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‘Hag of the Castle:’ Women, Family, and Community in Later Medieval Ireland

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:09:37 +0000

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.

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Two Rabbinic Views of Christianity in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 01:17:50 +0000

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.

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Bjarmaland and interaction in the North of Europe from the Viking Age until the Early Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:54:10 +0000

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.

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Muzyczna panorama średniowiecznego Krakowa

Medievalists.net — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:38:49 +0000

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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