Jessica Brantley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5965490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Brantley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Brantley |
| SIGNATURE | BRANTLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Material History of the Bible
The Art of Allusion
The Provocations of Orthodoxy
Theologically conventional, books of hours nonetheless participate in cultures of formal and aesthetic experimentation that we would, under other circumstances, call literary. This article explores those provocations by examining the intersections of devotional and literary reading cultures visible in John Lydgate’s “Fifteen Joys of Our Lady,” a small poem that appears in a variety of manuscript contexts. One of these is a book of hours, British …
Beyond Words
Reviewed by: Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections by Jeffrey F. Hamburger et al., and: Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections eds. by Jeffrey F. Hamburger et al. Jessica Brantley Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exhibition at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (12 September–10 December 2016); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College (12 September–11 December 2016); and th…
In Things”
A hybrid of letters and pictures arranged to signify a sentence or phrase, the rebus transforms objects into ideas more explicitly than any other kind of communicative system. Its fundamental mechanism of representation enacts a connection between words and things and evokes the ways in which ideas, when inscribed in letters, are necessarily grounded in physical reality. Although the rebus is usually considered a light and popular form, its playf…
Middle English Drama Beyond the Cycle Plays
The study of Middle English drama has long been dominated by discussion of the cycle plays, the sweeping multi‐part pageants of biblical history that were performed yearly in cities such as York. But those cycle plays form only part of a complicated and rich culture of performance in late‐medieval England. This essay seeks to provide a sense of the variety of that culture, attesting to the breadth of medieval English drama in play texts such as M…
Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse
Mankind in a Year without Kings
Research Article| May 01 2006 Mankind in a Year without Kings Jessica Brantley; Jessica Brantley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thomas Fulton Thomas Fulton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 321–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2005-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation…
A Message to Our Readers
Introduction
Translation, the Romantic theorist Friedrich Schlegel declared, always loses one aspect of the original: its best part. Ever more visceral, his contemporary Goethe remarked that the translator was like a zealous intermediary who sings the praises of a beautiful, veiled body: his words increase our desire for the hidden original. These remarks suggest the rhetoric of loss, desire, and mediation that has attended translation since antiquity. Whethe…
The iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell
The Old English Descent into Hell fits uneasily into the poetic corpus remaining to us from Anglo-Saxon England. The poem is an oddity both thematically and genetically, and (insofar as it has attracted any attention at all) the history of its criticism has been an unrewarding search for sources. The Descent presents a sourcing problem at its most basic, for its parts are so disparate that it is difficult even to construct a horizon of expectatio…
Mankind in a Year without Kings
Research Article| May 01 2006 Mankind in a Year without Kings Jessica Brantley; Jessica Brantley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thomas Fulton Thomas Fulton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 321–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2005-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation…
The iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell
The Old English Descent into Hell fits uneasily into the poetic corpus remaining to us from Anglo-Saxon England. The poem is an oddity both thematically and genetically, and (insofar as it has attracted any attention at all) the history of its criticism has been an unrewarding search for sources. The Descent presents a sourcing problem at its most basic, for its parts are so disparate that it is difficult even to construct a horizon of expectatio…
Introduction
Translation, the Romantic theorist Friedrich Schlegel declared, always loses one aspect of the original: its best part. Ever more visceral, his contemporary Goethe remarked that the translator was like a zealous intermediary who sings the praises of a beautiful, veiled body: his words increase our desire for the hidden original. These remarks suggest the rhetoric of loss, desire, and mediation that has attended translation since antiquity. Whethe…
A Message to Our Readers
Mankind in a Year without Kings
Research Article| May 01 2006 Mankind in a Year without Kings Jessica Brantley; Jessica Brantley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thomas Fulton Thomas Fulton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 321–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2005-004 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation…
Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse
Middle English Drama Beyond the Cycle Plays
The study of Middle English drama has long been dominated by discussion of the cycle plays, the sweeping multi‐part pageants of biblical history that were performed yearly in cities such as York. But those cycle plays form only part of a complicated and rich culture of performance in late‐medieval England. This essay seeks to provide a sense of the variety of that culture, attesting to the breadth of medieval English drama in play texts such as M…
In Things”
A hybrid of letters and pictures arranged to signify a sentence or phrase, the rebus transforms objects into ideas more explicitly than any other kind of communicative system. Its fundamental mechanism of representation enacts a connection between words and things and evokes the ways in which ideas, when inscribed in letters, are necessarily grounded in physical reality. Although the rebus is usually considered a light and popular form, its playf…
Beyond Words
Reviewed by: Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections by Jeffrey F. Hamburger et al., and: Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections eds. by Jeffrey F. Hamburger et al. Jessica Brantley Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exhibition at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (12 September–10 December 2016); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College (12 September–11 December 2016); and th…
The Provocations of Orthodoxy
Theologically conventional, books of hours nonetheless participate in cultures of formal and aesthetic experimentation that we would, under other circumstances, call literary. This article explores those provocations by examining the intersections of devotional and literary reading cultures visible in John Lydgate’s “Fifteen Joys of Our Lady,” a small poem that appears in a variety of manuscript contexts. One of these is a book of hours, British …
The Art of Allusion
A Material History of the Bible
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