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Christina of Markyate
Samuel Fanous, Henrietta Leyser
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Christina of MarkyateIntroductionChristina of Markyate is one of the most interesting woman of record in 12th-century England, a bold claim perhaps, b...
Chronicles of England and the British Isles
Lister M. Matheson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Chronicles of England and the British Isles Introduction Chronicles were the major source of historical knowledge and interpretation available...
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The
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...
Cistercian Architecture
Maximilian Sternberg
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Cistercian ArchitectureIntroductionCistercian architecture emerged as a specialist area of scholarly interest after World War II. In the 1950s and 196...
Cistercians, The
Marsha L. Dutton, Tyler Sergent
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
The CisterciansIntroductionCistercian monasticism began when in 1098 twenty-one monks from the wealthy Burgundian monastery of Molesme undertook to cr...
Clanvowe, John
Andrew Galloway
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
John ClanvoweIntroductionInterest in John Clanvowe’s works and life (b. c. 1341–d. c. 1391) initially developed because a 290-line poem—often printed ...
Classics in the Middle Ages
Michael W. Herren, Scott Bruce
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Classics in the Middle AgesIntroductionThis article deals primarily with the transmission and reception in western Europe of classical Greek and Latin...
Cloud of Unknowing and Related Texts, The
Christopher M. Roman
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
The Cloud of Unknowing and Related TextsIntroductionThe Cloud of Unknowing and the other works in the Cloud corpus, The Book of Privy Counseling and T...
Coins
Alan M. Stahl
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Coins Introduction Medieval numismatic scholarship is characterized by a significant local focus, owing in part to the decentralized minting ...
Coptic Art
K.C. Innemée
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Coptic Art Introduction Christianity must have come to Egypt in the 1st century ce, probably through converts in the Jewish community of Alexa...
Corpus Christi
Vincent Corrigan
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Corpus Christi Introduction The Feast of Corpus Christi was the culmination of nearly four hundred years of debate about the nature of the Euc...
Councils and Synods of the Medieval Church
Edward Peters
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Councils and Synods of the Medieval Church Introduction The words used to designate early Christian assemblies were the Greek σύνοδος, Latiniz...
Crusades, The
Andrew Holt
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
The Crusades Introduction The crusading movement involved peoples of varying religious and cultural backgrounds engaged in a violent struggle...
Crusading Warfare
John France
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Crusading Warfare Introduction The Crusades are one of the spectaculars of historical study—a series of events so startling that they deman...
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 ...
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