Isabel Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabel Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1055-523X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking the Legacies of Marian Maternity
Annunciation and Intuition
Love, wind eggs, and mere conceptions
considering for the first time its interest in non-generative conception. Further, it considers the way that Harvey entangles observations about erotic and maternal love in his discussions of the conceiving body. Love provides a context which Harvey reads for information about conception. But, for Harvey, conception and generation are not synonymous. Conceptions can be without as well as with a foetus, and Harvey is at least as interested in non-…
The Experimental Conception Hospital
The Experimental Conception Hospital is a fictional laboratory described in a note by Robert Lyall on the medical evidence given in the Gardner Peerage dispute (1825-26). This fantasy institution would discover the natural length of human gestation and ascertain from when and what to date conception, calculations which eluded the House of Lords Peerage Committee which heard the case. This article introduces the Gardner case and Lyall's writing ab…
Prosthesis and reformation
This essay considers the Black Rubric, a last minute clarification on kneeling at the sacrament of communion inserted into the second edition of the Book of Common Prayer in 1552, as a textual prosthesis, in the terms laid out by David Wills in his book, Prosthesis. This essay uses Wills’ thesis to emphasise the material format of the Black Rubric as a textual object more than has been the case in prior scholarship. However, at the same time, thi…
Reading Piers Plowman
In a lipstick advert on TV the model, Kate Moss, asks us if we are ‘ready for the Apocalips?’1 The advert hopes to borrow for its product the magnitude associated with The End of Days but, because
Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination
Book synopsis: Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. Treating key medieval English texts and traditions, from romance and exemplum to technical treatises and encyclopedias, the essays in this collection show the subject of skin to be a peculiarly resistant and revealing mode of reading texts, highlighting not the …
The Trinite is our everlasting lover”
This essay is a history of an analogy. It charts a perceived relationship between the Trinity and the conjugal family in Anglo-French lay culture in the later Middle Ages. The association had long been known within theological discussions of the Trinity, antedating the works of St. Augustine, but his disapproving assessment was enduringly to inhibit its use. This essay shows the way that the analogy reemerged in the fourteenth century, bleeding t…
Ye that pasen by pe Weiye
Expressing the Middle English I
This article surveys the rich ways in which Middle English authors used the word I , considering what it can tell us about the medieval conceptualizations of subjectivity. It argues against the idea of a sharp break between medieval and early modern accounts of selfhood, and in favour of a more sensitive understanding of the genres of medieval first‐person writing, suggesting reasons why those genres don't easily correspond to categories of moder…
The Later Medieval English Urban Household
Home is one of the most emotive words in any language but our experience of being at home is historically and culturally specific. This article reviews a range of recent scholarship on the later medieval English urban household in the disciplines of History, Literary criticism and Archaeology. It has been composed collaboratively by the members of the York Medieval Household Research Group. After an introduction tracing the wider context in which…
Love, marriage, and family ties in the later Middle Ages
Prosthesis and reformation
This essay considers the Black Rubric, a last minute clarification on kneeling at the sacrament of communion inserted into the second edition of the Book of Common Prayer in 1552, as a textual prosthesis, in the terms laid out by David Wills in his book, Prosthesis. This essay uses Wills’ thesis to emphasise the material format of the Black Rubric as a textual object more than has been the case in prior scholarship. However, at the same time, thi…
Love, marriage, and family ties in the later Middle Ages
The Later Medieval English Urban Household
Home is one of the most emotive words in any language but our experience of being at home is historically and culturally specific. This article reviews a range of recent scholarship on the later medieval English urban household in the disciplines of History, Literary criticism and Archaeology. It has been composed collaboratively by the members of the York Medieval Household Research Group. After an introduction tracing the wider context in which…
Expressing the Middle English I
This article surveys the rich ways in which Middle English authors used the word I , considering what it can tell us about the medieval conceptualizations of subjectivity. It argues against the idea of a sharp break between medieval and early modern accounts of selfhood, and in favour of a more sensitive understanding of the genres of medieval first‐person writing, suggesting reasons why those genres don't easily correspond to categories of moder…
The Trinite is our everlasting lover”
This essay is a history of an analogy. It charts a perceived relationship between the Trinity and the conjugal family in Anglo-French lay culture in the later Middle Ages. The association had long been known within theological discussions of the Trinity, antedating the works of St. Augustine, but his disapproving assessment was enduringly to inhibit its use. This essay shows the way that the analogy reemerged in the fourteenth century, bleeding t…
Ye that pasen by pe Weiye
Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination
Book synopsis: Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. Treating key medieval English texts and traditions, from romance and exemplum to technical treatises and encyclopedias, the essays in this collection show the subject of skin to be a peculiarly resistant and revealing mode of reading texts, highlighting not the …
Reading Piers Plowman
In a lipstick advert on TV the model, Kate Moss, asks us if we are ‘ready for the Apocalips?’1 The advert hopes to borrow for its product the magnitude associated with The End of Days but, because
Prosthesis and reformation
This essay considers the Black Rubric, a last minute clarification on kneeling at the sacrament of communion inserted into the second edition of the Book of Common Prayer in 1552, as a textual prosthesis, in the terms laid out by David Wills in his book, Prosthesis. This essay uses Wills’ thesis to emphasise the material format of the Black Rubric as a textual object more than has been the case in prior scholarship. However, at the same time, thi…
The Experimental Conception Hospital
The Experimental Conception Hospital is a fictional laboratory described in a note by Robert Lyall on the medical evidence given in the Gardner Peerage dispute (1825-26). This fantasy institution would discover the natural length of human gestation and ascertain from when and what to date conception, calculations which eluded the House of Lords Peerage Committee which heard the case. This article introduces the Gardner case and Lyall's writing ab…
Love, wind eggs, and mere conceptions
considering for the first time its interest in non-generative conception. Further, it considers the way that Harvey entangles observations about erotic and maternal love in his discussions of the conceiving body. Love provides a context which Harvey reads for information about conception. But, for Harvey, conception and generation are not synonymous. Conceptions can be without as well as with a foetus, and Harvey is at least as interested in non-…
Rethinking the Legacies of Marian Maternity
Annunciation and Intuition
History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Medieval Literature and History (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)