Recently added articles from Medium Aevum:
The tortoise and the snail: a lexical shellgame.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In his second fable, the poet Avianus (c. AD 400) tells the story of a tortoise (testudo) which tired of its slowness and asked an eagle to carry it into the air in return for some precious sea-shells: (1) <Pre>Pennatis avibus quondam testudo locuta est: si quis eam volucrum ...
Sight and sound in St Erkenwald: On theodicy and the senses.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ... yea, this is now believed, afterward it shall be seen. (Augustine, The City of God, XVII.17) Bur such a vision is not of the present life. (Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs, 31.2) For we walk by faith, and not by sight. (II Corinthians v.7) ...
Poverty, dignity, and lay spirituality in Pore Caitif and Jacob's Well.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... This essay will demonstrate that Jacob's Well, the early fifteenth-century sermon cycle, derived the doctrinal material within its exposition of the Creed and Ten Commandments from the late fourteenth-century collection of treatises known as Pore Caitif. (1) This connection provides a ...
'I shalle send word in writing': lexical choices and legal acumen in the letters of Margaret Paston.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Margaret Paston's letters have been said to contain 'many obvious echoes of legal phraseology', (2) and both their tone and their content have led historians to surmise that she had a certain familiarity with the law, bur the extent of her legal knowledge has hitherto been largely ignored ...
An unpublished fifteenth-century Carol Collection: Oxford, Lincoln College MS Lat. 141.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Medium Aevum Essay Prize 2008 The fifteenth century is the first period from which substantial numbers of vernacular English songs survive, in both notated and un-notated manuscripts, together testifying to a vigorous written tradition. Many of these texts are in carol form: ...
Christine de Pizan's crown of twelve stars.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In the twelfth chapter of her Epistre de la prison de vie humaine, (1) a consolatory epistle completed on 20 January 1417 OS (1418 NS) and designed to comfort all the grieving princesses of the realm and other noble ladies affected by the French defeat at Agincourt on 25 October 1415, ...
Purposes and methods of a modern catalogue of ancient manuscripts: observations on the recent Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford.(A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Mark L. Sosower, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford, with descriptions of bindings by Jane Eagan (Oxford: St John's College Research Centre, 2007). 118 pp. ISBN 978-0-9544975-3-8. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (p/b). What is the goal of a modern ...
The structure of Piers Plowman B XV-XX: evidence from the rubrics.(NOTES)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... All but two of the seventeen copies of the B text of Piers Plowman make some reference in their rubrics to the so-called Three Lives, Dowel, Dobet, and Dobest. Although the frequency, distribution, and form of these rubrics differ considerably from copy to copy, their function is often the ...
Simon Sudbury and Helenus in John Gower's Vox clamantis.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In the aftermath of the Great Rising of 1381, chroniclers and poets tried to come to terms with the violence and social upheaval that had ruptured English society. John Gower, for instance, added an extra book (now known as the Visio) to the beginning of the Vox clamantis, his systematic ...
Thomas Hoccleve's seal.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Ina fascinating article, 'Some new light on Thomas Hoccleve', Linne Mooney has added enormously to our knowledge of Hoccleve's bureaucratic career by identifying a large number of autograph documents that were copied by him in his capacity as a clerk of the Privy Seal. (1) One of these ...
Marvin L. Colker, Trinity College Library Dublin: Descriptive Catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts. Supplement One.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Marvin L. Colker, Trinity College Library Dublin: Descriptive Catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts. Supplement One (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008). 220 pp.; 29 colour plates. ISBN 978-1-84682--095-3. 55.00[pounds sterling] . Marvin Colker's catalogue of ...
Patrick Andrist, Les Manuscrits grecs conserves a la Bibliotheque de la Bourgeoisie de Berne--Burgerbibliothek Bern: Catalogue et histoire de la collection.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Patrick Andrist, Les Manuscrits grecs conserves a la Bibliotheque de la Bourgeoisie de Berne--Burgerbibliothek Bern: Catalogue et histoire de la collection (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2007). 349 PP.; 77 illustrations; CD-ROM. ISBN 978-3-85951-269-6. 116.00 [euro]. ...
James France, Medieval Images of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... James France, Medieval Images of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian Publications 210 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2007). 430 pp. ISBN 978-0-87907-310-7. $49.95. This is one of those books that performs yeoman service by compiling and categorizing a vast amount ...
Olive Sayce, Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Olive Sayce, Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008), xiv + 408 pp. ISBN 978-18438-0-992. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. Only the title of this excellent book is slightly problematic, though it would have been difficult to reflect the content ...
Frauen--Kloster--Kunst. Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters. Beitrage zum Internationalen Kolloquium voto 13. bis 16. Mai 2005 anlasslich der Ausstellung 'Krone und Schleier'.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Frauen--Kloster--Kunst. Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters. Beitrage zum Internationalen Kolloquium voto 13. bis 16. Mal 2005 anlasslich der Ausstellung 'Krone und Schleier', ed. Jeffrey H. Hamburger, Carola Jaggi, Susan Marti, and Hedwig Rockelein (Turnhout: Brepols, ...
Elizabeth Eva Leach, Sung Birds." Music Nature and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Elizabeth Eva Leach, Sung Birds: music Nature and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007). xiii + 345 PP. ISBN 978-0-8014-4491-3. $55.00/29.50 [pounds sterling]. Leach begins her multifaceted consideration of the relationship between birdsong ...
Sue Niebrzydowski, Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval Literature.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Sue Niebrzydowski, Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval Literature (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006), 239 pp. ISBN 978-3-03910-727-8. Sw. fr. 69.00. Sue Niebrzydowski's title phrase 'bonoure and buxom', referring to the vow a medieval bride made to be meek and obedient, ...
Isabel Davis, Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Isabel Davis, Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), xiii + 222 pp. ISBN 0-521-86637-5. 48.00 [pounds sterling]/$85 .00 Isabel Davis's book seeks to 'explore ... intersections between medieval masculine subjectivity and the ...
Sebastian I. Sobecki, The Sea and Medieval English Literature.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Sebastian I. Sobecki, The Sea and Medieval English Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2008). xii + 205 pp.; 9 plates. ISBN 978-1-84384-137-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This book addresses the literary history of the sea from the Conquest to the ...
Fabienne L. Michelet, Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Fabienne L. Michelet, Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xvi + 297 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-928671-3. 64.00 [pounds sterling]. This monograph should prove to be a seminal study of ...