Sita Steckel
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Archaeology 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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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
It 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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James M. Harland's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
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Kirsty Day deposited Crusading against Bosnian Christians, c. 1234–1241 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
In 1234, Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241) called for a crusade to exterminate heretics in Bosnia, a call that he would repeat in 1238. In this chapter, I argue that the Bosnian crusade(s) of the 1230s was/were launched not against the adherents of a particular doctrine but against a place, one which was thought to be an especial incubator of heretical…[Read more]
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Kirsty Day deposited Hagiography as Institutional Biography: Medieval and Modern Uses of the Thirteenth-Century Vitae of Clare of Assisi on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
This chapter examines how historians of the Franciscan order have created androcentric and teleological histories of the order based on hagiographic narratives of origin, and shows how we might better understand these hagiographic texts as products of the contexts in which they were produced.
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Kirsty Day deposited Royal Women, the Franciscan Order, and Ecclesiastical Authority in Late Medieval Bohemia and the Polish Duchies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
In this chapter, I complicate the image of women religious as either authoritative and agentive or submissive and oppressed, with reference to the relationships between royal women, the papacy, and the Franciscan order in Bohemia and the Polish duchies. Using the thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century evidence for these relationships, I argue…[Read more]
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Kirsty Day's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
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Dominik Waßenhoven's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited MEARCSTAPA: TEN YEARS OF TERATOLOGY in the group
Monsters and Monstrosity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoTen years ago, back in 2008, a group of scholars interested in a diverse range of cultural figures at that point in time typically marginalized as subjects for seri ous critical study-werewolves, ghosts and revenants, giants, fairies and elves, vampires, the monsters on medieval mappa mundi, in medieval texts, in man uscript marginalia, and in…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited The Vercelli Map in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Vercelli Map, one of the largest maps to survive from the Middle Ages, has not received the attention it merits (Plate IV). This is likely the result of its very poor state of preservation, which has been a constant theme in what little has been published on it.’ There are several studies that make brief mention of the map, and a few studies…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited The Vercelli Map in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Vercelli Map, one of the largest maps to survive from the Middle Ages, has not received the attention it merits (Plate IV). This is likely the result of its very poor state of preservation, which has been a constant theme in what little has been published on it.’ There are several studies that make brief mention of the map, and a few studies…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited The Vercelli Map in the group
Medieval Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Vercelli Map, one of the largest maps to survive from the Middle Ages, has not received the attention it merits (Plate IV). This is likely the result of its very poor state of preservation, which has been a constant theme in what little has been published on it.’ There are several studies that make brief mention of the map, and a few studies…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Mapping Global Middle Ages, Toward a Global Middle Ages in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoIn Order to understand what a “global Middle Ages” might be, we need to define “global” in and in relation to the “Middle Ages.” To do so, I turn to medieval (Christian) maps. Their construction of the world-the most, maybe all, others-was founded on inclusion and exclusion. In seeking to construct a global Middle Ages, the authors in this volume…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Mapping Global Middle Ages, Toward a Global Middle Ages in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoIn Order to understand what a “global Middle Ages” might be, we need to define “global” in and in relation to the “Middle Ages.” To do so, I turn to medieval (Christian) maps. Their construction of the world-the most, maybe all, others-was founded on inclusion and exclusion. In seeking to construct a global Middle Ages, the authors in this volume…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Mapping Global Middle Ages, Toward a Global Middle Ages in the group
Medieval English Literature on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoIn Order to understand what a “global Middle Ages” might be, we need to define “global” in and in relation to the “Middle Ages.” To do so, I turn to medieval (Christian) maps. Their construction of the world-the most, maybe all, others-was founded on inclusion and exclusion. In seeking to construct a global Middle Ages, the authors in this volume…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited MEARCSTAPA: TEN YEARS OF TERATOLOGY on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
Ten years ago, back in 2008, a group of scholars interested in a diverse range of cultural figures at that point in time typically marginalized as subjects for seri ous critical study-werewolves, ghosts and revenants, giants, fairies and elves, vampires, the monsters on medieval mappa mundi, in medieval texts, in man uscript marginalia, and in…[Read more]
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The Vercelli Map, one of the largest maps to survive from the Middle Ages, has not received the attention it merits (Plate IV). This is likely the result of its very poor state of preservation, which has been a constant theme in what little has been published on it.’ There are several studies that make brief mention of the map, and a few studies…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Mapping Global Middle Ages, Toward a Global Middle Ages on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
In Order to understand what a “global Middle Ages” might be, we need to define “global” in and in relation to the “Middle Ages.” To do so, I turn to medieval (Christian) maps. Their construction of the world-the most, maybe all, others-was founded on inclusion and exclusion. In seeking to construct a global Middle Ages, the authors in this volume…[Read more]
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Charles West deposited Royal estates, confiscation and the politics of land in the kingdom of Otto I on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
After setting the fiscal structures of the Ottonian Reich in context historiographically and in comparison with contemporary alternatives, this paper discusses recent attempts to measure the extent of Otto I’s fiscal lands, using two case studies to consider the challenges of generalisation. It then focuses on confiscations to emphasise the d…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova)'s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
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