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History
fromMedievalists.net
4 days ago

New Medieval Books: Light on Darkness - Medievalists.net

Liturgy is central to Western cultural history, rich in artistic expression and emotional depth, influencing society for over a thousand years.
History
fromMedievalists.net
3 months ago

Christmas Day in the Middle Ages: Coronations, Conversions, and a Truce - Medievalists.net

Christmas Day was a major medieval Christian feast hosting significant events, notably the baptism of Clovis on 25 December 496 that converted thousands.
Philosophy
fromAeon
3 months ago

What the Moon meant to medieval Christian and Islamic authors | Aeon Essays

The Moon functioned in medieval Christianity and Islam as a versatile religious symbol, signifying both fragility and immense power and operating as a semiological sign.
fromMedievalists.net
8 months ago

New Medieval Books: Images of Thomas Becket in the Middle Ages and Beyond - Medievalists.net

The present collection builds upon this recent body of scholarship. It embraces the expanded framework of visual and material culture studies to explore a spectrum of objects executed in a broad range of media.
History
fromMedievalists.net
9 months ago

The Hours of Jean de Montauban: Apocrypha and Devotion in a Medieval Manuscript - Medievalists.net

The desire to understand humanity's first parents led to reinterpretations of Genesis, resulting in the popularity of apocryphal texts that filled narrative gaps.
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