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Vital Signs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 50

Vital Signs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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From Martyr to Monument
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

From Martyr to Monument

After the French Revolution and the dissolution of the monastic orders, the great Abbey of Cluny in France was closed and the buildings were sold for materials. This process went on for nearly thirty years, just as a romantic appreciation of the medieval past was gaining popularity. Although the government was unable to halt most of the demolition work, one transept arm with a large and small tower was saved from ruin, along with a few small Gothic buildings and the eighteenth-century cloister. Efforts to preserve, repair, and reuse the remains waxed and waned for a century while historians wrote with regret about the abbeyâ (TM)s demise. In 1927, Kenneth Conant came from Harvard to excavat...

The Medieval Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

The Medieval Book

Originally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.

The Lost Archive
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 620

The Lost Archive

A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer. Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities su...

The Gundohinus Gospels
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

The Gundohinus Gospels

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Manuscripts and Medieval Song
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Manuscripts and Medieval Song

This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.

Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1434

Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century

Twenty-seven authors approach the diverse areas of the cultural, religious, and social life of the twelfth century. These essays form a basic resource for all interested in this pivotal century. A reprint of the first edition first published in 1982.

The Mirroure of the Worlde
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 670

The Mirroure of the Worlde

Makes available for the first time the unique text in the fifteenth-century British manuscript, MS. Bodley 283, which is among the last and largest works in the tradition of lay religious instruction mandated by the Fourth Lateran Council.

Teaching the Middle Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Teaching the Middle Ages

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Visualizing Ancestry in the High and Late Middle Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Visualizing Ancestry in the High and Late Middle Ages

  • Categories: Art

Appearing in all figural media from the mid-twelfth century, family trees and lineages made political claims for their patrons.