Medievalists.net » Learning http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Studies and STEM http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/26/medieval-studies-and-stem/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/26/medieval-studies-and-stem/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:02:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59997 Here are 15 ways that medieval studies and STEM are working together.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/26/medieval-studies-and-stem/feed/ 0 The Revolution in Writing Styles during the Renaissance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/revolution-writing-styles-renaissance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/revolution-writing-styles-renaissance/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:43:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53015 Just as we have our faces, we each should have own writing style - this was the lesson that two leading Renaissance thinkers, Erasmus and Montaigne, gave to their contemporaries in 16th century Europe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/revolution-writing-styles-renaissance/feed/ 0 Scholars, Teachers and Students in Early Medieval Europe: Towards a Total Network http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/30/scholars-teachers-students-early-medieval-europe-towards-total-network/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/30/scholars-teachers-students-early-medieval-europe-towards-total-network/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:19:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52976 This talk, part of a larger project, is concerned with intellectuals (scholars, teachers and their students) active in the late eighth through ninth centuries, a period usually referred to as the Carolingian Renaissance.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/30/scholars-teachers-students-early-medieval-europe-towards-total-network/feed/ 0 The Influence of Humanist Culture on Sephardi Scholars Active in Medieval Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/17/influence-humanist-culture-sephardi-scholars-active-medieval-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/17/influence-humanist-culture-sephardi-scholars-active-medieval-italy/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:22:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50503 This talk will set the context by introducing three generations of the Iberian Shohams, a late 14th-mid-15th century Sephardic family moving from Sicily to Apulia and Calabria.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/17/influence-humanist-culture-sephardi-scholars-active-medieval-italy/feed/ 0 The case for a West Saxon minuscule http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/the-case-for-a-west-saxon-minuscule/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/the-case-for-a-west-saxon-minuscule/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:20:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42212 Julian Brown's famous analysis of what he termed the Insular system of scripts marked out a number of routes, now well trodden, through the debris of undated and unlocalized manuscript material from the pre-Viking-Age British Isles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/the-case-for-a-west-saxon-minuscule/feed/ 0 Looking to the future of medieval archaeology http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/looking-to-the-future-of-medieval-archaeology/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/looking-to-the-future-of-medieval-archaeology/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:12:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42193 A symposium entitled ‘Looking to the Future’ was held as part of the Society for Medieval Archaeology’s 50th anniversary to reflect upon current and forthcoming issues facing the discipline. The discussion was wide-ranging, and is summarized here under the topics of the research potential of development-led fieldwork, the accessibility of grey literature, research frameworks for medieval archaeology, the intellectual health of the discipline, and relevance and outreach.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/looking-to-the-future-of-medieval-archaeology/feed/ 0 Lay Religion and Pastoral Care in Thirteenth Century England: the Evidence of a Group of Short Confession Manuals http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/lay-religion-and-pastoral-care-in-thirteenth-century-england-the-evidence-of-a-group-of-short-confession-manuals/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/lay-religion-and-pastoral-care-in-thirteenth-century-england-the-evidence-of-a-group-of-short-confession-manuals/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:35:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42174 This poses a question: where did these engaged laypeople come from, and when? There is some evidence that suggests they should be pushed back to the thirteenth century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/18/lay-religion-and-pastoral-care-in-thirteenth-century-england-the-evidence-of-a-group-of-short-confession-manuals/feed/ 0 Diplomacy and the Carolingian Encounter with Byzantium down to the Accession of Charles the Bald http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/19/diplomacy-and-the-carolingian-encounter-with-byzantium-down-to-the-accession-of-charles-the-bald/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/19/diplomacy-and-the-carolingian-encounter-with-byzantium-down-to-the-accession-of-charles-the-bald/#comments Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:08:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40623 How was it possible that an Irishman should discover in Frankland a talent for studying Byzantine thinkers like Ps.-Dionysius, Maximus Confessor, and Gregory of Nyssa?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/19/diplomacy-and-the-carolingian-encounter-with-byzantium-down-to-the-accession-of-charles-the-bald/feed/ 0 Francesco Filelfo at the court of Milan (1439-1481) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/08/francesco-filelfo-at-the-court-of-milan-1439-1481/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/08/francesco-filelfo-at-the-court-of-milan-1439-1481/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:47:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40322 Milan was the city where Filelfo spent half his life, where he wrote almost all his works and where he left a deep imprint in the development of humanistic culture.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/08/francesco-filelfo-at-the-court-of-milan-1439-1481/feed/ 0 A Late Byzantine Swan Song: Maximos Neamonites and His Letters http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/16/a-late-byzantine-swan-song-maximos-neamonites-and-his-letters/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/16/a-late-byzantine-swan-song-maximos-neamonites-and-his-letters/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:13:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36546 Maximos Neamonites’ epistulae depict their author as a schoolmaster of primary education active in the second and the third decades of the fourteenth-century Constantinople (fl.1315–1325), true to generic conventions (and the realities of life), eking out a meager income on the basis of his teaching activities, and occasionally lifting his pen to interfere on behalf of others.

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