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Textiles
Elizabeth Coatsworth, Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Textiles Introduction Textile was a ubiquitous presence in the Middle Ages, because clothing, soft furnishings, and containers were made from ...
The Middle Ages, The Trojan War in
Timothy Arner
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
The Trojan War in the Middle AgesIntroductionIn the Middle Ages, the Fall of Troy functioned as the secular parallel to the Fall of Man. Just as sacre...
The Use of Sarum and Other Liturgical Uses in Later Medieval Britain
Matthew Cheung Salisbury
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
The Use of Sarum and Other Liturgical Uses in Later Medieval BritainIntroductionIf the late medieval liturgy could be characterized by anything, it wa...
Theater and Performance, Iberian
Christopher Swift
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Iberian Theater and PerformanceIntroductionMedieval Iberian theater and performance maintains a peculiar status within, and between, performance and m...
Thomas Aquinas
M.V. Dougherty
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Thomas Aquinas Introduction Thomas Aquinas (b. 1224/5, d. 1274) is widely recognized as one of the greatest theologians of the medieval period...
Thomism
R.E. Houser
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Thomism Introduction Thomism has at least three distinct senses. It primarily means the philosophical and theological doctrine of Br. Thomas o...
Thornton, Robert
Susanna Fein
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Robert ThorntonIntroductionThe 15th-century Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397–c.1465) was responsible for the production—as sole copyist and...
Tomb Sculpture
Shirin Fozi
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Tomb SculptureIntroductionAmong the many genres of medieval sculpture that are still extant, tombs have long received particularly close attention bec...
Travel and Travelers
James Muldoon
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Travel and TravelersIntroductionThere is a common belief that medieval men and women lived their lives within a narrow geographical and psychological ...
Trevisa, John
Michael Twomey
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
John TrevisaIntroductionThe English translator John Trevisa (b. c. 1342–d. 1402) was an exact contemporary of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. As is the cas...
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...
Troubadours and Trouvères
Matthew Steel
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Troubadours and Trouvères Introduction The troubadours and trouvères were medieval poet-musicians who created one of the first repertories of ...
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, Adam
Chris Given-Wilson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Adam UskIntroductionThe chronicler Adam Usk was born in the parish of Usk in South Wales around 1350 and died there in early 1430, but the life he led...
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...
Vercelli Book, The
Paul E. Szarmach
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
The Vercelli Book Introduction According to the traditional view, Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII (Vercelli Book), is one of the four ma...
Vernon Manuscript, The
Wendy Scase
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
The Vernon Manuscript Introduction The Vernon manuscript is the accepted name in scholarly literature for Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. po...
Vikings
Nancy L. Wicker
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
VikingsIntroductionThe Viking Age spans the period from approximately 750 to 1100 ce in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The name ...
Von Eschenbach, Wolfram
Albrecht Classen
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Wolfram Von Eschenbach Introduction Even though Wolfram von Eschenbach’s contemporary Gottfried von Straßburg seems to have disliked his colle...
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