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The Mystery of Walking
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 571–580.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Peter Stallybrass © by Duke University Press 2002
The Mystery of Walking
Peter Stallybrass
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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Rogationtide Perambulation as Performative Law
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 453–473.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jill P. Ingram This article draws on performance theory to examine perambulation practices in late medieval and early modern England. Rogation was originally a devotional celebration that also entailed a ritual walking of parish boundaries to define communities as legal and administrative units...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 427–431.
Published: 01 September 2002
... as an argument for the fundamental economic self-interest of the
nascent nation.
In Peter Stallybrass’s “The Mystery of Walking,” the article of cloth-
ing that takes center stage is the “boot,” but he is more concerned with the
physical constraints posed by the relationship between objects...
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Treasonous Textiles: Foreign Cloth and the Construction of Englishness
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 543–570.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and the display of foreign
apparel: the Monsieur “must prove / The new French tailor’s motion,
monthly made, / Daily to turn in Paul’s, and help the trade” (15–16). By
parading through Paul’s Walk, the middle aisle of St. Paul’s Church and
London’s early modern catwalk for the fashionable, the Englishman...
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Stranger Artisans and the London Sanctuary of St. Martin le Grand in the Reign of Henry VIII
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 545–571.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., testified about their long
memories of living in and near the precinct of St. Martin le Grand.1 St.
Martin’s precinct, governed from 1503 by the abbot of Westminster, was a
small territory in the heart of the City of London, a minute’s walk north
of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Westminster Abbey...
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Blinded by the Light: Experience, Narrative, and Identity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jaén
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 73–96.
Published: 01 January 2025
... each other—this is how he knew they were armed—and it seemed they bore lance-shaped objects on their shoulders. They, and all the others following the lady, otherwise were silent and walked slowly. The chapel of the church, Pedro continued, was only a stone's throw away. Against its rear wall...
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Moralizing Apparel in Early Modern London: Popular Literature, Sermons, and Sartorial Display
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 571–595.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Cathedral hosted a phantasmagoric array of activities.14 Much of the
period’s literature focuses on the gallants who idly paraded up and down the
center aisle of the church, Paul’s Walk.15 In addition to the general loitering
and shenanigans that took place in the nave of the church, the interior...
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Goya, Portraiture, and the (Impossible) Art of Deciphering Faces
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 165–201.
Published: 01 January 2024
... apes: the chimpanzee and the orangutan. 38 Both were often confused in elaborating a myth of a bipedal creature said not only to walk erect as man but even to possess the ability of speech. As is well known, the first dissection of an orangutan was not performed until 1770 by the Dutch anatomist...
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The Supreme Pen (Al-Qalam Al-A`ā) of Cide Hamete Benengeli in Don Quixote
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 505–518.
Published: 01 September 2000
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nized It is likely that Cervantes heard these various phonetic versions on
his walks through Algiers’ squares or even among the Spanish Moriscos he
seemed to know so well, since what echoes in his ear and permits the imme-
diate association of Cide with berenjena...
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The Dark Side of Landscape: Ideology and Power in the Christian Myth of the Desert
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 September 2003
...).
The Coptic Life ofOnnophrius offers a second example. 30 It pre-
sents itself as the personal account of a certain Paphnutius’s miraculous
journey in search of “any brother monks in the farthest reaches of the desert”
(Vita Onnoph. 2). The author reports that he walked for four days and four
nights...
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New Books across the Disciplines
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
... . Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, (2008) 2023. xiii, 256 pp., 19 illus. Ebook. Dunn, Mary. Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022. 224 pp. Hardcover. Guidi, Simone, and Joaquim Braga...
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Archiving Ordinary Experience: Small-Format Cartography of the English Renaissance
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 359–390.
Published: 01 May 2017
... across class divisions.14 The popular-
ity of small-format cartography stems from its ability to appeal to all walks
of life mingling in retail bookstalls.15 By the turn of the seventeenth century,
consumers across the social spectrum tapped into a geographic imaginary to
envision the nation...
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Implicit Faith and Reformations of Habit
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 513–543.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in Godliness”
over Puritan conviction and assurance. As he declared to parishioners wor-
ried about their state of assurance, “You may live by faith, while you walk by
rule: you may walk believingly and cheerfully, while you walk regularly.”63
The impact of this ethos on his son-in-law John...
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“Ce ne sont pas des bois”: Poetry, Regionalism, and Loss in the Forest of Ronsard's Gâtine
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 343–374.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., Prince des Poètes, cites these very lines by Ronsard and obediently
transforms himself into exactly the reader Ronsard is prefiguring. His book
is an account of his ecstatic “pilgrimage” to the Vendômois, where he walks
reverentially, stopping to admire various landmarks celebrated by the poet...
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Performance Anxiety and the Passion in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 315–337.
Published: 01 May 2016
... s.d.) to “walke to see Arystories hall” (223). The
reference to “Arystories hall” is in the dialogue, and suggests that Aristorius
has some space defined for him, as does his later invitation to Jonathas to
“come up and sit bi me” (271). A reader, too, might catch these directions...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Cognition (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001), 1–24, citing John Searle: “If I am going for a walk to Hyde Park, there are any number of things that are happening in the course of my walk, but their descriptions do not describe my intentional actions, because in acting, what I am doing depends in large...
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The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy Land
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (1): 23–45.
Published: 01 January 2003
... was interwoven as if with golden crosses (and he held in his hand a golden
wand), shod in boots gilded on the surfaces, walking around and facing me in silence.
When I saw this, doubting within myself I said, ‘Who do you think this is? Does he
come from God’s side or the adversary’s?’ For I...
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Beyond Monstrosity: Natural Hybridity in Medieval and Early Modern Travel Narratives
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 371–397.
Published: 01 May 2024
...=nlm:nlmuid-9413026-bk , image no. 572 (on this page appears the onocenthaurus or onocentaur, which has a head like an ass and a body like a man and is walking beside a giraffe); image no. 535 (this page shows a cynocephalus, or dog-headed man, interacting with a lion). 12 Fortunio Liceti, De...
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Elegy for a Grindletonian: Poetry and Heresy in Northern England,1615–1640
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 335–351.
Published: 01 May 2003
... that “Of True Christian Liberty” is also a defense
against the charge of Antinomianism, since Brereley confesses that he once
thought that believers were freed from original sin, making individuals
heroic in their redeemed Christian liberty: “Like to Gideon, walking in his
might: / Doth sit down right, like...
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“The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 573–597.
Published: 01 September 2013
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praises his fellow journeyman Ralph as “as good a workman at a prick and awl as any
in our trade” (1.142 – 43), and tells Ralph, who has been conscripted to fight against
the French, “firk the basa mon cues” (1.219).
11 Giorgio Riello, “The Material Culture of Walking: Spaces...
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