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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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Commenting on music in Juvenal's sixth satire
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 541-562, September 2024.Abstract The satires of Juvenal were immensely popular in Renaissance Italy, printed in various forms over 70 times in the period 1469‐1520, and five times in 1501 alone. The satires contain a wealth of references to instruments, instrumentalists, and playing practices that are frequently used in double entendres connoting lewd acts and infidelity ...
Ciara O'Flaherty, Tim Shephard
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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Listy mistrza do uczniów pośród łąk pasterskich. Reminiscencje ze średniowiecza
Classica Wratislaviensia. Series AlteraPresented here is a translation of four poems by the Northumbrian monk Alcuin, advisor to Charlemagne, forming a mini-corpus which depicts the author as a teacher and creator of the educational and moral reform program of the reborn Roman Empire.
Wojciech Rucki
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The role of the Praenotamenta of Jodocus Badius Ascensius in shaping early modern dramatic criticism
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 416-434, June 2024.Abstract This article examines the profound and enduring legacy of the treatise on classical drama known as Praenotamenta ascensiana in shaping early modern dramatic poetics. Written by Flemish scholar Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462–1535) as a preface to his 1502 edition of the Classical plays of Terence, this work has been unjustly overlooked by the ...
Giulia Torello‐Hill
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ReligionsDe Laudibus Sanctae Crucis (DLSC) by Hrabanus Maurus is a seminal work in the medieval Christian literature that explores the Cross as the central structure of the universe through a unique amalgamation of poetry, prose, and visual art.
Ana B. Sanchez-Prieto
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A collection of no authority: canon law and the Collectio 91 capitulorum
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 82-105, February 2024.Normative texts need to be authoritative to be effective in communicating norms and rules. Recent scholarship has shown a renewed interest in the authoritative status of the texts within early medieval works of canon law and the ways in which authority is reflected in the practice of attribution, promulgation, or organization.
Sven Meeder
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Visualizing the Magnificat: Μary and the Attribute of the Book in Early Christian and Medieval Art
ReligionsThis paper examines the iconography of the Mother of God holding a book in Early Christian and Medieval art, focusing on representations in which a book or scroll functions as an attribute of the Virgin Mary.
Elena Papastavrou
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Rivista di Storia dell'Educazione, 2018 The Abbey of St. Gallen was the seat of one of the most important schools of the Carolingian universe. Of this school and of the literary and artistic activities connected to it, there remains an extraordinary quantity of sources, which allow us, at ...
Silvia Cantelli
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The Vienna Genesis: An Example of Late Antique Purple Parchment. [PDF]
Restaurator (Cph), 2022 Hofmann C +13 more
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