Where the Middle Ages Begin
Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland Jansen, H.J.H Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Vol.95 (1980) Abstract On the sixth of January 1425 John of Bavaria died. He had been a former bishop-elect of Liège in Belgium and had been for the last six years of his life […]
The Dutch story of Reynaert de vos/Reynard the Fox is regarded as one of the best medieval works in the vernacular language.
Reflections on praxis and facture in a devotional portrait diptych: A computer analysis of the mirror in Hans Memling’s Virgin and Child and Maarten van Nieuwenhove By Silvio Savarese, Ron Spronk, David G. Stork, and Andrey DelPoz SPIE Electronic imaging: Computer image analysis in the study of art, vol. 6810 (2008) Introduction: Hans Memling’s 1487 […]
The Resolution of Commercial Conflicts in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1250-1650) Gelderblom, Oscar (Utrecht University) Merchants in the Low Countries: The Organization of Long-Distance Trade in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1250-1650) (2008) Abstract Even if merchants carefully select their trading partners and closely monitor their behavior, chances remain that the other party walks away with either goods […]
Geometers at Brou: Architecture and ornament in Spain, Brabant and Western Europe around 1500 Kavaler, Ethan Matt (University of Toronto) Brou, a European Monument in the early Renaissance (2009) Abstract In this essay I wish to discuss connections between the brabantine Late Gothic Ornament of brou and architectural trends in late fifteenth-century Spain. Markus Hörsch has […]
Physical Sight and Spiritual Light in Three Sixteenth-Century Plays of the Low Countries Steenbrugge, Charlotte Marginalia, Vol.3 (2006) Abstract I shall investigate the representation of physical blindness as spiritual blindness and of acquiring the capacity to see light as spiritual rebirth in three sixteenth-century plays of the Low Countries: Tspel van Maria ghecompareirt by de […]
The early medieval pre-Christian inhabitants of the northern coastal area of the Netherlands may have perceived a similar link between the human soul and waders.
Self-Representation of Court and City in Flanders and Brabant in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries BLOCKMANS, WIM DONCKERS, ESTHER Leiden University (1999) Abstract Medieval society was characterized by a high degree of social inequality. This Situation required a continuous justification so that the lower classes could be persuaded to accept their less attractive lot […]
Holy Shit: Bosch’s Bluebird and the Junction of the Scatological and the Eschatological in Late Medieval Art Mandabach, Marisa (Harvard University) Marginalia, Vol. 11, October (2010) Abstract In the Hell panel of the Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500), a devil with the head of a bird and a humanoid body with glowing blue skin […]
Since Gypsies had no chroniclers of their own, their history is difficult to reconstruct. The origin of the Gypsies was a complete mystery until late in the eighteenth century, when their derivation from India was proved by means of early linguistic com- parison.
Virtus sermonis and the Trinity: Marsilius of Inghen and the Semantics of Late Fourteenth-Century Theology J. F. M. Hoenen, Maarten Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001) Abstract The normative use of the Church Fathers and the theologi approbati, who were among the most important auctoritates next to the Scriptures, demonstrates that late-medieval theologians were faithful […]
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