Medievalists.net » Saint Brendan 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 ‘Such a great multitude’: Biblical numerology as a literary device in Nauigatio Sancti Brendani http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/05/such-a-great-multitude-biblical-numerology-as-a-literary-device-in-nauigatio-sancti-brendani/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/05/such-a-great-multitude-biblical-numerology-as-a-literary-device-in-nauigatio-sancti-brendani/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2015 18:14:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58728 This presentation will begin by briefly summarizing the text, presenting evidence for its intended audience and purpose, defining Biblical numerology and outlining its role in Jewish and Christian textual traditions up to the early medieval period. Then the presentation will provide a handful of examples in the use of Biblical numerology in Nauigatio.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/05/such-a-great-multitude-biblical-numerology-as-a-literary-device-in-nauigatio-sancti-brendani/feed/ 0 A Peripheral Matter?: Oceans in the East in Late-Medieval Thought, Report and Cartography http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/peripheral-matter-oceans-east-late-medieval-thought-report-cartography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/peripheral-matter-oceans-east-late-medieval-thought-report-cartography/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:08:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52099 It is something of a truism that the Ocean Sea {mare oceanum in medieval texts and cartography) marked out a real and conceptual periphery for medieval Western Europeans.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/24/peripheral-matter-oceans-east-late-medieval-thought-report-cartography/feed/ 0 St. Brendan and his miraculous food: heavenly meals for a legendary voyage http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/st-brendan-and-his-miraculous-food-heavenly-meals-for-a-legendary-voyage/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/st-brendan-and-his-miraculous-food-heavenly-meals-for-a-legendary-voyage/#comments Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:23:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46963 Therefore, the so called Navigatio Sancti brendani abbatis features real persons in an imaginary world, where credible details and legendary traits mingle with each other

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/st-brendan-and-his-miraculous-food-heavenly-meals-for-a-legendary-voyage/feed/ 0 That Melodious Linguist: Eloquence and Piety in Christian and Islamic Songbirds http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/that-melodious-linguist-eloquence-and-piety-in-christian-and-islamic-songbirds/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/that-melodious-linguist-eloquence-and-piety-in-christian-and-islamic-songbirds/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:52:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42560 That Melodious Linguist: Eloquence and Piety in Christian and Islamic Songbirds Cam Lindley Cross University of Chicago, December 8 (2010) Abstract “Birds,” writes Albertus Magnus, “generally call more than other animals. This is due to the lightness of their spirits.” Although Albertus here employs “lightness” (levitas) as a technical term, the broader valences of the word […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/that-melodious-linguist-eloquence-and-piety-in-christian-and-islamic-songbirds/feed/ 0 A Peripheral Matter? Oceans in the East in Late Medieval Thought, Report and Cartography http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/a-peripheral-matter-oceans-in-the-east-in-late-medieval-thought-report-and-cartography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/a-peripheral-matter-oceans-in-the-east-in-late-medieval-thought-report-and-cartography/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:07:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36627 Focusing in particular on the southern and eastern parts of the Ocean Sea, this article traces the broad contours of a representational and conceptual shift brought about, I argue, by the interplay between geographical thought and social (navigational, mercantile) practice.

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