A Quest for Reynard the Fox
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
Reflections on praxis and facture in a devotional portrait diptych: A computer analysis of the mirror in Hans Memling’s Virgin and Child and…
The Resolution of Commercial Conflicts in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam (1250-1650)
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…
European Women Patrons of Art and Architecture, c. 1500-1650. Some Patterns
To assess women’s patronage roles in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries requires the acknowledgement that women’s support of the arts transpired within a deeply embedded patron-client arrangement pervasive in European social relations and religious practice.
Geometers at Brou: Architecture and ornament in Spain, Brabant and Western Europe around 1500
Geometers at Brou: Architecture and ornament in Spain, Brabant and Western Europe around 1500 Kavaler, Ethan Matt (University of Toronto) Brou, a European Monument…
Physical Sight and Spiritual Light in Three Sixteenth-Century Plays of the Low Countries
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…
Sandpipers as grave gifts in the Early Middle Ages
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
Self-Representation of Court and City in Flanders and Brabant in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries BLOCKMANS, WIM DONCKERS, ESTHER Leiden University (1999)…
Holy Shit: Bosch’s Bluebird and the Junction of the Scatological and the Eschatological in Late Medieval Art
Holy Shit: Bosch’s Bluebird and the Junction of the Scatological and the Eschatological in Late Medieval Art Mandabach, Marisa (Harvard University) Marginalia, Vol.…
The Gypsies and Their Impact on Fifteenth-Century Western European Iconography
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
Virtus sermonis and the Trinity: Marsilius of Inghen and the Semantics of Late Fourteenth-Century Theology J. F. M. Hoenen, Maarten Medieval Philosophy and…