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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Anales de Historia del Arte, 2014 The symbolic relationship between the book and the crown was a constant throughout the Middle Ages, especially in the Gothic period. Apart from this symbolic and representative role, the book was revealed as an essential object in the dynamics of the ...
Laura Fernández Fernández
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Print Conventions and Authority in Three English Recipe Manuscripts
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 231-253, April 2026.Abstract This article considers the uses of stylistic and visual conventions drawn from print books in three seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century recipe manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania. We begin by analysing the title page, dedicatory epistle, catchwords, and headers of MS Codex 627, which imitates an edition of Hugh Plat's Delights for ...
Aylin Malcolm, Margaret C. Maurer
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Creadores de estilo en el arte medieval [PDF]
, 2017 Consideracions sobre l'estil com a fet emmarcat per la història i sobre l'estil com a part dels fets històrics conjuguen els punts de partida que permeten construir una reflexió sobre el paper jugat pels creadors d'estil en el període medieval. Més enllà
Alcoy i Pedrós, Rosa
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PROJECT ÉVORA 3D: RESEARCH, METHODOLOGY, RECONSTRUCTION AND VISUALIZATION [PDF]
, 2019 The Évora 3D project was born from the collaboration between the Municipality and the University of Évora, through the two research centres of CIDEHUS1 and CHAIA2, with the objective of completing a virtual reconstruction of the city in a longtime frame.
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 254-273, April 2026.Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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Anales de Historia del Arte, 2012 This article aims to highlight if and to what extent the medieval iconography of the Dormition of the Virgin reflects the central or peripheral details of three apocryphal texts, written by the Pseudo John the Theologian, the archbishop John of ...
José María Salvador González
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 70-85, March 2026.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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The iconographic transformation of the “tail of the dragon of the eclipse” into the “hunting cheetah” [PDF]
, 2018 Medieval Islamic iconography includes many depictions in which the tail of Sagittarius takes the form of the “dragon of the eclipse”. The current paper examines the gradual transformation of this imagery into that of a quadruped, eventually detached from
Fontana, Maria Vittoria
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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