Leonardo da Vinci, Sculptor
In view of the ill-fated attempt of Geheimrat Bode to acquire, in the wax bust of the Flora, a real Leonardo for the Berlin Museum, writers have become more chary in attempting to assign works of sculpture to that artist.
Kiev and Constantinople: Cultural Relations before the Thirteenth Century
Kiev and Constantinople: Cultural Relations before the Thirteenth Century By Zinaida V. Udal’cova The Seventeenth International Byzantine Congress, Main Papers (New York, 1986) …
The Background to Mantzikert
The Background to Mantzikert By Cyril Toumanoff The Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Byzantine Studies (London, 1967) Click here to read/download…
Moral Regulation and Civic Identity in London 1400-1530
Moral Regulation and Civic Identity in London 1400-1530 By Stephanie Tarbin Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in honour of John Tillotson for his 60th birthday…
Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modem World
Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modem World By Dianne Tillotson Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in honour of John Tillotson for his…
The Making of New Forest
The Making of New Forest By F. Baring English Historical Review, Vol.16 (1901) Synopsis: Examines the Domesday Book to analyze the population and…
The Shift of Medical Education into the Universities
We want to trace the relationships between the development of universities and the professionalization of medical practice. I shall focus on the first phase of this lengthy process, largely the period between 1200 and 1400.
The Rhetoric of Work in Leon Battista Alberti
The Rhetoric of Work in Leon Battista Alberti By Claudia Bertazzo Rhetorics of Work, edited by Yannis Yannitsiotis, Dimitra Lampropoulou and Carla Salvaterra (Pisa University Press, 2008)…
The Making of Kanun Law in the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1600
The Making of Kanun Law in the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1600 By Kenan İnan Communities in European History: Representations, Jurisdictions, Conflicts, edited by Günther Lottes, Eero Medijainen, Jón…
Making and Using the Law in the North, c. 900-1350
It is clear that medieval Nordic law was transmitted orally long before it was written down. The Icelandic Free State law-book known as the Grágás, for example, specifically addresses its audience, reminding them that “tomorrow we go to the law mountain” Various other stylistic traits indicate previous oral transmission.
The military orders and the conversion of Muslims in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Although the relevance to conversion of charters which allude to the propagationor expansion of Christianity may be questioned, a very few twelfth- and early thirteenth-century sources do explicitly seek to link military orders with the convertingof Muslims.
“Washing Off the Dust”: Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval Japan
“Washing Off the Dust”: Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval Japan By Lee A. Butler Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 60:1 (2005) Summary: This article analyzes…
The Agrarian Problem in the Early Fourteenth Century
Until recently it was widely believed that feudal tenurial relationships sanctioned and facilitated the extra-economic exploitation of tenants by their lords. Together, the heaviness of rent charges and the arbitrariness of lordship discouraged and depressed tenant investment in agriculture.
Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History
Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History By Matthew H. Hammond The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 85:1 (2006) Abstract: Historians have long tended…
Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe
Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe By Adam Robert…
Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien
The article presents an edition of Sir Orfeo, first published by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1944. Sir Orfeo was a Middle English poem, first written in the late-thirteenth or early-fourteenth century.
The Horse, the Clerk and the Lyric: The Musicography of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
The Horse, the Clerk and the Lyric: The Musicography of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries By Mark Everist Journal of the Royal Musical Association,…
Performing Medieval Music
Performing Medieval Music By Sam Barrett Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 130:1 (2005) Synopsis: Review article that examines the recent books: Performer’s…
Notes on the Presence of Boccaccio in Cristoforo Landino’s Comento sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri
Notes on the Presence of Boccaccio in Cristoforo Landino’s Comento sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri By Simon A. Gilson Italian Culture, Vol. 23…
Where were Middle Gaelic Glenn na Leóman and Inis Salutóiris?
Where were Middle Gaelic Glenn na Leóman and Inis Salutóiris? By Andrew Breeze The Innes Review, Vol. 58:1 (2007) Synopsis: Examines two pieces…
The iconography of the devil: St Vigean’s, Eassie and the Book of Kells
Examines the depiction of the devil in artwork found in the Book of Kells, as well as on early medieval stone crosses found in Scotland.
The earls of Dunbar and the church in Lothian and the Merse
The earls of Dunbar and the church in Lothian and the Merse By Elsa C. Hamilton The Innes Review, Vol. 58:1 (2007) Introduction: The…
Female Dress and “Slavic” Bow Fibulae in Greece
Female Dress and “Slavic” Bow Fibulae in Greece BY Florin Curta Hesperia, Vol. 74:1 (2005) Abstract: Long considered an “index fossil” for the migration…
New polyphonic fragments from 15th-century Spain: a preliminary report
New polyphonic fragments from 15th-century Spain: a preliminary report By Tess Knighton Early Music, Vol. 32:2 (2004) Synopsis: The discovery of fragments of…
The Spanish plucked viola in Renaissance Italy, 1480-1530
The Spanish plucked viola in Renaissance Italy, 1480-1530 By Hiroyuki Minamino Early Music, Vol. 32:2 (2004) Synopsis: During the last two decades of the 15th century and the…