The Unifying Power of Moving Pictures in Late Medieval and Renaissance Umbria
The Unifying Power of Moving Pictures in Late Medieval and Renaissance Umbria RIHOUET, PASCALE (BROWN UNIVERSITY) Phd Thesis, Brown University (PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, (MAY…
Matthias Corvinus and His Library
Matthias Corvinus and His Library Stein, Rose Hungarian Studies Review, Vol. XIII, No. 1 (Spring 1986) Abstract Hungary in the fifteenth century was…
Cosimo’s four slaves
Cosimo’s four slaves Beck, James I Medici in Rete. Ricerca e progettualità scientifica a proposito dell’archivio Mediceo avanti il Principato, edited by Cotta, Irene, and…
Polskie kapele muzyczne średniowiecza i renesansu
Polskie kapele muzyczne średniowiecza i renesansu Wiśniewski, Ks. Piotr Wirtualnej Bilblioteki Społeczna (2007) Abstract Pod pojęciem kapela rozumiano w średniowieczu chór śpiewaków kościelnych, zarówno…
Loadstones Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Lapidary Cures, Midwives, and Manuals of Popular Healing in Medieval and Early Modern England
Loadstones Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Lapidary Cures, Midwives, and Manuals of Popular Healingin Medieval and Early Modern England Harris, Nichola E. (SUNY–Ulster) The Sacred…
THE BORGIAS: “NESSUNO (NOBODY)” – SE01 EP09
“NESSUNO (NOBODY)” In this week’s episode…. “Does the Pope of Rome disappoint Your Highness? Had you hoped for gold and silvervestments? Display has…
Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning or The Triumph of Greens
Conceptions of food in the Renaissance were also still influenced by the humoral-Galenic theory, which said that to keep the different ‘humors’ of the body in balance, a good diet had to be the result of foods balancing the moist/water and the dry/air, the warm/fire and the cold/earth, recalling again the four Aristotelian elements.
Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go
They have explored such issues, among others, as the varieties of European household structure; definitions of the stages of life; childbirth, wetnursing, and the role of the midwife; child abandonment and the foundling home; infanticide and its prosecution; apprenticeship, servitude, and fostering; the evolution of schooling; the consequences of religious diversification; and the impact of gender
Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb: The Definitive Michelangelo Sculpture
Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb is one of the most powerful works from one of the most important artists of all time. Michelangelo is perhaps best known for the David.
THE BORGIAS: “THE ART OF WAR” – SE01 EP08
“THE ART OF WAR” In this week’s episode…. “I had a dream, my son…or, a nightmare. I dreamed that all of Italy had…
THE BORGIAS: “DEATH ON A PALE HORSE” – SE01 EP07
“Death On A Pale Horse” In this week’s episode…. The French decimate Lucca, and march on towards Florence while Della Rovere wrestles with…
Complexio / Complexion. Categorizing Individual Natures 1250-1600
Complexio / Complexion. Categorizing Individual Natures 1250-1600 Groebner, Valentin The Moral Authority of Nature, The University of Chicago Press (2003) Abstract In an anecdote…
Pietro Bembo: A Renaissance Courtier Who Had His Cake and Ate It Too
Pietro Bembo: A Renaissance Courtier Who Had His Cake and Ate It Too Quattrocchi, Ed JOURNAL OF THE CAXTON CLUB OF CHICAGO Abstract…
In Pursuit of Honor: The Balance between Widowhood and Motherhood in the Letters of Alessandra Strozzi
In Pursuit of Honor: The Balance between Widowhood and Motherhood in the Letters of Alessandra Strozzi Brewer, Cassandra Wagner College Forum for Undergraduate Research, Volume…
The Borgias: “The Borgias in Love”, SE01 EP05
“The Borgias In Love” Cesare pursues Baroness Ursula, while Lucrezia falls in love with the stable boy and plots against her brutish husband.…
European Women Patrons of Art and Architecture, c. 1500-1650. Some Patterns
To assess women’s patronage roles in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries requires the acknowledgement that women’s support of the arts transpired within a deeply embedded patron-client arrangement pervasive in European social relations and religious practice.
The Borgias: “Lucrezia’s Wedding”, SE01 EP04
“Lucrezia’s Wedding” Fiery preaching, political plots, scandal, and more mayhem, the Borgias are back at it again this week with Rodrigo planning Lucrezia’s…
The Borgias: SE01 EP01/EP01 – “The Poisoned Chalice/The Assassin”
The House of Borgias The Borgias were a Spanish papal family who rose to prominence through their involvement in ecclesiastical and political affairs…
Changing Gender Relation in Medieval and Early Modern Iceland: The Role of Canon Law According to Court Case Narratives
In this paper I shall not primarily discuss this legal regulations rather give some ideas of how the law was used (and shaped on a textual level) at the local courts. Examples will be taken from several court case narrations.
Geometers at Brou: Architecture and ornament in Spain, Brabant and Western Europe around 1500
Geometers at Brou: Architecture and ornament in Spain, Brabant and Western Europe around 1500 Kavaler, Ethan Matt (University of Toronto) Brou, a European Monument…
Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach Dinzelbacher, Peter Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xxxii:3 (Winter, 2002) Abstract This contribution discusses a phenomenon that is ignored…
The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe
The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe Ledit, Joseph S.J., Theological Studies, Vol.12:4 (1951) Abstract Now that Europe has been cut in…
Unto Philadelphia: The Multiple Genealogies of the Rosenbach Erasmus Novum Testamentum (1519)
The Third Annual Medievalists @ Penn Graduate Student Conference Unto Philadelphia: The Multiple Genealogies of the Rosenbach Erasmus Novum Testamentum (1519) Alexander Devine (University of…
The reception of Copernicus as reflected in biographies
The reception of Copernicus as reflected in biographies Kühne, Andreas Proceedings of the 2nd ICESHS (Kraków, Poland, September 6–9, 2006) Abstract Problems of the…
Emperor Charles IV (1346–1378) as the Architect of Local Religion in Prague
This essay takes a different path through the religious culture of fourteenth-century Bohemia and of Prague, in particular.