Excommunication in the Middle Ages: A Meta-Ritual and the Many Faces of Its Efficacy

2010 ◽  
pp. 93-112
Author(s):  
Paul Töbelmann
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Coronation in Medieval England: The Evolution of the Office and the Oath

Traditio ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 111-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

An explanatory foreword seems to be demanded by the studies in the English coronation ceremony here presented. I am conscious that on a number of points, views are now put forward incompatible with those I have expressed on other occasions since first I began to write on the subject. Further scrutiny of the evidence and the redating of some of the more important documents have, however, led me inevitably to conclusions at variance not only with those of other scholars, but with some that seemed plausible to me at the time of writing. What is principally in question is the history of the English coronation before 1308; but I have revised and elaborated the story of the evolution of the Fourth Recension of the English coronation office as it was presented by Professor Sayles and myself a good many years ago. It would be presumptuous on my part to pretend that I have given final answers to the many questions the tangled history of the English coronation provokes. I have changed my own mind too often to permit me to imagine that there may not be answers to those questions more satisfying than mine. But what I have written will, I trust, advance the study of obscure and complicated problems which have an important bearing upon the history of kingship in the Middle Ages and therefore upon medieval polity.

The Languages of Diaspora and Return

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 1-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Spolsky
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract Until quite recently, the term Diaspora (usually with the capital) meant the dispersion of the Jews in many parts of the world. Now, it is recognized that many other groups have built communities distant from their homeland, such as Overseas Chinese, South Asians, Romani, Armenians, Syrian and Palestinian Arabs. To explore the effect of exile on language repertoires, the article traces the sociolinguistic development of the many Jewish Diasporas, starting with the community exiled to Babylon, and following through exiles in Muslim and Christian countries in the Middle Ages and later. It presents the changes that occurred linguistically after Jews were granted full citizenship. It then goes into details about the phenomenon and problem of the Jewish return to the homeland, the revitalization and revernacularization of the Hebrew that had been a sacred and literary language, and the rediasporization that accounts for the cases of maintenance of Diaspora varieties.

The Mediæval Setting of Chaucer's Monk's Tale

PMLA ◽  
1931 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-213
Author(s):  
R. W. Babcock
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
General Type ◽  
Canterbury Tales ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

The purpose of this paper is not to establish definite sources for Chaucer's Monk's Tale but to consider it as a representative of a general mediæval type. Professor Lounsbury declared that the Monk's Tale belonged to a “species of composition to which the men of Chaucer's age were exceedingly addicted.” In the Canterbury Tales, he continues, “the Monk's tale is introduced as a specimen of these collections of stories, and largely and perhaps entirely for the sake of satirizing, or at least of censuring, the taste that created and enjoyed them.” “In the Middle Ages,” writes Mr. J. E. Wells, “it was not at all uncommon to make collections of a single general type.…. These collections were.… of an encyclopædic character.” So Mr. E. Greenlaw: “It [the Monk's Tale] is.… an example of the many collections of tales having a didactic purpose which were characteristic of mediævalism.”

The "Disgusting" Spider: The Role of Disease and Illness in the Perpetuation of Fear of Spiders

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham C. L. Davey
Keyword(s):  
Avoidance Response ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Spider Phobia ◽  
Disease Avoidance ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractRecent studies of spider phobia have indicated thatfearof spiders is closely associated with the disease-avoidance response of disgust. It is argued that the disgust-relevant status of the spider resulted from its association with disease and illness in European cultures from the tenth century onward. The development of the association between spiders and illness appears to be linked to the many devastating and inexplicable epidemics that struck Europe from the Middle Ages onwards, when the spider was a suitable displaced target for the anxieties caused by these epidemics. Such factors suggest that the pervasive fear of spiders that is commonly found in many Western societies may have cultural rather than biological origins, and may be restricted to Europeans and their descendants.

scholarly journals The Monobloc Chair: Democratising the Practice of Sitting

Res Mobilis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Carsten Kullmann
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article examines the cultural history of chairs to understand the many meanings the Monobloc can acquire. The history of chairs is traced from post nomadic culture through the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment period and the French Revolution. Subsequently, I will examine the Monobloc from a Cultural Studies perspective and demonstrate how its unique characteristics allow multiple meanings, which are always dependent on context and discourse. Thus, the Monobloc becomes an utterly democratic symbol of popular culture that can be appropriated for any use.

The Many Musical Medievalisms of Disney

2020 ◽  
pp. 689-708
Author(s):  
John Haines
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Common View ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

This essay argues that the Disney Company is one of today’s main purveyors of medievalism. The idea of Disney as a force for medievalism may strike some academic readers as odd, given the still common view of medievalism as a primarily academic phenomenon. Rather, as argued in the first part of this essay, medievalism is a widespread cultural phenomenon, originating in the sixteenth century, out of which academic medievalism emerged in the eighteenth century. As part of this broader cultural medievalism, the Disney Company has played an increasingly important role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Rather than the literalist historical medievalism that usually preoccupies academics, the Disney Company has followed a looser approach centered on key stereotypes, in keeping with the earliest and most pervasive concept of the Middle Ages from the sixteenth century onward. In all its medievalist products, ranging from early animated films to Fantasyland’s iconic monument the Sleeping Beauty Castle, Disney has made music a primary concern.

Was hat «Holznot» mit «Hungersnot» zu tun? Reformbemühungen der Ökonomischen Kommission von Zürich im 18. Jahrhundert | The relationship between wood scarcity and food scarcity. Reform movement of the Economical Commission of Zurich in the 18th century

2004 ◽  
Vol 155 (8) ◽  
pp. 320-327
Author(s):  
Katja Hürlimann
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Mutual Dependence ◽  
Food Scarcity ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Two Sectors ◽  
The Middle Ages

Shortages of wood and grain threatened pre-modern societies from the Middle-Ages onwards. The many economical societies,which arose in Europe in the second half of the 18th century,tried to combat such shortages by calling for agricultural and silvicultural reforms. The process of such reforms can be nicely illustrated using the example of the Economical Commission of Zurich. Not only does this provide an opportunity to examine the complicity and mutual dependence of the two sectors in question, it also serves to show the discursive character of both wood and food scarcity. The warnings and reform proposals emanating from the Zurich economists were rarely based, it must be said, on any personal experience of shortages.

Bede as a Classical and a Patristic Scholar

1933 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 69-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. W. Laistner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Intellectual Heritage ◽  
Medieval Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

Among the many and complex problems with which the history of Europe in the Middle Ages—and especially the earlier period of the Middle Ages—teems is the character of the intellectual heritage transmitted to medieval men from classical and later Roman imperial times. The topic has engaged the attention of many scholars, amongst them men of the greatest eminence, so that much which fifty years ago was still dark and uncertain is now clear and beyond dispute. Yet the old notions and misconceptions die hard, especially in books approximating to the textbook class. In a recently published volume on the Middle Ages intended for university freshmen there is much that is excellent and abreast of the most recent investigations; but the sections on early medieval education and scholarship seem to show that the author has never read anything on that subject later than Mullinger's Schools of Charles the Great.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Steven R. Edscorn
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Lower Division ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

If one is looking for a quick and readable introduction to specific medieval revolts appropriate for secondary education or lower division undergraduates, it would be better to pass by this work and pick up one of the many single or multivolume encyclopedias of the middle ages, such as Matthew Bunson’s Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (Facts On File 1995). Firnhaber-Baker and Schoenaers’ edited work will be too demanding for such a reader.

Schooling in Western Europe

1990 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul F. Grendler
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
School System ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
The Many ◽  
Modern Sense ◽  
The Middle Ages

Renaissance boys and girls attended a variety of different kinds of pre-university schools in England, France, Italy, and Spain. Renaissance Europe inherited from the Middle Ages a large educational establishment that was not a "school system" in a modern sense. Instead, there were different kinds of schools which complemented or overlapped each other. The many and confusing names for pre-university schools, such as song school, grammar school, and collège, further confuse matters.

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