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... the illusory nature of signs, as opposed to reparative reading practices or the “hermeneutics of trust,” which calls for restoring their meaning. In a climate when discretio spirituum came to prominence, Julian responded to the suspicious techniques developed to interpret women's visions and bodies...

...Brian Sheerin Discourses of economic exchange and of theatrical participation at the turn of the seventeenth century each began to rely on a rhetoric of “crediting”: both lending and theatergoing, that is, demand a trust in the circularity of expenditure, whereby what is given out may return...

..., but to neglect the charge my friend hath committed to my trust, I never do it.”9 To be a friend, to live up to his word and trust, Mon- taigne recognizes that he has to maintain a constant identity. 376  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.2 / 2010 The central, defining quality...

... and for men embarking on overseas voyages, the possi- bility of it urged testators to express their most deeply held affection, regard, and trust that their wishes would be carried out. Women and men disposed of their property among chosen heirs and appointed executors whose loyalty and competence...

..., and the mechanism behind this process reverse-engineers intentionalism. At its core, codicological intentionalism possesses what I would call “strategic trust,” in a shift of emphasis away from Strohm's “strategic disrespect.” To Strohm, strategic disrespect is a reading position that relies on not trusting...

... this faith from a trust in works interrupts his allegory of rural labor precisely because he is aware, as any audience member would be, that rural labor is traditionally allegorized as spiritual work. That is, rural labor is so strongly correlated with traditional directions to do works that he fears...

...    Of my dear God with all my power and might;    But I was told by one it could not be; Yet I might trust in God to be my light. “Then will I trust,” said I, “in Him alone.”    “Nay, e'en to trust in Him was also His:    We must confess that nothing is our own.” “Then I confess that He my succour...

... in 1571, Hunsdon told Burghley, I trust hyr majesti wyll nott doo me that dyshonor too let any othar may haue the charge of thys enterpryse, and begged Elizabeth that she would not let him bete the bushe and vthars haue the byrdes. 73 He may simply not have liked the idea that Walsingham...

.... The Lady takes his word and he offers courtesy: “Shepherd I take thy word, / And trust thy honest-­ offered courtesy” (320 – 21, my emphasis). In Latin this transaction would be expressed through the language of fides. In an often-­quoted passage of De officiis, Cicero explains the political...

... trust with exercise to frame in some sort to it.”5 Once worked in a canvas ground, these slips could be cut out and sewn onto a woven fabric such as velvet, and they are found adorning all types of furnishings and clothing in the period, from gloves to wall hangings and bed curtains (see fig. 1...

... as the future good, which is diffi- cult yet possible to attain; and God, the aid of God, as making possible the attaining of that end (II-II.17.1). For Jesus, there is no need to hope for the future good (which is present for him); but Jesus did, Aquinas stresses, trust in God, in God’s aid. He thus had...

...). This vulnerability makes the human creature reliant on the care of others, summoning relational virtues such as gratitude and trust: “only man is born in such a state that he must be long dependent entirely on the help of others,” so that he “owe[s] the gift of life not so much to himself as to the kindness...

... if they encounter the book without correct supervision, and so he asks his pupil to be wary of showing it to others: “I prey þee for Godes love þat þou late none see þis book, bot if it be soche one þat þee þink is liche [suited] to þe book” (130). The pupil is therefore trusted to judge who is “liche...

... pointed out in correcting his illustrious predecessor. This did not necessarily mean that the new anatomists perfectly understood what they saw, including Vesalius, or that they trusted what they saw, if it was patently different from what could be seen in animals, but the urgency to study...

..., never to more abstract concepts such as the Trinity or eucharistic change. 17 Because these imaginative practices are doomed to fail, they are certain to weaken faith in the sacrament. Instead, Love urges his readers to trust “what doctours tauht & holi church determined.” For Nicholas Watson...

... and write about the journey along the way: don t trust your shipmates, [f]or men are strangely apt to play the thief on board ship, even though they may abhor thieving when not at sea. He then gives this example: [W]hile you are writing, if you lay down your pen and turn your face away, your pen...

... in Gorgias.3 After Wotton s first aphorism was made public and used as nega- tive propaganda against him, he had to write two apologies: one to his king whom he represented and had accidentally slandered, and another to the mayor of the town in which he was staying, as he had breached the rules of trust...

... or intellectual demonstrations; instead, it is the result of the choice that one freely makes to trust the teaching of Jesus as presented by the church. Credulitas as a synonym of belief was also used in the realm of canon law, and even in this context credulitas is different from knowledge, because it does...