Diane Watt. D.S., Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England

the field of medieval history has produced several hundred, if not thousands of volumes on kingship in the Middle Ages. Students of medieval studies are well acquainted with much of this literature, particularly that sparked by Ernst Kantorowicz' s historiographical game changer, The King's Two Bodies (1957). Katherine Lewis's innovative study of the monarchy and masculinity of Henry V (r.1413-...

Images of God and Self in the Lives of Late Medieval Catholic Women Mystics

Going native, becoming German: Isotopes and identities in late Roman and early medieval England

Perhaps not surprisingly in a world menaced by climate change, catastrophic explanations for the origins of the English have re-emerged. However, analyses of the biological make-up of those who were there in the fifth and sixth centuries reveals the persistence of choice, knowledge and adaptability as key characteristics of humanity. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2010) 1...

Righteousness of God and Man in the Prophets

""""'\e righteousness of God" is an ..I. important theme in the Old and New Testaments about which there is great debate. l It is concerned with the way lost men and women can be right with God (Cars on 1992).2 Throughout the history of the church scholars have articulated various positions of the righteousness of God or justification. The topic is related to the law, Jewish and Christian relat...

Casebooks in Early Modern England:

Casebooks are the richest sources that we have for encounters between early modern medical practitioners and their patients. This article compares astrological and medical records across two centuries, focused on England, and charts developments in the ways in which practitioners kept records and reflected on their practices. Astrologers had a long history of working from particular moments, st...