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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 18
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The essays collected here continue the Journal's wide-ranging and eclectic tradition. Topics include literary evidence for linen armour; serial production in late medieval silks; the inventory of Isabella Bruce's bridal goods; the depiction of women textile workers in the frescoes of the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua, Italy; ideal female beauty in the Middle Ages and the means used to attain and assess it; and social status as evidenced by clothing and textiles in the Scottish royal treasurer's accounts of the mid-sixteenth century.
Valentine
La partie sud-est du renferme quelques lieues d'un pays singulièrement pittoresque. La grande route qui le traverse dans la direction de Paris à Clermont étant bordée des terres les plus habitées, il est difficile au voyageur de soupçonner la beauté des sites qui l'avoisinent. Mais à celui qui, cherchant l'ombre et le silence, s'enfoncerait dans un de ces chemins tortueux et encaissés qui débouchent sur la route à chaque instant, bientôt se révéleraient de frais et calmes paysages, des prairies d'un vert tendre, des ruisseaux mélancoliques, des massifs d'aunes et de frênes, toute une nature suave et pastorale.
La grande chronique d'Angleterre de Matthieu Paris
Quand le matin fut venu, le bruit se répandit dans toute la ville de Londres que les fortifications bâties près de la tour, et pour la construction desquelles le roi avait dépensé plus de douze mille marcs, s'étaient écroulées d'une manière irréparable ce qui excita l'étonnement de beaucoup de gens qui avaient déjà regardé comme un mauvais pronostic que, l'année précédente, la même nuit de saint George, bien plus, à la même heure, les susdites constructions se fussent écroulées ainsi que les avant-murs. Les citoyens de Londres furent très étonnés de cet événement, mais n'en eurent pas grand regret car ces constructions étaient pour eux comme une épine dans l'œil. Ils avaient entendu les reproches menaçants de ceux qui leur disaient que ces fortifications étaient construites pour leur honte, afin que, si quelqu'un d'entre eux prétendait défendre la liberté de la ville, il pût être renfermé derrière ces murailles et jeté dans les fers. "Plus il y a de cachots, ajoutait-on, plus il y a de prisonniers."
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the...
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments, transforming increasingly outdated modes of warfare into brilliant spectacle. Meanwhile, simpler sports provided recreational distraction from the dangerously unsettled conditions of everyday life. Running, jumping, wrestling, and many ball games - soccer, cricket, baseball, golf, and tennis – had their often violent beginnings in this period. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first comprehensive history from c...
Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance
This volume traces the work of trecento historians of the Mezzogiorno, analyzing it through current methodological and theoretical frameworks. Questioning the current consensus, the book examines how the South as a cultural "other" began evolving over the fourteenth century, and reconsiders the nineteenth-century "Southern Question" concerning the Mezzogiorno’s history, culture and people and its lingering negative image in Europe and America. It also focuses on specific histories, authors and historiographical issues, and reviews how new understandings of the Mediterranean have begun to alter our perceptions of the South in a new global context and as the basis for new historical research.
Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World
Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Similarly, medieval history knows of numerous struggles by various peoples to maintain their own freedom or political independence. Nevertheless, as this study illustrates, throughout the pre-modern period, the loss of freedom could happen quite easily, affecting high and low (including kings and princes) and there are many literary texts and historical documents that address the problems of imprisonment and even enslavement (Georgius of Hungary, Johann Schiltberger, Hans Ulrich Krafft, etc.). Simu...
Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach still very much focused on the materiality of game (toys, cards, dice, falcons, dolls, etc.) and acknowledges that game constituted also a form of coming to terms with human existence in an unstable and volatile world determined by universal randomness and fortune. Whether considering blessings or horse fighting, falconry or card games, playing with dice or dolls, we can ...
Tamaris
De ce côté, la vue, heureusement encadrée par les pins parasols et les buissons fortement découpés, était si bien composée et d'un ton si pur et si frais, que je restai un instant comme en extase ; je n'avais rien trouvé de plus beau sur les rivages de Naples et de la Sicile. La grande rade, ainsi vue de haut, et partout entourée de collines d'un beau plan et d'une forme gracieuse, avait les tons changeants du prisme. La houle soulevait encore quelques lignes blanches sur les fonds bleus du côté de la pleine mer ; mais, à mesure qu'elle venait mourir dans des eaux plus tranquilles, elle passait par les nuances vertes jusqu'à ce que, s'éteignant sous nos pieds dans le petit golfe du Lazaret, elle eût pris sur les algues des bas-fonds l'irisation violette des mers de Grèce.
