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Sara Margaret Butler deposited Sacred People, Sacred Spaces: Evidence of Parish Respect and Contempt for the pre-Reformation Clergy.” in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoConflicts between parish clergy and parishioners in late medieval England have been described as acts of both anticlericalism and proclericalism (that is, an attempt to compel clergy into living up to the parishioners’ increasingly high expectations of them). This paper hopes to expand our knowledge of parish conflict by turning to an o…[Read more]
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “More than Mothers: Juries of Matrons and Pleas of the Belly in Medieval England.” in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoWith regard to English common law, medieval women were able to participate in the curial process in only a limited way. This is not true of women as defendants: women could be sued for almost any civil or criminal plaint, but their privileges as plaintiffs were broadly curtailed by marital status and cultural expectation. The legal fiction of…[Read more]
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited ABORTION MEDIEVAL STYLE? ASSAULTS ON PREGNANT WOMEN IN LATER MEDIEVAL ENGLAND in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn the year 1304, Matilda Bonamy of Guernsey, a young woman from one of the Anglo-Norman island’smost established and affluent families, found herself in a predicament familiar to many of today’s youth. A liaison with Jordan Clouet, also from a family of long provenance in Guernsey if not as comfortable, had left her pregnant. To Matilda the sol…[Read more]
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Jason Rosenholtz-Witt started the topic CFP – Renaissance Bergamo at RSA 2021 in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoRenaissance Bergamo: At the Edge of the Venetian Terraferma
Present day Bergamo is bifurcated into an upper and lower portion of the city by the Venetian walls, built in 1561-1623 to discourage Milanese northward expansion, as well as to limit contraband trade. Bergamo was one of the most important of the strong points fortified by the Venetian…[Read more] -
Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Embellishing lute music: Using the Renaissance Italian passaggi practice as a model and pedagogical tool for an increased improvisation vocabulary in the French Baroque style in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEarly seventeenth century lute improvisation — a phrase that by its mere utterance may cause debates full of uncertainties, fears and fantasies. What is proper improvisa-tion? How did they do it 360 years ago? In this article I seek to revive a systematic prac-tice of teaching ornamentation and improvisation from the Renaissance scholars — i.e…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Stephen Hewer deposited Review: Seán Duffy (ed.) Medieval Dublin XVI: Proceedings of Clontarf 1014–2014: National Conference Marking the Millennium of the Battle of Clontarf in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of Medieval Dublin XVI: Proceedings of Clontarf 1014-2014
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Stephen Hewer deposited Review: Seán Duffy (ed.) Medieval Dublin XVI: Proceedings of Clontarf 1014–2014: National Conference Marking the Millennium of the Battle of Clontarf in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of Medieval Dublin XVI: Proceedings of Clontarf 1014-2014
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Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEn su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]
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Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEn su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]
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Cristelle Baskins started the topic CFP — IAS sponsored session at RSA Dublin 2021 in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPainted Faces: Documenting the Tradition and Reach of the Renaissance Frescoed Façade in Rome and Beyond In early sixteenth-century Rome, as the architectural language of grand domestic spaces was being further refined, elaborate façade fresco decorations came into incredible popularity. These cycles, some of which were designed to root the st…[Read more]
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Cristelle Baskins started the topic CFP — IAS sponsored session at RSA Dublin 2021 in the discussion
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPainted Faces: Documenting the Tradition and Reach of the Renaissance Frescoed Façade in Rome and Beyond In early sixteenth-century Rome, as the architectural language of grand domestic spaces was being further refined, elaborate façade fresco decorations came into incredible popularity. These cycles, some of which were designed to root the st…[Read more]
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Cesare Pastorino deposited Compasso Geometrico e Militare (measures and data for weights) – Early Science and Medicine (forthcoming) in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoData set of measures from Galileo Galilei’s Compasso Geometrico e Militare and comparison of the weights of substances with data in Kepler’s table of specific gravities in MesseKunst Archimedis. Data associated with a forthcoming article in Early Science and Medicine, titled “Johannes Kepler and the Exploration of the Weight of Substances in the…[Read more]
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoI was thinking about this again yesterday. I’m going to take a guess that the educational divisions of arts organizations are going to be the most stable units with respect to employment, because those efforts can continue even when the venue itself is closed.
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Carlotta Paltrinieri started the topic Online Lecture in the discussion
Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoOn July 11th, at 6pm, I will be giving a lecture on the Florentine academies (Disegno, Fiorentina, Crusca) as part of the online lectures series: “THE MEDICI AND THEIR ARCHIVES: ARTISTIC PATRONAGE AND DIPLOMACY”. If you are interested in the series you can register here: https://www.medici.org/map-online-lectures-series/
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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