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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... archival evidence women's laughter castration Robin Hood In trying to locate performance in textual sources, medieval and early modern scholars often focus on explicit references to plays—and then bemoan the lack of evidence. But what if we move beyond performance as the enactment of scripted drama...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 309–338.
Published: 01 May 2000
... laughter of the mid-
dling audiences.
The pamphleteers tried hard to demystify, order, and circumscribe
a slippery rhetorical phenomenon which I call witch-speak. Its manifesta-
tions, to which I will return shortly, included endlessly variable disturbances
of signification, equivocations...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 331–373.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., in that it was made by a paternal God, followed the form of that
father and his incarnated Son, and was a matter of intellect. Since women
were conventionally regarded as irrational, the closeness of the seat of reason
to the heavens was due to men’s divine preeminence, a priority said to be
demonstrated...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 503–531.
Published: 01 September 2022
... that “the devil will make a grandsire of you” (1.1.91) is funny in the same way that caricatures and carnival effigies are funny: it reduces Othello to something inhuman and so makes him available as an object of laughter. Something similar is in play when he calls women “devils being offended” (2.1.114) and when...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 327–342.
Published: 01 May 2002
... a flea who had encamped in the
beautiful surroundings of her breast.]
In the foreword to La Puce de Madame Des-Roches, a collection of poems by
several authors dedicated to a flea, Estienne Pasquier assures his intimate
reader that laughter is in store. The historian of France shares...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2025) 55 (1): 143–156.
Published: 01 January 2025
.... Davis, Evan R., and Nicholas D. Nace, eds. The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660–1750 . Broadview Anthologies of English Literature. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2023. 371 pp. Paperback, ebook. [Presents works by thirty satirists, including eleven women.] Eilhart, von Oberg. Tristrant...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 339–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
... in 1639.”34
What Kaufmann calls a “resistance to courtier encroachment on the
drama” can be glimpsed in the writers in other ways, including their shared
suspicion of theatrical publication.35 While the lavish presentation of his
Gunaikeion, or Nine Books of Various History Concerning Women...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (2): 245–269.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., but like a female saint, she is threatened with rape. This portrays the devil as an ineffectual tempter. In this way, the Book emulates episodes in the vitae of St. Bridget of Sweden and Marie d'Oignes in which the holy women outwit demonic trickery. By portraying the devil as an artless seducer, chapter...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2001
... laughter on the part
of Roman patrons of the bath. The laughter dispelled the Evil Eye and the
dark demons lurking in the baths.19 Clarke’s study indicates that blacks in
this way were linked to demons and hypersexuality as a vulgar act. Already
in Roman art...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 71–98.
Published: 01 January 2013
... for this
counterintuitive assertion that a man will freely choose death: “The fairest
and best of women, who has taken the place of the Death-goddess, has kept
certain characteristics that border on the uncanny, so that from them we
have been able to guess at what lies beneath.”20 Thus, the “fairest and best...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (3): 585–615.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the Man of Sorrows. The long stretch of the support beam into
which the Mass of Saint Gregory is carved houses scenes whose mimicry and
mockery trouble the mimesis of the Mass. To the immediate right (the view-
er’s left) of the Mass of Saint Gregory, two devils mimic two women gossip-
ing in church...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
...
women and literate servants as well as masters.”7 As others have cautioned,
just because a book looks socially aspirational — as this one certainly does,
for example, in its presentation of the “properteys [qualities] that longythe
to a yonge gentylleman” (fol. 55r) — does not mean a member...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 199–216.
Published: 01 January 2017
...
6. Northern worlds
7. Gender and works of women
8. Science and medicine
9. Biblical imagination
10. Authorship and textuality
11. Drama on stage and page
12. Architectural space
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47:1, January...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 395–420.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Julie Orlemanski When the men and women of late medieval Britain began to read and produce medical writings on a scale unprecedented in earlier centuries, they faced the problem of jargon—that is, how to negotiate the interface between knowledge and nonsense in their literate practices...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 413–430.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Editions: Renaissance. New York: W. W. Norton,
xxi, pp.; illus. Paper [English verse translations.]
Kowalchuk, Kristine, ed. Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth- Century English-
women’s Receipt Books. Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto: Uni-
versity of Toronto Press, xvi, pp.; illus...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of Chicago Press, 2001). 4 Rita Voltmer, “The Witch in the Courtroom: Torture and the Representations of Emotion,” in Emotions in the History of Witchcraft , ed. Laura Kounine and Michael Ostling (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 97–115, at 105. 5 Ulinka Rublack, The Crimes of Women...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 377–402.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and Gillespie consider mother- hood a source of political authority. The mother redeems herself through the creation of male children, thus countering the erasure of women in the political hierarchy. 20 Though the Bible speaks in terms of replacing anguish with joy, certainly not with liberal political agency...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., but now, “too old” [troppo attem-
pato] (5.24), at a time when “the first gray hairs appear and when desire
normally cools” or “starts to cease” (1.3), he finds himself in his mid for-
ties (1.10) unexpectedly experiencing a reinvigorated appetite for women and
lusts after Vittoria, an attractive...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2008
... women (and most men,
for that matter) never engaged directly in politics (in the narrow sense of
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:3, Fall 2008
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 227–260.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Nicole D. Smith A Christian Mannes Bileeve is a little-known Middle English commentary on the Apostles’ Creed that was read by women religious to learn ecclesiastical doctrine. It presents, in a unique way, the figure of the thinking heart to reconcile the gendered binaries of Latin and vernacular...
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