Books by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
Forthcoming at Brepols in 2022.
Two-volume overview of the history and scholarship of Anglo-Hungarian contacts and relations (in ... more Two-volume overview of the history and scholarship of Anglo-Hungarian contacts and relations (in Hungarian). Translation to English pending.
Articles by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
Dining with History: Culinary Adventures Celebrating Balázs Nagy's 60th Birthday, 2022
Notes and Queries, Oxford University Press, 2021
Medieval Animals on the Move: Between Body and Mind, 2021
The study traces the textual relationship between medieval animal descriptions by gathering
see... more The study traces the textual relationship between medieval animal descriptions by gathering
seemingly disparate sources about a particular animal behaviour—spraying their pursuers
when chased. Through the diligence of medieval Latin authors, the classic Bonnacon of
Phrygia, as seen on the Hereford Mappamundi for example, is shown to have begotten a
range of curious creatures such as the misplaced onager of Gervase of Tilbury, and the
ferocious Bohemian loni, first appearing in Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s thirteenth-century
encyclopedia, and becoming indelible from Bohemia’s image for centuries to come. The
increasingly complex afterlife of these passages, especially a number of similar quadrupeds
in works by Albertus Magnus, Thomas of Cantimpré, and Giovanni Marignoli, show an even
more diffuse picture whereby cognate animals proliferate by splitting and merging existing
passages with abandon. At a glance, these animals seem to have little in common, but the
intertextual relationship between texts and images about them sheds light to more
commonalities than their odd defence mechanism. On the lexical level, nuanced
discrepancies in word use and phrasing are used to explain some of the trajectories detected
in descriptions of the bonacon and its textual offspring. Finally, overviewing a range of
variations, it becomes clear that the beast of many names and forms is but an adaptable
cultural construct, whose enduring popularity stems not only from its scatological appeal but
its versatility in various contexts and genres. Moving from Solinus to Early Modern
encyclopedias; moving from Anatolia to the “northern provinces” of medieval Europe;
moving their projectile attack from the backside to the front; and moving across genres and
formats in textual transmission, these animals are certainly dynamic in more ways than one.
Keywords: Bonacon, Aristotle, Latin, medieval encyclopaedia, bestiary
Genius loci: Laszlovszky 60, 2018
Gyulafirátót, avagy a rendi építészeti hagyományok átjárhatósága 19 CRISTOPHER MIELKE A Queen's C... more Gyulafirátót, avagy a rendi építészeti hagyományok átjárhatósága 19 CRISTOPHER MIELKE A Queen's Crusading Connections: Yolanda of Courtenay, the Fifth Crusade, and the Military Orders 25 BÁRÁNY ATTILA Angol keresztes a magyar végeken: Robert de Champlayn 28 CRISTIAN GAȘPAR Trespassing Pigs, Sons of Whores, and Randy Dogs: Marginalia on a Medieval Document from Caransebeș/Karánsebes 32 VADAS ANDRÁS A kecskeméti marhahajtók megpróbáltatásai és egy végvár jóllakott őrsége 38 LÁSZLÓ KONTLER Borders and Crossings: A Jesuit Scientist in the Whirlwind of Enlightened Reform 41 PAUKOVICS GERGŐ Hajsza az örök fiatalságért. Dr. Voronoff és a dübörgő 20-as évek 45 PINKE ZSOLT -STEPHEN POW A Gangesz-deltából a globális porondra: történeti ökológiai szempontok a kolera kórokozó (Vibrio cholerae) elterjedési területének átalakulásához 50 MARCELL SEBŐK Tangible Cultural Heritage: The Early History of Blue Jeans 55 Inhabiting the Landscape / Élet a tájban SÓFALVI ANDRÁS A Barcaság határai és 13. század eleji településképe a Német Lovagrend adományleveleiben 60 NIKOLINA ANTONIĆ The Hospitallers' Estate of Čičan and its Neighbors: Spatial Analysis Yields New Information 64 ÜNIGE BENCZE The Abbey of Meszes: New Insights on the Site Location 68 MÓGÁNÉ ARADI CSILLA -MOLNÁR ISTVÁN Kísérlet a bárdudvarnok-szentbenedeki premontrei prépostság környezeti rekonstrukciójára 72 BEATRIX ROMHÁNYI Monasteries along the Danube 77 PUSZTAI TAMÁS -P. FISCHL KLÁRA A dél-borsodi síkság bronzkori és középkori településstruktúrájának összehasonlítása 82 VIZI MÁRTA Komplex régészeti kutatás egy egykori dél-dunántúli mezőváros területén 89 BATIZI ZOLTÁN Fagyosasszony és Kammerhof 95 PÁLÓCZI HORVÁTH ANDRÁS A középkori Kenderes településszerkezete 99 SZŐCS PÉTER LEVENTE Adatok Nagybánya és vidéke középkori egyházi topográfiájához 103 ZATYKÓ CSILLA Eltűnt berzencei malmok 108 SZABÓ PÉTER Középkori cseh erdőgazdálkodás a choustníki uradalom erdőszámadásainak tükrében 113 ANDREA KISS
Postcards from the Edge: Proceedings of ‘The European Peripheries in the Middle Ages Symposium’ (Leeds, 25 April 2009), 2010
Korall-Társadalomtörténeti folyóirat, Jan 1, 2009
A középkori Anglia Magyarország-képe meglehetősen egyoldalúan rekonstru-álható. Míg a mindennapi ... more A középkori Anglia Magyarország-képe meglehetősen egyoldalúan rekonstru-álható. Míg a mindennapi élet gyorsan eltűnő feljegyzései töredékesek, számos krónika, földrajzi leírás maradt ránk, amelyben bizonyos határon belül rekonst-ruálhatók a szerzők benyomásai és ( ...
Conference proceedings by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
The paper examines the use of original documents in different parts of Matthew Paris’s world hist... more The paper examines the use of original documents in different parts of Matthew Paris’s world history, the Chronica majora and its attachments, composed in St Albans, England, in the thirteenth century. With special attention to contemporaneous events, specifically the 1241-42 Mongol invasion in Eastern Europe, Matthew’s access to various documents originating in mainland Europe will be the subject of detailed analysis based on his text and the way he organised information in various parts of his work. Besides a brief survey of original Mongol-related material collected in the so-called Liber additamentorum, clerical letters from Hungary and Poland that were preserved for posterity only in these English manuscripts, the main focus of the paper is the chronicler’s strategy to use similar letters woven into the narrative of his world history. The accompanying illustrations also constitute an integral part of these narrative accounts. The paper sheds light on the recurring narrative pattern that Matthew Paris deploys to increase the impression of authenticity and create a rhythmical prose that informs and entertains his readers. A foray into the epistemological questions at the intersection of history and literature, the paper examines the limits of understanding and interpreting historiography as literature, while maintaining the possibility to reconstruct historical and social realities on the basis of the very same texts.
by NUME Gruppo di Ricerca sul Medioevo Latino, Roberto Del Monte, leonardo marchetti, Angelo Passuello, Massimiliano David, Stefano De Togni, Dino Lombardo, Chiara Ribolla, Federica Cosenza, Lorenzo Curatella, Alessandro Mortera, Jacopo Celani, Davor Bulic, Giuseppe Maisola, Lester Lonardo, Francesco Mameli, Elisa Orlando, Alessandro Scalone, Francesco Barbarulo, Jacopo Paganelli, Gabriele Passabì, Stefano Santarelli, Roberta Napoletano, Irena Berovic, Alicja Bańczyk, Zsuzsanna Papp Reed, Angela Zaccara, Mauro Ferrante, Marianna Cuomo, Nicodemo Abate, Luigi Di Cosmo, Lucrezia Campagna, Flora Miele, Daisy Antonia Petrelli, Chiara Santini, Maria Paola Bulla, Paola Novara, Antonello Vilella, Luca Salvatelli, Andrea Pala, Valeria Carta, Stefano Giuseppe Pirero, Elena Catalano, Michele Lacerenza, Eloy Bermejo Malumbres, Nicoletta Usai, Paola Allemani, maurizio gomez, luca finco, Filippo Diara, Arianna Carannante, and Federica Chirco Volume disponibile qui:
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INDICE DEI CONTRIBU... more Volume disponibile qui:
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INDICE DEI CONTRIBUTI
Archeologia | Edifici
Massimiliano David, Alessandro Melega
All’ombra del Cristianesimo dilagantenell’Impero Romano. Una lettura archeologica
Massimiliano David, Stefano De Togni,Dino Lombardo
La cristianizzazione dell’industria edilizia. Nuove evidenze ostiensi
Alessandro Bona
La chiesa di San Desiderio ad Assago (MI): un sito archeologico pluristratificato alle porte di Milano
Chiara Ribolla
La chiesa di San Pietro di Trobaso:indagine archeologica e contesto storico.Analisi preliminare
Marialuisa Zegretti, Giuseppina Schirò
Riflessioni sul complesso di San Pancrazio a Roma tra VI e VII secolo
Federica Cosenza, Lorenzo Curatella
Sepolture di prestigio a Romanel Basso Medioevo:l’esempio di Santa Maria Nova
Alessandro Mortera
Riuso e reimpiego dell’antico.Il caso di Santa Maria Nova tra spolia architettonici e sepolture di prestigio
Archeologia | Paesaggi
Jacopo Celani
Mappare la guerra greco-gotica: primi risultati di un’analisi spaziale delle vicende narrate nel De bello Gothico
Massimiliano David, Eleonora Rossetti
Dai vici alle pievi in Italia settentrionale. Il caso del territorio di Mediolanum in epoca tardoantica
Marina Zgrablić, Davor Bulić
The rural landscape in Istria betweenLate Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:changes in the context of Christianization
Federica D’Angelo
San Vincenzo al Volturno e la Terra Sancti Vincentii: amministrazione dei possedimenti di un’abbazia altomedievale (secoli VIII-XII)
Giuseppe Maisola
Territori del Giudicato di Arborea.
Insediamenti e viabilità tra Parte Miilie Parte Simagis (XII-XIV sec.)
Lester Lonardo
Et in alia parte alio molendinu.Mulini, canali ed opifici idraulici della Campania interna: dati archeologici e documentari
Francesco Mameli
Archeologia dei confini nella Sardegna medievale:
la Curatorìa di Decimo e la sua rete insediativa
(XIII-XIV secolo)
Elisa Orlando
Castra et Plebes in Casentino (VII-XIII secolo): fonti, metodi e ricerche
Storia
Lilian Diniz
The role of clerics in the processof religious hybridity: the testimonyof the ecclesiastical documentation
Arthur Westwell
The Carolingian Conquest andthe Italian Pontifical Tradition
Antonio Tagliente
Servi o milites? L’antitetica lettura del mondolongobardo meridionale nella Legatiodi Liutprando da Cremona
Antonio Corvino
La produzione libraria e letterariadella Langobardia ducale (sec. VI - X)
Luca Marino
Il contratto di pastinatoe la trasformazione del paesaggio agrarionel Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis
Alessandro Scalone
Memoria, crociata e diplomazia:un'analisi sui rapporti diplomaticitra Outremer ed Europa Occidentale (1149-1189)
14.00-14.20
Consuelo Capolupo
San Guglielmo da Vercellied il Monasterium Sanctae Mariae Montis Virginis:storia di una fondazione benedettina in Irpiniadal XII secolo ad oggi
14.20-14.40
Francesco Barbarulo, Jacopo Paganelli
La pluralità come caratteristica dei sistemi politici del Regnum Italiae: ipotesi sulle ricostruzioni delle vicende istituzionali italiane tra XII e XIV secolo
Antonella Torre
Nella bisaccia del pellegrino:l’alimentazione nel Codex Calixtinus
Gabriele Passabì
Decus Imperii: idee di imperonel Draco Normannicus di Stefano di Rouen
Lorenzo Schiavetta
Pepo degli Albizzie il mercato laniero fiorentino nel ‘300
Stefano Santarelli
Dove eravamo rimasti:l’edizione dei protocolli notarili romani del Trecento
Paleografia
Alfredo García Femenia, Julio Macián Ferrandis
Nulla die sine linea:autografi nella Valenza del Quattrocento
Roberta Napoletano
Frammenti membranacei di riuso: metodologie e prospettive di ricerca. Il caso dell’Archivio Generale Arcivescovile di Bologna
Letteratura e Filologia
Ilaria Ottria
Esegesi etimologica e interpretazioneallegorico-morale nelle Mythologiaedi Fulgenzio: la Fabula Scyllae (Fulg. myth. II 9)
Irena Berovic
Heroes and Monsters: Cannibalismas Mentifact in the Old English Andreas
Alicja Bańczyk
The conflict between obligations toward the family and toward the lord on the example of medieval French epic poems
Pamela Gennari
Per una nuova edizione dei Dialogidi San Gregorio Magno
Zsuzsanna Reed Papp
Sitting on the Fence: Matthew Paris’s“Mongol Letters” at the Intersectionof History and Literature
Angela Zaccara
La lingua inglese tardo-medievale fra tradizione e innovazione: Cristo «passible» e «unpassible» nelle Rivelazioni di Giuliana di Norwich
Valeria Di Clemente
Il motivo dei “nove prodi” e la figura di Robert Bruce
Filosofia
Rūta Zukienė
«We become what we remember»:
memory and recollection in the Old English Boethius
Hernán Guerrero Troncoso
Avicenna e la questione della cosa.Un’indagine sulle origini della metafisica intesa come scientia transcendens
Ignazio Genovese
Satisfactio e/o immolatio/oblatio?
Anselmo d’Aosta, Bruno di Segni e le ragioni dell’Incarnazione
Nunzia Cosmo
Note sull’origine medievale delle logiche modali
Mauro Ferrante
Ingenium: Niccolò Cusano anticipatore della modernità
Archeologia | Materiali
Alessia Frisetti, Marianna Cuomo,Nicodemo Abate, Luigi Di Cosmo
La chiesa di San Leo a Sessa Aurunca (CE): scavo, tecniche di analisi, reperti ed apparati decorativi
Lucrezia Campagna
La ceramica medievale di Roma: analisitipologiche e quantitative per la storia economica
Maria Stella Graziano, Camilla Rosati
Ostia nel V secolo attraverso la cultura materiale
Domenica Tataranni
Commercio locale e contatti mediterranei in Alife altomedievale: la testimonianza delle anfore
Beatrice Brancazi, Flora Miele
Contenitori e simboli:i motivi religiosi delle ceramiche rivestite alto laziali
Antonia Daisy Petrelli
Elementi decorativi in laterizionell’architettura medievale pisana.Storia e produzione tra XIII eXV secolo
Chiara Santini
Produzione e circolazione ceramica nell’altomedioevo (VI-XI secolo) nel mediovaldarno fiorentino: nuove interpretazioni da vecchi dati
Maria Paola Bulla
La ceramica islamica in Tunisia:Sabra Al- Mansūrya (X-XI sec.)
Epigrafia
Paola Novara
Iscrizioni dedicatorie e sottoscrizioni attributive nell’edilizia di culto ravennate dei secoli IX-XII
Antonello Vilella
Iscrizioni perdute dalla città di Bari (secoli VIII-XII)
Luca Salvatelli
HIC REQUIESCIT. Epigrafi, lastre tombali,cenotafi, tombe monumentali a Viterbotra Medioevo e Umanesimo
Progetti
Andrea Pergola
La liberalizzazione delle riproduzioni in archivi ebiblioteche come mezzo di comunicazione per la divulgazione storica: il caso di “Incunaboli a Cagliari”
Davide Gherdevich
POLIMA e PolimaWiki: un progetto per lo studio, la condivisione e la valorizzazione delle listenel Medioevo
Marcello Casillo
Gli edifici di culto di Salerno tra V e X secolo. Primi risultati per il progetto CARE
Storia dell'Arte
Angelo Passuello
Maestranze alloctone nell’Umbria romanica (?): il caso di Sant’Eufemia a Spoleto e i suoi possibili rapporti con Verona
Andrea Pala, Valeria Carta
Appunti per lo studio delle sculture architettoniche nelle chiese romaniche della SardegnaBasso Medievale (secc. XII-XIII)
Stefano Giuseppe Pirero
Trofei bellici, illustri donazioni e commesse genovesi: lineamenti di scultura romanicae duecentesca a Savona e Noli
María Fernanda García Marino
Considerazioni sulla scultura dell’Italia meridionale nella prima metà del XIV secolo:il caso di Nicola da Monteforte
Simona Manacorda
L’archetipo della donna e il drago: il caso di Santa Margherita, un topos iconografico al femminile nell’Europa gotica
Elena Catalano
La Parola ruggita: l’immagine della leonessada Gregorio Magno a Nicola Pisano
Michele Lacerenza
Strapparsi le vesti nell’iconografia medievale:il caso del san Giovanni Evangelistanella chiesa di Santa Lucia a Barletta
Storia dell'Architettura
Silvia Beltramo
Nuove ricerche sulle architetture francescane: San Francesco di Cassine e di Alessandria
Eloy Bermejo Malumbres
Il primo progetto di riforma della cattedraledi Sassari nel XV secolo
Nicoletta Usai, Claudio Nonne
L’antica cattedrale di San Pantaleo a Dolianova (CA)
Paola Allemani, Maurizio Gomez Serito
La Pietra di Visone: un significativo indicatore per la lettura dell’edilizia storicadel Basso Piemonte
Luca Finco
Costruire le torri liguri nel Medioevo:usi e riusi del materiale ad Albenga
Filippo Diara
Gli arredi liturgici lapidei altomedievali:
committenti e maestranze nel Casentinotra VII-X secolo
Arianna Carannante
L’utilizzo delle semibotti nelle “chiese a cupole in asse” in Puglia tra X e XIII secolo
Cosimo Damiano Diella, Federica Chirco
Barletta nel Medioevo (VI-XV secolo d.C.)tra fonti scritte, cartografiche ed archeologiche
by NUME Gruppo di Ricerca sul Medioevo Latino, Silvia Beltramo, Paola Novara, leonardo marchetti, Angelo Passuello, Davide Penna, Chiara Baldestein, Massimiliano David, Alessandro Melega, Stefano De Togni, Dino Lombardo, Chiara Ribolla, Federica Cosenza, Lorenzo Curatella, Alessandro Mortera, Jacopo Celani, Eleonora Rossetti, Davor Bulic, Giuseppe Maisola, Lester Lonardo, Elisa Orlando, Antonio Tagliente, Francesco Barbarulo, Gabriele Passabì, Stefano Santarelli, Roberta Napoletano, Irena Berovic, Alicja Bańczyk, Zsuzsanna Papp Reed, Angela Zaccara, Rūta Šileikytė Zukienė, Mauro Ferrante, Marianna Cuomo, Lucrezia Campagna, Beatrice Brancazi, Chiara Santini, Maria Paola Bulla, Antonello Vilella, Luca Salvatelli, Andrea Pergola, Andrea Pala, Michele Lacerenza, Eloy Bermejo Malumbres, Nicoletta Usai, Filippo Diara, Arianna Carannante, and Roberto Del Monte
Conference Papers by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
The Mongol Invasion of Hungary and Its Eurasian Context project
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2018
Monastic Memories and Narratives: Remembering, Reco... more International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2018
Monastic Memories and Narratives: Remembering, Recording, Re-Interpreting
Wednesday 4 July 2018: 14.15-15.45
Medieval monasteries have played a crucial role in keeping memories of events, traditions, and religious practices. Therefore, medieval studies has always focused on the medieval texts related to the monastic communities, particularly in the context of monastic libraries and scriptoria. At the same time, less attention has been given to the importance of monastic topoi, created narratives and memories. The session focuses on texts created in monastic milieu, which are not simple records of events, but they represent concepts of interpretations influenced by monastic traditions. They often serve a particular agenda or harmonise with the special local conditions of the monastic communities. The papers discuss, how language, written culture or narrative strategies serve these particular monastic concepts. They also focus on the religious and non-ecclesiastic sources of these monastic texts and the interactions created between the religious community and the secular world. Therefore, they represent a special category in the study of medieval memory.
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2017
Medieval Animals, II: Creating New Kinds of Beasts
... more International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2017
Medieval Animals, II: Creating New Kinds of Beasts
Tuesday 4 July 2017: 16.30-18.00
Medieval literature offers a wide spectrum of creations of kinds and types of animals that mainly play an important role in symbolic or metaphorical discourses. The session tries to offer some examples of this kind of fauna that can certainly be seen as part of medieval 'reality'.
A surprisingly rich and varied corpus of disparate passages about contemporaneous Eastern Europe ... more A surprisingly rich and varied corpus of disparate passages about contemporaneous Eastern Europe survives scattered across a range of medieval English works. While most were arrived in the British Isles from the continent in the form of episodes of ‘ready-made’ imported histories, such as Martinus Polonus’s popular Chronicon in the latter half of the thirteenth century, some were recorded by English authors from local sources or informants. Both types of information were used and re-used by subsequent authors, but it is the latter that shed more light on medieval English perceptions and knowledge about the region. Among the more well-known historiographical examples, we find Matthew Paris’s Chronica majora and Liber additamentorum, which preserve original letters from the Mongol invasion-stricken countries of Hungary and Poland. With regard to information about the population of the region, Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s encyclopaedia, the De proprietatibus rerum, is renowned for its unique passages about Slavic peoples and the natural resources of their countries.
In my paper, I will explore how much of the Eastern European material in English written sources was first-hand local information, and what type of information these passages conveyed about the region. I will also address the question of availability and dissemination of this type of information in medieval England. My conclusions, based on surviving manuscript and bibliographical evidence, place into context the some of the most often-cited passages about Eastern Europe, and thus reveal the extent of geographical areas covered, the themes and nature of first-hand local information, and the degree of their dissemination in thirteenth-century England.
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2007
Panel: Networks of Power, Influence, and Informatio... more International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2007
Panel: Networks of Power, Influence, and Information in the High Middle Ages
Sponsored by: British Academy Network for 'Medieval Friendship Networks'
Teaching Documents by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual ... more The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological, and cultural value. Monstrosity is bound up with questions of body image and deformity, nature and knowledge, hybridity, and horror. To explore a culture's attitudes to the monstrous is to comprehend one of its most important symbolic tools. (Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills, The Monstrous Middle Ages, 2003) While we will be looking at medieval European monsters and monster lore, as well as modern scholarship that grapples with them, it is inevitable (and encouraged) to venture further afield temporally and geographically. Reading assignments include medieval saints' lives, romances, sermons, chronicles, and visual narratives of monsters and heroes in manuscripts and maps. Blended course, synchronous online classes with some asynchronous elements. Learning outcomes By the end of this course you will • be familiar with key theories of monstrosity • apply that knowledge to the interpretation of literary and visual sources • be able to analyze how texts that engage with monstrosity, and reflect cultural values and the boundaries of human identity • break through the alterity of medieval primary sources and discover their cultural relevance through a universal theme • find ways in which studying medieval literature and literary criticism can help you improve your analysis of texts and become a better writer • learn a lot about cool monsters To accommodate asynchronous learning during the pandemic, all seminars are accompanied by detailed Powerpoint presentations, available for the entire duration of the course. Basic netiquette to be observed during Zoom classes. Please honor the classroom space by actively exhibiting respect and compassion for all races, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, and economic backgrounds. Please be informed that the seminars will be recorded by the Department of Medieval Studies and shared via Panopto where you and all other participants of the course can watch it for one week. After that date, the recording will be deleted. During the recording your image or voice might be recorded, the data processing resulting from the recording is based on CEU's legitimate interest. The Department of Medieval Studies publishes the recording of the lecture with no modifications.
Sidestepping the static understanding of medieval texts as museum objects, dusty old tomes writte... more Sidestepping the static understanding of medieval texts as museum objects, dusty old tomes written in insufferable Latin or stuffy vernacular, The Secret Life of Texts is a course looking at the extreme resilience and surprisingly dynamic history of medieval texts through modern eyes. The journey of words across space and time will chart the life cycle of texts and the dazzling array of possible ways of approaching, interpreting and enjoying them.
This is not a literature or palaeography course. A wide variety of medieval and modern texts, both in the canon and off the grid, will be considered to survey different ways medieval texts are used, analysed and reconstructed in various academic disciplines and popular genres. Anchored in the present, the wide spectrum of medieval source materials will be examined with a focus on use and re-use of texts across time, touching on themes such as memory, transmission, preservation, and interpretation.
A substantial part of the course is BYOT (Bring your Own Text) - texts are selected by the students to reflect on the concepts and theories addressed in each class.
Disclaimer: We may refer to, but will not read Beowulf.
The course is designed for students based in cultural heritage studies and the humanities in general.
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seemingly disparate sources about a particular animal behaviour—spraying their pursuers
when chased. Through the diligence of medieval Latin authors, the classic Bonnacon of
Phrygia, as seen on the Hereford Mappamundi for example, is shown to have begotten a
range of curious creatures such as the misplaced onager of Gervase of Tilbury, and the
ferocious Bohemian loni, first appearing in Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s thirteenth-century
encyclopedia, and becoming indelible from Bohemia’s image for centuries to come. The
increasingly complex afterlife of these passages, especially a number of similar quadrupeds
in works by Albertus Magnus, Thomas of Cantimpré, and Giovanni Marignoli, show an even
more diffuse picture whereby cognate animals proliferate by splitting and merging existing
passages with abandon. At a glance, these animals seem to have little in common, but the
intertextual relationship between texts and images about them sheds light to more
commonalities than their odd defence mechanism. On the lexical level, nuanced
discrepancies in word use and phrasing are used to explain some of the trajectories detected
in descriptions of the bonacon and its textual offspring. Finally, overviewing a range of
variations, it becomes clear that the beast of many names and forms is but an adaptable
cultural construct, whose enduring popularity stems not only from its scatological appeal but
its versatility in various contexts and genres. Moving from Solinus to Early Modern
encyclopedias; moving from Anatolia to the “northern provinces” of medieval Europe;
moving their projectile attack from the backside to the front; and moving across genres and
formats in textual transmission, these animals are certainly dynamic in more ways than one.
Keywords: Bonacon, Aristotle, Latin, medieval encyclopaedia, bestiary
Conference proceedings by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
https://www.nuovomedioevo.it/attivita-2/1466-2/
INDICE DEI CONTRIBUTI
Archeologia | Edifici
Massimiliano David, Alessandro Melega
All’ombra del Cristianesimo dilagantenell’Impero Romano. Una lettura archeologica
Massimiliano David, Stefano De Togni,Dino Lombardo
La cristianizzazione dell’industria edilizia. Nuove evidenze ostiensi
Alessandro Bona
La chiesa di San Desiderio ad Assago (MI): un sito archeologico pluristratificato alle porte di Milano
Chiara Ribolla
La chiesa di San Pietro di Trobaso:indagine archeologica e contesto storico.Analisi preliminare
Marialuisa Zegretti, Giuseppina Schirò
Riflessioni sul complesso di San Pancrazio a Roma tra VI e VII secolo
Federica Cosenza, Lorenzo Curatella
Sepolture di prestigio a Romanel Basso Medioevo:l’esempio di Santa Maria Nova
Alessandro Mortera
Riuso e reimpiego dell’antico.Il caso di Santa Maria Nova tra spolia architettonici e sepolture di prestigio
Archeologia | Paesaggi
Jacopo Celani
Mappare la guerra greco-gotica: primi risultati di un’analisi spaziale delle vicende narrate nel De bello Gothico
Massimiliano David, Eleonora Rossetti
Dai vici alle pievi in Italia settentrionale. Il caso del territorio di Mediolanum in epoca tardoantica
Marina Zgrablić, Davor Bulić
The rural landscape in Istria betweenLate Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:changes in the context of Christianization
Federica D’Angelo
San Vincenzo al Volturno e la Terra Sancti Vincentii: amministrazione dei possedimenti di un’abbazia altomedievale (secoli VIII-XII)
Giuseppe Maisola
Territori del Giudicato di Arborea.
Insediamenti e viabilità tra Parte Miilie Parte Simagis (XII-XIV sec.)
Lester Lonardo
Et in alia parte alio molendinu.Mulini, canali ed opifici idraulici della Campania interna: dati archeologici e documentari
Francesco Mameli
Archeologia dei confini nella Sardegna medievale:
la Curatorìa di Decimo e la sua rete insediativa
(XIII-XIV secolo)
Elisa Orlando
Castra et Plebes in Casentino (VII-XIII secolo): fonti, metodi e ricerche
Storia
Lilian Diniz
The role of clerics in the processof religious hybridity: the testimonyof the ecclesiastical documentation
Arthur Westwell
The Carolingian Conquest andthe Italian Pontifical Tradition
Antonio Tagliente
Servi o milites? L’antitetica lettura del mondolongobardo meridionale nella Legatiodi Liutprando da Cremona
Antonio Corvino
La produzione libraria e letterariadella Langobardia ducale (sec. VI - X)
Luca Marino
Il contratto di pastinatoe la trasformazione del paesaggio agrarionel Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis
Alessandro Scalone
Memoria, crociata e diplomazia:un'analisi sui rapporti diplomaticitra Outremer ed Europa Occidentale (1149-1189)
14.00-14.20
Consuelo Capolupo
San Guglielmo da Vercellied il Monasterium Sanctae Mariae Montis Virginis:storia di una fondazione benedettina in Irpiniadal XII secolo ad oggi
14.20-14.40
Francesco Barbarulo, Jacopo Paganelli
La pluralità come caratteristica dei sistemi politici del Regnum Italiae: ipotesi sulle ricostruzioni delle vicende istituzionali italiane tra XII e XIV secolo
Antonella Torre
Nella bisaccia del pellegrino:l’alimentazione nel Codex Calixtinus
Gabriele Passabì
Decus Imperii: idee di imperonel Draco Normannicus di Stefano di Rouen
Lorenzo Schiavetta
Pepo degli Albizzie il mercato laniero fiorentino nel ‘300
Stefano Santarelli
Dove eravamo rimasti:l’edizione dei protocolli notarili romani del Trecento
Paleografia
Alfredo García Femenia, Julio Macián Ferrandis
Nulla die sine linea:autografi nella Valenza del Quattrocento
Roberta Napoletano
Frammenti membranacei di riuso: metodologie e prospettive di ricerca. Il caso dell’Archivio Generale Arcivescovile di Bologna
Letteratura e Filologia
Ilaria Ottria
Esegesi etimologica e interpretazioneallegorico-morale nelle Mythologiaedi Fulgenzio: la Fabula Scyllae (Fulg. myth. II 9)
Irena Berovic
Heroes and Monsters: Cannibalismas Mentifact in the Old English Andreas
Alicja Bańczyk
The conflict between obligations toward the family and toward the lord on the example of medieval French epic poems
Pamela Gennari
Per una nuova edizione dei Dialogidi San Gregorio Magno
Zsuzsanna Reed Papp
Sitting on the Fence: Matthew Paris’s“Mongol Letters” at the Intersectionof History and Literature
Angela Zaccara
La lingua inglese tardo-medievale fra tradizione e innovazione: Cristo «passible» e «unpassible» nelle Rivelazioni di Giuliana di Norwich
Valeria Di Clemente
Il motivo dei “nove prodi” e la figura di Robert Bruce
Filosofia
Rūta Zukienė
«We become what we remember»:
memory and recollection in the Old English Boethius
Hernán Guerrero Troncoso
Avicenna e la questione della cosa.Un’indagine sulle origini della metafisica intesa come scientia transcendens
Ignazio Genovese
Satisfactio e/o immolatio/oblatio?
Anselmo d’Aosta, Bruno di Segni e le ragioni dell’Incarnazione
Nunzia Cosmo
Note sull’origine medievale delle logiche modali
Mauro Ferrante
Ingenium: Niccolò Cusano anticipatore della modernità
Archeologia | Materiali
Alessia Frisetti, Marianna Cuomo,Nicodemo Abate, Luigi Di Cosmo
La chiesa di San Leo a Sessa Aurunca (CE): scavo, tecniche di analisi, reperti ed apparati decorativi
Lucrezia Campagna
La ceramica medievale di Roma: analisitipologiche e quantitative per la storia economica
Maria Stella Graziano, Camilla Rosati
Ostia nel V secolo attraverso la cultura materiale
Domenica Tataranni
Commercio locale e contatti mediterranei in Alife altomedievale: la testimonianza delle anfore
Beatrice Brancazi, Flora Miele
Contenitori e simboli:i motivi religiosi delle ceramiche rivestite alto laziali
Antonia Daisy Petrelli
Elementi decorativi in laterizionell’architettura medievale pisana.Storia e produzione tra XIII eXV secolo
Chiara Santini
Produzione e circolazione ceramica nell’altomedioevo (VI-XI secolo) nel mediovaldarno fiorentino: nuove interpretazioni da vecchi dati
Maria Paola Bulla
La ceramica islamica in Tunisia:Sabra Al- Mansūrya (X-XI sec.)
Epigrafia
Paola Novara
Iscrizioni dedicatorie e sottoscrizioni attributive nell’edilizia di culto ravennate dei secoli IX-XII
Antonello Vilella
Iscrizioni perdute dalla città di Bari (secoli VIII-XII)
Luca Salvatelli
HIC REQUIESCIT. Epigrafi, lastre tombali,cenotafi, tombe monumentali a Viterbotra Medioevo e Umanesimo
Progetti
Andrea Pergola
La liberalizzazione delle riproduzioni in archivi ebiblioteche come mezzo di comunicazione per la divulgazione storica: il caso di “Incunaboli a Cagliari”
Davide Gherdevich
POLIMA e PolimaWiki: un progetto per lo studio, la condivisione e la valorizzazione delle listenel Medioevo
Marcello Casillo
Gli edifici di culto di Salerno tra V e X secolo. Primi risultati per il progetto CARE
Storia dell'Arte
Angelo Passuello
Maestranze alloctone nell’Umbria romanica (?): il caso di Sant’Eufemia a Spoleto e i suoi possibili rapporti con Verona
Andrea Pala, Valeria Carta
Appunti per lo studio delle sculture architettoniche nelle chiese romaniche della SardegnaBasso Medievale (secc. XII-XIII)
Stefano Giuseppe Pirero
Trofei bellici, illustri donazioni e commesse genovesi: lineamenti di scultura romanicae duecentesca a Savona e Noli
María Fernanda García Marino
Considerazioni sulla scultura dell’Italia meridionale nella prima metà del XIV secolo:il caso di Nicola da Monteforte
Simona Manacorda
L’archetipo della donna e il drago: il caso di Santa Margherita, un topos iconografico al femminile nell’Europa gotica
Elena Catalano
La Parola ruggita: l’immagine della leonessada Gregorio Magno a Nicola Pisano
Michele Lacerenza
Strapparsi le vesti nell’iconografia medievale:il caso del san Giovanni Evangelistanella chiesa di Santa Lucia a Barletta
Storia dell'Architettura
Silvia Beltramo
Nuove ricerche sulle architetture francescane: San Francesco di Cassine e di Alessandria
Eloy Bermejo Malumbres
Il primo progetto di riforma della cattedraledi Sassari nel XV secolo
Nicoletta Usai, Claudio Nonne
L’antica cattedrale di San Pantaleo a Dolianova (CA)
Paola Allemani, Maurizio Gomez Serito
La Pietra di Visone: un significativo indicatore per la lettura dell’edilizia storicadel Basso Piemonte
Luca Finco
Costruire le torri liguri nel Medioevo:usi e riusi del materiale ad Albenga
Filippo Diara
Gli arredi liturgici lapidei altomedievali:
committenti e maestranze nel Casentinotra VII-X secolo
Arianna Carannante
L’utilizzo delle semibotti nelle “chiese a cupole in asse” in Puglia tra X e XIII secolo
Cosimo Damiano Diella, Federica Chirco
Barletta nel Medioevo (VI-XV secolo d.C.)tra fonti scritte, cartografiche ed archeologiche
Conference Papers by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
Monastic Memories and Narratives: Remembering, Recording, Re-Interpreting
Wednesday 4 July 2018: 14.15-15.45
Medieval monasteries have played a crucial role in keeping memories of events, traditions, and religious practices. Therefore, medieval studies has always focused on the medieval texts related to the monastic communities, particularly in the context of monastic libraries and scriptoria. At the same time, less attention has been given to the importance of monastic topoi, created narratives and memories. The session focuses on texts created in monastic milieu, which are not simple records of events, but they represent concepts of interpretations influenced by monastic traditions. They often serve a particular agenda or harmonise with the special local conditions of the monastic communities. The papers discuss, how language, written culture or narrative strategies serve these particular monastic concepts. They also focus on the religious and non-ecclesiastic sources of these monastic texts and the interactions created between the religious community and the secular world. Therefore, they represent a special category in the study of medieval memory.
Medieval Animals, II: Creating New Kinds of Beasts
Tuesday 4 July 2017: 16.30-18.00
Medieval literature offers a wide spectrum of creations of kinds and types of animals that mainly play an important role in symbolic or metaphorical discourses. The session tries to offer some examples of this kind of fauna that can certainly be seen as part of medieval 'reality'.
In my paper, I will explore how much of the Eastern European material in English written sources was first-hand local information, and what type of information these passages conveyed about the region. I will also address the question of availability and dissemination of this type of information in medieval England. My conclusions, based on surviving manuscript and bibliographical evidence, place into context the some of the most often-cited passages about Eastern Europe, and thus reveal the extent of geographical areas covered, the themes and nature of first-hand local information, and the degree of their dissemination in thirteenth-century England.
Panel: Networks of Power, Influence, and Information in the High Middle Ages
Sponsored by: British Academy Network for 'Medieval Friendship Networks'
Teaching Documents by Zsuzsanna Papp Reed
This is not a literature or palaeography course. A wide variety of medieval and modern texts, both in the canon and off the grid, will be considered to survey different ways medieval texts are used, analysed and reconstructed in various academic disciplines and popular genres. Anchored in the present, the wide spectrum of medieval source materials will be examined with a focus on use and re-use of texts across time, touching on themes such as memory, transmission, preservation, and interpretation.
A substantial part of the course is BYOT (Bring your Own Text) - texts are selected by the students to reflect on the concepts and theories addressed in each class.
Disclaimer: We may refer to, but will not read Beowulf.
The course is designed for students based in cultural heritage studies and the humanities in general.
seemingly disparate sources about a particular animal behaviour—spraying their pursuers
when chased. Through the diligence of medieval Latin authors, the classic Bonnacon of
Phrygia, as seen on the Hereford Mappamundi for example, is shown to have begotten a
range of curious creatures such as the misplaced onager of Gervase of Tilbury, and the
ferocious Bohemian loni, first appearing in Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s thirteenth-century
encyclopedia, and becoming indelible from Bohemia’s image for centuries to come. The
increasingly complex afterlife of these passages, especially a number of similar quadrupeds
in works by Albertus Magnus, Thomas of Cantimpré, and Giovanni Marignoli, show an even
more diffuse picture whereby cognate animals proliferate by splitting and merging existing
passages with abandon. At a glance, these animals seem to have little in common, but the
intertextual relationship between texts and images about them sheds light to more
commonalities than their odd defence mechanism. On the lexical level, nuanced
discrepancies in word use and phrasing are used to explain some of the trajectories detected
in descriptions of the bonacon and its textual offspring. Finally, overviewing a range of
variations, it becomes clear that the beast of many names and forms is but an adaptable
cultural construct, whose enduring popularity stems not only from its scatological appeal but
its versatility in various contexts and genres. Moving from Solinus to Early Modern
encyclopedias; moving from Anatolia to the “northern provinces” of medieval Europe;
moving their projectile attack from the backside to the front; and moving across genres and
formats in textual transmission, these animals are certainly dynamic in more ways than one.
Keywords: Bonacon, Aristotle, Latin, medieval encyclopaedia, bestiary
https://www.nuovomedioevo.it/attivita-2/1466-2/
INDICE DEI CONTRIBUTI
Archeologia | Edifici
Massimiliano David, Alessandro Melega
All’ombra del Cristianesimo dilagantenell’Impero Romano. Una lettura archeologica
Massimiliano David, Stefano De Togni,Dino Lombardo
La cristianizzazione dell’industria edilizia. Nuove evidenze ostiensi
Alessandro Bona
La chiesa di San Desiderio ad Assago (MI): un sito archeologico pluristratificato alle porte di Milano
Chiara Ribolla
La chiesa di San Pietro di Trobaso:indagine archeologica e contesto storico.Analisi preliminare
Marialuisa Zegretti, Giuseppina Schirò
Riflessioni sul complesso di San Pancrazio a Roma tra VI e VII secolo
Federica Cosenza, Lorenzo Curatella
Sepolture di prestigio a Romanel Basso Medioevo:l’esempio di Santa Maria Nova
Alessandro Mortera
Riuso e reimpiego dell’antico.Il caso di Santa Maria Nova tra spolia architettonici e sepolture di prestigio
Archeologia | Paesaggi
Jacopo Celani
Mappare la guerra greco-gotica: primi risultati di un’analisi spaziale delle vicende narrate nel De bello Gothico
Massimiliano David, Eleonora Rossetti
Dai vici alle pievi in Italia settentrionale. Il caso del territorio di Mediolanum in epoca tardoantica
Marina Zgrablić, Davor Bulić
The rural landscape in Istria betweenLate Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:changes in the context of Christianization
Federica D’Angelo
San Vincenzo al Volturno e la Terra Sancti Vincentii: amministrazione dei possedimenti di un’abbazia altomedievale (secoli VIII-XII)
Giuseppe Maisola
Territori del Giudicato di Arborea.
Insediamenti e viabilità tra Parte Miilie Parte Simagis (XII-XIV sec.)
Lester Lonardo
Et in alia parte alio molendinu.Mulini, canali ed opifici idraulici della Campania interna: dati archeologici e documentari
Francesco Mameli
Archeologia dei confini nella Sardegna medievale:
la Curatorìa di Decimo e la sua rete insediativa
(XIII-XIV secolo)
Elisa Orlando
Castra et Plebes in Casentino (VII-XIII secolo): fonti, metodi e ricerche
Storia
Lilian Diniz
The role of clerics in the processof religious hybridity: the testimonyof the ecclesiastical documentation
Arthur Westwell
The Carolingian Conquest andthe Italian Pontifical Tradition
Antonio Tagliente
Servi o milites? L’antitetica lettura del mondolongobardo meridionale nella Legatiodi Liutprando da Cremona
Antonio Corvino
La produzione libraria e letterariadella Langobardia ducale (sec. VI - X)
Luca Marino
Il contratto di pastinatoe la trasformazione del paesaggio agrarionel Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis
Alessandro Scalone
Memoria, crociata e diplomazia:un'analisi sui rapporti diplomaticitra Outremer ed Europa Occidentale (1149-1189)
14.00-14.20
Consuelo Capolupo
San Guglielmo da Vercellied il Monasterium Sanctae Mariae Montis Virginis:storia di una fondazione benedettina in Irpiniadal XII secolo ad oggi
14.20-14.40
Francesco Barbarulo, Jacopo Paganelli
La pluralità come caratteristica dei sistemi politici del Regnum Italiae: ipotesi sulle ricostruzioni delle vicende istituzionali italiane tra XII e XIV secolo
Antonella Torre
Nella bisaccia del pellegrino:l’alimentazione nel Codex Calixtinus
Gabriele Passabì
Decus Imperii: idee di imperonel Draco Normannicus di Stefano di Rouen
Lorenzo Schiavetta
Pepo degli Albizzie il mercato laniero fiorentino nel ‘300
Stefano Santarelli
Dove eravamo rimasti:l’edizione dei protocolli notarili romani del Trecento
Paleografia
Alfredo García Femenia, Julio Macián Ferrandis
Nulla die sine linea:autografi nella Valenza del Quattrocento
Roberta Napoletano
Frammenti membranacei di riuso: metodologie e prospettive di ricerca. Il caso dell’Archivio Generale Arcivescovile di Bologna
Letteratura e Filologia
Ilaria Ottria
Esegesi etimologica e interpretazioneallegorico-morale nelle Mythologiaedi Fulgenzio: la Fabula Scyllae (Fulg. myth. II 9)
Irena Berovic
Heroes and Monsters: Cannibalismas Mentifact in the Old English Andreas
Alicja Bańczyk
The conflict between obligations toward the family and toward the lord on the example of medieval French epic poems
Pamela Gennari
Per una nuova edizione dei Dialogidi San Gregorio Magno
Zsuzsanna Reed Papp
Sitting on the Fence: Matthew Paris’s“Mongol Letters” at the Intersectionof History and Literature
Angela Zaccara
La lingua inglese tardo-medievale fra tradizione e innovazione: Cristo «passible» e «unpassible» nelle Rivelazioni di Giuliana di Norwich
Valeria Di Clemente
Il motivo dei “nove prodi” e la figura di Robert Bruce
Filosofia
Rūta Zukienė
«We become what we remember»:
memory and recollection in the Old English Boethius
Hernán Guerrero Troncoso
Avicenna e la questione della cosa.Un’indagine sulle origini della metafisica intesa come scientia transcendens
Ignazio Genovese
Satisfactio e/o immolatio/oblatio?
Anselmo d’Aosta, Bruno di Segni e le ragioni dell’Incarnazione
Nunzia Cosmo
Note sull’origine medievale delle logiche modali
Mauro Ferrante
Ingenium: Niccolò Cusano anticipatore della modernità
Archeologia | Materiali
Alessia Frisetti, Marianna Cuomo,Nicodemo Abate, Luigi Di Cosmo
La chiesa di San Leo a Sessa Aurunca (CE): scavo, tecniche di analisi, reperti ed apparati decorativi
Lucrezia Campagna
La ceramica medievale di Roma: analisitipologiche e quantitative per la storia economica
Maria Stella Graziano, Camilla Rosati
Ostia nel V secolo attraverso la cultura materiale
Domenica Tataranni
Commercio locale e contatti mediterranei in Alife altomedievale: la testimonianza delle anfore
Beatrice Brancazi, Flora Miele
Contenitori e simboli:i motivi religiosi delle ceramiche rivestite alto laziali
Antonia Daisy Petrelli
Elementi decorativi in laterizionell’architettura medievale pisana.Storia e produzione tra XIII eXV secolo
Chiara Santini
Produzione e circolazione ceramica nell’altomedioevo (VI-XI secolo) nel mediovaldarno fiorentino: nuove interpretazioni da vecchi dati
Maria Paola Bulla
La ceramica islamica in Tunisia:Sabra Al- Mansūrya (X-XI sec.)
Epigrafia
Paola Novara
Iscrizioni dedicatorie e sottoscrizioni attributive nell’edilizia di culto ravennate dei secoli IX-XII
Antonello Vilella
Iscrizioni perdute dalla città di Bari (secoli VIII-XII)
Luca Salvatelli
HIC REQUIESCIT. Epigrafi, lastre tombali,cenotafi, tombe monumentali a Viterbotra Medioevo e Umanesimo
Progetti
Andrea Pergola
La liberalizzazione delle riproduzioni in archivi ebiblioteche come mezzo di comunicazione per la divulgazione storica: il caso di “Incunaboli a Cagliari”
Davide Gherdevich
POLIMA e PolimaWiki: un progetto per lo studio, la condivisione e la valorizzazione delle listenel Medioevo
Marcello Casillo
Gli edifici di culto di Salerno tra V e X secolo. Primi risultati per il progetto CARE
Storia dell'Arte
Angelo Passuello
Maestranze alloctone nell’Umbria romanica (?): il caso di Sant’Eufemia a Spoleto e i suoi possibili rapporti con Verona
Andrea Pala, Valeria Carta
Appunti per lo studio delle sculture architettoniche nelle chiese romaniche della SardegnaBasso Medievale (secc. XII-XIII)
Stefano Giuseppe Pirero
Trofei bellici, illustri donazioni e commesse genovesi: lineamenti di scultura romanicae duecentesca a Savona e Noli
María Fernanda García Marino
Considerazioni sulla scultura dell’Italia meridionale nella prima metà del XIV secolo:il caso di Nicola da Monteforte
Simona Manacorda
L’archetipo della donna e il drago: il caso di Santa Margherita, un topos iconografico al femminile nell’Europa gotica
Elena Catalano
La Parola ruggita: l’immagine della leonessada Gregorio Magno a Nicola Pisano
Michele Lacerenza
Strapparsi le vesti nell’iconografia medievale:il caso del san Giovanni Evangelistanella chiesa di Santa Lucia a Barletta
Storia dell'Architettura
Silvia Beltramo
Nuove ricerche sulle architetture francescane: San Francesco di Cassine e di Alessandria
Eloy Bermejo Malumbres
Il primo progetto di riforma della cattedraledi Sassari nel XV secolo
Nicoletta Usai, Claudio Nonne
L’antica cattedrale di San Pantaleo a Dolianova (CA)
Paola Allemani, Maurizio Gomez Serito
La Pietra di Visone: un significativo indicatore per la lettura dell’edilizia storicadel Basso Piemonte
Luca Finco
Costruire le torri liguri nel Medioevo:usi e riusi del materiale ad Albenga
Filippo Diara
Gli arredi liturgici lapidei altomedievali:
committenti e maestranze nel Casentinotra VII-X secolo
Arianna Carannante
L’utilizzo delle semibotti nelle “chiese a cupole in asse” in Puglia tra X e XIII secolo
Cosimo Damiano Diella, Federica Chirco
Barletta nel Medioevo (VI-XV secolo d.C.)tra fonti scritte, cartografiche ed archeologiche
Monastic Memories and Narratives: Remembering, Recording, Re-Interpreting
Wednesday 4 July 2018: 14.15-15.45
Medieval monasteries have played a crucial role in keeping memories of events, traditions, and religious practices. Therefore, medieval studies has always focused on the medieval texts related to the monastic communities, particularly in the context of monastic libraries and scriptoria. At the same time, less attention has been given to the importance of monastic topoi, created narratives and memories. The session focuses on texts created in monastic milieu, which are not simple records of events, but they represent concepts of interpretations influenced by monastic traditions. They often serve a particular agenda or harmonise with the special local conditions of the monastic communities. The papers discuss, how language, written culture or narrative strategies serve these particular monastic concepts. They also focus on the religious and non-ecclesiastic sources of these monastic texts and the interactions created between the religious community and the secular world. Therefore, they represent a special category in the study of medieval memory.
Medieval Animals, II: Creating New Kinds of Beasts
Tuesday 4 July 2017: 16.30-18.00
Medieval literature offers a wide spectrum of creations of kinds and types of animals that mainly play an important role in symbolic or metaphorical discourses. The session tries to offer some examples of this kind of fauna that can certainly be seen as part of medieval 'reality'.
In my paper, I will explore how much of the Eastern European material in English written sources was first-hand local information, and what type of information these passages conveyed about the region. I will also address the question of availability and dissemination of this type of information in medieval England. My conclusions, based on surviving manuscript and bibliographical evidence, place into context the some of the most often-cited passages about Eastern Europe, and thus reveal the extent of geographical areas covered, the themes and nature of first-hand local information, and the degree of their dissemination in thirteenth-century England.
Panel: Networks of Power, Influence, and Information in the High Middle Ages
Sponsored by: British Academy Network for 'Medieval Friendship Networks'
This is not a literature or palaeography course. A wide variety of medieval and modern texts, both in the canon and off the grid, will be considered to survey different ways medieval texts are used, analysed and reconstructed in various academic disciplines and popular genres. Anchored in the present, the wide spectrum of medieval source materials will be examined with a focus on use and re-use of texts across time, touching on themes such as memory, transmission, preservation, and interpretation.
A substantial part of the course is BYOT (Bring your Own Text) - texts are selected by the students to reflect on the concepts and theories addressed in each class.
Disclaimer: We may refer to, but will not read Beowulf.
The course is designed for students based in cultural heritage studies and the humanities in general.
Call for Papers
The programme and registration form of the 'Within Reach: European Peripheries in the Middle Ages' symposium can be found below.
Where was the edge of Europe in the Middle Ages? Where are the religious, linguistic and cultural faultlines? Are there any common features in intercultural contact zones? How and why did medieval people cross geographical, political, and cultural frontiers?
The causes and effects of the medieval expansion of Christian Europe have long been a focus of attention for scholars in all fields. Turning away from the more traditional concepts of ‘conqueror-conquered’ interaction, this symposium will concentrate on a more complex model of movement in the peripheries; one that emphasises settlement, contact, and travel.
Central themes include:
• travel into and around the periphery
• perceptions of peoples and places on frontiers
• intercultural contact zones
• cross-cultural experience
• pilgrimage, crusade, mission
• expansion
• colonialism, post-colonialism
For further information please contact Zsuzsa Papp, Katie Neville, or Liz Mylod, Institute for Medieval Studies, Room
4.05, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK; imssymp@leeds.ac.uk.