John Tolan, Mahoma el europeo: percepciones occidentales del Profeta del islam desde la Edad Media a nuestros días, Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura, 2021, 265 págs. Sin embargo, el 'individuo ...histórico' tampoco debería confundirse, al menos por completo, con la visión islámica, que ha desarrollado una visión fuertemente idealizada y arquetípica de la figura del profeta, por más que el 'individuo histórico' sea inseparable de la versión islámica, al igual que el 'individuo histórico' Jesús es inseparable de su versión cristiana original. Obviamente, tradiciones tan diversas han producido versiones muy diferentes de Mahoma, de tal manera que, aunque 'una gran parte de los escritos que se le han dedicado' son 'hostiles', sin embargo la animosidad contra el islam no ocupa toda la atención del autor, ya que 'Muhammad ocupa un lugar tan ambivalente como esencial en la imaginación europea' (p. 13-14). A este respecto, tal vez se echa en falta una mayor atención a los espacios europeos en los que el islam ha tenido una mayor presencia desde una perspectiva histórica (península ibérica, Sicilia, países balcánicos, Grecia) y en los que, por lo tanto, cabe presumir que lo islámico ha dejado una huella más perceptible en distintos aspectos.
What do the physical characteristics of the books acquired by elite women in the late medieval and early modern periods tell us about their owners, and what in particular can their ...illustrations-especially their illustrations of women-reveal? Centered on Anne, duchess of Brittany and twice queen of France, with reference to her contemporaries and successors,The Queen's Libraryexamines the cultural issues surrounding female modes of empowerment and book production. The book aims to uncover the harmonies and conflicts that surfaced in male-authored, male-illustrated works for and about women. In her interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural and political legacy of Anne of Brittany and her female contemporaries, Cynthia J. Brown argues that the verbal and visual imagery used to represent these women of influence was necessarily complex because of its inherently conflicting portrayal of power and subordination. She contends that it can be understood fully only by drawing on the intersection of pertinent literary, historical, codicological, and art historical sources. InThe Queen's Library, Brown examines depictions of women of power in five spheres that tellingly expose this tension: rituals of urban and royal reception; the politics of female personification allegories; the "famous-women"topos; women in mourning; and women mourned.
This is the first book-length study of the influential cultural and religious exchanges which took place between England and Bohemia following Richard II's marriage to Anne of Bohemia in 1382. The ...ensuing growth in communication between the two kingdoms initially enabled new ideas of religion to flourish in both countries but eventually led the English authorities to suppress heresy. This exciting project has been made possible by the discovery of new manuscripts after the opening up of Czech archives over the past twenty years. It is the only study to analyze the Lollard-Hussite exchange with an eye to the new opportunities for international travel and correspondence to which the Great Schism gave rise, and examines how the use of propaganda and The Council of Constance brought an end to this communication by securing the condemnation of heretics such as John Wyclif.
Roberta Gilchrist critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage. Drawing on global perspectives from heritage studies, archaeology, museology, anthropology and architectural history, she ...examines the multiple values of medieval Christian heritage. Gilchrist investigates monastic archaeology through the lens of the material study of religion and reveals the sensory experience of religion through case studies including Glastonbury Abbey and Scottish monasticism. Her work offers new insights into medieval identity and regional distinctiveness, healing and magic, and memory practices in the sacred landscape. It also reflects on the significance of medieval sacred landscapes as contested heritage sites which hold diverse meanings to contemporary groups. This title is also available as Open Access.
Cultures of Piety Bartlett, Anne Clark; Bestul, Thomas H
09/2018
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Devotional texts in late medieval England were notable for their flamboyant piety and their preoccupation with the tortured body of Christ and the grief of the Virgin Mary. Generations of readers ...internalized and shaped the cultures of piety represented by these works. Anne Clark Bartlett and Thomas H. Bestul here gather seven examples of this literature, all written in the period 1350–1450, one in Anglo-Norman, the remainder in Middle English. (The volume includes an appendix containing the original texts of the latter six pieces.) The collection illustrates the polyglottal, conflicting, and often polemical nature of devotional culture in the Middle Ages. It provides a valuable context for and interesting counterpoint to the Canterbury Tales and other classic works of late medieval England. The introduction and the translators' headnotes discuss crucial aspects of the texts' histories and thematics, including the importance of the body in spiritual practices, the development of female patronage and of a wide audience for this literature, and the indivisibility of the political and the religious in medieval times.
Wawrzyniec KOWALSKI The King of the Slavs. The Image of a Ruler in the Latin Text of The Chronicle of Priest ofDuklja (= East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 69) Boston ...- Leiden, Brill 2021, 368 s., ISBN 978-90-04-44687-8. Pri každej z týchto osôb Kowalski podrobne analyzuje použitý naratív a jeho stavebné prvky, topoi a taktiež dôkladne skúma príbuznosť s ostatnými zachovanými prameňmi dalmátskej ale taktiež uhorskej, poľskej či českej proveniencie. Boli zrejme napísané v polovici v 14. storočia, ale pôvodné texty, podobne ako predchádzajúce záznamy v kartulári, vznikli koncom 12. storočia (prípadne i skôr) v kláštore svätého Štefana Prvomučeníka v Splite.8 Otázne teda je napokon, či by Kačićovci vedeli presadiť svoj rodový naratív v kláštore na dohľad od Splitu, najmä keď sa v roku 1180 podieľali na násilnom odstránení splitského arcibiskupa Rainera.9 Svätoplukovo meno však bolo známe aj v Dubrovniku.
Women commonly became pilgrims in Latin Christendom in the later Middle Ages, despite the opposition of contemporary critics. This book explores women's participation in many forms of pilgrimage, and ...also their construction of positive interpretations of that participation.
This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the twelfth ...century, the papacy launched concerted efforts to hunt out heretics, mostly Cathars and Waldensians, and directed operations against them all across Latin Christendom. The bull of Pope Lucius III Ad abolendam of 1184 became a turning point in the formation of the inquisitorial system which made both the clergy and the laity responsible for suppressing any religious dissent. From a comparative perspective, the study analyzes political, social and religious developments which in the High Middle Ages gave birth to the mechanism of repression and religious violence supervised by the papacy and operated by bishops and, starting from the 1230s, papal inquisitors, extraordinary judges delegate staffed mostly by Dominican and Franciscan friars.
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