The Medieval Girdle Book Project
The Medieval Girdle Book Project By Margit Smith and Jim Bloxam International Journal of the Book, Vol.3:4 (2005/6) Abstract: The study of girdle…
The Holkham Bible Picture Book and the Bible Moralisée
The Holkham Bible Picture Book and the Bible Moralisée By John Lowden The Medieval Book Glosses from Friends and Colleagues of Christopher de…
The Inquisitor and the Jewish Mother: The Role of Food in Creation of Converso Identity in Inquisition Spain
Peppered with a great deal of wit and humor, Don Quixote is a unique portrait of the cultural, social and political landscape of Spain at the turn of the seventeenth century.
Acta Est Fabula, Plaudite! The Role of Women in Late Medieval England: The Evidence from Wills
The purpose of this thesis is to provide an insight into the role and place of women in late medieval England through a qualitative and quantitative examination of 403 women’s wills from 1300 to 1500.
Animals in English Wood Carving
Animals in English Wood Carving Druce, G. C. The Third Annual Volume of the Walpole Society, 1913-1914 (Oxford, 1914), Version 2 (August 2004) Abstract…
Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text
Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text Irvine, Susan Anglo-Saxon England, 34 (2005) Abstract ‘These fragments I have…
Common Medieval Pigments
Common Medieval Pigments By Amy Baker Published Online (2004) Introduction: Within the period of time formerly known as the “Dark Ages” there existed…
Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings
Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings Steele, Helen Published Online (2006) Abstract On the 10th of November 1203, Silvester Giraldus Cambrensis attended…
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…
Runes in Changing Contexts: Viking Age and Medieval Writing Traditions
Runes in Changing Contexts: Viking Age and Medieval Writing Traditions Källström, Magnus 7th International Runic Symposium, Oslo (2010) Abstract The topic of Viking…
The Tree of Virtues and the Tree of Vices in Beinecke MS 416
The Tree of Virtues and the Tree of Vices in Beinecke MS 416 By Matthew Aleksinas Published online (2006) Introduction: The triumph of…
Material and Meaning in Lead Pilgrims’ Signs
Material and Meaning in Lead Pilgrims’ Signs Lee, Jennifer (Indiana University – Purdue University of Indianapolis) Peregrinations, Vol.2, Issue 3 (2009) Abstract Thanks to…
The Visitatio Sepulchri in the Latin Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Holy Week commemorates the last days of Christ’s earthly presence, from his entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to his crucifixion and resurrection.
$20 Million of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts donated to the University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have received a major collection of 280 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, valued at over $20 million, from long-time…
A Novel Comparative Study of the Dating of Bulgarian Parchment Manuscripts
A Novel Comparative Study of the Dating of Bulgarian Parchment Manuscripts By Jordan Tabov, Svilena Hristova and Milena Dobreva Paper given at QQML2009:…
Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500]
Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500] David, Sumithra…
The Several Sages: The Late Middle English Herbal in its Genre, Manuscript and Printed Context
The origins of herbal literature lie in the gathering and harvesting of herbs for nurture and health.
Rare 15th century copy of Book of Calculation by Fibonacci goes up for auction
A fifteenth-century copy of a medieval mathematical book is expected to sell for between $120,000 and 180,000 at a New York City auction…
Birds in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg
Birds in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg By Charles Vaurie The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 29, no. 6 (1971)…
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…
Rare Medieval Jewish Manuscript to be displayed at The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be displaying a rare medieval Jewish manuscript known as the Washington Haggadah. It is on loan from the…
Music in the Time of Saint Anselm
Music in the Time of Saint Anselm Cox, Donald R. (Saint Anselm College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract The 11th century…
TRANSFORMATIONS OF AUTHORIAL REPRESENTATION IN THE MANESSE CODEX
TRANSFORMATIONS OF AUTHORIAL REPRESENTATION IN THE MANESSE CODEX DECHANT, DENNIS LYLE MA Thesis, University of Oregon, June (2010) Abstract Author portraits appear frequently in the…