Where the Middle Ages Begin
In a letter written as part of his work for the Irish Department of the Ordnance Survey in 1840, Thomas O’Conor recorded his reaction to a “Sheela- na-gig” sculpture—the image of a naked woman shown exposing her genitalia (fig. 1)—that he saw on the old church at Kiltinane, Co. Tipperary.
In the sessions of our section over the past decade, I introduced a significant distinction between two rabbinic attitudes in the Mediterranean countries during the Middle Ages of 12th and 13th centuries as to their view of Christianity.
This article intends to look at interaction in the very north of early medi- eval Europe with Bjarmaland as a starting point. After a short introduction to sources and historiography about Bjarmaland, the main content of the sources will be shortly discussed in order to establish what kind of informa- tion the written sources have to offer.
Muzyczna panorama średniowiecznego Krakowa Bebak, Marek (Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego) Kwartalnik Studentów Muzykologów Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Nr. 2, (10/2008) Abstract Kraków jako ośrodek życia kulturalnego średniowiecznej Polski Jednym z najważniejszych ośrodków rozwoju średniowiecznej kultury muzycznej w Pol- sce był niewątpliwie Kraków. To tutaj zakładano liczne klasztory nowo przybyłych zgroma- dzeń, to tutaj przybywali zagraniczni duchowni, by uczyć dopiero […]
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