Though 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]

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

This 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]

Viking 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]

Der 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]

The article focuses on one of the most famous accounts of the events of 1204: the De Signis by Niketas Choniates. It demonstrates how Choniates constructed a (semi)fictional account of the assaults against the Byzantine culture and identity through a constellation of symbols and passages drawn from the Greek Classics. The article comprises three…[Read more]

This contribution examines an early modern manuscript, AM 899 4to, from Sweden, which features the Stora Rimkrönikan (Erikskrönikan, Karlskrönikan og Sturekrönikan) from the Swedish Middle Ages. AM 899 4to is extensively annotated. It shows that the medieval texts were read and received in modern times. The various annotations are here for the fir…[Read more]

Prédio sito na Calçada de Sant’Ana tornejando para a Rua do Instituto Bacteriológico, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90315009). 16 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The cop…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 18 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462960). 6 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Palácio da Mitra, Marvila, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q74474222). 2 October 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain e…[Read more]

Av. Duque d’Avila 24 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98462953) . 4 September 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively…[Read more]

Palacete na Rua Dr Alexandre Braga ODIVELAS PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q66814413). 10 October 2021. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture…[Read more]

Parque de Delfim Guimaraes AMADORA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98940408). 29 September 2018. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain…[Read more]

Quinta das Ameias, Areeiro, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98286048). Ruins. (Quinta das Ameias, aka Casal Vistoso, aka Antigo Solar da Boa Vista). 7 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and…[Read more]

Igreja do Antigo Convento de Arroios LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q74474004). Current Ukrainian Church in Lisbon. 25 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of…[Read more]

Ermida de Sao Marcos, CACEM & SAO MARCOS, PORTUGAL, Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98427581). (Chapel / Church). Ermida de São Marcos, Cacém e São Marcos, PORTUGAL, Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98427581). 25 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at…[Read more]

Campo dos Martires da Patria 11 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98969072). Palacete no Campo dos Mártires da Pátria 11 LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q98969072). 20 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the re…[Read more]

Antiga Fabrica de Gas da Matinha LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90334721). Conjunto de estruturas industriais na área da antiga Fábrica de Gás da Matinha (gasómetro). 8 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and comm…[Read more]

Palácio da Flor da Murta LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q10343989). 29 May 2022. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The copyright and usage rights of the original (16MP) picture remain exclusively w…[Read more]