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Saint Plays and Miracles
Clifford Davidson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Saint Plays and Miracles Introduction Shows based on the lives and martyrdoms of saints appear perhaps to have been the most widespread type ...
Saint-Denis
Robert F. Berkhofer
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Saint-Denis Introduction The monastery of Saint-Denis, just north of Paris along the Seine River, was dedicated to Denis (Dionysius), the 3rd...
Scandinavian Migration Period Gold Bracteates
Nancy L. Wicker
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Scandinavian Migration Period Gold Bracteates Introduction Scandinavian bracteates of the Migration Period (5th and 6th centuries ce) are small...
Scogan, Henry
Andrew Galloway
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Henry Scogan Introduction Henry Scogan (b. c. 1361–d. 1407) emerged into view accurately only with Kittredge 1892 (cited under Biography), as a...
Sermons
Thomas N. Nall
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Sermons Introduction Sermons go back to the very beginning of the Christian tradition, or even further if one recalls their use in ancient Jew...
Ships and Seafaring
Ian Friel
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Ships and Seafaring Introduction This bibliography is intended as an introduction to the study of medieval European ships in the period between...
Songs, Medieval
Vincent Corrigan
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Medieval Songs Introduction “Medieval song” is a very broad topic. It embraces the disciplines of philology and musicology; texts in Latin, the...
Southampton, Archaeology of
David A. Hinton
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Archaeology of Southampton Introduction Because of its location in the middle of the south coast of England, Southampton illustrates not on...
Spain
Olivia Remie Constable
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Spain Introduction What is meant by “medieval Spain”? Usually, “medieval” is understood as roughly the millennium between 500 ce and 1500 ce, a...
St. Peter’s in the Vatican (Rome)
Lex Bosman
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
St. Peter’s in the Vatican (Rome) Introduction The history of St. Peter’s Church in Rome is actually the history of two successive churches, ...
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Lynn Jones
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Introduction For the Christian faithful, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is and has been since the 4th cent...
Theater and Drama, Dutch
Wim Hüsken
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Dutch Theater and Drama Introduction In the Low Countries, few liturgical drama texts have been preserved. Compared to the surrounding countrie...
Theater and Performance, Iberian
Christopher Swift
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Iberian Theater and Performance Introduction Medieval Iberian theater and performance maintains a peculiar status within, and between, performa...
Travel and Travelers
James Muldoon
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Travel and Travelers Introduction There is a common belief that medieval men and women lived their lives within a narrow geographical and p...
Tropes
Gunilla Iversen
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Tropes Introduction Liturgical poetry, in the form of additional lyrics inserted into all the chants of the medieval Mass, flourished in the 9t...
Troyes, Chrétien de
Keith Busby
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Chrétien De Troyes Introduction Chrétien de Troyes, fl. c. 1160–c. 1181, was the author of five Arthurian romances in verse (Erec et Enide, Cl...
Usk, Thomas
Andrew Galloway
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Thomas Usk Introduction Interest in the life and works of Thomas Usk (b. c. 1354–d. 1388) began with the mistaken attribution of his Testament ...
Venerable Bede, The
Rosalind C. Love
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
The Venerable Bede Introduction Of all the writers from the Anglo-Saxon period, Bede must rate as the best known and perhaps the most prolifi...
Vikings
Nancy L. Wicker
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Vikings Introduction The Viking Age spans the period from approximately 750 to 1100 ce in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden....
Wall Painting in Europe
Matthew Reeve
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Wall Painting in Europe Introduction This bibliographical essay considers European wall painting of the Romanesque and Gothic periods, coveri...
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