Medievalists.net » Augustinian Austin Friars http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Comforting sentences from the warming room at Inchcolm abbey http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/comforting-sentences-from-the-warming-room-at-inchcolm-abbey/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/comforting-sentences-from-the-warming-room-at-inchcolm-abbey/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:38:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47276 Inchcolm abbey has the best-preserved medieval conventual buildings
in Scotland.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/comforting-sentences-from-the-warming-room-at-inchcolm-abbey/feed/ 0 Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/10/paul-of-venice-on-a-puzzle-about-uncertainty/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/10/paul-of-venice-on-a-puzzle-about-uncertainty/#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:24:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32622 Since the advent of Hintikka’s Knowledge and Belief [8] in 1962, epistemic logic has become a vibrant and exciting subfield of modal logic. However, like its sister alethic modal logic [18], epistemic logic is not a new invention or dis- covery of the 20th century. In the Middle Ages, philosophers were concerned with many of the same problems in epistemology that exercise us today, and logicians were correspondingly interested in what types of inferences containing epistemic modes or operators are licet

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/10/paul-of-venice-on-a-puzzle-about-uncertainty/feed/ 0 The Poisoned Arrows of Amor: cases of syphilis from 16th-century Iceland http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/26/the-poisoned-arrows-of-amor-cases-of-syphilis-from-16th-century-iceland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/26/the-poisoned-arrows-of-amor-cases-of-syphilis-from-16th-century-iceland/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:57:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30495 The number of syphilis cases at the Skriðuklaustur monastery is unexpectedly high, as nine individuals with the disease have been identified in a skeletal assemblage totalling only 198 skeletons. At least two of the cases bear the signs of congenital syphilis. The youngest individual was just an adolescent at death but still showed severe symptoms of congenital syphilis that had developed to the tertiary stage.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/26/the-poisoned-arrows-of-amor-cases-of-syphilis-from-16th-century-iceland/feed/ 0 Writers in religious orders and their lay patrons in late medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/06/writers-in-religious-orders-and-their-lay-patrons-in-late-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/06/writers-in-religious-orders-and-their-lay-patrons-in-late-medieval-england/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:27:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29102 Critics have long recognized that the religious orders played an important part in the production of vernacular devotional literature in late medieval England. The orders were well suited to this task. Reading and writing were an important part of the life of those who lived under a rule.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/06/writers-in-religious-orders-and-their-lay-patrons-in-late-medieval-england/feed/ 0 The Medieval Friaries of London http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/14/the-medieval-friaries-of-london/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/14/the-medieval-friaries-of-london/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:36:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27104 The five friaries under review are the houses that lasted up to the Dissolution in 1538: the Dominican Black Friars, the Franciscan Grey Friars, Carmelite White Friars, Augustinian Austin Friars and the house of Crossed or Crutched Friars

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