps
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (1): 85–108.
Published: 01 January 2002
... traditions—indigenous astronomical
and agricultural beliefs and polytheistic Roman cults. Since World War II,
scholars have cataloged several hundred standing stones in the region.4 Most
of these standing stones served astronomical functions, marking events in
the astronomical calendar that were...
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From Rags to Paper: Alchemy, Chymistry, and the Perfective Art of Papermaking
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 May 2024
... that purified lowly rags into a new and valuable material otherwise not found in nature. Maier goes so far as to compare paper's effect on early modern knowledge production to the philosophers’ stone's abilities to proliferate and preserve. In fact, because paper was a crucial material in textual production...
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“A Tomb Once Stood in This Room”: Memorials to Memorials in Early Modern England
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 365–385.
Published: 01 May 2018
... example, highlighting the
vulnerability of physical memorials to both the wastage of time and human
violence:
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone...
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An Old Materialism: Saints and Idols in the Katherine Group Hagiographies
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 269–291.
Published: 01 May 2020
... believers than there are now . . . who extolled and praised heathen idols, wretched things wrought from stones and sticks]. Juliene relates that [w]es i thon time, as the redunge telleth, the modi Maximien keiser i Rome heriende and heiende heathene maumez [in that time, as the legend tells, the proud...
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The Cursed and the Holy Body: Burning Corpses in the Middle Ages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 131–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
... violence was wide-spread during the twelfth
century, too. The account of Peter Abelard in his Historia calamitatum about
the inhabitants of Soissons, who tried to stone him in 1121 for his theological
viewpoints, is just one such famous example. He remembers:
But already before I arrived, my...
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Caught Looking: Under the Gaze of Inca Atawallpa, 15 November 1532
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 373–405.
Published: 01 May 2014
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them was the Inca king himself, lodged in a stone complex among a series of
rock outcroppings. Pizarro immediately sent ahead twenty or so horsemen to
meet the native ruler. The bold move would demonstrate the Spanish party’s
resolve — as much to the outnumbered Spanish themselves...
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The Sacred Object
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 457–467.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to this passage in Caxton on the exalta-
tion of the cross: “The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone
or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because
they show something that is no longer stone or tree but the sacred.”5 It is not
difficult to see how...
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When Old Meets New: Classicizing Columns in Northern French Flying Buttress Systems
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 281–320.
Published: 01 May 2014
... appear decorative, mod-
ern structural analysis has determined that they serve an important struc-
tural function by reducing the chance that the stones of the flyer arch would
slip due to insufficient frictional resistance, thus ensuring the integrity of
the buttressing system.15 The medieval...
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Ashes and “the Archive”: The London Fire of 1666,Partisanship, and Proof
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 379–408.
Published: 01 May 2001
... interpretation is written in stone. Considered together, this
printed text and stone column suggest that the standards of proof emerging
in late-seventeenth-century England are inseparable from the matrix from
which they spring: a “Whiggish” investment in progress founded...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 January 2022
... as passive occurs near the passage's beginning, where the sun “wearð adwæsced” [ was extinguished] (1132b). 25 As Bedingfield writes, the sun was associated with Christ in the Latin liturgy for the Tenebrae service used in Anglo-Saxon churches. 26 Unlike the sea, stones, and other elements, which act...
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“Here at the Fringe of the Forest”: Staging Sacred Space in As You Like It
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 121–144.
Published: 01 January 2013
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Senior’s homily on the sacred refuge and spiritual illumination that its ter-
rain provides: “And this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues
in trees, books in running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in every-
thing.”1 The space of the forest has most frequently been read...
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Collage, Architectural Inscription, and the Aesthetics of Iconoclasm in Jacques Perret's Des fortifications et artifices (1601)
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 573–594.
Published: 01 September 2015
... on architectural exteriors — to judge from its presence
on stone and wooden lintels that have survived into the modern era — this
psalm must have once been a ubiquitous sight in evangelical communities
throughout France.25 Surmounting the portals, windows, and arcades of
innumerable residential buildings...
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