...Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This volume explores new ways of understanding medieval and early modern conceptualizations of nature in light of current developments in critical animal studies, ecocriticism, new materialism, as well as our expanding knowledge of premodern...

...Nicolette Zeeman The use of debate in Piers Plowman and Dives and Pauper is a response to a long-standing conversionary challenge faced by pastoral carers: the social and psychological variety of the flock—“lay multiplicity.” Dives and Pauper represents this in the huge spectrum of Dives' questions...

...John T. R. Terry; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Modern scholarship on early medieval views of nature tends to rely too heavily on binary interpretations of positive and negative representations. This article uses an early ninth-century Anglo-Latin poem, Æthelwulf’s De abbatibus (“On the abbots...

...Miranda Griffin; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Across a range of medieval French texts—from the genres of romance, lai , and hagiography—scenes are found involving the discovery and scrutiny of a puzzling, hairy entity that cannot speak for itself, existing outside the confines of human civilization...

...Mary Franklin-Brown; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Alone among the French romances of Alexander the Great penned in the twelfth century, Thomas de Kent’s Roman de toute chevalerie reproduces the story of Alexander’s illegitimate birth from the principal Latin source. According to this account...

...Raphaële Garrod; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This essay historicizes Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the “animal outside” as ingenuity by exploring early modern French polemics stemming from the humanist reception of the Machiavellian simile stating that the prince should deploy both the lion’s...

...Laura Sumrall; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Confronted with the possibility of demonic illness, the physician Johann Weyer (d. 1588) writes that the physician’s work ends and the priest’s work begins when the “evil” of an illness “surpasses natural limits.” This limit, delineating the domain...

...Maaike van der Lugt; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Medieval discussions about breastfeeding were saturated with moral and social meanings and arguments about how a good mother should behave and what makes for a happy, healthy baby. At the center was the question of who should breastfeed, the mother...

...Alice Lamy; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman The medieval Latin West has a long tradition of cosmological writings that stress the difficulty of conceptualizing nature as a single totality. “Nature” is subject to multiple definitions, torn between the sensory and the intelligible. “Nature” involves...

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...Kellie Robertson; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Late medieval writers were enamored with metaphors of scale for imagining mankind in relation to the rest of the created world. This article takes the minor mundus — the idea of the human as a “lesser world” patterned after the greater, cosmic one...

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... or the catastrophe (“suffering with”) enacted by creation. In addition, by portraying the Crucifixion as generating an ecological catastrophe, Christ III extends and questions a current critical understanding of nature. Kay and Zeeman articulate this understanding: “[N]ature is . . . cut through...

... sense reflects the Christian conception of usus as a form of salutary difficulty. Zeeman gives Augustine as an example of this tradition, as his term usus is associated with labor and exercitium , and reflects a general consensus in medieval pedagogy that “acquiring understanding is usually seen...

... into the dark. As Nicolette Zeeman writes, The idol refuses to be read as part of a larger sign system, drawing attention only to itself and its own malleable materiality. 11 It is this capacity of the idol to scramble the devotional signal that makes it threaten- ing. In failing to direct worship to God...

... Edited by Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman Volume 49 / Number 3 / September 2019 Current developments in critical animal studies, ecology, and material his- tory and the expanding frontiers of our knowledge of premodern philoso- phy, science, and encyclopedism mean that ideas about “nature...

...: March 1, 2018 Versions of the Natural from Antiquity to Early Modernity Edited by Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman Volume 49 / Number 3 / September 2019 Current developments in critical animal studies, ecology, and material his- tory and the expanding frontiers of our knowledge of premodern...

... culture. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2018 658  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.3 / 2017 Versions of the Natural from Antiquity to Early Modernity Edited by Sarah Kay and Nicolette Zeeman Volume 49 / Number 3 / September 2019 Current developments...

... or pedagogic manner. Nicolette Zeeman speaks of the “porous boundaries” that existed “between externalized and internalized dialogue”—a porosity, I would argue, that also pertains to the text-internal and text-external boundaries of characters, narrators, and authors. 25 The “speaking figure” in a debate...

..., 1942), 280. On Kynde, see Nicolette Zeeman, “Piers Plowman” and the Medieval Discourse of Desire (Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity Press, 2006), 157  –  244. 17 One could also contrast the moat of mercy that Piers had envisaged when still in his old plow (VII.233...