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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited Gentry, Gentility, and Genealogy in Lancashire: The Cudworths of Werneth Hall, Oldham, c.1377–1683 in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago(Re-)constructing the lineage of one lesser-gentry family in eastern Lancashire (from the thirteenth-century Oldham family to their sale of Werneth Hall), this study – utilising wills, inventories, deeds, parish registers, and other archives – surveys the Cudworths’ socio-political, religious, and educational interests, as well as their wider ass…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited From Minority to Maturity: The Evolution of Later Lollardy in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThough English supporters of the Oxford theologian John Wycliffe (d.1384)—known as “Lollards”—had been drawn from academic and noble/gentry circles during the later-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, persecution, equation of heresy with sedition, and the failure of Sir John Oldcastle’s Rebellion (1414) ensured overt abandonment of Lollard i…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited From Minority to Maturity: The Evolution of Later Lollardy in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThough English supporters of the Oxford theologian John Wycliffe (d.1384)—known as “Lollards”—had been drawn from academic and noble/gentry circles during the later-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, persecution, equation of heresy with sedition, and the failure of Sir John Oldcastle’s Rebellion (1414) ensured overt abandonment of Lollard i…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited From Minority to Maturity: The Evolution of Later Lollardy in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThough English supporters of the Oxford theologian John Wycliffe (d.1384)—known as “Lollards”—had been drawn from academic and noble/gentry circles during the later-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, persecution, equation of heresy with sedition, and the failure of Sir John Oldcastle’s Rebellion (1414) ensured overt abandonment of Lollard i…[Read more]
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Patrick Hart deposited The Idea of North in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe idea of the North in Western society has a long and distinguished history. Indeed, the only ‘purely ethnographic treatise that survives from antiquity’ is Tacitus’s Germania, his description of the Germanic peoples (Mellor 1993: 14). Tacitus produced his short treatise as a way of forcing Romans to confront the luxurious decadence that he fe…[Read more]
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Monica H. Green started the topic Plague Studies for Medievalists in the discussion
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoFor medievalists looking to update their teaching notes on medieval pandemics, this regularly-updated bibliography will be useful to bookmark: Joris Roosen and Monica H. Green, “The Mother of All Pandemics: The State of Black Death Research in the Era of COVID-19 – Bibliography,” [date accessed], https…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Local Habitations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare Bulletin 40.3 (Fall 2022): pp. 417-437. in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe metatheatricality of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has invited recent directors to tell particular kinds of socially progressive stories. This article uses the notion of “social reparation” to theorize remedial uses of Shakespeare in adaptations that give artists and audiences more moral agency. By imagining more inclusive local habitations and s…[Read more]
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Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late- Medieval Portugal in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). It offers a perspective into the historical imaginary of the late-medieval Portuguese aristocracy; an imaginary that underlay the argumentation of members of this social class in defence of their…[Read more]
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Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late- Medieval Portugal in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). It offers a perspective into the historical imaginary of the late-medieval Portuguese aristocracy; an imaginary that underlay the argumentation of members of this social class in defence of their…[Read more]
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Jake Stattel deposited Legal Culture in the Danelaw: a Study of III Æthelred in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoViking invasions and settlements left substantial legacies in late Anglo-Saxon England, attested in legal texts as a division between areas under Dena lage and those under Ængla lage. But how legal practice in Scandinavian-settled England functioned and differed from Anglo-Saxon law remains unclear. III Æthelred, the ‘Wantage Code’, provides criti…[Read more]
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Martin Roland deposited Martin Roland: Erzählstrategien der Bildprogramme zur ‚Weltchronik‘ in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDer Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis des Bildprogramms zur Weltchronik des Rudolf von Ems zu anderen Bildprogrammen von volkssprachlichen Weltchroniken.
Es gibt keinen für Rudolf von Ems typischen Illustrationsmodus. Weder Rudolf noch irgendeine andere Weltchronik hat eine derart individuell ausgeprägte und von der biblischen Grundlage sich ab…[Read more] -
Martin Roland deposited Martin Roland: Erzählstrategien der Bildprogramme zur ‚Weltchronik‘ in the group
Medieval Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDer Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis des Bildprogramms zur Weltchronik des Rudolf von Ems zu anderen Bildprogrammen von volkssprachlichen Weltchroniken.
Es gibt keinen für Rudolf von Ems typischen Illustrationsmodus. Weder Rudolf noch irgendeine andere Weltchronik hat eine derart individuell ausgeprägte und von der biblischen Grundlage sich ab…[Read more] -
Martin Roland deposited Der Waldrapp. Historische Quellen (Version 1/1: 2022 Februar 14) in the group
Medieval Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDie Quellensammlung zum Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita – Northern Bald Ibis) versammelt Knochenfunde (ab dem Miozän), Bildquellen aus dem Mittleren Osten, dem Alten Ägypten, der Antike, dem Mittelalter und bis ins 17. Jahrhundert und Textquellen, die bis in die Antike zurückreichen und einen eindeutigen Höhepunkt im 16. Jahrhundert (Conrad Ges…[Read more]
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Martin Roland deposited Der Waldrapp. Historische Quellen (Version 1/1: 2022 Februar 14) in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDie Quellensammlung zum Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita – Northern Bald Ibis) versammelt Knochenfunde (ab dem Miozän), Bildquellen aus dem Mittleren Osten, dem Alten Ägypten, der Antike, dem Mittelalter und bis ins 17. Jahrhundert und Textquellen, die bis in die Antike zurückreichen und einen eindeutigen Höhepunkt im 16. Jahrhundert (Conrad Ges…[Read more]
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Martin Roland deposited Martin Roland, Das Stadtbuch von Waidhofen an der Thaya Verwaltungsschrifttum als Mittel städtischer Repräsentation in the group
Medieval Art on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDas Stadtbuch der niederösterreichischen Stadt Waidhofen an der Thaya aus der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts beginnt mit einer bemerkenswerten Initiale. Diese kombiniert Motive, die aus Notarssigneten stammen mit einem Vogel, der seit 1971 mit dem Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) identifiziert wurde.
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Martin Roland deposited Martin Roland, Das Stadtbuch von Waidhofen an der Thaya Verwaltungsschrifttum als Mittel städtischer Repräsentation in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDas Stadtbuch der niederösterreichischen Stadt Waidhofen an der Thaya aus der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts beginnt mit einer bemerkenswerten Initiale. Diese kombiniert Motive, die aus Notarssigneten stammen mit einem Vogel, der seit 1971 mit dem Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) identifiziert wurde.
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