A Medieval Miscellany

A Medieval Miscellany
Author: Judith Herrin
Publisher: Studio
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Civilization, Medieval
ISBN: 9780670893775

This dazzlingly beautiful book, containing over four hundred full-color illustrations from medieval manuscripts, is basically the Middle Ages speaking for itself. These scenes from medieval life often appear familiar, intensely human, and recognizable, yet also distant. They depict the everyday concerns of people who loved, worried, feasted, starved, warred, and prayed across a vast area from Scandinavia to Constantinople, from Ireland to Sicily, and from Spain to Jerusalem for nearly a thousand years. Many recorded their fears, jokes, and anxieties, especially with their health and pains, as well as their delights. This miscellany reproduces their own words from poems, chronicles, wills, romances, epitaphs, letters, and legal regulations--and all have been translated into modern English. Drawn from history, but in no way a history, A Medieval Miscellany is a mosaic, necessarily incomplete, where the bright tesserae have been gathered from every corner and period of the medieval world.

A Medieval Miscellany

A Medieval Miscellany
Author: Margaret Wade Labarge
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780886292904

The varied lives of medieval women, their power and status within society, are depicted through their own writings; questions of medieval culture are linked to those facing humanity in our time; travel, as experienced by the most prestigious ambassador and by the lowliest pilgrim, is explored; and the origins and conditions of health care are examined. These themes have inspired or informed her eight major works, but are revisited here with the clarity, wit and discipline of a great teacher.

The Medieval Manuscript Book

The Medieval Manuscript Book
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107066190

This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.

A Medieval Latin Miscellany

A Medieval Latin Miscellany
Author: Art Robson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Latin language, Medieval and modern
ISBN: 9781491030349

This Medieval Latin reader is aimed at intermediate undergraduate/advanced high school Latin students. The texts included in this collection cover religious biography (excerpts from Jerome's Life of Hilarion), tall-tales (Asinarius and Rapularius), heroic journey (Alexander the Great Meets Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons and Letaldus of Micy's The Fisherman Swallowed by a Whale), fables (Odo of Cheriton) and jokes (Poggio Bracciolini). Introductions to each text, as well as assistance with vocabulary, grammar, and syntax are provided.

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography

The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography
Author: Frank T. Coulson
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 1075
Release: 2020
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0195336941

Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography surveys these books, with special emphasis on the variety of scripts in which they were written. Palaeography, in the strictest sense, examines how the changing styles of script and the fluctuating shapes of individual letters allow the date and the place of production of books to be determined. More broadly conceived, palaeography examines the totality of early book production, ownership, dissemination, and use. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography includes essays on major types of script (Uncial, Insular, Beneventan, Visigothic, Gothic, etc.), describing what defines these distinct script types, and outlining when and where they were used. It expands on previous handbooks of the subject by incorporating select essays on less well-studied periods and regions, in particular late mediaeval Eastern Europe. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography is also distinguished from prior handbooks by its extensive focus on codicology and on the cultural settings and contexts of mediaeval books. Essays treat of various important features, formats, styles, and genres of mediaeval books, and of representative mediaeval libraries as intellectual centers. Additional studies explore questions of orality and the written word, the book trade, glossing and glossaries, and manuscript cataloguing. The extensive plates and figures in the volume will provide readers wtih clear illustrations of the major points, and the succinct bibliographies in each essay will direct them to more detailed works in the field.

A Scholastic Miscellany

A Scholastic Miscellany
Author: Eugene Rathbone Fairweather
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1956-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664244187

This is collection of Christian treatises written prior to the end of the sixteenth century.

Tottel's Miscellany

Tottel's Miscellany
Author: Amanda Holton
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 014193378X

Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt's intimate poem about lost love which begins 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seke', and Surrey's passionate sonnet 'Complaint of a lover rebuked' are joined in the miscellany by a large collection of diverse, intriguingly anonymous poems both moral and erotic, intimate and universal.

Reading in the Wilderness

Reading in the Wilderness
Author: Jessica Brantley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2008-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0226071340

Just as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Drawing on the work of W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Camille, and others working at the image-text crossroads, Reading in the Wilderness addresses the manuscript’s texts and illustrations to examine connections between reading and performance within the solitary monk’s cell and also outside. Brantley reimagines the medieval codex as a site where the meanings of images and words are performed, both publicly and privately, in the act of reading.

Book of Beasts

Book of Beasts
Author: Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606065904

A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.