Knowledge Commons | Kate Lingley | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/klingley/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Kate Lingley is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:18:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 958103c8fcb760614062be84e3f05940 Morée Research Project started the topic New York Dada Research — NEW in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/new-york-dada-research-new-2/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:30:10 -0500 Thanks to everyone who downloaded my recent book. I’m gathering brief impressions for a future revision — any thoughts welcome.
https://doi.org/10.17613/pt8e0-r9y91

]]> b7750bf65541e1caa4c0e960e7ccd3e7 Dora Apel created the doc Chapter on "Art" for The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1913514/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:34:10 -0400 8d05f2d5d0c76bda4548d3157ef701ef Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-4/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:31:03 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 3526f2a8b6d8388c9e9d333bb8b68825 Lajos Brons deposited Buddhism and the State: Rājadhamma after the Sattelzeit in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902276/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:11 -0400 Rājadhamma is a list of ten royal virtues or duties that occurs in the jātaka tales and that has been influential in Southeast Asian Buddhist political thought. Like pre-modern political thought in Europe—that is, thought before the Sattelzeit—Buddhist political thought lacks a concept of the “state” and is concerned with kings and similar r…[Read more]

]]> 0 85b554bca8926a549eeddb01306aff4d Rainer Schreg deposited Assessing Settlement Dynamics in Medieval Central and Western Europe in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902275/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Medieval rural settlements have seen a variety of transformations from dispersed to nucleated settlements, from shifting settlements to permanent villages. There are regional developments as well as general trends. In many landscapes in Central and Western Europe these processes resulted in the formation of the late medieval village nucleated…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3a6cc7bc849d1e5ed887e4226be0c81 Marco Heiles deposited The Origins of the Modern Calendar in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901186/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:51 -0400 AI generated conversation on the origins of the modern calendar created with NotebookLM (Audio Overview) on the basis of:
Marco Heiles, Die Entstehung des modernen Kalenders. Zur ungeschriebenen Medien- und Literaturgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Kalender von den Anfängen bis um 1600, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und R…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf33b99ebf7f94989bdcddc153710a36 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Towards Non-Eurocentric Historiographies: Challenging Europe’s Position in the Formation of Architectural Histories in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901092/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:01:26 -0400 The point of departure for this paper is the idea that Europe as a concept is related to the project of thinking and accomplishing universality. It represents the potential for an enlightened resistance in a world that is progressively becoming dominated by the mono-perspectivism of globalism. In this sense, Eurocentrism is specifiable only within…[Read more]

]]> 0 563131cd96785b6981b715c407cb2f6b Edmond Malaj deposited MARRËVESHJE DHE ÇËSHTJE TË TJERA NDËRMJET RAGUZËS DHE FISNIKËVE ARBËRORË in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900701/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:27 -0400 This article provides information about the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ragusa and some important Albanian noble families in the Middle Ages. The paper aims to introduce the most important diplomas and agreements these families have made with the state of Ragusa. The agreements are mostly economic and are mainly related to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ec981b677f9aeca5313961701e659e8 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Marianna Charitonidou, “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Conception of Urbanism and Urban Public Space”, in Rosa Tamborrino, ed., Città che si adattano?/Adaptive Cities? Volume 1 (Turin: AISU International, 2024), 508-521. in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900346/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:00:39 -0400 This paper sheds light on the complex relationship between the Cold War policies including the European Recovery Program (ERP), and urban public space. Its main objective is to provide a precise and deep understanding of how the Marshall plan politics, contributed to the formation of national identity in Greece and Italy. The paper focuses on two…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0bfbf3fe582e9144881d48b4c397a62 Manfred Engel deposited Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams / Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle, Manfred Engel and Laura Vordermayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2024 (Cultural Dream Studies; 9) — Contents and Preface in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898534/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

]]> 0 e27fe28590c88f7fac0eef0195fce27a Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897876/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:59 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 83621b4fae8754a41e39b7fc4d812ae3 Steve McCarty deposited "Japanese People and Society" presentation link in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896898/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 From 2004-2024 the author introduced Japan to visiting foreign officials for the government foreign aid agency Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). From 2020, when JICA could not bring participants to Japan, his recorded presentation by Zoom was shown at JICA branches abroad. Now, JICA has released the 98-minute recording from exclusive…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb3a7e4699aa2517f6d482b4a1cc3dd5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895888/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:46 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 12583d0af11ed0b00567c95db05520cf Marianna Charitonidou deposited Takis Zenetos and High-Tech Architecture: Electronic Urbanism vis-à-vis Autonomous Ecological Living Units in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895814/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:00:14 -0400 At the core of Takis Zenetos’s understanding of high-tech architecture and urbanism were the ways in which technology can have a positive impact on how citizens inhabit space. This paper analyses Zenetos’s project entitled ‘Electronic Urbanism’, which concerned the design of housing units adapted to the conditions of working from home. Zenetos…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5fc2dd9073e941bc7c83764e98aec16 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895616/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b60fb77ae106385acd255f9a881a5a2 Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-5/#post-88123 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:58:08 -0400 Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

 

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

 

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War narra…[Read more]

]]> 89d8ec1a85d11432585d459cff29f596 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894295/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:25 -0400 This essay will focus mostly on the Tang dynastic empire (618–907 CE), a “second
wave” empire as defined in the Introduction to this volume, and its relations with
Buddhism, although it will be necessary to say something about earlier Chinese dynasties
and about other religions. As we shall see, an awareness of history permeates
the relat…[Read more]

]]> 0 433029aa4d35c2e71a7cfb51c32979a5 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894293/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:16 -0400 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 5d7ecb41e0f97d3b1663d97efdd785bb James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894291/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:01 -0400 Abstract: The early eighth-century Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture
known as Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sūtra contains some vivid and
lengthy descriptions of demonic states that may arise for the practitioner in
deep states of meditation. In some of these states, the practitioner is said to
experience profound mis-perceptions of real…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ffcf22f200c105f1d3c1ac74ce68ba5 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893756/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:33 -0400 In this paper, I offer a new reading of the popular narrative of
Princess Miaoshan in Chinese religion, placing it within the larger context
of self-immolation as found in Buddhist narratives and the actions of selfimmolators.
The acts of extreme violence done to Miaoshan by her father
and herself (she stabs the inside of her mouth with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0ba8b6ff84d4b01fd94a1bb284daf88 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893754/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:21 -0400 This is the final submitted version of my chapter for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Some changes have been made in the published version and that version should be cited. I am sharing this version in accord with the copyright policy for Brill, which allows sharing of the accepted manuscript but not of the published .pdf. Full publication d…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed452bb93790263630ea2839ac5aa90a Rosanna Cantavella deposited Inventari dels rims acordants i diccionals en Jordi de Sant Jordi in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889655/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:18 -0400 This .ods spreadsheet collects all acordant and diccional rhymes of the preserved poetry of Jordi de Sant Jordi. This inventory has been udertaken by Rosanna Cantavella (Universitat de València-Clare Hall University of Cambridge), and interpreted as a paper for the symposion "'Tots jorns aprench e desaprench ensemps': 600 anys de Jordi de Sant…[Read more]

]]> 0 de983778c2266f332ebc5bd0c2a9dc7b Matthew Firth deposited What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889290/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:00:50 -0400 King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but is often considered to have been bestowed in the Elizabethan era by Reformation scholars who increasingly cast Alfred in the role of the founder of the English nation. The acknowledged exception is a refer…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f6d2aea50b2fd693308e55dd368a3ba Bryan Lowe deposited Patrons of Paper and Clay: Methods for Studying Women’s Religiosity in Ancient Japan in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888408/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:01:27 -0400 This chapter argues that women’s most prominent role in ancient Japanese manuscript cultures was not as authors of texts but as patrons. Women likely commissioned the transcription of tens of thousands of scrolls of Buddhist scripture. They also produced short inscriptions, in colophons and on clay and other materials, that documented their p…[Read more]

]]> 0 7abf63bbc62c232e958407770769d5dc Monica H. Green deposited Why We Are Still Debating the “Origin” of the Black Death in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886926/ Thu, 23 May 2024 03:00:29 -0400 In 1998, molecular geneticists first announced that they had retrieved fragments of the genetic material of Yersinia pestis from sites that had historically been associated with outbreaks of pestilencia. That announcement was in fact followed by a decade of debate about what constituted good methods in the emerging field of palaeogenetics.…[Read more]

]]> 0 769bd935571cc4852cda76e1149c821e Rainer Schreg deposited Noch nie dagewesen? Hochwasser und Starkregen im Juli 2021 und im Juli 1342 in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882217/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:02:31 -0400 This blogpost compares the flood events from 2021 and 1342. The example of St. Magdalein's flood in 1342 challenges modern risk assessment and contributes to the environmental history of times of climate change. The blogpost presents a short review of the state of research especially in the landscapes along the river Main.

]]> 0 9fd05727e7e7046ec916f5dd15f873b6 Rainer Schreg deposited Struktureller Wandel des Verkehrs als For-schungsproblem der Archäologie. – die These vielfältiger Veränderungen im Verkehrs¬wesen während der staufischen Zeit in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882213/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:01:57 -0400 Structural Changes in Traffic as a Research Problem of Medieval Archaeology – the hypothesis of changes in traffics during the Staufian period
Based on written sources historian Thomas Szabó postulated major changes within traffic and transportation during the Staufian Period (12th/13th c.). He recognised changes in the ways of orientation, co…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1c8e56783f0172aa9867787b1ed806a Rainer Schreg deposited Archäologische Funde aus der Fils. Ein Beispiel für die Problematik von Gewässerfunden in Vorgeschichte und Mittelalter in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882203/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:00:11 -0400 Archaeological finds from riverbeds are a common phenomenon and there has been a broad discussion on their interpretation. The main problem with this category of finds is the question whether they were deposited or accidentally lost. This article tried to scetch the situation at the small river Fils, a tributary of the Neckar at the Northern rim…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec689e843848675c5b26aea1a50db3ac Joel Bordeaux deposited From Bauddha Deśa to Śākta Pīṭha: Re/Locating the Hindu Goddess Tārā in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881077/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:02:18 -0400 The incorporation of the goddess Tārā into the Hindu pantheon appears to have begun around the turn of the first millennium, a couple of centuries after her first mentions in Buddhist sources. The earliest Hindu texts concerned with Tārā tend to acknowledge this through a narrative wherein the Vedic sage Vasiṣṭha must travel to ‘Greater China’ to…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3f43d64c6e4bd11f02988da55961200 Ana Dumitran deposited Intercultural and Visual Art Transfer in Central Europe and the Balkans. Ruthenian-Ukrainian and Romanian Art from the 15th to the Early 19th Century in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881049/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:46 -0400 The book is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant RICONTRANS editorial programme (grant agreement no. 818791) and contains 11 studies on cultural and artistic transfers between the former Polish-Lithuanian Community and the Romanian territories (Moldova, Muntenia and Transylvania).

]]> 0 26e613db7d67f00387656b0f04398f00 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La poesía de protesta medieval a través del cine de Hollywood, de los Monty Python y de la serie Juego de Tronos in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880567/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:01:00 -0400 El presente trabajo articula varias reflexiones sobre la poesía de protesta en la Castilla medieval y su representación en la pequeña y en la gran pantalla a través de tres referencias audiovisuales: un filme clásico del cine histórico de Hollywood, 'El valle de las espadas' ( 'The Castillian’, 1963); uno de los grandes éxitos humoríst…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1781955dae89736ae8a2ea8ef70040a Steve McCarty deposited Discovering Japanese Fusion of Religions on the Pilgrimage Island of Shikoku in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878831/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:00:34 -0500 This chapter traces the eventful biography of Steve McCarty vis-à-vis Japan. The story spans decades from graduate school specializing in Japan to discovering an astonishing syncretism of Asian religions. Along the way, the author gained a Japanese family and became a rare foreign full professor in 1993. Anecdotes vividly portray daily life,…[Read more]

]]> 0 94f4d88ce4d97f6fbf72a4b0a4731bd6 Ana Dumitran deposited Museikon. A Journal of Religious Art and Culture in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877125/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:01:24 -0500 The 7th issue of the Museikon journal contains articles signed by Ileana Sasu, Alina Kondratiuk, Elisabeta Negrău, Alessia Chapel, Vladimir Agrigoroaei, Daniel Dumitran, Sidonia Olea, Claudiu Stoian, Ana Dumitran, Laura Jiga-Iliescu, Luiza Zamora, Levente Nagy, Csaba Szabo and Dragoș Ursu.

]]> 0 df19de0c38c93b4e2c5eb6d28a223fd9 Marco Heiles deposited Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute – Simon von Trient und QAnon in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876626/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:00:23 -0500 Verschwörungserzählungen haben seit einigen Jahren Konjunktur und finden ein immer größeres und sichtbareres Publikum. Die Vorlesung will versuchen, die aktuellen Verschwörungserzählungen um QAnon historisch zu lesen und mit ihren spätmittelalterlichen Vorläufern, hier am Beispiel der Ritualmordlegende um Simon von Trient von 1475, zu verglei…[Read more]

]]> 0 10223746eeb35d4d4c9354221dfd54e2 Thijs Porck deposited J. R. R. Tolkien: Midden-aarde als voedingsbodem voor de mediëvistiek in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874613/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:00:19 -0500 Thijs Porck, “J. R. R. Tolkien: Midden-aarde als voedingsbodem voor de mediëvistiek”, in Spiegelingen: Mediëvisten voor de eenentwintigste eeuw, ed. Wim van Anrooij, Bart Besamusca, Dieuwke van der Poel & Frank Willaert (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2023), 77-90.

]]> 0 600afd469e3d3d97e84e00529eeaa09c Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-5/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:43:08 -0500 CFP: Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

Location: Vienna, Austria

Date: 19-20 Spetember 2024

Submission deadline: 31 March 2024

 

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did…[Read more]

]]> 031fe41b37a4087b0093f07ac6ecbaa3 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Libro de los pensamientos variables» como ejemplo de utopía y disidencia en el siglo XV in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871931/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:00:36 -0500 El artículo analiza una curiosa obra titulada «Libro de los pensamientos variables», mezcla de prosa y verso y compuesta entre 1488 y 1492, que se conserva en un solo manuscrito de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (MSS/6442). Tras resumirse su contenido y sus principales inf luencias literarias, se intenta identificar a su posible autor como el…[Read more]

]]> 0 98f6fdbbb6a1247f87aaddb17d2deb86 Wannasarn Noonsuk deposited Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870982/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:00:40 -0500 This is the new and final version of the book, Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present. It explores Hindu elements which have been localized in Southeast Asian art and culture from the ancient to contemporary periods.

]]> 0 8bbd46267117f4a2d5ec58aa5ef47e7b Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Auge y caída de 'lo' judeoconverso en La Celestina: un debate en decadencia in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870976/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:00:27 -0500 Mis conversaciones con Joseph T. Snow, nuestro querido Pepe Nieves, como él mismo nos insta a llamarlo desde el contacto inicial, generalmente tienen lugar en la cafetería de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, un insólito locus amoenus en el cual el más habitual inquilino del pupitre 99 de la Sala María Moliner ejerce con bondad y simpatía su papel…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3f665babde7e4e51deef8dcd94dd69e Lécio Leal deposited Preceitos para uma Arte Edificante: pintura e gravura na corte josefina através da obra de António Joaquim Padrão (c. 1730-1771) in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870974/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:00:07 -0500 This research it isn't confined to António Joaquim Padrão (c. 1730-71) – marginal personality in the portuguese capital artistic scene, yet with a independent workshop operating in the city during the third quarter of the eighteenth century, working has a painter and engraver – historical-biographical reconstruction, nor to his artistic corpu…[Read more]

]]> 0 eef861a17843db6cd493e4abbaca838e Ana Dumitran deposited Icoana Sfântului Ioan Botezătorul cu scene din viață de la Budești‑Josani in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870887/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:02:22 -0500 In the history of old Romanian painting, the icon of Saint John the Baptist with scenes from his life from Budești‑Josani occupies a very important place due to its exceptional artistic quality, as well as the Slavonic inscription with the master’s signature and date. The inscription, in a very poor state of preservation, has already been part…[Read more]

]]> 0 661590b9f5169de6e8d8042df6ad1a34 Ana Dumitran deposited The Chronology of the Murals in the Râmeț Monastic Church (Alba County, Romania) Based on a Reevaluation of the Dating of the Narthex Inscription in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870879/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:00:58 -0500 La découverte d’une inscription slavonne dans le narthex de l’église du monastère de Râmeț (comté d’Alba) en 1966, sa relecture avec des moyens techniques spéciaux en 1978 et sa publication officielle en 1985 ont porté à l’attention des historiens le nom du peintre (Mihul du Criș-Blanc), le nom de l’évêque fondateur (archevêque Gélase),…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6b715988546397649c2131d6b35f3e4 Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Lectio praecursoria: The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868516/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:00:42 -0500 This text consists of the 'lectio praecursoria' given at the defense of my doctoral dissertation "The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal". This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c803723f0ea2b1612ae29c250fd801c Lloyd Graham deposited Eyes wide open: A recurring ocular motif in and beyond Syracuse, Sicily in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868208/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:00:03 -0500 Sicily – and especially Syracuse – seems to have had an ongoing preoccupation with paired eyes as an apotropaic or magico-religious symbol. This brief paper explores some signature pieces and speculates that the excised eyes of Santa Lucia, patron saint of Syracuse, may be but a recent embodiment of a propensity that dates back to the Neolithic era.

]]> 0 63138bb1525ceccec285b651fa6f4039 Manuel Kamenzin deposited Die Tode der römisch-deutschen Könige und Kaiser (1150-1349) in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864684/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:07:04 -0500 Illnesses, murders, accidents, one battle death and one suicide - a wide variety of deaths were attributed to the Holy Roman kings and emperors of the 12th to 14th centuries. This book is dedicated to the contemporary tradition of the deaths of rulers in the 'Staufer period', the 'interregnum' and the first half of the 14th century from a…[Read more]

]]> 0 89b721cfcb67d32cb54b6300c00abf28 Manuel Kamenzin deposited Verfehlungen und Strafen in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864682/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:06:53 -0500 This article compares the accounts of Pope Innocent IV’s death in Salimbene de Adam’s „Cronica“ and Matthew Paris’ „Chronica Majora“, focusing on the narrative strategies employed to ascribe a good or a bad death to the deceased through the depiction of his final hours. Each chronicler attributed different misdeeds to the pope, for which he was…[Read more]

]]> 0 107d3c46e7827c9420a49ef77d07922d Marianna Charitonidou deposited Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City's Inhabitants in the 20th Century in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864681/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:06:43 -0500 How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e60d62eddb2c84a54965861d52147ea Evina Stein(ova) deposited Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses? in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864358/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:01:04 -0500 Glossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]

]]> 0 a586dd17d470f461a03728ed0bf344a2 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Frank Gehry’s non-trivial drawings as gestures: drawdlings and a kinaesthetic approach to architecture in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864256/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:16:37 -0500 Departing from the intention to explore Frank Gehry’s drawings serving to their own designer to grasp ideas during the process of their genesis, the article examines Frank Gehry’s concern about the revelation of the first gestural drawings and all the sketches and working models concerning the evolution of his projects, and his intention to cap…[Read more]

]]> 0 acfd95773f4606171047bb7cfdb65f00 Monica H. Green deposited A Diabolus ex machina? On the Speed and Route of Plague’s Late Medieval Transit Across Eurasia (2023) - abstract and bibliography in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864247/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:00:06 -0500 This is the abstract and bibliography of works cited for an invited talk presented at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro on 9 November 2023. It was part of the Department of Biology's Ashby Dialogue Series, devoted to the topic "Emergent Pathogens and Globalization: Past and Present."

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