Medievalists.net » Romanesque 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 ‘Hag of the Castle:’ Women, Family, and Community in Later Medieval Ireland http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/hag-castle-women-family-community-later-medieval-ireland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/hag-castle-women-family-community-later-medieval-ireland/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:09:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54489 In a letter written as part of his work for the Irish Department of the Ordnance Survey in 1840, Thomas O’Conor recorded his reaction to a “Sheela- na-gig” sculpture—the image of a naked woman shown exposing her genitalia (fig. 1)—that he saw on the old church at Kiltinane, Co. Tipperary.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/hag-castle-women-family-community-later-medieval-ireland/feed/ 0 Regnum et sacerdotium in Alsatian Romanesque Sculpture: Hohenstaufen Politics in the Aftermath of the Investiture Controversy (1130-1235) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/05/regnum-et-sacerdotium-in-alsatian-romanesque-sculpture-hohenstaufen-politics-in-the-aftermath-of-the-investiture-controversy-1130-1235/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/05/regnum-et-sacerdotium-in-alsatian-romanesque-sculpture-hohenstaufen-politics-in-the-aftermath-of-the-investiture-controversy-1130-1235/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 23:01:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45513 Although no longer preserved today, a series of paintings in the St. Nicholas chapel of the Lateran palace in Rome incurred Frederick Barbarossa’s wrath because they presented his predecessor, King Lothar of Supplinburg (1025-1137), in a submissive position as the pope’s vassal

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/05/regnum-et-sacerdotium-in-alsatian-romanesque-sculpture-hohenstaufen-politics-in-the-aftermath-of-the-investiture-controversy-1130-1235/feed/ 0 Construction Materials and Building Constructions in the Architecture of Medieval Rus, from the 10th to the Beginning of the 12th Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/construction-materials-and-building-constructions-in-the-architecture-of-medieval-rus-from-the-10th-to-the-beginning-of-the-12th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/construction-materials-and-building-constructions-in-the-architecture-of-medieval-rus-from-the-10th-to-the-beginning-of-the-12th-centuries/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:40:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45063 Construction Materials and Building Constructions in the Architecture of Medieval Rus, from the 10th to the Beginning of the 12th Centuries Bernhard Flüge Paper given at: The Masons at Work Conference (2012) Abstract Everybody knows that the Burgundian abbey of Cluny was one of the intellectual and spiri- tual centres of Europe during the High […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/20/construction-materials-and-building-constructions-in-the-architecture-of-medieval-rus-from-the-10th-to-the-beginning-of-the-12th-centuries/feed/ 0 Construction and Conception Techniques of Residential Buildings and Urbanism in Medieval Europe around 1100 AD: The Example of Cluny, France http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/16/construction-and-conception-techniques-of-residential-buildings-and-urbanism-in-medieval-europe-around-1100-ad-the-example-of-cluny-france/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/16/construction-and-conception-techniques-of-residential-buildings-and-urbanism-in-medieval-europe-around-1100-ad-the-example-of-cluny-france/#comments Sat, 16 Nov 2013 20:26:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44908 Everybody knows that the Burgundian abbey of Cluny was one of the intellectual and spiritual centres of Europe during the High Middle Ages. But also the surrounding little town is of scientific interest.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/16/construction-and-conception-techniques-of-residential-buildings-and-urbanism-in-medieval-europe-around-1100-ad-the-example-of-cluny-france/feed/ 0 The Mystery of the Marble Man and his Hat: A Reconsideration of the Bari Episcopal Throne http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/31/the-mystery-of-the-marble-man-and-his-hat-a-reconsideration-of-the-bari-episcopal-throne/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/31/the-mystery-of-the-marble-man-and-his-hat-a-reconsideration-of-the-bari-episcopal-throne/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:32:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38454 Until the twentieth century, the throne was universally held to have been sculpted in or immediately before 1098 for Elias, the abbot of San Nicola and archbishop of Bari and Canosa.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/31/the-mystery-of-the-marble-man-and-his-hat-a-reconsideration-of-the-bari-episcopal-throne/feed/ 0 Ring-givers and Romans : the cultural roots of Anglo-Saxon church architecture http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/ring-givers-and-romans-the-cultural-roots-of-anglo-saxon-church-architecture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/ring-givers-and-romans-the-cultural-roots-of-anglo-saxon-church-architecture/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:59:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33913 The stone churches of pre-Conquest England are markedly different from those of their continental contemporaries and Norman successors, yet generations of historians have viewed these differences as inferior attempts to replicate continental forms.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/17/ring-givers-and-romans-the-cultural-roots-of-anglo-saxon-church-architecture/feed/ 0 Eve and Her Daughters: Eve, Mary, the Virgin, and the Lintel Fragment at Autun http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/eve-and-her-daughters-eve-mary-the-virgin-and-the-lintel-fragment-at-autun/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/eve-and-her-daughters-eve-mary-the-virgin-and-the-lintel-fragment-at-autun/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:06:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33265 The lintel fragment of Eve from the Cathedral of St. Lazaire at Autun (Figure 1) has been praised by art historians as one of the greatest monumental figural works of the Romanesque period.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/eve-and-her-daughters-eve-mary-the-virgin-and-the-lintel-fragment-at-autun/feed/ 0 From Antiquity to Romanesque http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/26/from-antiquity-to-romanesque/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/26/from-antiquity-to-romanesque/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:21:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25836 From Antiquity to Romanesque By Peter Hubert Published Online Introduction: Many authorities on Romanesque architecture and sculpture have pointed out the heritage that the artisans drew upon that came down to them from antiquity. This article will contain an examination of that sculptural heritage, focusing particularly on the period of late antiquity. It will then […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/26/from-antiquity-to-romanesque/feed/ 0 Excavation of an early church and a women’s cemetery at St Ronan’s medieval parish church, Iona http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/excavation-of-an-early-church-and-a-womens-cemetery-at-st-ronans-medieval-parish-church-iona/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/excavation-of-an-early-church-and-a-womens-cemetery-at-st-ronans-medieval-parish-church-iona/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:31:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25060 Excavation of an early church and a women’s cemetery at St Ronan’s medieval parish church, Iona O’Sullivan, Jerry et al. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol.124 (1994) Abstract St Ronan’s was the medieval parish church of lona. Excavation within the church recorded remains of an earlier building and graves of various dates, […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/06/excavation-of-an-early-church-and-a-womens-cemetery-at-st-ronans-medieval-parish-church-iona/feed/ 0 San Isidoro exposed: the vicissitudes of research in Romanesque art http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/01/san-isidoro-exposed-the-vicissitudes-of-research-in-romanesque-art/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/01/san-isidoro-exposed-the-vicissitudes-of-research-in-romanesque-art/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:44:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23659 San Isidoro exposed: the vicissitudes of research in Romanesque art Williams, John (Henry Clay Frick Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh) Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March (2011) Abstract Some forty years ago, by chance, the author’s campaign of recording through drawings the earliest parts of the church […]

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