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The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations
Explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy Roman Empire.
A Saving Science
In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Handbook of 809, painted in roughly 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne’s sons. Created in an age in which careful study of the heavens served a liturgical purpose—to reckon Christian feast days and seasons accurately and thus reflect a “heavenly” order—the diagrams of celestial bodies in the Handbook of 809 are extraordinary signifiers of the intersection of Christian art and classical astronomy. Ramírez-Weaver shows how, by studying this lavishly painted and carefully execu...
The Emperor and the Elephant
A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ʿAbbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian dynasty and the Islamic world, including not only the Caliphate in the east but also Umayyad al-Andalus, North Africa, the Muslim lords of Italy and a varied cast of warlords, pirates and renegades. The Emperor and the Elephant offers a new account of these relations. By drawing on Arabic sour...
Naming, Defining, Phrasing Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies
An examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a position of 'strong asymmetrical dependency' (including slavery) provides insights into the social categories and distinctions that informed asymmetrical social interactions. In a similar vein, an analysis of historical narratives that either justify or challenge dependency is conducive to revealing how dependency may be embedded in (historical) discourses and ways of thinking. The eleven contributions in the volume approach these issues from various disciplinary vantage points, including theology, global history, Ottoman history, literary studies, and l...
The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé
First English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages. The anonymous Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid's Metamorphoses, with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience. Working from the premise that everything in the universe, including the pagan authors of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, is part of God's plan and expresses God's truth even without knowing it, the Ovide moralisé is a massive and influential work of synthesis and creativity, a remarkable window into a certain kind of medieval thinking. It is of major importance across time and across many disciplines, includ...
Übertragungen
Mittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Schreiber, Maler, Illustratoren, Übersetzer und Autoren hatten offenbar spezifische Vorstellungen von Vorlagentreue; ihre Übertragungsleistungen wirken auf den modernen Betrachter nicht selten ungenau und eigenwillig. Aber es wäre zu einfach, von einer 'typisch mittelalterlichen' Art des Reproduzierens zu sprechen: Die Beiträge dieses Bandes zeigen, dass nur ein differenzierender Zugriff auf die verschiedenen Formen und Konzepte von Reproduktion in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit sinnvoll ist. Aus der interdiszplinären Anlage dieses Bandes ergibt sich ein komplexes Bild, das die Andersartigkeit mittelalterlicher 'Übertragungen' erkennbar werden lässt, gerade weil es die Eigenart des jeweiligen Falles ins Kalkül zieht. Der Band versteht sich als ein Schritt hin zu einer Kulturgeschichte des Reproduzierens. Alle Beiträge sind mit englischen Zusammenfassungen versehen.
Melancholia translata
English summary: While in the Middle Ages melancholy was mainly seen as the least pleasant of the four temperaments, in the late 15th century Marsilio Ficino from the Florentine Neoplatonist circle formulated a fundamentally new definition as a consequence of which melancholy became an attribute of exceptional, intellectually outstanding persons. The present study investigates how this concept was put across in German-speaking countries in the 16th century. To this end the author not only examines sources from the fields of medicine, philosophy and literature, partly tapping new evidence, but also looks into the paths and modes of transfer from a cultural science and historical perspective. ...
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