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Francie who rides an ostrich on top of a mountain in North Africa. The choice of an ostrich as King Philip III's mount on the Vercelli Mappa Mundi offers a unique intersection of religiosity and political ... : after MSI Processing by Helen Davies. Data collected by the Lazarus Project. demonstrates the map’s awareness of larger geopolitics and a potentially aspirational political hegemony. The pedagogical
the life of Christ, and the political control of a Christian Holy Land connecting Jerusalem to the whole of Europe. Amongst the complex iconography and ministerial metaphors are recognizable motifs of ... authenticate her relics in Hautvillers that had been recovered around 840. These claims were later reiterated in the 12th-century Gesta Trevorum.21 It was these political literary maneuvers that strengthened
unearthed a 14th-century medieval bronze ring that might have been used for political murders some 700 years ago. Found at the site of a former medieval fortress in Cape Kaliakra, not far from the Black Sea
, Patricia Stirnemann and Judith Kogel, “A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliotheque de la Arsenal MS. 1186).” Aristotelian philosophy, and representations of Aristotle in manuscript illuminations ... program and illuminated manuscripts. Even if one is not familiar with the political machinations of Norman Sicily, Takiguchi provides the necessary historical background to make her analysis of the Monreale
, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe (London, 2002), pp. 86-100. political élite, rather than a broad corpus of the population – perhaps because St Edward was an unusual saint, having been a king
especially during the political turmoil of the late 14th and early 15th century. We will content ourselves here with briefly summing up the evidence presented by Mersch.43 A Clarisse church was under
and opposition to evil. In their visual narratives, their rejection of other faiths and by implication, heterodoxy, was emphasised, just as 13th-century religious and political culture presented Jewish
Aristotelian natural philosophy. Indeed, in 197 1210, the provincial synod of Laon forbade the teaching of Aristotle’s works, and by 1231, Pope Gregory IX ordered that Aristotelian works on science and ... philosophy should be rid of their heretical errors. Particularly compelling is Gertsman’s observation that the existence of nihil in intellectual debates coincides directly with an increase of images of
simply “intertextuality,” but rather considers how illuminators drew on a variety of cultural idioms in order to produce new ideas about English vernacular authorship, book production, and even political ... -promotion through self-abnegation” (16). “Part III: Histories” extends this argument by exploring the broader political consequences of limners’ choices within Gower and Lydgate’s manuscripts in the second
political—to represent his subjective amalgamation of affiliations.5 The unique personal collars around his and his wife’s necks, the focus of this article, makes up only a piece of the identity politics on ... his allegiance to the Lancastrian political community.8 Since those who owned collars of esses could attach family emblems or other personal pendants to their livery collars, it is more probable that
anonymously in Kassel, supposedly from a society of only eight celibate males begun by Rosenkreuz (who lived to 106) in 1378 pursuing philosophy and alchemy, who would seek to replace any member who died. Their
, from examinations of the manuscript tradition and problems confronting editors to analyses of the social, political, and literary context and studies in later reception. It is particularly pleasing to ... the political context Joop van Waarden, ‘Sidonius’ Life in Photo Negative’, and Michael Kulikowski, ‘Sidonius’ Political World’.) This political and cultural context is crucial for understanding what
religious-political triangulation of Bologna, Avignon, and Rome vis-à-vis Papal Legate Bertrand du Pouget (1327–34). Focusing on narrative painting, the essay opens with a passage from Canzoniere by Petrarch ... and it is fitting that this last essay should be an exploration of law and religion as these were two of the most important topics studied and taught at the University. The art reflects the political
Compendium revelationum del Savonarola: testo italiano e testo latino,” La Bibliofilia 2 (1972): 165–177. book enjoyed was probably due to the unique text, a blend of religious and political thoughts ... of hearts, indeed the true protagonist of the story.8 In fact, in no other text by Savonarola a political and religious message is supported by such enthralling a narration—partially mirroring St
, Occupational Medicine Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran; 3Medical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Background: Middle East ... Mobaraki 2 0 Medical Philosophy and history research center, Tabriz University of Medical sciences , Tabriz , Iran 1 social Determinants of health research center, Occupational Medicine center, Urmia
-Saxon England: Studies in Honor of George Hardin Brown (Morgantown, 2008), 203-41. 2 See for example, Julianna Grigg, ‘The Black Rood of Scotland: A Social and Political Life’, Viator: Medieval and
sacred texts of Biblical antiquity, but also with divine knowledge, as study of philosophy, medicine, and science more generally was characterized in this period. In the 12th and 13th centuries, mendicant ... what extent Arabic scripts in Italian altarpieces could be considered as a pictorial counterpart to the integration of Arabic philosophy into Christian theology and related textual arguments for Islam’s
evidence; the bed is always in the right place at the right time to survive political upheaval yet remain relatively unnoticed and survive into the present day. It has Category A Jacobite associations to
provide a contextual focus for the objects discussed. These areas include language (Chapter 1: Naming Nations), shifting political powers (Chapter 2: An Imperial Age), funerary practices (Chapter 3: Worlds
political symbolism. Thomas, Lord Stanley had after all been Lord Steward to Edward IV and even Richard III, and accustomed to managing supplies to Westminster palace long before his status was further
