Manuscripts and Medieval Song

Manuscripts and Medieval Song
Author: Helen Deeming
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107062632

This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.

Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space

Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space
Author: Tobias Frese
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110629151

Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The subjects range from book illumination over wall painting, mosaics, sculpture, and church interiors to inscriptions on portals and façades.

The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West

The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West
Author: Alison I. Beach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1244
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108770630

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.

Staging Holiness

Staging Holiness
Author: Sofia Zoitou
Publisher: Mediterranean Art Histories
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004436855

"In Staging Holiness. The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals and sites invested with special meaning in Rhodes, during a time when the island became one of the most frequented ports of call for ships carrying pilgrims from Venice to the Holy Land. Scrutinizing late medieval travel reports by pilgrims from all over Europe along with extant historical, archaeological, visual and material evidence, Sofia Zoitou traces the various forms of the Rhodian cultic sites' evolution and perception, ultimately considered as an overall artistic strategy for the staging of the sacred"--

Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia

Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1121
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004288600

In Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century. With articles on art and architecture; religion and the church; law and society; politics and historiography; language and literature; and learning and textual culture, the authors introduce medieval Galicia and current research on the region to medievalists, Hispanists, and students of regional culture and society. The cult of St. James, Santiago Cathedral, and the pilgrimage to Compostela are highlighted and contextualized to show how Galicia’s remoteness became the basis for a paradoxical centrality in medieval art, culture, and religion. Contributors are Jeffrey A. Bowman, Manuel Castiñeiras, James D'Emilio, Thomas Deswarte, Pablo C. Díaz, Emma Falque, Amélia P. Hutchinson, Amancio Isla, Henrik Karge, Melissa R. Katz, Michael Kulikowski, Fernando López Sánchez, Luis R. Menéndez Bueyes, William D. Paden, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, Ermelindo Portela, Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras, Adeline Rucquoi, Ana Suárez González, Purificación Ubric, Ramón Villares, John Williams †, and Roger Wright.

Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages

Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages
Author: Gaia Gubbini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110615983

A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, the role of memory and passions, in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval Self.

Ars Edendi

Ars Edendi
Author: Erika Kihlman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011
Genre: Editing
ISBN:

The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead

The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead
Author: Knud Ottosen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2008-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 8776911861

It may seem astonishing to some that there is a need for reprinting a 14-year old dissertation, but the fact is that the book is exactly as relevant to scholars today as it was in 1993. It still represents the world's largest database to compare the responsories of the Office of the Dead in more than 2,000 sources. Since the order of these responsories differed from church to church, this order can be used to localize medieval and Renaissance liturgical books. The book is therefore an absolute necessity for everyone who conducts research on the area it covers. Put differently, the book reveals 'the geography of the concept of death' in Europe from the 9th-16th centuries from a theological, liturgical, ecclesiastical, musical and political perspective - seen from one particular liturgical office: The Office of the Dead.

The Second Crusade and the Cistercians

The Second Crusade and the Cistercians
Author: M. Gervers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137068647

No subject in medieval history is changing as rapidly as crusade studies. Even so, the Second Crusade has been oddly neglected. The present volume is the first ever to have been devoted to it in English and one of the few which has appeared in any language. Particular attention is paid to the key role played by St.Bernard and the Cistercians in this crusade and their relations with the Military Orders. An interdisciplinary approach is taken, incorporating history, art and music. The Volume contains unparalleled bibliography, listing over 700 primary and secondary sources.