Medievalists.net » Psalters http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Great Canterbury Psalter http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/02/great-canterbury-psalter/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/02/great-canterbury-psalter/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:56:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55849 One manuscript, created in two countries by two different workshops, over a hundred years apart.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/02/great-canterbury-psalter/feed/ 0 Asteriscos et obelos suis locis restitui – the revision of the Psalter during the Carolingian Renaissance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/21/asteriscos-et-obelos-suis-locis-restitui-revision-psalter-carolingian-renaissance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/21/asteriscos-et-obelos-suis-locis-restitui-revision-psalter-carolingian-renaissance/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:35:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51241 Today, I would like to discuss one type of early medieval psalter and the one feature that discerns this type - and that is the presence of critical signs.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/21/asteriscos-et-obelos-suis-locis-restitui-revision-psalter-carolingian-renaissance/feed/ 0 Basan and Bata: The Occupational Surnames of Two Pre-Conquest Monks of Canterbury http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/basan-and-bata-the-occupational-surnames-of-two-pre-conquest-monks-of-canterbury/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/basan-and-bata-the-occupational-surnames-of-two-pre-conquest-monks-of-canterbury/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:42:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46894 As hereditary surnames were not common in Anglo-Saxon England, men of the same name were differentiated by sobriquets based on their place of origin, a physical characteristic or occupation. This article argues that Eadui Basan and Aelfric Bata, two eleventh-century monks of Christ Church, had sobriquets, in Latin of fashionable obscurity, that reflected their occupations within the monastic community.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/basan-and-bata-the-occupational-surnames-of-two-pre-conquest-monks-of-canterbury/feed/ 0 Transformations of Print into Painting: A Case Study of the Context of Prints in an Illustrated Brigittine Psalter http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/transformations-of-print-into-painting-a-case-study-of-the-context-of-prints-in-an-illustrated-brigittine-psalter/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/transformations-of-print-into-painting-a-case-study-of-the-context-of-prints-in-an-illustrated-brigittine-psalter/#comments Sun, 12 Jan 2014 01:30:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46588 This liturgical psalter raises issues of the production and consumption of religious texts in convents in the northern Netherlands.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/transformations-of-print-into-painting-a-case-study-of-the-context-of-prints-in-an-illustrated-brigittine-psalter/feed/ 0 The Metamorphoses of a Late Fifteenth-Century Psalter (Harl. MS. 1892) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/14/the-metamorphoses-of-a-late-fifteenth-century-psalter-harl-ms-1892/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/14/the-metamorphoses-of-a-late-fifteenth-century-psalter-harl-ms-1892/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 05:09:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34763 Illuminated Psalters were rarely produced in the fifteenth century and, after a late flourishing in the last decade with a couple of lavish copies,1 they virtually disappeared by the early sixteenth century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/14/the-metamorphoses-of-a-late-fifteenth-century-psalter-harl-ms-1892/feed/ 0 The Art of Comparing in Byzantium http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/18/the-art-of-comparing-in-byzantium/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/18/the-art-of-comparing-in-byzantium/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:31:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24286 The Art of Comparing in Byzantium Maguire, Henry The Art Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 1 (1988) Abstract Rhetoric was an important component of Byzantine higher education, which affected the literature, art, and even mentality of the Byzantines. A study of the theory of encomium and censure shows how rhetorical structures, especially comparisons and biographical sequences, […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/18/the-art-of-comparing-in-byzantium/feed/ 0 Animals in English Wood Carving http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/05/animals-in-english-wood-carving/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/05/animals-in-english-wood-carving/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:20:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=21534 Animals in English Wood Carving Druce, G. C. The Third Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 1913-1914 (Oxford, 1914), Version 2 (August 2004) Abstract The treatment of animals and birds in ecclesiastical carvings hardly seems to have received sufficient attention in the past. In common with other unobtrusive details they are liable to be passed over […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/05/animals-in-english-wood-carving/feed/ 0 ‘For What Purpose Do They Spend?’ Some Preliminary Thoughts on Penwork Produced by William de Brailes and his Collaborators http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/11/for-what-purpose-do-they-spend-some-preliminary-thoughts-on-penwork-produced-by-william-de-brailes-and-his-collaborators/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/11/for-what-purpose-do-they-spend-some-preliminary-thoughts-on-penwork-produced-by-william-de-brailes-and-his-collaborators/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:30:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=15247 ‘For What Purpose Do They Spend?’ Some Preliminary Thoughts on Penwork Produced by William de Brailes and his Collaborators Johnston, Cynthia Marginalia, Vol. 9, (2009) Abstract In the catalogue description of six leaves from a Psalter attributed to William de Brailes (Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 330), Paul Binski comments that ‘[i]lluminated Bibles produced in France and England […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/11/for-what-purpose-do-they-spend-some-preliminary-thoughts-on-penwork-produced-by-william-de-brailes-and-his-collaborators/feed/ 0 “Marginal Beings: Hybrids as the Other in Late Medieval Manuscripts” http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/05/marginal-beings-hybrids-as-the-other-in-late-medieval-manuscripts/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/05/marginal-beings-hybrids-as-the-other-in-late-medieval-manuscripts/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:45:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14909 “Marginal Beings: Hybrids as the Other in Late Medieval Manuscripts” Thimann, Heidi Hortulus, Vol. 5, No. 1, (2009) Abstract This paper concerns the hybrids in the margins of medieval psalters and Books of Hours. In showing examples from the Rutland Psalter, the Luttrell Psalter, and The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, I ask what are these hybrids’ […]

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