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Monica H. Green deposited A Diabolus ex machina? On the Speed and Route of Plague’s Late Medieval Transit Across Eurasia (2023) – abstract and bibliography in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis is the abstract and bibliography of works cited for an invited talk presented at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro on 9 November 2023. It was part of the Department of Biology’s Ashby Dialogue Series, devoted to the topic “Emergent Pathogens and Globalization: Past and Present.”
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Marco Heiles deposited Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute. Seminarprogramm und Literaturliste in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSeminarprogramm und Literaturliste der Veranstaltung:
Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute
Master Hauptseminar
Institut für Germanistische und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
RWTH Aachen University
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La panadera del “Libro de buen amor” y las otras panaderas de la poesía medieval castellana in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDesde que el hispanista francés Félix Lecoy llamase en 1938 la atención sobre las
peculiaridades de los papeles atribuidos a las mujeres en la obra de Juan Ruiz, numerosos
trabajos académicos se han dedicado a esclarecer en lo posible las coordenadas históricas
y literarias de esta presencia femenina en el Libro de buen amor, sobre todo en lo r…[Read more] -
Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Foreword in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA STEAM-informed humanities’ essay describing the theoretical concept of “ecophobia”-a notion put forward in Simon Estok’s theoretical text The Ecophobia Hypothesis (Routledge 2018) that describes the systemic human fear of nature.
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more] -
Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more] -
Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia * in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoConsidering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature? I claim that conceptually linking the Constitutional protections enabled by the American civil rights movement to an emerging civil rights of nature would enable the rapid transition away from ecophobic attitudes toward…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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Monica H. Green deposited ‘Cliff Notes’ on the Circulation of the Gynecological Texts of Soranus and Muscio in the Middle Ages in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoBeyond the texts on women’s medicine associated with the name of a 12th-century female medical practitioner from Salerno named Trota (or the title, “Trotula”), the most widely circulated texts were those deriving from the ancient Greek *Gynecology* of Soranus (2nd century CE). In particular, the Latin translation/adaptation by Muscio (or Mustio),…[Read more]
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Monica H. Green deposited Assessment of the Dating Claims of Keller et al. 2023 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis document lays out a series of points in regard to a recently posted pre-print on the history of plague in late medieval and early modern Europe: Marcel Keller et al., “A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia.” I am a historian of medicine and I am presenting these as historical questions. I have written it…[Read more]
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Thijs Porck deposited “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThijs Porck, “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen”, in Tot publijcque dienst der studie: Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana, ed. Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), 118-119
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Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoHistorians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Propaganda ideológica pro-Trastámara en el «Cancionero de Baena» in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDe entre las muchas y generosas lecciones que el maestro don Julio Valdeón ha brindado al medievalismo hispánico destacaremos aquella que fundamentará las páginas siguientes: la importancia de la propaganda ideológica favorable a la dinastía Trastámara durante la guerra civil castellana entre los años 1366 y 1371. Este conflicto fratric…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Álvarez Gato en la villa y corte literaria del Madrid tardomedieval in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAún en la actualidad, cinco siglos más tarde de que fuese escrito, todavía impresiona la honrada confesión con la que Juan Álvarez Gato cerraba su cancionero particular, rematando los folios en los que había recopilado todo su acervo lírico con una singular confidencia poética. A través de ella, el hombre maduro y el poeta veterano renegaba…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Francisco Hernández Coronel, poeta converso del «Cancionero general» in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoQuizá Don Eloy sea bastante ajeno a la admiración que despertaba entre los jóvenes estudiantes, allá por los años finales de la pasada centuria, uno de sus trabajos menores, entendiendo ‘menor’ no por lo que se refiere a su valía (que en absoluto es nimia), sino sólo para separarlo, en cuanto a extensión y objetivos, de su scripta maiora. Nos…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Una posible corte literaria del siglo XV: la de Beltrán de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEn uno de sus breves pero densos artículos, donde su siempre certera pluma se afilaba hasta el punto de transformarse con harta frecuencia en daga hiriente, Miguel de Unamuno realizaba una ácida declaración en contra de lo que él denominaba como «la plaga del literatismo», centrando sus críticas en las reuniones de literatos, bien fuese median…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Las rúbricas cancioneriles y la identificación de poetas de los siglos XV y XVI in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl estudio de las rúbricas de los cancioneros ha sido uno de los campos más fructíferos en los últimos años de la investigación sobre lírica cancioneril medieval y renacentista, de suerte que, en la actualidad, contamos con una amplia lista de trabajos destinados a este elemento paratextual, destacando de forma en especial su importancia para e…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Sumario del despensero» y la imagen de la política de Fernando I de Aragón con respecto a judíos y judeoconversos in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl origen de este trabajo comenzó con el examen, para el proyecto de investigación PhiloBiblon–BETA (Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos) , de las diversas fuentes manuscritas que conforman una pequeña crónica conocida con el nombre de Sumario del despensero de la reina Leonor (BETA texid 2851). Desde la ya muy lejana edición de Llaguno…[Read more]
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