Medieval History

La década de 1970 indica, en la producción historiográfica sobre el Imperio Romano, la emergencia de un revisionismo que desembocó en una postura opuesta a la convencional. Por un lado, la versión tradicional sostiene que los siglos posteriores a la caída del Occidente Imperial Romano expresaron el colapso de una civilización. Y por otro, la publicación de The World of Late Antiquity (Brown, 1971) abrió en los estudios clásicos un nuevo período, la Antigüedad Tardía (siglos III-VIII) que narra la etapa sin “decadencias ni colapsos catastróficos”.Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (IdIHCS

O rei D. Alfonso aparece inscrito no horizonte literario medieval como uma figura relevante, cuja obra proficua abarca campos diversos como a historia, a jurisprudencia, a astronomia, a astrologia, espaco/paisagem e, de modo especial, a poesia de carater pessoal escrita em galego-portugues. A presenca do espaco ocupa um lugar de destaque nas composicoes medievais. As Cantigas de Santa Maria representam o espaco sagrado. Nas Cantigas de Santa Maria, o ilustrador deixa-se levar pela estetica e intercala as cenas e os espacos que nao aparecem na escrita. Algumas cantigas apresentam uma iconografia que responde a fidelidade das imagens em relacao aos textos, juntamente com os documentos historicos. A nossa proposta e apresentar o espaco no texto poetico e nas iluminuras em duas Cantigas de Milagre, de Dom Alfonso X, o Sabio.

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A common thread runs through the essays gathered here, namely the presence of men of science at the papal court during the 13th century, from Witelo, the greatest optics scholar of that century, to Campano da Novara, the author of the Theorica planetarum, to the Dominican Guglielmoda Moerbeke, the celebrated translator of Aristotle's corpus of works. Countless pieces of medical-scientific information place the papal court in competition with other thirteenth-century sovereign courts, first and foremost those of Frederick II and Alphonse X. They suggest that the papacy and the curial elites also viewed the study of nature as a symbolic instrument of world domination, in keeping with the lofty reflections offered by Roger Bacon to Pope Clement IV: from the aspirations to prolongatio vitae, also supported by alchemical instruments, to new sensitivities aimed at entrusting cura corporis to an increasingly intense medicalisation. The new introduction to the volume, first published in 1991, concisely summarises the long path of research that the author and the most qualified historiography have carried out on these themes over the last three decades.

A recount of the latest work on the collection and the analysis of the medieval paintings of Hexham Abbey is provided. Medieval pigments of the panel paintings such as blue azurite pigment and post-1840 restoration substitute pigments such as French ultramarine were detected with visible light and ultraviolet fluorescence microscopy. A recently found painting in the Abbey's collection, was studied by means of multispectral imaging and was attributed to the 15th century 'Dance of Death' sequence of panels. After a virtual varnish removal on highly pigmented colour spots with the aid of non-negative least squares analysis resulting in quantitative heat-maps of the panel, the pigment concentration on the painting surface and enhanced reflectance image spectra were extracted. With the aid of these spectra the presence of original medieval pigments such as yellow ochre, verdigris, madder and Egyptian blue was indicated.

The occasion for yet another archaeological documentation in the research history of the Murfatlar rock monastery was provided by the continuous excavations (2005-2010) of one particular site in Pliska-the so called Round stone platform. Its rediscovery occurred a decade later in relation to a special study focused on the graffiti incised on 2% of the building material, most of which are invisible to the naked eye and convey Christian symbols, personages and scenes of Biblical character. These circumstances brought the research team to the most certain (and best preserved) possible analogy-the rock monastic complex of Murfatlar, in Constanţa County, Romania. The subject of this paper are the graffiti along the east-west axes in Church № 4. The photographic documentation of April 2022 attempted to cover with maximum precision all carvings, especially the shallowest ones and those that are practically invisible to the naked eye. As long as a drawing of this graffito has not been published so far, it can be said now that the so far unknown details in it are: additions and/or thorough corrections of the two Cyrillic inscriptions, as well as two rune-like inscriptions. We have completed full photographic and graphic visualization of the images, with details of the two human figures and that of the bird.

In the last years there has been a renewed interest in Medieval Sicily. With this contribution, we would like to introduce the preliminary data of the survey undertaken in the Valle of Jato, situated in Palermo's hinterland. The time frame here taken into considerations extends from the 6 th to the 13 th centuries A.D. In this paper we would like to contribute to the reconstruction of the medieval history of this archaeological landscape, through the study of written sources, mainly the giarīda of Monreale, and of its material culture. The comparison of the pottery recovered in the valley with that of Palermo, object of a recent chrono-typological revision, has been very important for this study. Thanks to this we are able to recognise that some settlements already existed during the Islamic period, probably dating from around the 10 th century A.D., in spite of the fact that our first written sources are dated from the end of the 11 th century. Moreover, analysis of the ceramic...

Al margen de su vinculación a las empresas colombinas y de los frescos de Daniel Vázquez Díaz, el monasterio de Santa María de la Rábida conserva dos conjuntos artísticos de interés: una iglesia de una sola nave con cabecera pétrea y el conocido como Claustro Mudéjar. Este artículo se centra en la capilla mayor de la iglesia y en la portada de esta, realizando un análisis morfológico que lleva a discutir la habitual interpretación de ambas como derivaciones de la tradición hispalense para proponer en su lugar una lectura a la luz del taller que durante los dos primeros tercios del siglo XV trabaja la piedra en Jerez de la Frontera combinando con creatividad fórmulas góticas y mudéjares. Se plantea asimismo la posible mediación del I duque de Medina Sidonia en la llegada de los maestros canteros y una cronología ligeramente posterior a la hasta ahora aceptada.

Parmi les trésors exposés au musée de Sousse, nous admirons la mosaïque du fond de bassin illustrant la Tête du dieu Océan, entourée de poissons et de mollusques ; celle  du panier de poissons ; celle du marais du Nil  ou encore celle de la scène de pêche.  Hélas, les noms des poissons ne sont pas gravés,  comme c’est le cas, par exemple,  de la mosaïque de Smirat, où nous trouvons l’image et la graphie. Or, le corpus de L'histoire de la pêche et des poissons en Tunisie reste maigre. Donc, il faut glaner dans le corpus médiéval, notamment celui des géographes arabes, afin de trouver des noms fossilisés. C’est le cas d’un texte d’al Idrīsī qui tourne autour des poissons de Bizerte.

Reconquista and Arab/Muslim Spain’ articulate the typically essentialist narrative of Spanish nationalism about medieval Iberia. While largely contradictory, they each arose out of the same political and ideological context and ran parallel through the 19th and most of the 20th centuries. In both paradigms, to which Arabists and historians alike assented, al-Andalus represented either a part of the eternal Spanish nation or its fiercest enemy, the anti-Spain whose destruction paved the way for building the nation.

Der Beitrag stellt eine doppelte Einfuhrung in das Titelthema dar. Der Autor weist auf die Unbestimmtheit des zeitlichen und strukturellen Rahmens der nationalen Geschichtsschreibung in der Betrachtung des Industrialisierungsprozesses hin. Diese »Hinweise« gelten vor allem dem Problem der Terminologie und Methodologie. Dieser Problemansatz wird dann an Hand von konkreten Interpretationen vorgestellt (vor allem werden die Darstellungen Jože Sorns in »Die Industrieanfange in Slowenien« und Carlo M. Cipollas in »The Fontana Economic History« einbezogen). Der Beitrag verfolgt hier zwei Fragen. Erstens, die Betrachtung und Einordnung von »Nebenwirkungen« der Industrialisierung in den zentralen slowenischen Landern. Zweitens, den Einflus von vorindustriellen Produktionsweisen auf die Industrialisierung und das Suchen nach den Aufangen der »Industrimodernisierung« in Slowenien.

Vesconte Maggiolo, a cartographer from Genoa, Italy, crafted a portolan chart in 1536 that illustrated a vignette of the Blessed Mother Mary in the Atlantic Ocean on the eastern side of the Canary Islands. Maggiolo’s vignette of the Blessed Mother was drawn upon a landform stain that extended from approximately 49° latitude down to approximately 32.25° latitude. The coupling of the vignette with the landform represented a section of North A-MARY-CA.
    In a triangular fold of the Blessed Mother’s dress, at the latitude of 42.66°, Maggiolo inserted an array of rectangular tower icons. The icons were rendered using both dark and white pigment. The quantity of icons in this specific area approaches seven, thus these miniature features represent the North American Baptistery (Newport Tower) in what is likely a SEVEN CITIES representation. The available imagery of these features is not high-resolution but is sufficient to make a decisive call.
    In 1525, Maggiolo produced another portolan chart (MS. Parma 1623) which illustrated tower icons (several) in the red, triangular fold of the Blessed Mother’s dress within the vignette of her situated in the Atlantic Ocean.
    The tower icon representations on this 1536 chart of Maggiolo confirm the presence of tower icons on Maggiolo’s 1525 chart. Therefore, this is a two-for-one addition to the roster of cartographic works illustrating the Newport Tower (since the 1525 chart had not, up to this point, been added to the overall inventory).
    Anthony Greb contributed to this presentation by working snippet images.
    This presentation contains 52 slides.

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L’éthique intellectuelle est un sujet à la fois classique et encore peu étudié. Roger Pouivet, L’éthique intellectuelle. Une épistémologie des vertus. Vrin,

Dans cette synthèse alerte et claire, Roger Pouivet en trouve les fondements dans la théorie thomiste des vertus : Dieu nous a faits tels que nous sommes voués à réaliser notre rationalité. Un athée ne peut pas être géomètre, et il ne peut pas être vertueux intellectuellement non plus.

La famiglia Guinigi è ricordata soprattutto per aver fondato una delle più importanti compagnie mercantili lucchesi del Medioevo. L’attività commerciale non fu però l’unica ragione di vita: durante la prima metà del XV secolo, alcuni esponenti di questa casata – tra cui Paolo Guinigi, signore
di Lucca – dimostrarono un genuino attaccamento alla cultura scritta, che si tradusse nell’allestimento di importanti collezioni librarie. Il volume offre una raccolta di saggi e fonti d’archivio utili a ricostruire il rapporto vivo e fecondo tra i Guinigi, i libri manoscritti e l’ambiente culturale dell’epoca.

Yayınevinin yazılı izni olmaksızın, kitabın tümünün veya bir kısmının elektronik, mekanik ya da fotokopi yoluyla basımı, yayımı, çoğaltımı ve dağıtımı yapılamaz. Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2011 yılından beri "tanınmış uluslararası yayınevi" statüsündedir.