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David A. Wacks deposited Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome” in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]
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Manuel Kamenzin deposited Die Tode der römisch-deutschen Könige und Kaiser (1150-1349) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoIllnesses, murders, accidents, one battle death and one suicide – a wide variety of deaths were attributed to the Holy Roman kings and emperors of the 12th to 14th centuries. This book is dedicated to the contemporary tradition of the deaths of rulers in the ‘Staufer period’, the ‘interregnum’ and the first half of the 14th century from a…[Read more]
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Manuel Kamenzin deposited Die Tode der römisch-deutschen Könige und Kaiser (1150-1349) in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoIllnesses, murders, accidents, one battle death and one suicide – a wide variety of deaths were attributed to the Holy Roman kings and emperors of the 12th to 14th centuries. This book is dedicated to the contemporary tradition of the deaths of rulers in the ‘Staufer period’, the ‘interregnum’ and the first half of the 14th century from a…[Read more]
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Manuel Kamenzin deposited Verfehlungen und Strafen in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis article compares the accounts of Pope Innocent IV’s death in Salimbene de Adam’s „Cronica“ and Matthew Paris’ „Chronica Majora“, focusing on the narrative strategies employed to ascribe a good or a bad death to the deceased through the depiction of his final hours. Each chronicler attributed different misdeeds to the pope, for which he was…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoNúñez-Muley abstract
The Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to de…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks started the topic Open access teaching unit: Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria (Cantiga 5) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova) deposited Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses? in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoGlossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova) deposited Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses? in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoGlossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]
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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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Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]
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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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Marco Heiles deposited Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute. Seminarprogramm und Literaturliste in the group
Late Medieval History 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] -
Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 16th-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]
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Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[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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Eddie Meehan deposited The importance of salvation in Carolingian royal advice literature in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe trend of Carolingian royal advice literature, Fürstenspiegel, or specula principum offers advice to kings on how to rule well and examples of ruling poorly. Interpretations of these texts have often focused on traditional ideas of the Carolingian reforms, for example the focus on classical models of rule in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus ch…[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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