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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Late Medieval England."”.
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The Trade of Agricultural Horses in Late Medieval England
This thesis explores how the medieval English economy was supplied with horse power during the period of 1250-1349. The diffusion of horse power is recognised to have been a major factor in the development of the medieval English economy, increasing labour productivity in farming and the efficiency …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
<p>This project examines the medieval practice of the sacrament of penance and the innovative ways in which medieval literature engaged with the pastoral project of the Catholic church to provide the penitent with a way to deal with sin. Drawing from medieval literature, religious writing and …
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The Experience of Listening to Sermons in Late Medieval England
Traditional scholarship on medieval sermons has approached them as delivered to the laity, rather than as experienced by them. In the well-trodden field of sermon studies, there has been an underlying assumption that the success or popularity of a sermon was chiefly determined by the rhetorical …
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Bodies of Parchment: Representing the Passion and Reading Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
<p>In a diverse range of late-fourteenth- and fifteenth-century devotional literature, Christ's body is metaphorically related to a book or a document at the moment of his crucifixion. His skin transforms into parchment, whips and scourges become pens, and a steady flow of blood, of ink, covers his …
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Vernacular literacy in late-medieval England: the example of East Anglian medical manuscripts
… is an examination of vernacular literacy in late-medieval East Anglia, using the evidence supplied by English medical texts datable to between 1350-1500- It addresses not only the texts, but also the manuscripts in which they survive and the people who wrote, owned and read them. By this …
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Inventing Idiocy: Law, Land And The Construction Of Intellectual Disability In Late Medieval England
During the late thirteenth century the English Crown claimed the right to take the lands of so-called idiots into its possession, and developed a set of juridical practices to assess whether these individuals were mentally competent enough to rule themselves and their property. This dissertation …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
Histories of medieval astronomy have brought to light a rich textual tradition, of treatises and tables composed and computed, transmitted and translated across Europe and beyond. These have been supplemented by fruitful inquiry into the material culture of astronomy, especially the instruments …
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Bottoms Up! John of Arderne and the Interest in Surgical Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
… specifically at a corpus of manuscripts on medieval anal fistulas, the following thesis seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge of medieval manuscripts to uncover the various people who made up surgical readership in later medieval England. In doing this, I hope to demonstrate the importance …
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Not the Simplest Christians: Vernacular Charming and The Limits of Orthodox Practice in Late Medieval England
… of the Church, part of either ‘the magic of the medieval church’ or as another element of the ‘multifaceted resonant symbolic house’ of medieval religion. Charms were an expression of the core mysteries of medieval religion. Even if they might technically be unorthodox, it could be excused as …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… manuscripts used in an educational context in late medieval England, listed with their contents in the Appendix, suggest the identification of seven literary works that appear to have been taught most often: Disticha Catonis, Stans puer ad mensam, Cartula, Peniteas cito, Facetus, Liber …
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Modes of Manuscript Book Production in Late Medieval England with special reference to British Library, Harley MS 3810/I and Related Manuscripts
… and this study examines the wider landscape of late medieval English manuscript culture to situate Harley 3810/I within a more specific production context. This study explores three broad modes of book production during this period and provides evidence that the scribe of Harley 3810/I was …
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"She should have more if she were ruled and guided by them" : Elizabeth Woodville and Margery Kempe, female agency in Late Medieval England.
… that while patriarchy was certainly present in England during the late medieval period, women of the middle and upper classes were able to exercise agency to a certain degree through using both the patriarchal bargain and an economy of makeshifts. While the methods used by women differed due to …
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"Sed rudibus et indoctis" : women, orthodoxy, and the Rosebery Rolle Manuscript.
… readers of the growing devotional movement in late medieval England. Furthermore, by contextualizing Rolle's work within this devotional movement, as well as by examining the themes and reception history of his texts, this study argues that Rolle was not a precursor to the Lollard movement. He …
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Margery's Reading Communities: Literacy and Devotion in The Book of Margery Kempe
… literacy, this paper shows how literacy in late medieval England was a process of negotiation, meaning it was not merely the skill of reading from a written page but a collaborative process. Literacy brings Margery into closer relationship with clerics and has multiple dimensions. Thus …
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… relationship to the idea of the moral self in late medieval England. Late medieval English writers often identified intention, as opposed to action, as the site of moral identity. Drawing on medieval legal distinctions between intended and unintended wrongdoings, penitential and confessional …
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