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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 121–146.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and formal textual analysis, the essay zooms in on the trope of the womb across the theological divide separating these plays. It argues that these representations demonstrate a consistent and ambivalent connection between the mind and womb, a connection that does not subordinate one part of the body...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., and looking for clues in texts not overtly focused on this issue, she looks
for an understanding of the womb as a “felt operation within the body.” The
medical literature, written by male physicians, she argues, actually obscures
the ways in which the womb could be felt as intimately connected...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., reading, or listening) functions in a way similar to the rite of baptism by evoking the saint's protection of mothers and infants during childbirth. More so than other late medieval versions of her life, the SEL life of Margaret connects bodily and salvific suffering, emphasizing the shared experience...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of Christian belief. In this essay, I will argue that the leper, the female,
and the Jew were connected in the medieval imaginary through problem-
atic relationships of contaminated blood. Further, the narratives joining
these groups were constructed, deliberately or inadvertently, as the neces-
sary...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 261–300.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of Jesus, Mary, and the angels permits connections between different sermons that together shed light on Juana’s original theological interventions. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Juana de la Cruz visionary sermons transgender sexuality gender performance angelology...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 629–651.
Published: 01 September 2016
... text.16 Otherwise, alternative scholarship has considered
another messy production, birth, to be what Julian has in mind — the purse
as womb.17 Reinvestigating the evidence, I propose an entirely new reading
that emphasizes a nourishment/Eucharist nexus and situates the significance...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 219–251.
Published: 01 May 2022
... deriving from Latin pati (patient, compassion, compatible). The common linguistic ancestry uncovers an implicit connection between measurement and touch, and consequently, between measurement and feeling. That connection is explicitly made in late medieval popular religion, and, in this essay, I examine...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 January 2000
...-
ply physicians but intellectuals, both clerical and secular, working in both
Latin and in the vernaculars, readily adopted these new modes of conceptu-
alizing the female body. Connected in many respects to the larger phenom-
enon of “secrets” literature that developed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 187–213.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., and the smooth progress of social power.
Quickly after its first, sixteenth-century appearances in English, queer
came to mean “forged or counterfeit” with regard to money. I like espe-
cially its connection with flight, and liberty, as witnessed in Awdelay’s oft-
reprinted Fraternitye of Vacabondes...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 617–635.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by variables serving as positive and negative “checks” on growth. 2 Drawing on data from the Cambridge Group for Population and Social Structure, Wrigley and Schofield were thus able to use parish registers to crystallize centuries of data into elegant flow charts connecting food prices to real wages, which...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 407–427.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., Spring 2014
DOI 10.1215/10829636-2647346 © 2014 by Duke University Press
enon, and state toward which our decaying bodies tend, occupied Donne
throughout his life. But nothingness and re-begetting are perhaps never so
strongly on his mind as in what he calls the ultimate “image of his...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 467–492.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of the building (i.e., the spiritual senses). 6 Writing in his Didascalicon (ca. 1127), Hugh of St. Victor affirms the value of calling “to mind what we see happen in the construction of buildings, where first the foundation is laid, then the structure is raised upon it, and finally, when the work is all...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 249–268.
Published: 01 May 2012
... is no longer the standard line;
the circumstances invest it with new meaning.
So Shuger, it seems to me, commits a serious breach of historicist
protocol. She connects and identifies two very different historical moments.
Her large conflation of periodic and confessional descriptions is not, how...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 41–59.
Published: 01 January 2018
... for revision. Newly discovered notes by Vesalius also show him changing his mind about a new edition of the Principles of Anatomy and moving toward a very different anatomical treatise. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Andreas Vesalius Tabulae sex anatomicae Institutionum anatomicae...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 333–363.
Published: 01 May 2012
... because she believed that there was a right interpreta-
tion to be gotten. Rather, by registering difference, Julian can forge ahead
with connections that are self-consciously unexpected and that allow her to
wrap her mind around equally unintuitive tenets of Christian doctrine. The
least...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 173–195.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Theban queens. The
first of these appeals to Theseus’s “true gentility”; the second begs Hippolyta
to hear her “as you wish your womb may thrive with fair ones”; the third
directs Emilia to “the love of him whom Jove hath marked / The honour of
your bed” (1.1.25 – 30). The echoes of the prologue...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 271–303.
Published: 01 May 2007
...; in a characteristic
vignette in the Table Talk, Luther is recorded as wishing he could fix his
mind on God the way his dog fixed its eyes on a scrap of meat.15 Ezra Pound
praised St. Hilary of Poitiers for being a Christian theologian who “looked
at an oak leaf” (Canto 92); “Dr. Luther, holding a rose in his...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
... virtue and in the help of providence. This
faith in virtue will sustain her in her debate against Comus and is therefore
essential for understanding her defense of temperance. While sounds in the
woods bring to the Lady’s mind a “thousand fantasies” (204), her fear dis-
sipates once she sees...
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The Compounded Body: Bodily Knowledge Production in the Works of Andreas Vesalius and Edmund Spenser
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 153–182.
Published: 01 January 2018
...
recompounding depends upon blood loss, weakness, and eventual healing
in the sanitized space of Alma’s house, Maleger’s stems from his connection
with the earth, “from her wombe new spirits to reprize” (II.xi.44.9). Maleger
acts out the reconstitution depicted by Vesalius’s anatomical illustrations...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 269–291.
Published: 01 May 2020
... level. In his Etymologies, Isidore of Seville links the term simulacrum, often used to Wolf / An Old Materialism 273 describe idols, with simulare simulated, copied, feigned.8 They are thus intimately connected to falsehood. This is due in no small part to their nature as physical objects, whose...
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