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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916950
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In 1974, at St. Ambrose University in Iowa, Ritamary Bradley (with Valerie Lagorio as associate editor) published the first issue of the Fourteenth-Century English Mystics Newsletter. The first issue opens with a note from Bradley. "Dear Colleague," she writes:
I am happy to report to you that there has been a heartening initial response to my inquiry about a proposed newsletter on the fourteenth-century English mystics. Over 300 names and addresses have come in. . . . This seems to be the moment in history especially appropriate for a group to gather around these purposes. An impulse for the revival of the study of mysticism has permeated medieval circles throughout the world. This revival has spread among people
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallFifty Years of the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures2024-01-09text/htmlen-USFifty Years of the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®255582024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Functions of Miraculous Healing in the Two Lives of St. Colette of Corbie (1381–1447)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916951
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Why would St. Colette of Corbie give prechewed bread or absinthe to a sister? Why would she fill her mouth with water and spray it in a sister's face? For anyone who has read a saint's life the answer is clear: to heal an ailing human being. Living saints provide an especially interesting source for healing miracles since, in general, the cases are more varied and livelier than the thousands of miracles we find in canonization records. For the medieval period the major sources for healing miracles are the records kept at various shrines and pilgrimage sites as well as witness statements at canonization trials. But saints' Lives also provide some information, both as narratives of a living saint performing miracles
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallFunctions of Miraculous Healing in the Two Lives of St. Colette of Corbie (1381–1447)2024-01-09text/htmlen-USFunctions of Miraculous Healing in the Two Lives of St. Colette of Corbie (1381–1447)2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®1356302024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Christ as Charioteer: An Expanded Image in Early Armenian Literature
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916952
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The study of Armenian reception, transmission, and expansion of interpreted traditions compels us to begin with their earlier history, prior to their amplification by medieval exegetes. The image of Christ as charioteer is a case in point that calls for a brief, diachronic survey of its biblical and para-biblical background, through the Hellenized Jewish interpretive tradition and the Christophanic exegesis of the Early Church fathers. While in the received tradition the divine warrior is usually a heaven-bound charioteer, in early Armenian literature, as we shall see, an inverted image emerges: a descending charioteer who comes to console his oppressed people, thus fulfilling an apocalyptic expectation. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallChrist as Charioteer: An Expanded Image in Early Armenian Literature2024-01-09text/htmlen-USChrist as Charioteer: An Expanded Image in Early Armenian Literature2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®1629212024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Consent and Mystical Marriage in the Late Middle English Prose Life of St. Katherine and John Capgrave's The Life of St. Katherine
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916953
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Few hagiographical motifs captured the late medieval cultural imagination more than the idea of the female saint as "Bride of Christ." A significant body of scholarship has been devoted to the representation of this subject in art and literature. Many studies emphasize the affective and exemplary function that bridal imagery might have served for female readers, detailing the ways in which medieval women attempted to emulate or imaginatively identify with this model in their devotional lives. Two assumptions often underlie this perspective: that spiritually minded medieval women universally idealized and desired marriage to Christ, and that the (primarily male)authors of hagiography condoned this desire as an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallConsent and Mystical Marriage in the Late Middle English Prose Life of St. Katherine and John Capgrave's The Life of St. Katherine2024-01-09text/htmlen-USConsent and Mystical Marriage in the Late Middle English Prose Life of St. Katherine and John Capgrave's The Life of St. Katherine2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®1105922024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Seeing People and Seeing God: Rethinking the Active and Contemplative Lives in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916954
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Thomas Malory's late fifteenth-century work the Morte Darthur often calls attention to sight: Alice and Alisaunder fall in love upon seeing each other's faces; Lancelot travels in disguise, but everyone who sees him guesses his identity; Elayne of Ascolat leaves instructions to put her corpse on display by floating it down the river to Camelot. Through looks, Malory's characters express deep intimacies, unfulfilled desires, and profound secrets that may never be spoken, and sight often functions like touch—a way of making contact and coming into relation. Malory's preoccupation with homo-social relations among knights has long been established: Derek Brewer has pointed out Malory's "absolutely passionate feeling
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallSeeing People and Seeing God: Rethinking the Active and Contemplative Lives in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur2024-01-09text/htmlen-USSeeing People and Seeing God: Rethinking the Active and Contemplative Lives in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®1141242024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Sonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England by Tekla Bude (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916955
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Since the turn of the millennium, the research field of medieval sound studies has attracted the lively attention of scholars of literature, history, art, music, religion, and more, and assembled a bibliography nearly as eclectic and interdisciplinary as the field of medieval studies itself. Roughly defined, medieval sound studies seeks to investigate embodied medieval sounding and hearing practices, medieval hearers' lived experiences in aural environments, medieval sound's discursive and cultural contexts, and the representation and transmission of sonic meaning through historical archives. Because it centers the distinctive meaning-making of one region of the sensorial plenum, medieval sound studies has long
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallSonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England by Tekla Bude (review)2024-01-09text/htmlen-USSonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England by Tekla Bude (review)2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®198332024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Jewish Women in the Medieval World, 500–1500 CE by Sarah Ifft Decker (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916956
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Sarah Ifft Decker's Jewish Women in the Medieval World, 500–1500 is a fantastic new resource for students, teachers, and those new to the history of medieval Jewish communities. True to the aims of Routledge's Seminar Studies series, this slim volume—affordable at $37.56 in paperback and eBook—offers an erudite introduction not only to medieval Jewish women but also to Judaism in the medieval world, all in a style wholly accessible to those with little to no previous knowledge of the topics. Structured in three sections (Introduction, Analysis, Assessment) in a total of ten short chapters, the book also includes a helpful chronology of historical persons and events, an annotated "who's who" list of important
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallJewish Women in the Medieval World, 500–1500 CE by Sarah Ifft Decker (review)2024-01-09text/htmlen-USJewish Women in the Medieval World, 500–1500 CE by Sarah Ifft Decker (review)2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®125732024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts by Kathryn Maude (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916957
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In this neatly crafted and closely argued monograph, Kathryn Maude examines women's literary culture between the tenth and twelfth centuries. Focusing primarily on England, with some reference to Scotland, Maude argues that the paucity of evidence regarding female authors should not be interpreted as indicating that women were inactive in the literary cultures of the period. On the contrary, Maude suggests that extant texts addressed to, commissioned by, and written about women have a great deal to tell us about how they understood themselves and their position in the world; as she puts it, "Women's involvement in medieval literary production cannot be contained within a traditional single-author model" (4).
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallAddressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts by Kathryn Maude (review)2024-01-09text/htmlen-USAddressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts by Kathryn Maude (review)2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®81522024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100–c. 1530 by Denis Renevey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916958
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For more than two decades, Denis Renevey has been tracing the various uses of—and forms of devotion to—the Holy Name of Jesus in the religious literature of later medieval England.1 Elaborating on the biblical notion that the Name itself should be reverenced (cf. especially Phil. 2.10: "At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow"), later medieval writers treated the Name as a mantra-like focus of meditation and prayer, as a kind of spiritual medicine, and as a textual object to be approached with dread and love. "Jesus" or "Iħs" was thus at once "a linguistic or visual sign" and "a devotional tool triggering affective responses," and even, in some cases, Renevey suggests, "allowing access to an imageless apophatic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallDevotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100–c. 1530 by Denis Renevey (review)2024-01-09text/htmlen-USDevotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100–c. 1530 by Denis Renevey (review)2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®157792024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Wisdom's Journey: Continental Mysticism and Popular Devotion in England, 1350–1650 by Steven Rozenski (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916959
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Wisdom's Journey by Steven Rozenski contributes to the subdiscipline of "social history of religious literature" (209) by looking at translations in medieval and early modern English of three continental religious authors, Henry Suso, Catherine of Siena, and Thomas à Kempis. The introduction contends that an appreciation of texts of devotional theology as popular literature has significant bearing on the way in which the canon of medieval English literature is conceived. While the latter has been considerably reassessed after several decades of work on Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, the examination by Rozenski of the importance of translated texts over three centuries challenges the canon from an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallWisdom's Journey: Continental Mysticism and Popular Devotion in England, 1350–1650 by Steven Rozenski (review)2024-01-09text/htmlen-USWisdom's Journey: Continental Mysticism and Popular Devotion in England, 1350–1650 by Steven Rozenski (review)2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®109992024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900–1550: Between Two Oceans by Kirsi Salonen and Kurt Villads Jensen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916960
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How to cover centuries of medieval life, habits, and events in Scandinavia, with illustrations and maps, and all this very comprehensively, but in just 300 pages? With elegance, when done by two professors of medieval history, Kirsi Salonen from the University of Bergen, Norway and Kurt Villads Jensen from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Their recent book, Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900—1550: Between Two Oceans (2023), is a real treasure for every medievalist. It is a general and well-structured medieval history and archaeology handbook for students and scholars alike.Although the tripartite structure of the book—Formation (chapter 1), Consolidation and Restructuring (chapter 2), and Power in Crisis
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/484/image/coversmallScandinavia in the Middle Ages 900–1550: Between Two Oceans by Kirsi Salonen and Kurt Villads Jensen (review)2024-01-09text/htmlen-USScandinavia in the Middle Ages 900–1550: Between Two Oceans by Kirsi Salonen and Kurt Villads Jensen (review)2024-01-092024TWOProject MUSE®92132024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-09