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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Andrei S. Usachev
Summary: The article discusses the biography of Ryazan Bishop Iona from 1522 to 1547. It is suggested that he may have been born in Vladimir or its region and joined the Nikolskii Volosov Monastery at a young age. He became the abbot of the monastery in 1511 and established connections with church representatives and political elite in Moscow. In 1517, he became the archimandrite of Iuriev Monastery in Novgorod and later became the Ryazan bishop after the annexation of Ryazan in 1522. He played a significant role in the administrative management of the Russian church during Ivan IV's childhood.
DREVNYAYA RUS-VOPROSY MEDIEVISTIKI
(2022)
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Literature, Romance
Francisco Vazquez Manzano
Summary: This article proposes an alternative way to understand the subject through an analysis of Gracian's thought and his reflection on the notion of "genio comun de las naciones". The hypothesis put forth is that an individual's own genius is inherently linked to a communal genius, with the particular genius being a manifestation of this communal basis. Furthermore, the article explores a trans-individual perspective of both subject and culture based on the community foundation, emphasizing the relevance of Baroque thought in modern times.
HIPOGRIFO-REVISTA DE LITERATURA Y CULTURA DEL SIGLO DE ORO
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
J. Antoni Iglesias-Fonseca
Summary: This article presents a Bible fragment in Catalan from the late 14th century, which is kept in Caldes de Montbui's Parish Archive. The fragment is part of a notarial book from the early 17th century and contains commentary on Acts 13-15. The article provides information on the identification, location, as well as codicological and palaeographic characteristics of the fragment, contributing to the Corpus Biblicum Catalanicum.
MAGNIFICAT CULTURA I LITERATURA MEDIEVALS
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Allison D. D. Fizzard
Summary: This article reveals new knowledge about food habits in late medieval and early sixteenth-century England and Wales by analyzing overlooked retirement agreements known as corrodies. These agreements were made between religious houses and individuals or married couples, and the corrody texts, found in records from the Court of Augmentations, provide valuable insights into consumption patterns, particularly beverages and foodstuffs, during the first four decades of the sixteenth century. People from various social backgrounds displayed careful consumer behavior in securing their preferred foods for their retirement years. These late retirement arrangements show a shift in food entitlements towards more specific provisions, reflecting larger food trends of the time such as a move away from pottage and a desire for meat and animal-derived foods.
JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY
(2023)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Angus Haldane
Summary: Robert Walker was a successful portrait painter who mainly painted Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarian elite. While his work often focused on portraying his male sitters with military grandiosity, his marriage portrait pair of Colonel Hutchinson and his wife, Lucy, showed depth, composition, and humanity not seen in his other works. He might have been inspired by Colonel Hutchinson's connoisseurial tastes and Lucy Hutchinson's literary talents and decency. These portraits offer a unique glimpse into the lives of a happily married couple who were also art collectors, and offer a more complex understanding of Walker as an artist who was more than just a painter of men in armor.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
(2023)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Kirsty Day
Summary: This article examines how Pope Innocent III and his curia used emotions to communicate the supreme authority of the pope through a gendered order of knowledge and feeling in letters. It analyzes how Innocent interpreted sorrowful emotions as feminine and a threat to papal primacy, highlighting the exclusion of women and femininity in spiritual authority. By understanding this, we can gain insights into how the practice of emotion shaped hegemonic masculine power in the Middle Ages.
JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY
(2023)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Brian Smith
Summary: This paper discusses how a specific form of servitude was valorized in devotional literature and servant manuals in seventeenth-century England due to the transformations of the working class. The paper argues that by embodying the will of their masters, servants were considered free, while resisting their master's will made them resemble racialized slaves. This construction of an idealized servitude was utilized to create a pliable and obedient working class in England, encouraging servants to accept their station and perform Christian liberty.
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
(2023)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Eric Dursteler
Summary: This article examines the active participation of women in the multilingual environment of the early modern Mediterranean. They were not merely marginalized outsiders, but rather overcame language differences through the development of communication strategies and techniques in trade, travel, work, diplomatic, and domestic settings.
RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Susanne Meurer
Summary: Writing manuals encourage viewer participation by illustrating the formation of letters and the mechanical production of handwritten lines. Neudorffer's manual not only teaches the formation of beautiful written lines, but also trains contemporaries to appreciate linear aesthetics in figurative art.
RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
Jennifer Goodman Wollock
Summary: This article provides an account of the creative project option in English 330 at Texas A&M University, discussing its use and the philosophical and educational principles behind it.
Article
Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Gabrielle Storey
Summary: This article investigates the representations of two queens on screen, and considers the impact of the aspects of their lives that have not been presented on screens on our understanding of queenship in the Middle Ages.
Article
Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Sundar Henny, Zur Shalev
Summary: This article explores the ways in which pilgrimage was integrated into the culture of the early modern period. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates the continuation of pilgrimage practices while engaging with contemporary religious and intellectual trends.
RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
William Caferro
Summary: The essay uses archival sources to explore the economic and political significance of Florentine city leagues during the 14th century. It argues that these leagues provide valuable evidence about the military, economic, and political organization of Florence and Italy.
SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Monica H. Green
Summary: The field of infectious disease history has undergone a transformation in the past decade, largely due to developments in adjacent fields, especially genetics. The medieval period has been particularly important for this research, as it provides the earliest genomes of bacterial and viral pathogens and a wealth of surviving archival evidence. This essay introduces the transformative work in molecular biology that has allowed the reconstruction of the evolutionary histories of pathogens and emphasizes the importance of understanding the plague as a model for thinking about pandemics.
Article
Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Manuel Llano, Dirk van Miert
RENAISSANCE STUDIES
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Catherine Brown
Summary: Manuscripts hold significance in the digital age, serving as a reminder that the origins of digits stem from flesh and blood rather than just zeros and ones. The illuminated codices of early medieval Latin Iberia offer valuable insights for studying digital media, mediation, and textual mobility.
JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL IBERIAN STUDIES
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
V. M. Braganza
Summary: This essay reinterprets Lady Mary Wroth's cryptic monogram and its relationship with her works. The discovery of the first printed book from her personal library is used as evidence to revise past readings of the monogram. The essay also identifies Wroth's bookbinder and suggests a possible origin for the Cyropaedia.
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
(2022)
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Literature, British Isles
Hannah Louise Bower
Summary: This article explores the representation of political spectacle in Chaucer's Squire's Tale, and highlights the relationship between spectacle as an enacted event and a commemorative poetic narrative. It argues that both texts reflect on the risks and opportunities of the translation process, and how it affects the preservation and generation of wonder, enigma, and authority.
Article
Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Cinthia Maria Hamlin, Ludmila Grasso
Summary: This paper studies two Castilian ante mayor poems in Les trobes en lahors de la Verge Maria and provides an analysis of the prosody and linguistic interference. A new critical edition of the poems is also published.
REVISTA DE CANCIONEROS IMPRESOS Y MANUSCRITOS
(2022)
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Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Lluis Sales Fava
Summary: This article focuses on the decline of honey trade in the Crown of Aragon during the period of 1440-1570. Through the analysis of fiscal sources, it examines the main supplying regions, actors involved, and transportation methods in the honey market.
JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL IBERIAN STUDIES
(2022)
