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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 233–262.
Published: 01 May 2016
... become tree-like. A reading of these visions suggests an ecology of kingship, in which proper governance, land management, and licit sexuality are all interconnected. At the same time, the visions resonate with recent strains of ecological thought, notably dark ecology and queer ecology. Encountering...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 283–303.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., the English romance narrative wandered from locus to locus, in this case from manuscript to manuscript, with each encounter inscribing on it a different identity with characteristics influenced by local cultural values. Stemmatics' analogy of the family tree thus enforces an artificially unified reading...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 225–255.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., the essay examines the role of “trees of incarnation” as contemplative models in women's religious communities for making Christ present in the imagination and in the world. M. D. Chenu's attention to the category of nature in his historical and theological writings is then revisited in order to propose...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 249–272.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Lindsay Diggelmann In 1188, an eye-catching display of royal anger resulted in the destruction of the ancient elm tree at Gisors by Philip II of France. Building on recent reappraisals of anger and other emotions in the medieval context, this essay seeks to understand how contemporary observers may...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 585–615.
Published: 01 September 2014
... countryside was its ability to connect secular and
sacred ecologies.31 Wood was the source of revelation in the legend of the
Holy Rood and in Breton lais of ash trees; and water provoked miracles at
healing fountains for pious Christians and hailstorms at guarded springs
for Arthurian knights.32...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 343–374.
Published: 01 May 2002
... in that nature imi-
tated from classical poets seems to stand for a lost poetic and moral order,
the rhetorical counterpart to current events represented by an actual threat
to the local trees. I trace Ronsard’s early construction of the forest in his
Odes, and offer a close reading and reconsideration...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 457–467.
Published: 01 September 2014
...”
in William Caxton’s fifteenth-century printing of the Golden Legend opens
by describing the process that transformed a “tre of fylthe” into a sacred
object:
Þe tree of the crosse was a tre of fylthe / for þe crosses were made
of vile trees: and of trees without fruyt: for all...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 January 2009
... amounts of treasure, or
by increasing inheritances. . . . The seed of the cacao tree served
instead as money, and this is what they used to buy things, when
necessary.3
Cacao’s fungibility struck a cord with Europeans who shared a notion of sub-
stituting spice for money...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 41–67.
Published: 01 January 2022
... and catastrophic ineffability in three ways. First, its personifications suggest that, at the Crucifixion, recognition of suffering leads to co-suffering. Suffering swerves, moving from Christ's flesh to be embodied in rocks, the sea, stars, and trees, which adopt his pain. This movement makes the transcendent...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
...” (224r) [the earth is the mother and the sun is the father of trees and plants]. The moon plays a role, too: plants planted in the full or new moon become ill; if they recover, they bear worm-ridden fruit (226v). Plants are descended from their own kind, as are animals, but other agents participate...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 January 2004
... (1840–43).
de Gayangos, The History of the
century historian al-Maqqari—often provide a genealogy of the Umayyad
emirs and caliphs who ruled from the capital Cordoba from 756 to about
1031 (see fig. 1). 1Abd al-Rahman I, who stood at the head of this noble
family tree, was called “the Emigré” (al...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 121–144.
Published: 01 January 2013
...
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...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 September 2007
...:
A man had committed a murder and was being pursued by the
victim’s relatives. He reached the river Nile, and when he found
a lion [other early versions have a wolf] there he was afraid and
climbed up a tree; in the tree, he saw a snake and was practically
scared...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 439–461.
Published: 01 September 2010
... passage, Tyndale compares papal corruption to ivy taking over
a tree:
to see how our holy father came up, mark the ensample of an ivy
tree: first it springeth out of the earth, and then awhile it creepeth
along by the ground till it find a great tree. Then it jointeth itself...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 147–173.
Published: 01 January 2022
... through the speaker's and readers’ interpretive interventions. Notable here is Marvell's representation of the Regicide as the entirely natural, but also metaphorically significant process of the hewel (a woodpecker) toppling a hollowed-out oak, a process that ends with the tree's content viewing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 505–521.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... In a poem from The works of a young wyt (1577),
Nicholas Breton plays upon these three meanings of slips, pondering, “Shall
I write . . . of fruites or plants, of floures, hearbes and trees, / of drawing
knots, & setting slips, and such like toyes as these?” (sig. B2r). While on
the one hand, Breton...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 251–282.
Published: 01 May 2001
... . . . cragged, barreyn, and stonye, in
the whiche was erected one tree, artificiallye made, all withered
and deadde, with bruanches accordinglye. And under the same
tree at the foote thereof, sate one in homely and rude apparell
crokedlye...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 527–557.
Published: 01 September 2010
... organism:
[A] good tree cannot bear evil fruit, and every good tree bears
good fruit (Matt. 7:17 – 18). Therefore the will, which is the tree,
or the root of the good tree, can do nothing but good and pro-
duces good fruit in its season. For that reason he then compared...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 497–526.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and
faith that go with that action.27
Because “works” themselves no longer matter in and of themselves,
the action of “working” (sowing and reaping) tends to disappear from theo-
logical discussions. A new metaphor emerges to describe this new relation-
ship — a tree and its fruit (faith...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 137–171.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... . . . They say that the winds
ruin houses and break down trees, and the fire burns them; but
the Viracocchie devour everything, they consume the very earth,
they force the rivers, they are never quiet, they never rest, they
are always rushing about, sometimes in one direction...
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