Practical Texts in Difficult Situations: Bulgarian Medieval Charms as Apocrypha and Fachliteratur
The apocrypha are one of the most important phenomena of the Middle Ages. They provide a different perspective and a valuable insight to the mentality of the period.
Speakerly Women and Scribal Men
I want to begin my discussion of oral tradition and manuscript authority by drawing attention to the term ‘old wives’ tale.’
Lovesickness: The Most Common Form of Heart Disease
The signs and symptoms of lovesickness are often consistent regardless of time or culture.
Religion, Science, and the Transformations of Magic: Manuscripts of Magic 1300-1600
This project treats magical manuscripts of English origin or provenance 1300-1600. The central theme of this project is the manner in which authors, collectors, and scribes of magic established their practices as legitimate or ‘true.’
The Indexing Of Medieval Women: The Feminine Tradition Of Medical Wisdom In Anglo-Saxon England And The Metrical Charms
The Indexing Of Medieval Women: The Feminine Tradition Of Medical Wisdom In Anglo-Saxon England And The Metrical Charms Sanburn, Keri Elizabeth Master’s Thesis, Florida State…
Early Medieval Crystal Amulets: Secular Instruments of Protection and Healing
The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing I: Images and Objects Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study…
Windows on a medieval world: medieval piety as reflected in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages
These stone-lists, which expounded the magical and medicinal powers of stones, enjoyed a broad circulation throughout Europe both as Latin scientific writings as well as popular vernacular medicinal and religious texts.
A Knightly Sword with Presentation Inscriptions
A Knightly Sword with Presentation Inscriptions NICKEL, HELMUT (Curator of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 2 (1969)…
Monastic Medicine: A Unique Dualism Between Natural Science and Spiritual Healing
One of the most important medical developments of this time was the introduction of medieval monastic hospitals, which arose as a source of medical care in the early Middle Ages.
Ibn Wahshiyya and Magic
Ibn Wahshiyya and Magic Anaquel de Estudios Árabes X (1999) HÁMEEM-ANTTILA, JAAKKO Magic has always had a role to play in Islamie society’. Its…
Anglo-Saxon Magico-Medicine
A mass of folly and credulity?
Seduction, Abandonment, and Sorcery in Middle English Lyrics
My purpose in writing this article is to expose a different view of romantic relationships that exist in medieval literature, a view that is in opposition to courtly love.
Knights in Love: Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc
Knights in Love: Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc Mira, Joan Francesc Paper given at Readings in Catalan fiction Conference (2006) Abstract The discussion…
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Campbell, Mary Ann (Washington University) Mid-American Review of Sociology, V ol. III, No.2 Abstract The attempt here…
The Meanings of Magic
The Meanings of Magic Bailey, Michael D. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer (2006) Abstract The establishment of a new…
“‘The king o fairy with his rout’: Fairy Magic in the Literature of Late Medieval Britain” by Hannah Priest
“‘The king o fairy with his rout’: Fairy Magic in the Literature of Late Medieval Britain” Priest, Hannah Hortulus, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2008)…
The Fathers of the Church and the Evil Eye
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how difficult even the most highly educated and sophisticated Christians of the late fourth and early fifth centuries found it to rid themselves of the idea that envy lends a malign power to men’s eyes.