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Liam Lewis
Summary: This article examines the representation of nonhuman perception and perspective through the study of sound milieus in The Middle English Physiologus.
EXEMPLARIA-MEDIEVAL EARLY MODERN THEORY
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
N. H. Keeble
Summary: This essay examines Richard Baxter's significant contribution to the development of the English lexicon, demonstrating his creation of over 200 words and first-time usage of another 100 words. His focus on semantic accuracy and lexical inventiveness reflects the general preoccupation with denotative precision during that period.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Elzbieta Witkowska-Zaremba
Summary: This article discusses the passages cited by Jacobus from Johannes de Muris's Musica speculativa in the seventh book of his Speculum musicae, and examines them in the context of the rich manuscript tradition of the Musica speculativa. By comparing variant readings in Jacobus's manuscript to French manuscripts transmitting versions A and B of Musica speculativa, the author establishes which version was the source for Jacobus's citations and provides new evidence for dating Muris's other treatises.
PLAINSONG & MEDIEVAL MUSIC
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Katie Ebner-Landy
Summary: Theophrastus' Characters, a collection of thirty short sketches of Athenian men defined by specific vices, gained popularity in sixteenth-century Europe with its sixteen editions. Editors believed that these sketches could teach readers how to behave, and this article uncovers three arguments used by these editors to defend this idea. Additionally, it explores an alternative approach to understanding the relationship between ethics and literature by examining Theophrastus' sketches.
RENAISSANCE STUDIES
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Literature, British Isles
Namratha Rao
Summary: This essay discusses allegory and thinking in The Faerie Queene. The author challenges the traditional interpretation that sees allegory as a violent form of classification, instead proposing that allegory is a narrative figuration characterized by the mutual conditioning and reciprocal interplay of its poles. The author offers new readings of three well-known gardens in the poem, showing how they express the entanglement and movement between concept and experience. These readings critique the unyielding abstractions of the martial visitors and invite a different kind of thinking, which offers hope for a possible solidarity between constitutive contradictions.
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
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Literature, British Isles
Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
John Denton
Summary: This article discusses the contribution of the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer to the development of the English language, arguing that this contribution deserves more critical scrutiny. The text highlights the challenges and resistance faced by these texts when they were first introduced, and suggests that their status as 'timeless classics' was established in the 19th century.
JOURNAL OF EARLY MODERN STUDIES
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Monica Santangelo
Summary: This essay, based on unpublished documents, illustrates how noble families associated with the Neapolitan Seggio of Nido occupied urban space between the 14th and 16th centuries. The strategies employed in constructing and reproducing spatial prominence reflected the social distinction and symbolic notions of nobility attributed to the ancient aristocracy of the Seggio during the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
RETI MEDIEVALI RIVISTA
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Ryan Netzley
JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Simon Coupland
Summary: The recent discovery of a large number of Carolingian coins provides significant new insights into the political, social, and economic history of the period. Contrary to previous assumptions, the coins were produced in larger quantities, circulated more widely, and were more commonly used, although not uniformly across all regions. These coin finds are often associated with trade, both long-distance and local. The empire exhibited a high level of political and economic control, but this broke down in the 840s and was only restored in West Francia.
EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE
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Archaeology
Marijke van der Veen
Summary: The end of Roman rule in England and the migration of the Germanic people had a significant impact on populations, settlements, and ways of life. After the decline in farming intensity following the Roman period, arable production increased during the 'long 8th century', accompanied by changes in the cultivation of cereal crops. The period from the 5th to the mid-7th centuries marked a significant change when bread wheat replaced glumewheats-emmer and spelt, leading to transformative effects on agriculture and the lives of those working the land.
MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
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Literature, British Isles
Urvashi Chakravarty
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Paul Stevens
Summary: This essay focuses on the relationship between Milton and Shakespeare, exploring the tension between sola scriptura in reformed religion and the emphasis on imitation in the studia humanitatis. It argues that this tension is central to Milton's thinking and examines his representation of Shakespeare in his works.
RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Fernando Bouza
Summary: This article analyzes the uses of written correspondence during the Spanish Golden Age, highlighting its important role in different spheres of government as a means of circulating news and making decisions. It explores how correspondence connects private and public spaces, and can be used for courtly and political learning, as well as achieving private or family interests.
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(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Leticia Agundez San Miguel
Summary: This paper analyzes the history of the episcopal sees of Oca and Valpuesta located in Cardena and Valpuesta monasteries respectively, and evaluates the bishop's memory preserved in the cartularies in terms of their defense of institutional privileges and role as benefactors to the monasteries.
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Susana Guijarro Gonzalez, Leticia Agundez San Miguel
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Chris Halsted
Summary: This essay argues that the records of the Abodrites, a Slavic people living in present-day northeastern Germany, are not accurate descriptions of historical events, but rather derived from Einhard's Vita Karoli magni to comprehend the changing political landscape. The tenth-century Abodrites had significantly less political power and controlled a smaller territory compared to their ninth-century predecessors or eleventh-century successors.
EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Alexandre M. Roberts
Summary: This article examines a text in a late Byzantine Greek script, but in a language other than Greek, that can be correlated with Arabic technical vocabulary, most likely Turkish or Persian.
BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Nicholas Evans
Summary: Recent scholarship questions the importance of Pictish identity, suggesting that it was an external label adopted internally in the late seventh century. This article reviews references to Picti in late antique and Insular sources and proposes that the term was adopted in northern Britain by the end of the Roman period and maintained through the usage of Latin. The concept of Picti was used by the kings of Fortriu in the late seventh century because it was already known and significant, although it was not the only ethnic identity in the region.
JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY
(2022)
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Archaeology
Lesley Milner
Summary: This article discusses why the chapter would purchase a seal matrix when they already had a common seal, and reveals the rediscovery in 2018 of the original 12th-century silver matrix of the seal of the chapter of Lincoln Cathedral.
JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
(2022)
