Misconceptions about Beast Fables and Beast Tales, and the Role of the Fox in All of It
The reason why animals represent humans in these stories is because this gives the author a chance to express his or her opinion about certain people or societies. However, there are significant differences between beats tales and beast fables which make it impossible to mistake the one for the other.
Cambridge Illuminations
Cambridge Illuminations Panayotova, Stella Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract The Cambridge Illuminations (July-December 2005) has been judged to be not only the largest…
Casting Light on Clandestine Marriage in Il Filostrato
Various studies in recent years have illuminated the almost pandemic nature of clandestine marriage in late-medieval Europe – the Church considered it to be a pernicious social problem,
Irony as illumination: didactic communication in the verbal texture of the Mystery Cycles
Irony as illumination: didactic communication in the verbal texture of the Mystery Cycles Bates, Linda R. Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract In the…
Simplifying Access: Metadata for Medieval Disability Studies
Simplifying Access: Metadata for Medieval Disability Studies Guerra, Francesca (University of California, Santa Cruz) PNLA Quarterly, Volume 74, no. 2 (Winter 2010) Abstract…
THE SEPHARDIM DIASPORA: A MODEL OF FORCED MIGRATION AND CONFISCATION
THE SEPHARDIM DIASPORA: A MODEL OF FORCED MIGRATION AND CONFISCATION Faria, João Ricardo Studies in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of…
Canons and Cities: Cathedral Chapters and Their Social Composition in Medieval Portugal
Canons and Cities: Cathedral Chapters and Their Social Composition in Medieval Portugal Vilar, Hermínia Vasconcelos (Universidade de Évora – CIDEHUS) e-Journal of Portuguese History,…
Salvage Recording of Romano-British, Saxon, Medieval, and Post-Medieval remains at North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Salvage Recording of Romano-British, Saxon, Medieval, and Post-Medieval remains at North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire Saville, Alan Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 103 (1985) Abstract…
‘Privies and Other Filthiness…’ The Environment of Late Medieval Aberdeen c.1399-1650
This talk will look at aspects of public hygiene in medieval Aberdeen with specific focus on the streets.
Pipers and waits in the English royal households, c1290-1475: issues of identity and function
In studying the minstrels of the English royal households in the late Middle Ages I did say something about those minstrels described as ‘piper’, but not enough.
Armenian Architecture in Twelfth-Century Crusader Jerusalem
Armenian Architecture in Twelfth-Century Crusader Jerusalem Kenaan-Kedar, Nurith (Tel Aviv University) Assaph Studies in Art History, 3 (1998) Abstract The art and architecture of…
Cripping the Middle Ages, Medievalizing Disability Theory
Cripping the Middle Ages, Medievalizing Disability Theory Wheatley, Edward The University of Michigan Press, (2010) Abstract This event shocks modern readers with its calculated…
SIMONE MARTINI’S ST. LOUIS OF TOULOUSE AND ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT
SIMONE MARTINI’S ST. LOUIS OF TOULOUSE AND ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT Scotti, Suzette Denise MA Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, August (2009)…
Institutionalized Sufism and Non-Institutionalized Sufism: A Reconsideration of the Groups of Sufi Saints of the Non-Ṭarīqa Type as Viewed through the Historical Documents of Medieval Maghreb
Institutionalized Sufism and Non-Institutionalized Sufism: A Reconsideration of the Groups of Sufi Saints of the Non-Ṭarīqa Type as Viewed through the Historical Documents of Medieval Maghreb…
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences RADFORD, C. A. RALEGH Medieval Archaeology Vol. 14 (1970) Abstract ‘For nearly two centuries before the…
Anglo-Saxon Magico-Medicine
A mass of folly and credulity?
The Tercentenary of the Four Masters of Ireland
The Tercentenary of the Four Masters of Ireland KENNEY, JAMES F. Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report, Vol.12 (1944-45) Abstract Ireland is the end…
Three Views of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Three Views of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster Rocke, Sean Published Online ~ Course: British Studies (ID 382), Harlaxton College, Spring (2011) Abstract John…
THE COINS OF THE DANISH KINGS OF IRELAND
THE COINS OF THE DANISH KINGS OF IRELAND Roth, Bernard The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. 6 (1910) Abstract Charles Haliday says ~ “It must…
A catastrophe remembered: a meteorite impact of the fifth century AD in the Abruzzo, central Italy
A catastrophe remembered: a meteorite impact of the fifth century AD in the Abruzzo, central Italy Roberto Santilli, , Jens Ormo, Angelo P. Rossi,…
Do We Know What We Think We Know? Making Assumptions About Eleanor of Aquitaine
A survey of the literature on Eleanor of Aquitaine reveals that time after time, scholars who accuse their predecessors of ‘exaggeration and anachronistic fantasy …wish-fulfillment and projection’ or ‘gossip’ about the queen cannot avoid the lure of doing the same.
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…
A Modified al-Farabian Interpretation of Arisotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
A Modified al-Farabian Interpretation of Arisotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Peffley, Carrie Marginalia, Vol.3, (2006) Abstract Nothing in Aristotelian texts seems to vex readers more than…
Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin
Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin Fabry, Irene Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract…
The Crux Gemmata and Shifting Significances of the Cross in Insular Art
The Crux Gemmata and Shifting Significances of the Cross in Insular Art Schweitzer, Ilse Marginalia, Vol.3 (2006) Abstract This image of the triumphant…

