This morning let's step back in time with the help of Oni Wytars, the early music ensemble directed by Marco Ambrosini and Peter Rabanser. The ensemble performs trans-European and Arabic music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, exploring the...
Scribes in the 16th century clearly had too much fun with these *ahem* questionable illustrations…
This morning let's step back in time with the help of Oni Wytars, the early music ensemble directed by Marco Ambrosini and Peter Rabanser. The ensemble performs trans-European and Arabic music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, exploring the...
Let's say you're flipping through a medieval Christian prayer book (as you do), and suddenly you come across a curious illustration amongst the prayers and psalms of something that looks unmistakably like female genitalia. A scolding voice in your head tells you to get your mind out of the gutter. B
a gathering of some tweets on prismatic medieval ecologies Via Jeffrey Cohen on Facebook. He says, “For those who might be interested: a gathering of some tweets I composed over the past few days on...
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A curator discovers dogs—lots of them—in Simon Bening’s manuscripts.
This Commentary produced at during the last years of the 11th century at the Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos (Burgos, Spain) contains a colorful version of Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. Also commented with beautiful initials, graphs and fantasy-filled illustrations are the few folios of Mozarabic antiphonary, Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae as well Jerome's commentary on Daniel. Noteworthy are the 'cithara' depictions, both finger-plucked and bowed, as well as the differencia
On a research trip last summer, I found a previously unidentified thirteenth-century manuscript in a library in Poznan, Poland, and recognized that it contains the writings of a late twelfth-century monk named Engelhard of Langheim. One of the Latin texts in this manuscript is the saintly biography of a religious woman named Mechtilde of Diessen.
Simon Bening direct link to: – Beatty Rosarium in Dublin, Chester Beatty Library – Rothschild Prayerbook in Perth, Kerry Stokes Collection – Book of Hours in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Cloisters Collection – Da Costa Book of Hours in New […]
The Strahov Monastery in Prague, Czech Republic, has created a popular new beer based on a historic recipe.
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The primacy of the Walpurgis Fechtbuch (Royal Armouries I.33) as the earliest surviving illuminated book giving instruction on individual combat has generated a great deal of discussion about why it was compiled, and where the techniques depicted came from.
I've put together 10 paintings from the medieval times that I feel are weird, funny and just plain creepy! How these were the subjects is beyond me.
Simon Bening direct link to: – Beatty Rosarium in Dublin, Chester Beatty Library – Rothschild Prayerbook in Perth, Kerry Stokes Collection – Book of Hours in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Cloisters Collection – Da Costa Book of Hours in New […]
British Library, Stowe MS 955, f. 13r ('Two women attempting to catch flying hearts'). 'Pierre Sala, Petit Livre d'Amour (also known as Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour), a collection of love poems and...
by Stephen J. Gertz Given contemporary physical conditions and tools, if you were a medieval monk or nun and knew how to swing quill and ...
I did not fight on Saturday. INSTEAD, I ACHIEVED A STEP CLOSER TO MY GOALS. Well, a goal anyway. I want to look like Robinet Testard painted me and I walked into an event. It’s a weird goa…
