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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 141–165.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Richard Sugg In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, human physiology was mediated by the vital spirits. These fine vapors of heated blood and air not only linked body and soul, but were central to processes and ideas of generation, sight, mind-body unity, muscle and nerve action, and emotion...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 33–59.
Published: 01 January 2016
... on the assumption that the heart is open to the outside
world and to participation in intercorporeal exchanges.
Enracynez en coer: The heart at the center of the text
The medieval heart did not pump blood through the body, but it did pro-
duce the vital spirits that were essential to life...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 117–139.
Published: 01 January 2016
... imaginations were dangerous too (“fear” could be caught in the
manner of contagion), and penetrating malevolent spirits could cause mor-
bidity, Helmontian medicine concentrated on the self at war with the self
and on the need for a holistic medical approach. As Thomson informs
his readers, the “Vital...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 247–273.
Published: 01 May 2013
... to the movement and
function of three types of subtle material: natural spirits in the liver were
responsible for growth and nutrition; vital spirits produced in the heart gene
rated bodily movement; and animal spirits refined in the brain imparted “a
faculty to the nerues of sence, and real motion.”17...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 599–621.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Scholars, 2009), 216 – 36.
64 On the commercialization of artisans’ scientific skills and products, see Pamela H.
Smith, “Vital Spirits: Redemption, Artisanship, and the New Philosophy in Early
Modern Europe,” in Margaret J. Osler, ed., Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cam...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 261–280.
Published: 01 May 2003
... inheritance is an invitation to think further about the inter-
relationship between literatures whose understanding has been most deformed
by the academic training and bifurcations of the discipline of English in the
“medieval” and “Renaissance” academy. It is in the constructive spirit and
service...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 347–377.
Published: 01 May 2023
... scalar) pattern that was in use roughly in place of the as-yet unelucidated theory of an eight-note pitch class. 5 Musical notation in the English Renaissance is thus a vital trace of visual and aural play and an exploration of the limits of what was graphically possible in a form of writing intended...
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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
... as a band of brothers to rescue Ralph’s wife from Ham-
mon in scene 18, Hodge says, “Shoemakers are steel to the back, men every
inch of them, all spirit” (18.33 – 34). Hodge’s conjuring of the shoemakers’
hardened manliness and “spirit” (i.e., vital forces, semen) conflates their sex-
ual, artisanal...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 421–459.
Published: 01 May 2012
... in spirite. And therefore it cannot nor ought not to have
a mannes head, nor a visible Lorde. But onely the
which formeth the heartes inwardlye, by the holy Ghost. . . .
Contrary unto these thinges, the Pope hath made himselfe the
visible and outwarde heade...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 January 2021
... the fate of souls after death felt particularly urgent and important evidence for the afterlife was provided by spirits traveling back and forth between this life and the next. Insisting on a bodily experience of a spiritual space, rather than a visionary one, the knight Owein provided powerful eyewitness...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 341–364.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., and from all car-
nall prudence to the wisdom of the spirite. In a cloude are they rapt This
passage re ects both the mystical language of ravishment and the stress
on the intimate relationship between the knowledge and love of God that
was so vital to medieval mysticism. Moreover, rather than...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 January 2020
... century, who drew on the seventh- century Vita Prima for his Sanctilogium Angliae, Walliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae. A version of this work, Nova Legenda Anglie, came into print in 1515 (followed by a highly condensed English language translation in 1516).14 The Nova Legenda was also reproduced, vitally...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 413–442.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in history to weigh himself daily; he
was certainly the first whose self-weighing became renowned, and it was
his example that first inspired emulation. He was also the first — and this
surely is the most crucial point — to advance the key justification for this
practice: to urge some vital...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 241–280.
Published: 01 May 2014
...-
tional renewal. In both senses reform and reformation involved the notion of
returning to a former state and of recapturing the pristine spirit of Christi-
anity in its infancy. Contemporaries used the term reform to designate the
244 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.2 / 2014...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 89–115.
Published: 01 January 2016
... (“Invisiblement
comme espris, / Ces deulx se bouterent en my” [20.153 – 54 The ambiguity
of the term espris hints at diverging therapeutic models: the language is at
once medical, theological, and supernatural, indicating healing from within
(vital spirits) or from without (infusion of virtue, phantom...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 January 2012
... like Raymond’s — so revealing of a general moral
anxiety about the religious hypocrisy that disguises vice as virtue, and so
expressive of masculine uncertainty and prejudice — a vital part of the story
of her sanctity, converting them into proofs of her humility perfected in
patience...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 513–543.
Published: 01 September 2016
... by the generally chari-
table spirit with which readers have attempted to engage an author whose
treatment of “pullulating pluralism” is from beginning to end one of con-
temptuous dismissal (111). When reading his protests against a public life
“riven by angry, uncivil rivals with incompatible views about...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 467–492.
Published: 01 September 2023
... statement (though one that presents difficulties of its own) may be found in Aquinas's Quaestiones disputatae de potentia Dei : “Falsehood cannot underlie the divine Scriptures which we have received from the Holy Spirit, as neither can there be error in the faith that is taught by the scriptures.” 38...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
... theatrical work, A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
(performed in 1634), centers on the question of virtue’s ability to resist
temptation. The plot presents a Younger and Elder Brother who have
to rescue, with the help of an Attendant Spirit, a Lady, their sister, from
imprisonment in the palace...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (1): 15–34.
Published: 01 January 2008
... civility. The numerous
works de legato et legationibus published during the seventeenth century pre
sent varying profiles of the diplomatic career, and, as a consequence, suggest
equally varying programs for the diplomat’s education: while a humanist
spirit persists, with its emphasis on the moral...
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