GB Folengo Commentry on Psalm 51, translated into English with brief annotations

GB Folengo Commentry on Psalm 51, translated into English with brief annotations

overview on the history of the card game “Höllfahren” or “in die Höll”

Review of Medieval Dublin XVII (Dublin: Four Courts, 2019) in Óenach Reviews, 11 (2021-22), pp 27-32
https://oenach.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/2021-hewer-pp.-27-32.pdf

This article analyses the agency of merchant capital and taxation in processes of urbanisation. The case study is Ani, now abandoned and straddling the Turkish-Armenian border, in the long thirteenth century c.1200-1350. This global-historical conjuncture is defined by the height of the medieval Commercial Revolution and its central Eurasian…[Read more]

Melus, rendered “Meles” in Greek sources, first appears in 1009 when he and a relative named Dattus rebelled against the east Roman governor-general, the katepano, taking Bari, Ascoli and Troia, before being defeated by a new katepano in 1011 and fleeing to the prince of Salerno. This chapter looks at the evidence for identified Armenians in eas…[Read more]

Thijs Porck, “Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age”, in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 219-235, 278-282, 287.

Few studies in medieval and Renaissance cartography focus on race, in part owing to the genealogical issues discussed above, and in part owing to the racist origins and practices of the disciple of art history that normalizes seeing whiteness as both default norm an universal ideal. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the founder who gave the discipline…[Read more]

Cómo citar: Ignacio Cabello Llano (coord.), «Epidemias y pandemias en la Historia», en Fontes Medii Aevi, 05/10/2021, en línea: https://fontesmediae.hypotheses.org/tag/epidemias.

A brief article reporting on an educational strategy to use video assignments on Exeter Book Riddles for an Old English course.

Reports on the existence of a set of paper dolls based on the Old English poem Beowulf, published in various Dutch newspapers in the 1930s.

A Dutch article that discusses some of the Old English sources that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

The study of legal status in 13th-century English Ireland has suffered from a lack of law-in-action methodology, so many 19th-century assumptions have endured without critique. This article sorts out defensive pleas and petitions from court judgments, and applies decolonial and intersectional feminist methodologies to the terminology regarding the…[Read more]

Musical celebrations of the feast of St Cecilia were common in Europe since the fifteenth century and throughout the sixteenth century. Of the many composers who wrote music for this festivity we find four mid-sixteenth-century compositions by French composers. Two motets Cantantibus orgnis and Cecilia virgo gloriosa – by Pierre Certon which…[Read more]

The first section of the text of the unusual 1533 volume published by both Giovanni Battista and Teofilo Folengo: dialogues and prose pieces, inclduing the first of the Psalms commentaries published, together with a translation into English and annotations.

The first section of the text of the unusual 1533 volume published by both Giovanni Battista and Teofilo Folengo: dialogues and prose pieces, inclduing the first of the Psalms commentaries published, together with a translation into English and annotations.

Surprising volume of what looks like biblical commentary but is parody and erotica

Surprising volume of what looks like biblical commentary but is parody and erotica

Oversized volume of biblical commentary published in 1543 (and again in 1549, 1557, 1585, 1594) that is actually a parody which features the erotic lexicon popular in its day