This article presents the collation map, a diagrammatic method for visually mapping the texts of complex medieval Western manuscripts against their material structures. Beginning with an overview of collation formulae – currently the most frequently used method of representing collation – the article argues that the collation map is a more use…[Read more]

This chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]

Le livre constitue les actes du colloque qui s’est tenu en mai 2019 à la Università Cattolica du Sacré-Coeur de Milan.
Ce livre examine les relations que l’œuvre de Proust entretient avec l’histoire, avec la société de son temps et du nôtre, les conflits ouverts ou souterrains qu’elle révèle ou recèle, et, plus contemporainement, se demander s’i…[Read more]

Global studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]

This is the uncorrected proofs version of my review of Ingrid Rembold’s Conquest and Christianization for The Mediaeval Journal. Some wording may differ from the final published version. Please refer to the journal website.

This unit contains a brief introduction in Spanish, an edition of the original Castilian text with facing modernization and notes in Spanish, and a short bibliography.

This unit contains a selection of texts from the Sendebar (1253), one of the most famous and widespread collections of exemplary literature in the Middle Ages, with versions in…[Read more]

This unit contains a brief introduction in English, an edition of the original Castilian text with facing English translation and notes, and a short bibliography.

This unit contains a selection of texts from the Sendebar (1253), one of the most famous and widespread collections of exemplary literature in the Middle Ages, with versions in…[Read more]

Preliminary data set of measures from Michiel Coignet’s “reigle platte” and comparison of the weights of substances with data in Kepler’s table of specific gravities in MesseKunst Archimedis. Michiel Coignet, Usus duodecim diuisionum geometricarum, Brussels, KBR, II 769, folio 40r. Data associated with a forthcoming article in Early Science and…[Read more]

This article calls attention to documents relating to the early academic life of G. J. P. J. Bolland (1854–1922). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, Bolland was enthralled by the study of Old Germanic languages and Old English in particular. His endeavours soon caught the eye of Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1854–1922), Professor of Germanic Phi…[Read more]

A paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.

A paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.

A paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.

At the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore simil…[Read more]

A critical historiographical overview of art historical approaches to early medieval material culture, with a focus on the British Museum collections and their connections to religion.