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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 321–354.
Published: 01 May 2006
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 83–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Jessica Rosenfeld Medieval penitential writings often proclaim envy to be the “worst” sin because it is committed without pleasure. Envy thus poses a problem for traditional moral frameworks that suggest sin can be avoided by turning one’s desire away from earthly pleasures — envious desire...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 241–280.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Alexandra Walsham This reflective essay focuses upon the theoretical problem of explaining religious change in medieval and early modern Europe without perpetuating inherited paradigms of progress and modernization. First, it assesses and challenges prevailing models of periodization through...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 327–358.
Published: 01 May 2017
... itself between a myth of medieval kingship as limited, contingent, and responsive to human need, on the one hand, and on the other, a myth of Tudor pragmatism as a sovereign assertion of law, the play offers two alternatives to the absolutism of Stuart monarchy without endorsing either. © 2017 by Duke...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (3): 461–489.
Published: 01 September 2018
... without denying the degree to which cause and sign slide into each other. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Catholic and Protestant repentance theology of penance speech-act analysis Piers Plowman Hamlet ...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2019) 49 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of tragedy? In The Tragic Imagination (2016), the distinguished Anglican theologian Rowan Williams presents a grand narrative maintaining the compatibility of “the tragic imagination” and Christianity. Yet the story neglects, without any comment, the entire Middle Ages. This special issue of JMEMS explores...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 49–78.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... Overall, this study reemphasizes the fact that without understanding social contexts we can never properly understand the intentions of pilgrim-authors. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 medieval pilgrimage writing Riccoldo of Monte Croce library of Santa Maria Novella monastery...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 497–507.
Published: 01 September 2021
...W. B. Worthen What does it mean to think about embodiment without bodies? This essay pursues a question central to all categories of performance—theatrical and extratheatrical—in the early modern period. It explores that question by considering the actions assigned to performers by early modern...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 445–482.
Published: 01 September 2022
...David Aers This essay argues that Calvinist versions of God and human redemption cannot be adequately grasped without studying the medieval traditions from which they emerged. Beginning with a close reading of Calvin's extremely violent understanding of the atonement, the essay moves through...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 May 2023
... reading without addressing this history, focusing attention instead on technological and methodological interventions that produce other readings which are then represented alongside Klaeber's. The result is representative of how the closed and nonrecuperative temporality of melancholia is manifest...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 January 2024
... into their courts on suspicion of crimes—and to do so without resorting to torture. The De arte opens with an emphasis on the difficulty of establishing intent. Near the outset, a discussion about the freedom and the knowability of the will takes place between the three interlocutors: the Venetian patricians...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Sara Horrell; Jane Humphries; Jacob Weisdorf E. A. Wrigley identified the responsiveness of nuptiality and marital fertility to changes in male wages. Others have theorized the importance of women’s decision‐making in the timing of marriage, but without much empirical evidence. Combining new long...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 275–308.
Published: 01 May 2000
... without question. Furthermore, despite Kamps’s assertion
that historiography never called for “radical changes” in the structure of gov-
ernment, Rastell suggests that everyone charged with governing, in any
office, a phrase that includes the monarchy (at the very least, Rastell does not
exclude...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 131–155.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... For a second actual-
ity [actus] presupposes a first, and the prerequisite of an action
[operatio] is substance and power, just as there is no effect without
a cause.2
Luther believes that if we accept Aristotelian views about the virtues, and
especially if we agree that we can...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 571–580.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of the third wheel, trying to bal-
ance on only two wheels. Walking, we are like bicyclists. We have absorbed
into our own bodies the helping hand, the third wheel, that we now learn
to do without, having incorporated the sense of balance and security that
the hand previously gave. Perhaps walking...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 September 2007
... solus in orbe nitor.”
[While picking around in a plowed field, a wolf found a head
made proud with craft. A precious human art graced its cheek.
This wolf turned the head in his paws, and offered the following
words: “O cheek without a voice, o head without a mind...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 135–161.
Published: 01 January 2014
... is more important for understanding Augustine’s God than
the more familiar categories of omniscience or omnipotence.1 Attending in
a sustained fashion without any distraction is an ideal of human devotion —
though, as is argued below, Christian authors disagreed on whether...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 55–85.
Published: 01 January 2023
... and it being “impossible for a camp to be big as that of the Israelites without people dying every day.” 46 The practical impossibility of the entire congregation's involvement in attending to the affairs of the church would become a recurrent argument for representative government. 47 Here...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 147–173.
Published: 01 January 2022
... production of economic value. In that respect, they are poems without strophes, let alone catastrophes. It's that fantasy, of nature and its use without dramatic or narrative conflict or crisis, that makes them an important minor genre for approaching early modern understandings of historical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., how often the national or the imperial are invoked in medieval criticism
without reference to politics, society, or gender. These terms are imported
with little consideration for the specificities and vagaries of early medieval
formations. Submissions should pay attention to the dissonances...
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