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BOOKS by John Jeffries Martin
Yale University Press, 2022
apocalypticism, comparative religion, modernity
EDITED VOLUMES by John Jeffries Martin
Truman State University Press, 2006
SERIES EDITOR: VICES & VIRTUES WITH R. NEWHAUSER by John Jeffries Martin
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS by John Jeffries Martin
Historizing Life-Writing and Ego Documents in Early Modern Europe, eds. James R. Farr and Guido Ruggiero, 2022
Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic, 2020
Republic explores the different aspects of political actions and experiences in late medieval and... more Republic explores the different aspects of political actions and experiences in late medieval and early modern Venice.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness-that which was turned within as that which was turned without-lay dreaming or half awake beneath a common veil. The veil was woven of faith, illusion and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. Man was conscious of himself only as member of a race, people, party, family, or corporation-only through some general category. In Italy this veil first melted into air; an objective treatment and consideration of the state and of all things of this world became possible. The subjective side at the same time asserted itself with corresponding emphasis; man became a spiritual individual, and recognized himself as such. In the same way the Greek had once distinguished himself from the barbarian, and the Arab had felt himself an individual at a time when other Asiatics knew themselves only as members of a race. It will not be difficult to show that this result was due above all to the political circumstances of Italy.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Manuals of jurisprudence in early modern Europe stipulated that the notary record not only the wo... more Manuals of jurisprudence in early modern Europe stipulated that the notary record not only the words but also the grimaces and the screams of the defendant during interrogations under torture. This paper explores these "tortured testimonies" from the Roman Inquisition, problematizes them as historical sources, and offers suggestions about how historians might approach them. The article examines the documents under two lights: (1) in relation to the institutional structures and protocols which gave them their particular form; and (2) in relation to the cultural assumptions that shaped a ritual in which pain was seen as an index of the conscience of the accused.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2015
Introduction to Claudio Povolo, The Novelist and the Archivist: Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed , 2014
Yale University Press, 2022
apocalypticism, comparative religion, modernity
Truman State University Press, 2006
Historizing Life-Writing and Ego Documents in Early Modern Europe, eds. James R. Farr and Guido Ruggiero, 2022
Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic, 2020
Republic explores the different aspects of political actions and experiences in late medieval and... more Republic explores the different aspects of political actions and experiences in late medieval and early modern Venice.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness-that which was turned within as that which was turned without-lay dreaming or half awake beneath a common veil. The veil was woven of faith, illusion and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. Man was conscious of himself only as member of a race, people, party, family, or corporation-only through some general category. In Italy this veil first melted into air; an objective treatment and consideration of the state and of all things of this world became possible. The subjective side at the same time asserted itself with corresponding emphasis; man became a spiritual individual, and recognized himself as such. In the same way the Greek had once distinguished himself from the barbarian, and the Arab had felt himself an individual at a time when other Asiatics knew themselves only as members of a race. It will not be difficult to show that this result was due above all to the political circumstances of Italy.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Manuals of jurisprudence in early modern Europe stipulated that the notary record not only the wo... more Manuals of jurisprudence in early modern Europe stipulated that the notary record not only the words but also the grimaces and the screams of the defendant during interrogations under torture. This paper explores these "tortured testimonies" from the Roman Inquisition, problematizes them as historical sources, and offers suggestions about how historians might approach them. The article examines the documents under two lights: (1) in relation to the institutional structures and protocols which gave them their particular form; and (2) in relation to the cultural assumptions that shaped a ritual in which pain was seen as an index of the conscience of the accused.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2015
Introduction to Claudio Povolo, The Novelist and the Archivist: Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed , 2014
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession-both juridical and ecclesiastical-with skeptic... more Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession-both juridical and ecclesiastical-with skepticism. Confession, Montaigne believed, forced a mode of self-representation onto the speaker that was inevitably distorting. Repentance, moreover, made claims about self-transformation that Montaigne found improbable. This article traces these themes in the context of Montaigne's Essays, with particular attention to "On Some Verses of Virgil" and argues that, for Montaigne, a primary concern was finding a means of describing a self that he refused to reduce, as had Augustine and many other writers before and after him, to the homo interior.
Martin believes that the evidence suggests that the hierarchies in higher education are irreparab... more Martin believes that the evidence suggests that the hierarchies in higher education are irreparably flawed, if not hypocritical. Not only does the meaning of a particular title vary enormously among colleges and universities, but the system is flawed within most institutions as well.
The Renaissance World, 2015
Religions, 2012
Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession-both juridical and ecclesiastical-with skeptic... more Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession-both juridical and ecclesiastical-with skepticism. Confession, Montaigne believed, forced a mode of self-representation onto the speaker that was inevitably distorting. Repentance, moreover, made claims about self-transformation that Montaigne found improbable. This article traces these themes in the context of Montaigne's Essays, with particular attention to-On Some Verses of Virgil‖ and argues that, for Montaigne, a primary concern was finding a means of describing a self that he refused to reduce, as had Augustine and many other writers before and after him, to the homo interior.
The Journal of Modern History, 1992
The American Historical Review, 2010
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004
Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession-both juridical and ecclesiastical-with skeptic... more Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession-both juridical and ecclesiastical-with skepticism. Confession, Montaigne believed, forced a mode of self-representation onto the speaker that was inevitably distorting. Repentance, moreover, made claims about self-transformation that Montaigne found improbable. This article traces these themes in the context of Montaigne's Essays, with particular attention to-On Some Verses of Virgil‖ and argues that, for Montaigne, a primary concern was finding a means of describing a self that he refused to reduce, as had Augustine and many other writers before and after him, to the homo interior.
New Global Studies
The Renaissance recovery of Ptolemy’s Geography may have laid the foundations for a scientific ca... more The Renaissance recovery of Ptolemy’s Geography may have laid the foundations for a scientific cartography, but the new interest in maps, which provided an increasingly sophisticated orientation to the unknown, also opened up a new prophetic space. And the growing knowledge of the globe would engage the religious imagination of many, as salvation moved to a planetary scale and fostered a long-standing desire to bring the entire world and all its peoples under one faith. As a result, spiritual desires themselves contributed to the expansion of cartography. This article traces this emerging apocalyptic cartography not only in Christian but also in Jewish and Islamic contexts. For each tradition, the ultimate goal, deeply felt in the early modern period, was the realization of a Beautiful Ending: the Second Coming of Jesus for the Christians, the arrival of the Messiah for the Jews, and the return of the Mahdi for the Muslims. But, while each tradition drew on similar apocalyptic visio...
History in the Comic Mode, 2007
American Historical Review, 2009
Spain in Italy Politics Society and Religion 1500 1700 2007 Isbn 9789004154292 Pag 227, 2007
A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, 2007
... 218 JOHN JEFFRIES MARTIN the introduction of the confessional as a private place for the reve... more ... 218 JOHN JEFFRIES MARTIN the introduction of the confessional as a private place for the revelation of one's transgressions and concerns, a ... In 1566 the religious authorities in Picardy, as part of their anti-Huguenot propaganda, exorcized the 15-year-old girl Nicole Obry who ...
The Journal of Economic History, 2002
In this carefully researched book, Monica Chojnacka stresses the independence of working women in... more In this carefully researched book, Monica Chojnacka stresses the independence of working women in early modern Venice. Accepting the premise that, in general, the wives, sisters, and daughters of the nobility led highly restricted lives throughout this period, she argues that both economic forces and the formation of new charitable institutions benefited popolane (non-elite women) by providing them with forms of sociability, community, and agency that were denied their social superiors.
Renaissance Quarterly, 2006
The text discusses further excursions into glam, such as Roxy Music's adaptation of variant music... more The text discusses further excursions into glam, such as Roxy Music's adaptation of variant musical and fashion styles and Suzi Quattro as a ''female cock-rocker'' (217) who inverts and complicates the notions of the glam performer, while transforming canonical rock pieces. Auslander offers exhaustive details from the era, analyzing glam not solely in terms of music and performance, but also in the various experiences and ephemera associated with the subgenre. In addition, extensive footnotes offer explanations of the relationship of glam to Goth, countercultural obsession with motorcycles, and even the pigmentation of Bowie's eyes. Although written in an engaging and enthusiastic style, the text neglects to adequately explore the impact of Andy Warhol on the aesthetic/philosophical underpinnings of glam, while also ignoring the selective appropriation of glam by hyper-hetero pop-metal acts in the 1980s. As performance studies has posited itself as inter/post/antidisciplinary, this book is a valuable addition to scholarly works that bridge seemingly differentiated fields. Serving both scholars and music aficionados, Performing Glam Rock unites cultural, queer, and gender theory in an impressive approach that challenges both music and performance studies-an achievement that mirrors its subject's own accomplishments at blurring and bending boundaries.
Renaissance Quarterly, 2003
The American Historical Review, 2002
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2011
Scholars have turned with increasing interest in recent years to the history of the Mediterranean... more Scholars have turned with increasing interest in recent years to the history of the Mediterranean. The subject is not new, but the ways in which we approach it have changed. No longer viewed primarily from the vantage points of either economic or imperial histories, the Mediterranean has emerged as a site of immense cultural complexity. As a result, the rather sharply defined contours of religions and cultures that seemed to shape the identities of those who lived around its shores now appear far more fluid, much less fixed than they did to an earlier generation of scholars. Yet there were precursors to this shift in perspective. As long ago as the late 1940s, for example, Fernand Braudel called attention to the complexity of this environment in The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World. In numerous splendid passages, perhaps most notably in his romanticized but suggestive description of the folklore and religious beliefs of highlanders in the opening pages of his study, Braudel cautioned against thinking of their worlds in purely Christian or purely Muslim terms. 1 To the contrary, making sense of religious belief, Braudel maintained, requires attention to the whole social environment, and historians need to recognize not only the relative ease with which men and women of the Mediterranean could pass from one faith to another, but also the tenacity of ancient peasant beliefs, even as Christian and Muslim authorities sought to impose new ways of thinking. Braudel problematized the question of religious identities for largely stable populations. The studies in this issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, by contrast, focus primarily, though not exclusively, on highly mobile populations: on travelers, runaways , merchants, missionaries, and warriors. While the case studies I have gathered here are diverse, their authors have-in their attempts to illuminate the making and unmaking of religious boundaries in the Mediterranean-drawn, either directly or indirectly, on new questions about the past enabled by recent work in