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... a devotional experience replete with the presence of the natural world. As prominent ecological features and building materials, the ecological phenomena of water and wood were instrumental in the construction of ritual worship at Saint-Fiacre. Spring water flowing from a nearby source and oak wood hewn from...

...Andrew Wear In the early modern era, physical place, health, and disease were integrally linked in a geographical and climatological theory of the environment. The Hippocratic treatise Airs, Waters, Places served as a template for viewing the relationships between places, health, disease...

...Eleanor Johnson This essay argues that Chaucer’s much- unloved “Monk’s Tale,” rather than being a failure or misfire on Chaucer’s part, actually constitutes a high- water mark of the bold and experimental literary theory that characterizes much of Chaucer’s later career. In this case, the Monk...

... issue analyze a number of issues of particular importance to the current study of premodern medicine. These include the uses and misrepresentations of long-standing paradigms for the interpretation of disease, such as the theory of humoralism, as well as the Hippocratic Airs, Waters, and Places...

... modern culture, the fluids were multiple and metaphoric, inviting a range of erotic wordplays and visual puns about urine, semen, water, and wine. The sexual economy was as much characterized by liquidity as it was obsessed with penile penetration. The somatics and semiotics of early modern masculinity...

... of public space exploited for personal gain. Public water sources sustained life in the city, and access to them was a significant part of London’s spatial order. Free passage to the Thames was protected by laws governing the lanes and wharves leading to the river. Conduits were...

... text, a series of nine paintings describe proces- sions for the liturgical year’s great events: the Blessing of Holy Water on Sun- days (fol. 3v); the Blessing of Palms on Palm Sunday (fol. 32r); the Blessing of the New Fire (fol. 54v), of the Paschal Candlestick (fol. 57r), and of the Font (fol...

... they are the most active of bodies. Sometimes they take them for air; from which they differ exceedingly, as much as wine from water. . . . Sometimes they will have them to be natural heat, or a portion of the element of fire; whereas some of them are crude, and cold.9 What Bacon...

... Margaret a second time (and in some versions, a third), this time with fire and water. Her onlookers are amazed at her survival and are converted on the spot; in some versions, such as Lambeth 223 and the Vernon MS, Margaret baptizes them herself before they are martyred by Olibrius. Finally...

... cupboard is a thirteenth-­century piscina, a stone basin where the consecrated wine remaining after the Mass was washed with holy water into the consecrated ground of the churchyard (see fig. 4). A sec- ond cupboard contains a painted wooden box bearing the word Posteris, “to Posterity,” in gold...

... practitioner after about 1406, this remedy might well raise modern veteri- nary eyebrows, but it is a rather unexceptional part of medieval animal care.2 The practice of giving holy water to livestock on February 3rd, the feast day of Saint Blasius or Blaise, famed for healing wounded and sick animals...

.... The narrative capitalizes on this imagery to suggest that just as the body of the saint is paralleled by the monastic body, the mul- tiple enclosures of her body are symbols for the institution’s boundaries, both architectural and geographical. Enveloped within the fenland waters, the monastery on the Isle...

... put on another forme, and hath assumed an other essence, another colour, another vertue, and another nature and property. As for example, when linnen rags are turned into paper: metall into glasse: skins or leather into glue: an hearbe into ashes: ashes into Salt: Salt into water, and Mercury so...

... it. The Livre 's thought about properties thus begins with an ontological commitment to the elements—fire, air, water, and earth—which are further subdivided into four elemental qualities: heat, cold, moisture, and dryness. In human bodies, the elements and qualities interact with the four bodily humors; other...

... found the abdomen swollen and full of water, the tips of most of the fingers grazed, the face livid, the forehead scratched, the mouth frothing, and the nose emitting a bloody and frothy mucous, which made me judge that he was thrown in the water while still alive, where he then drowned.” Printed notes...

... the river’s mouth, the limits of the space in which soldiers can march or ride, the borders of a comfort zone defined by access to food, drinkable water, weapons, and some vestiges of safety or authority. It may be conceived as a whole in the sovereign claims of monarchs and in the front pages...

... and the head put it, “Scientia enim thesaurus est” [Knowledge is the real treasure]. Such treasure, the commentator continues, “is not possible for a thief to steal, a mouse to gnaw through, a maggot to demolish, water to wash away, or fire to burn up.”15 And so, what happens when someone sets out...

... be observed in some of the proposed revisions to the Bishops’ Bible’s translation of Genesis 1. At Genesis 1:6, for example, one finds it suggested that God’s pronouncement “Let there be a firmament betweene the waters,” as it appears in the Bishops’ Bible, might instead be rendered as “Let...

... English Almanacs Laura Williamson Ambrose Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame, Indiana In 1653 and only weeks before his death, England’s famed water-­poet and local travel writer, John Taylor, undertook his last...

... Chronicle, from its summit “was a fayre lady out of whose bestes [breasts] ran aboundantly water of mereuilous delicious saver.”23 A similar fountain was created for one of James I’s coronation pag- eants in 1603 at Sopers Lane, an area known for its medieval associations with the spicers.24...