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N-Town Plays
Douglas Imada Sugano
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
N-Town Plays Introduction The N-Town plays, formerly known as the Hegge plays and as Ludus Coventriae, are anomalous among the late medieval E...
Necromancy, Theurgy, and Intermediary Beings
Claire Fanger
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Necromancy, Theurgy, and Intermediary Beings Introduction A relatively recent boom in scholarship on texts of ritual magic in manuscript is in...
Nibelungenlied, The
Francis G. Gentry
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
The NibelungenliedIntroductionThe long-line strophic work the Nibelungenlied was compiled about or shortly after the year 1200, and it stands out metr...
Nicholas of Cusa
Jason Aleksander
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Nicholas of CusaIntroductionOver the past century, Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus, Nikolaus von Kues, Nicolas de Cues, Nicolás de Cusa, Nicolau de...
Norman (and Anglo-Norman) Manuscript Ilumination
Laura Cleaver
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Norman (and Anglo-Norman) Manuscript IlluminationIntroductionThe phrase “Norman manuscript illumination” is used to describe the styles of decoration ...
Nuns and Abbesses
Steven Vanderputten
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Nuns and AbbessesIntroductionAlthough a substantial number of religious communities in the medieval West consisted partially or entirely of cloistered...
Old English Hexateuch, The Illustrated
Herbert R. Broderick FSA
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
The Illustrated Old English HexateuchIntroductionThe term “Old English Hexateuch,” or “Heptateuch,” refers to a compilation of Old English prose trans...
Old English Language
Thomas Cable
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Old English Language Introduction As the English language changed after the Norman Conquest, documents and literary texts written in Old English (fr...
Old English Literature and Critical Theory
Renée R. Trilling
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Old English Literature and Critical TheoryIntroductionFrom the outset of the theoretical turn in the 1980s and 1990s, Old English studies appeared to ...
Old English Religious Poetry
Frederick M. Biggs
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Old English Religious Poetry Introduction The surviving vernacular poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period is mostly religious, much of it overtly ...
Old Norse-Icelandic Sagas
Jana K. Schulman
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Old Norse–Icelandic Sagas Introduction Medieval Iceland produced vernacular prose narratives of various sorts from the early 12th century thro...
Ottonian Art
Karen Blough
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Ottonian ArtIntroductionThis entry includes texts that address the visual arts primarily in the area represented by present-day Germany, Belgium, and ...
Ovid in the Middle Ages
Jamie C. Fumo
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Ovid in the Middle AgesIntroductionThis article focuses on the academic study of, and literary engagement with, Ovid’s works in the medieval period, f...
Owl and the Nightingale, The
Neil Cartlidge
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
The Owl and the NightingaleIntroductionThe Owl and the Nightingale is the earliest extant long comic poem in the English language, and one of the most...
Papacy, The Medieval
Thomas F.X. Noble, Atria Larson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
The Medieval PapacyIntroductionThe papacy is the world’s oldest continuously functioning institution. A full history of the papacy would have four asp...
Paris
Sarah-Grace Heller
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
ParisIntroductionWhile Paris has been continuously inhabited since Celtic tribes settled on its islands in the Seine, developing into the Roman market...
Peasants
Philip Slavin
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Peasants Introduction Medieval peasantry has been a subject of much scholarly work since the mid-19th century. To a large extent, the pre–W...
Peter Abelard
Constant J. Mews
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Peter AbelardIntroductionPeter Abelard (b. 1079–d. 1142) initially established his reputation in dialectic, as he describes in his Historia calamitatu...
Petrarch
Chris Kleinhenz
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Petrarch Introduction Through his Canzoniere, Francesco Petrarca (b. 1304–d. 1374) shaped in indelible ways the development of the love lyric ...
Pictish Art
Jane Geddes
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Pictish Art Introduction Pictish art was created by people living predominantly in north and eastern Scotland between about the 4th and 10th c...
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