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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani’s Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage,” Remapping Travel Narratives in the Early Modern World (Amsterdam UP, 2018) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 21 hours, 59 minutes agoWhile the trope of the Islamic pilgrimage (ḥajj) is well known, the impact of the imagery and concept of travel on poetic production from the Islamic world, particularly in Persian, has not merited the same scrutiny. This chapter introduces one of the most important and yet least-studied Persian travel narratives to an interdisciplinary r…[Read more]
James M. Harland deposited Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 6 days, 21 hours agoThis is an Accepted Manuscript, for an article forthcoming in Antiquity (2019), and remains subject to pre-publication type-editing and proofing. Please cite as James M. Harland, ‘Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD,’ Antiquity 93 (2019). A link to the final publication at Cambridge University Press…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqānī’s Christian Qaṣīda and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān,” Journal of Persianate Studies (2016) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoThis article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communities (ahl al-zemma), I offer a new perspective on…[Read more]
Clare Vernon deposited Symposium programme: Conquest and Construction: Architecture and Landscapes in the Medieval Mediterranean in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 6 days agoArchitecture Space and Society Research Centre, Birkbeck (University of London) Friday 1st March 2019
Keynes Library, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conquest-and-construction-tickets-55022443610Björn Gebert deposited Iste libellus pertinet … Goethe? Zwei spätmittelalterliche Handschriften mit Werken von Matthäus von Krakau, Heinrich von Langenstein und Johannes von Hildesheim aus Goethes Bibliothek in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoTwo late medieval manuscripts have been rediscovered in the library of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar in 2018. The paper gives, for the first time, a complete codicological and paleographical analysis of both manuscripts, presents a medieval owner and, last but not least, identifies the works contained in both codices.
Martin Roland deposited Basler Buchmalerei um 1430/40: zwei Neuzuschreibungen aus dem bestand der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThe article presents two manuscripts illuminated in Basle c 1420/40.
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Martin Roland deposited Illuminierte Handschriften im Internet. Kurzinventar der Handschriften des Zisterzienserstiftes Stams in Tirol in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThe contribuition presents an online-repository of illuminated manuscripts preseved in the abbey Stams in Tyrol
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Martin Roland deposited Illuminierte Urkunden im digitalen Zeitalter. Maßregeln und Chancen in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThe article presents illuminated charters and discusses how they might be presented online.
Thijs Porck deposited Everzwijn in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoA brief note on the boar in medieval culture for a special issue on animals in the Middle Ages
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Why Daghestan is Good to Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, and Global Islamic History in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoDuring the final decade of his productive life, Moshe Gammer (1950-2013) edited the first major English-language series on Daghestani philology. This chapter examines key aspects of Gammer’s legacy, while offering an overview of Daghestani philology from the colonial period to the present, and outlining how this field of inquiry enables us to r…[Read more]
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El manuscrito del ‘Cancionero de Baena’ (PN1): Descripción codicológica y evolución histórica in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoThe present article attempts to establish as accurately as possible the chronological trajectory of the unique codex of the Cancionero de Baena (PN1 in the Dutton nomenclature). It begins with a detailed examination of the codicological aspects of the manuscript, which serve to date its origin to around 1465. This origin, combined with the…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Anglofilia y anglofobia en la Castilla medieval: Thomas Becket y el duque de Lancáster en la arenga de Juan I de Trastámara ante las Cortes de Segovia (1386) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoSe suele señalar a 1385 como uno de los momentos de mayor incertidumbre política, social y económica no solo del medievo peninsular, sino prácticamente de toda la historia de España. En aquella precisa fecha, al factor estructural de lo que se ha venido en llamar la crisis del modelo de producción feudal, se le añadió un factor coyuntural bien co…[Read more]
Jesse Arlen deposited Armenian Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months agoAn article on the Armenian manuscripts at the Vatican Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana).
Marco Heiles deposited Handschriftenbeschreibung: Hamburg, Universitäts- und Staatsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoDetailed manuscript description of the 15th century German manuscript Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1.
Arzneibuch – Volmar: ‚Steinbuch‘ – Kochrezepte – Gottfried v. Franken: ‚Pelzbuch‘ – Farb- und Tintenrezepte – ‚Lucidarius‘-‚Elucidarius‘-Kompilation – Johann v. Indersdorf (?): Sentenzen und Gebete – ‚Die sieben wei…[Read more]
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Thijs Porck deposited Review: J. Tigelaar, Brabants historie ontvouwd. Die alder excellenste cronyke van Brabant en het Brabantse geschiedbeeld anno 1500 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoA book review of J. Tigelaar, Brabants historie ontvouwd. Die alder excellenste cronyke van Brabant en het Brabantse geschiedbeeld anno 1500
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Thijs Porck deposited Een Rijnlandse serie adelskronieken 1533–1542. Het zogenaamde Voorste Haagsche Handschrift in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoAn article that identifies and describes a series of sixteenth-century Dutch nobility chronicles in The Hague, KB 131 G 31.
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Thijs Porck deposited Vergrijzing in een Oudengels heldendicht. De rol van oude koningen in de Beowulf in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoIn this article, I suggest Beowulf should be read as a mirror of princes for elderly kings.
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Thijs Porck deposited Eald enta geweorc: De Romeinen in vroegmiddeleeuws Engeland (ca. 450-1100) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoA short article about the Nachleben of the Romans and classical antiquity in Anglo-Saxon England.
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Thijs Porck deposited De Brederodekroniek voor Yolande van Lalaing in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis article contextualizes the Brederodekroniek [Brederode Chronicle] by Johannes a Leydis (Jan van Leiden). After a discussion of the surviving manuscripts, I provide a new date of composition for the Middle Dutch and Latin versions of this chronicle and reflect on its original purpose..
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Thijs Porck deposited How Cnut became Canute (and how Harthacnut became Airdeconut) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis article discusses the development of the spelling for the name of Cnut the Great, Viking king of England from 1016 to 1035, from to . The origin of this disyllabic spelling is uncertain and has been attributed to taboo deflection, the simplification of the consonant cluster /kn/ in English and even a pope’s inability to pronounce the name C…[Read more]
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