The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade
Just over nine hundred years ago, Pope Urban II closed a provincial church council at Clermont Ferrand with a rousing call to arms that launched the First Crusade.
A New Vision of Death: Re-Evaluating Huizinga’s Views on the Late Medieval Macabre
The 31st Annual Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians A New Vision of Death: Re-Evaluating Huizinga’s Views on the Late Medieval Macabre Kralik,…
Preserving the body Christian: the motif of “recapitation” in Ireland’s medieval hagiography
Preserving the body Christian: the motif of “recapitation” in Ireland’s medieval hagiography Johnson, Máire The Heroic Age A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe Issue 10—Saints…
Wisdom Literature in Early Ireland
Wisdom Literature in Early Ireland Yocum, Christopher Guy Studia Celtica (2011) Abstract This article explores connections between early Irish law and wisdom literature and…
Matters Of Time: Manipulation Of Memory In Early Irish Hagiography
Matters Of Time: Manipulation Of Memory In Early Irish Hagiography Auslander, Diane Peters Paper given at the 22nd Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference, March…
Irish Book-Satchels or Budgets
Irish Book-Satchels or Budgets Waterer, John W. Medieval Archaeology vol. 12, (1968) Abstract D.R.A.T. Lucas states that the making of Irish shoes of…
Heresies in the early Byzantine Empire: Imperial policies and the Arab conquest of the Near East
Heresies in the early Byzantine Empire: Imperial policies and the Arab conquest of the Near East ODETALLAH KHOURI, Rashad (University of Yarmuk, Irbid, Jordan) Collectanea…
Envisioning Salvation: An Ecumenical Ekphrasis in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s Wigalois
Envisioning Salvation: An Ecumenical Ekphrasis in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s Wigalois Brown, James H. Arthuriana 20.3 (2010) Abstract In his only known romance, Wigalois, Wirnt…
To see or not to see in the Middle Ages: Blind Jews in Christian eyes
Vagantes To see or not to see in the Middle Ages: Blind Jews in Christian eyes Brooke Falk Permenter Session V: Seeing the…
“Salvation, Sex, and Subjectivity”
Vagantes Conference Bruce Vernarde (Pitt U) “Salvation, Sex, and Subjectivity” In 1980, John Boswell published “Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality”. It was considered…
The Performance of Separation at Escomb Church
VAGANTES CONFERENCE: Session 1: Performance & Ritual The Performance of Separation at Escomb Church Ashely Lonsdale Cook (University of Wisconsin – Madison) This…
Arthuriana and the Limits of C.S. Lewis’ Ariosto Marginalia
Arthuriana and the Limits of C.S. Lewis’ Ariosto Marginalia Ross, Charles Arthuriana 21.1 (2011) Abstract C.S. Lewis always marked the Arthurian moments in…
Crocodiles and Crusades: Egypt in Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
Crocodiles and Crusades: Egypt in Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso Cavallo, Jo Ann Arthuriana 21.1 (2011) Abstract Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto’s Orlando…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
“Lesbian-Like” and the Social History of Lesbianisms
“Lesbian-Like” and the Social History of Lesbianisms Bennett, Judith M.(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol.…
Serpent of Pleasure: Emergence and Difference in the Medieval Garden of Love
Set apart from the normal realm of moral judgment, the medieval garden of love is usually seen as a site that embodies the carnal and reprehensible human desires that humans must renounce in order to find God.
Transgressing the Boundaries of Holiness: Sexual Deviance in the Early Medieval Penitential Handbooks of Ireland, England and France 500-1000
This study will take the form of a closer examination of smaller specific categories of deviance: the nocturnal emissions of clerics, sexual relations during menstruation and pregnancy, homosexuality, bestiality, incest, and adultery.
UN-CAGING MEANING IN JOHN CAPGRAVE’S LIFE OF SAINT KATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA: BODIES AND BRIDES OF CHRIST
UN-CAGING MEANING IN JOHN CAPGRAVE’S LIFE OF SAINT KATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA: BODIES AND BRIDES OF CHRIST Geldenhuys, Katharine Leigh Phd Thesis (University of the…
Just Like a Mother Bee: Reading and Writing Vitae Metricae around the Year 1000
Just Like a Mother Bee: Reading and Writing Vitae Metricae around the Year 1000 Taylor, Anna Viator 36 (2005) Abstract In the late tenth…
The making of Byzantine Orthodoxy: definition and display, inclusion and exclusion
The making of Byzantine Orthodoxy: definition and display, inclusion and exclusion Magdalino, Paul (St Andrew’s University, Scotland) Paper given at the 21st International Congress…
Remembering Doomsday:Memoria in late medieval English drama and iconography
Remembering Doomsday:Memoria in late medieval English drama and iconography Iseppi, Laura Word & Image, 25: 1 (2009) Abstract Much critical attention has been devoted…
The Blood of Christ, Eucharistic blood or blood relic ?
The Blood of Christ, Eucharistic blood or blood relic ? Vernard, Marc (Université de Paris X-Nanterre) Tabularia « Études », n° 9, (2009)…