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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 505–521.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to a range of Elizabethan verse miscellanies and demonstrates her innovation within the genre as a woman. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Isabella Whitney gender textile labor verse miscellany and Sweet Nosgay female authorship...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in Early Modern
Convents 53 – 77
Terpstra, Nicholas
Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and Private 7 – 52
Trettien, Whitney
Isabella Whitney’s Slips: Textile Labor, Gendered Authorship, and the
Early Modern Miscellany 505 – 521
Usher, Penelope Meyers
“Pricking in Virgil”: Early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 459–481.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the paradigms that have shaped histories of dress. Such
a perspective would complicate, Ferraro suggests, dichotomies including
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“global versus local, urban versus rural, incorporated versus unincorporated
labor, shop versus home production...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 543–570.
Published: 01 September 2002
... honest labor, the artifice and contrivance of tapestry rather than
the purity of homespun wool.36 In a culture so preoccupied with the textile
industry, it is no surprise that cloth should become a metaphor for nation-
hood.
Just as secular writers like Lyly and Dekker pointed to the crisis...
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“The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 573–597.
Published: 01 September 2013
... how an investigation of the shoes and other crafted objects staged in the play may shed new light on a neglected economy of female artisanal labor in early modern London and its transformative impact on the material culture of the early modern English stage. Examining a range of evidence, including...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 473–485.
Published: 01 September 2013
... production and the alienation of labor.1 On the one hand, indepen-
dent makers of food, clothing, and furniture are reviving small-scale pro-
duction methods and marketing to self-conscious, mostly urban consumers.
In a related development, one sees the term artisan applied to everything
from Dunkin...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 373–405.
Published: 01 May 2014
... considerable masonry skill to produce: for the Inca,
such evidence of skilled labor was the surest sign of a building’s prestige.32
Wall-openings offered the Inca more than pure ornament or makers’ marks,
they also provided for the display of sacred objects. Sixteenth-century
Spanish administrators...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 637–668.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the ways in which social formations were reproduced, not only through the compensated labor of adult males, but also through the informal, unpaid work of women that made such “breadwinning” work possible. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 early modern England...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
... percent of York’s taxable adult population were servants compared with 20 to 30 percent in other towns, and less than 10 percent in rural areas. Women, he suggests, had been drawn into towns in the third quarter of the fourteenth century in response to labor shortages and the growth of the textile...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (3): 463–472.
Published: 01 September 2004
...
in their labor prefi gure the “new conditions of oppression” under the sign
of capital, but they do so with a crucial diff erence: a diff erence that works
directly against the otherwise relentless historical march of serf to burgher
to modern bourgeoisie.
This sense in the Manifesto o f the medieval...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 619–641.
Published: 01 September 2009
... manuscript and their bridging of the divide
between traditional guild structures and commercial and global networks of
artists, retailers, and consumers. Just as our understanding of the modes of
production of luxurious textiles and expensive modes of dress have changed
with increasing evidence about...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2020
...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; William Revere This article examines John Bunyan’s relationship to traditions of representing labor reaching back before the Reformation, from Piers Plowman and its imitators through to a range of “plowman” satires, complaints, and reformist dialogues in the sixteenth...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 571–595.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of
the structure was used by laborers: vaults were rented out by carpenters, the
crypts were leased by trunkmakers, while the chapel under the end of the
Hentschell / Moralizing Apparel 573
south aisle was rented out to a glassmaker.16 One might see students attend...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 617–635.
Published: 01 September 2024
... said to influence nuptiality and therefore fertility, which in turn explain fluctuations in population (with byways into supply and demand of labor and nonfood stuffs, migration, and mortality). From Wrigley and Schofield’s panoramic view, society appeared to follow a set of rational laws that made up...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 519–542.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., Gascoigne seeks to invoke the
tradition of discerning shadowy spiritual truths through the active craft of
contemplation. But the mirror metaphor in and of itself no longer conveys
that “full process of meditative study.” To recapture that sense of the labor of
contemplation and reflection, Gascoigne...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 347–377.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., a scrowle or bande of silver, which came scarse wise over the shoulder, and so downe under the arme, with this poesie, or sentence written upon it, both before and behinde, Sicnos non nobis [thus we labor, but not for ourselves].” 31 The “scrowle” or scroll came to have an explicit graphic connotation...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 187–213.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Mary Baine Campbell This essay focuses attention on the cognitive and spiritual work of the dream and the devotional labor of the Jesuit missionary in seventeenth-century Quebec, and views these often passionately opposed spiritual efforts—performed by the various and often passionately opposed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 469–491.
Published: 01 September 2002
... designed to elicit patronage were
frequently the result of workshops, in which the labor was divided along the
model of medieval book production, with calligraphers, ornamentors, cover
specialists, and binders. Likewise, print culture divided the labor of textual
production among writers, compositors...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 335–351.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of the carders and weavers that would eventually make the
northern textiles industry so powerful.20 These were relatively skilled people
who worked in enclosed domestic spaces, perhaps weaving at night after they
had tended a smallholding during the day. Away from the elements, they had
time on their hands...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 545–570.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and their basic allegorical interpretations:
Est etiam et alia uestis que pluuiale uel capa uocatur, que creditur
a legali tunica mutuata; unde sicut illa tintinabulis, sic ista fimbriis
insignitur, que sunt labores et huius mundi sollicitudines. Habet
etiam capucium, quod est...
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