The medieval landscape and environment has a rich and long tradition and is an area in which many of the disciplines that comprise medieval studies have made significant contributions. Scholars working on ideas of the landscape, concepts of space and place as well as in the developing field of environmental humanities have added to our theoretical framework for understanding people’s relationships with the environment in the past.
The Medieval Landscape/Seascape group hope to encourage a dialogue to being addressing key questions about landscapes/seascapes in the Middle Ages: What is the relationship between the experience and conceptualisation of landscapes/seascape? What gaps exist in the evidence for the landscape/seascape as a physical, economic, social and cultural phenomenon, and can interdisciplinary work help us to bridge these? What innovative methods and approaches can we bring to the study of medieval landscape/seascape?
Asa Simon Mittman deposited The Vercelli Map in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoThe Vercelli Map, one of the largest maps to survive from the Middle Ages, has not received the attention it merits (Plate IV). This is likely the result of its very poor state of preservation, which has been a constant theme in what little has been published on it.’ There are several studies that make brief mention of the map, and a few studies…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Mapping Global Middle Ages, Toward a Global Middle Ages in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoIn Order to understand what a “global Middle Ages” might be, we need to define “global” in and in relation to the “Middle Ages.” To do so, I turn to medieval (Christian) maps. Their construction of the world-the most, maybe all, others-was founded on inclusion and exclusion. In seeking to construct a global Middle Ages, the authors in this volume…[Read more]
Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Sensory Histories of Place Workshop in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 7 months agoProgram of the Sensory Histories of Place workshop, organized by me and Elvan Baştürk Cobb, at ANAMED in 2015.
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited “The Other Close at Hand: Gerald of Wales and the ‘Marvels of the West,’” in The Monstrous Middle Ages, eds. Robert Mills and Bettina Bildhauer (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), 97-112 in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 10 months ago“The Other Close at Hand: Gerald of Wales and the ‘Marvels of the West,’” in The Monstrous Middle Ages, eds. Robert Mills and Bettina Bildhauer (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), 97-112
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited “Digital Mappaemundi: Changing the Way We Work with Medieval World Maps,” Peregrinations: The Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, with Martin Foys, vol. 2:3 (Summer 2009) in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 10 months ago“Digital Mappaemundi: Changing the Way We Work with Medieval World Maps,” Peregrinations: The Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, with Martin Foys, vol. 2:3 (Summer 2009)
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited “Inverting the Panopticon: Google Earth, Wonder and Earthly Delights,” Literature Compass, ed. Elaine Treharne, 9/12: 938–954 in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoThis essay considers the user experience of Google Earth, comparing the world it presents with other world views including static print maps, medieval mappaemundi, and Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. It also considers the scopic environment of Google Earth in relation to Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, a theoretical prison design int…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited “Introduction to Mappings,” with Dan Terkla, Peregrinations: The Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, vol. IV:I (2013): 134-160 in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week ago“Introduction to Mappings,” with Dan Terkla, Peregrinations: The Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art, vol. IV:I (2013): 134-160
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Maps and Monsters in Medieval England in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain’s location at the periphery of the inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from the world’s holy center, the geographic margins were considered monstrous. Medieval geography,…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art…[Read more]
Rouco Collazo Jorge deposited Las funciones de una fortaleza bajomedieval: el caso de Pambre in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoLas fortalezas son uno de los más prominentes hitos del paisaje bajomedieval gallego. Pambre (Palas de Rei) es una de ellas, envuelta en la fama de ser una de las pocas capaz de resistir el ataque irmandiño. Sus constructores son los Ulloa, uno de los linajes nobles gallegos más distinguidos de los últimos siglos del medievo. La fortaleza de Pam…[Read more]
James L. Smith deposited Medieval Water Studies: Past, Present and Promise in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThe articles in this Special Collection engage directly with the realities of water as they simultaneously explore its intellectual potential in various genres of medieval writing, from crusade chronicles to medieval romance. In this way they shed new light not only on the literature and history they explore but also on medieval conceptions of…[Read more]
