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d’Arezzo, Ristoro
Ralf Lützelschwab
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Ristoro d’ArezzoIntroductionThe scarce information we have about the life of Ristoro d’Arezzo is obtained from his only surviving work, La composizion...
da Lentini, Giacomo
Akash Kumar
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Giacomo da LentiniIntroductionGiacomo da Lentini was the central figure in the formation of the Sicilian school of poetry in the early 13th century at...
da Tempo, Antonio and da Sommacampagna, Gidino
Francesco Marco Aresu
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Antonio da Tempo and Gidino da SommacampagnaIntroductionAntonio da Tempo (A. d. T.) of Padua [?] (b. end of the 13th century–d. after 1339) was a judg...
da Todi, Iacopone
Alessandro Vettori, Matteo Leonardi
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Iacopone da TodiIntroductionIacopone da Todi (b. 1230/36–d. 1304/06) is the most important writer of laude between the 13th and 14th centuries and is ...
Dance
Timothy J. McGee, Mary Channen Caldwell
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
DanceIntroductionDance was a major pastime during the European Middle Ages. It was a favorite leisure activity for men and women, from lower social cl...
Dance of Death
Sophie Oosterwijk
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Dance of DeathIntroductionThe Dance of Death (or Danse Macabre) is an allegorical confrontation of the living with death. It is both a literary and a ...
de Santa Maria, Cantigas
Peter V. Loewen
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Cantigas De Santa MariaIntroductionThe Cantigas de Santa Maria (CSM) is a late-medieval collection of over four hundred sacred Galician-Portuguese son...
de’ Rossi, Nicolò
Fabio Sangiovanni
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Nicolò de’ RossiIntroductionNicolò de’ Rossi (c. 1295–c. post-1348) was born in Treviso, Italy, toward the end of the 13th century and died in Venice ...
Death and Dying in England
Chris Daniell
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Death and Dying in England Introduction The study of medieval death and burial as an academic subject is relatively recent and has expanded gr...
Decorative Arts
Karen Overbey
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Decorative Arts Introduction “Decorative arts” is not a term used by medieval writers, nor is it a concept that would have had meaning for a m...
delle Vigne, Pier
Laurie Shepard
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Pier Delle VigneIntroductionThe most powerful official in the court of Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250), Petrus de Vinea or Pier delle Vigne (b. c. 11...
Drama in Britain
Clifford Davidson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Drama in BritainIntroductionThe earliest extant drama in medieval England is a Latin Easter church music-drama or ceremony in the Regularis Concordia ...
Dress
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Dress Introduction The study of dress, including as it does both under- and outerwear and indications of age, ethnicity, gender, status, and...
Dutch Theater and Drama
Wim Hüsken
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Dutch Theater and DramaIntroductionIn the Low Countries, few liturgical drama texts have been preserved. Compared to the surrounding countries of Fran...
Early Italian Humanists
Brian Maxson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Early Italian HumanistsIntroductionEarly Italian humanists already were pursuing many of the innovations and themes characteristic of their better-kno...
Economic History
James Davis
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Economic HistoryIntroductionThe study of medieval economic history has a rich pedigree and has led to major, wide-ranging debates about the nature and...
El Cid
Alberto Montaner, Pablo Justel
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
El CidIntroductionThe Castilian warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, who lived in the second half of the 11th century, is better known as El Cid, a title of...
England, Pre-Conquest
Robin Fleming
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Pre-Conquest England Introduction Before 1990, historians of Anglo-Saxon England generally concerned themselves with the descendants of German...
England, Towns and Cities Medieval
Benjamin McRee
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Towns and Cities in Medieval EnglandIntroductionEngland was famously lacking in urbanization in the medieval era, at least in comparison with much of ...
English Prosody
Thomas Cable
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
English Prosody Introduction Medieval English poetry was composed over a period of eight centuries that split roughly into two periods:...
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