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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"High Middle Ages"”.
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Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
… figure is especially prevalent in the late Middle Ages, notably in the writings of figures such as St. Ambrose, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena. Not only do these writers draw a picture of a feminized Christ, they …
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Between Ashkenaz and Sepharad, Judaism and Christianity: Asher ben Jehiel as a Liminal Figure in the High Middle Ages
… is explored as a liminal figure of the Middle Ages, in a variety of ways. Using the scholarship of Homi Bhabha on the topic of cultural hybridity, in addition to other thinkers, this medieval rabbi is presented as an individual who situated himself between various borders, often as a …
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The ethos and practice of warfare in the High Middle Ages c.1050-c.1250 : a military, social and literary study
… the nature of military behaviour during the High Middle Ages, in what is normally called the Age of Chivalry. I am not entirely comfortable with this appellation, which is why I have chosen to discuss the ethos and practice of warfare. My focus is essentially on the societies of north-western …
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"I was sick and you visited me" : the hospital of Saint John in Brussels and its patrons
… the ways in which townspeople interacted in the Middle Ages. Thus, hospitals are at their simplest levels a microcosm of town life in the Middle Ages. They provide a snapshot of medieval life and demonstrate the everyday workings of medieval people. The hospital of Saint John in Brussels is an …
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The Ambiguity of otherness in adaptations of the Nibelungen myth: "Das Nibelungenlied" and Fritz Lang's "Die Nibelungen".
… audiences, a trend that has lasted since the High Middle Ages. Since then, the Nibelungen myth has become a sustaining element of the self-mythologization of German national identity. The problem, however, with adapting the Nibelungen myth for the purpose of creating a German identity, be it …
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The Origins And Antecedents Of Joachim Of Fiore's (1135-1202) Historical-Continuous Method Of Prophetic Interpretation
… Joachim of Fiore on the eschatology of the late Middle Ages, very few scholars have attempted to explore the antecedents of Joachim’s ideas, specifically his historical-continuous interpretation of Daniel and Revelation and the application of the year-day principle. The purpose of this study is …
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The Aristocratic Body and the Memory Economy of Church Reform, 900-1300 C.E.
… stake in the social and political life of the high middle ages. The argument centers around several key sites of analysis: excommunication, burial, bodily wounding and mutilation, and liturgical cursing. Centering the analysis on these sites of cultural activity allows close readings of the …
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
… most controversial intellectual topics of the High Middle Ages. While medieval historians and religious scholars have long recognized that the twelfth century was a critical period in which many eucharistic doctrines were debated and affirmed, literary scholars have given very little attention …
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Situating the citole, c.1200-1400
… the foremost plucked musical instruments of the High Middle Ages, has been largely overlooked by modern scholars. This is due, in part, to disagreement as to which instrument type should be identified by that term. This work verifies and refines the definition of citole by examining three texts …
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Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to 14th Centuries
… of Denmark with continental Europe in the Middle Ages. By approaching the question with a view to the longue durée, it argues that Danish aristocratic culture had been heavily influenced by trends on the Continent since at least the Roman Iron Age, so that when Denmark adopted European …
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The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: Medieval Rhetoric as Educational Praxis
… One, "John of Salisbury: A Rhetorician of the Middle Ages," situates John within the historical moment of the High Middle Ages in Western Europe. John's personal experiences and the overall significant historical events shaped his perspective about medieval rhetorical education. Chapter Two, …
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The Medieval Irish Adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile: Manuscript Tradition and Scholarly Context
… on selective collation of representative passages and proposes a stemma codicum for In Cath Catharda. Together, these chapters establish a secure textual foundation for the study of the adaptation. Part II situates In Cath Catharda within its broader European intellectual milieu. Chapter 3 …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… great poet he seemed to the finest spirits of High Middle Ages and Renaissance, rather than as the pale imitator of Virgil he appeared to the censorious criticism of the nineteenth century, obsessed as it was with its twin heresies of originality and inevitable progress." (Tanner, R G 1986. …
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Estudio arqueológico del Desfiladero de La Horadada: la transición entre la tardorromanidad y la Alta Edad Media (ss.V-X d.n.e.)
Esta investigación centra su atención en el proceso de transición que supone la transformación de las estructuras sociales impuestas por el Imperio Romano hasta alcanzar a definir a una nueva formación social, la feudal, característica y propia de la Edad Media. El proceso, aunque tiene una …
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The unities of time and place in sixteenth-century theater and criticism
… divine spectators; nethermost—some say in the middle—the earth was placed as a stage for the appearance of the actors, along with all the animals and everything else.</blockquote> <p>The metaphoric identification of world and stage was a compelling image in the hands of Vives and other …