World Medievalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise D'Arcens
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Indigenous Australia ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
To Come ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
The Middle Ages

World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present. Building its argument through four case studies—from the Middle East, France, Southeast Asia, and Indigenous Australia–it shows that to understand medievalism as a cultural idiom with global reach, we need to develop a more nuanced grasp of the different ways ‘the Middle Ages’ have come to signify beyond Europe as well as within a Europe that has been transformed by multiculturalism and the global economy. The book’s case studies are explored within a conceptual framework in which medievalism itself is formulated as ‘world-disclosing’—a transhistorical encounter that enables the modern subject to apprehend the past ‘world’ opened up in medieval and medievalist texts and objects. The book analyses the cultural and material conditions under which its texts are produced, disseminated, and received and examines literature alongside films, television programs, newspapers and journals, political tracts, as well as such material and artefactual texts as photographs, paintings, statues, buildings, rock art, and fossils. While the case studies feature distinctive localized forms of medievalism, taken together they reveal how imperial and global legacies have ensured that the medieval period continues to be perceived as a commonly held past that can be retrieved, reclaimed, or revived in response to the accelerated changes and uncertainties of global modernity.

Rule by Consensus

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Schneidmüller
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Holy Roman Empire ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Kings And Rulers ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article analyses specific characteristics of pre-modern rule in medieval central Europe. It becomes clear from the analysis that although the notion of monarchy implies a single ruler (mon-archia), it was actually the case, however, that in political practice, the kings and rulers of the Holy Roman Empire had to come to an arrangement with the elites and nobles. Therefore, the famous model developed by Max Weber regarding the three types of legitimate rule: legal, traditional and charismatic, fall short of encompassing the alterity and plurality of politics in the Middle Ages. Here, the concept of consensual rule is conceptualised through the use of additional case studies. These case studies more appropriately capture the fluid decision-making process in the Middle Ages through ongoing negotiation. Thus, the kings and emperors are clearly integrated into the framework of pre-modern oligarchies and therefore offer a counter-outline to the doctrine of divine right.

The native Irish and English law in medieval Ireland

1950 ◽  
Vol 7 (25) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
English Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Medieval Ireland ◽  
The Middle Ages

The problems set by the Norman conquest of Ireland which began under Henry II cannot be properly appreciated if they are viewed in isolation. Similar problems had been set by the Norman conquest of England only a hundred years earlier; similar problems existed in Wales. In England, however, the conquest had been both rapid and complete, and problems which were to last throughout the middle ages in Ireland were solved in England by the merging of the two peoples in a relatively short time. Moreover, in England no such clash of laws as was to come about in Ireland had followed the conquest: the Anglo-Saxons had possessed a well-developed system of local administration which was taken over with little or no modification by the Norman kings.

Muslim institutions of learning in eleventh-century Baghdad

1961 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Makdisi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
East Side ◽  
Exact Location ◽  
Muslim Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Middle Ages

The history of Baghdad in the second half of the eleventh century is dominated by the name of the great Saljūqid minister, Niẓām al-Mulk, a name linked to an extensive network of institutions founded by him throughout the lands of the eastern caliphate: the Niẓāmīya colleges. Most widely known among them was the college in Baghdad, founded in 457/1065 and inaugurated in 459/1067. The renown of the Niẓāmīya of Baghdad, both in medieval oriental sources as well as in studies undertaken by modern Oriental and Western scholars, is such that it is the first institution likely to come to the mind of a person familiar with the period's history. Whenever historians have put their efforts into the field of Muslim education in the Middle Ages, whether in a general or specialized way, they have seldom failed to mention the fame of the college. Efforts have been made to establish the list of its professors and the most famous among its students; approximations have been made as to the date of its disappearance; investigations have been pursued to determine its exact location on Baghdad's east side; causes of its decline have been proposed; a whole treatise and other learned articles have been devoted to the history of this college alone.

XXI.—The Earl of Warwick's Virelai

PMLA ◽  
1907 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-607
Author(s):  
Henry Noble MacCracken
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Introductory Note ◽  
Long Life ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Middle Ages

The career of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, from 1401 to 1439 is hardly to be equalled in the annals of chivalry, even by that earlier Richard, Cœur-de-Lion It is no part of this introductory note to his Virelai, to rehearse in detail the extraordinary events of his long life of travel, adventure, warfare, and diplomacy. Mr. James Gairdner's life of the hero tells the story of his chief exploits, and those to whom Dugdale's Warwickshire is accessible may read it in detail. But to come upon a literary personality in the fifteenth century is so rare a thing, and the character of Richard Beauchamp is so happy an example of a true knight of the Middle Ages, that these few notes upon him and his family, most of them not in Gairdner's article, will not come amiss to the student of the period.

scholarly journals El mantenimiento del entramado viario romano en época medieval en La Rioja. Algunos casos de estudio = The Survival of the Roman Road Network in Medieval Times in La Rioja. Several Case Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Adrián Calonge Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Ebro Valley ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
La Rioja ◽  
The Middle Ages

Con la caída política del Imperio Romano de Occidente en el año 476, su entramado viario siguió en servicio y constituyó una de las principales bases económicas y militares de los diferentes poderes que fueron surgiendo. Tomando como ejemplo el valle medio del Ebro (La Rioja y las provincias de Burgos y Álava), se van a estudiar tres calzadas de origen romano que siguieron en uso durante la Edad Media. Así mismo, con el estudio del patrón de asentamiento de las iglesias, las fortalezas con centros religiosos y el hábitat en cuevas, se va a reforzar la tesis de la pervivencia de las calzadas romanas en la región. Para ello se han utilizado fuentes documentales medievales e información procedente de la arqueología.AbstractSince the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, its network of roadways remained in service and became one of the main economic and military pillars of the different powers that were born of it. Focussing on the geographical area of the Middle Ebro valley (La Rioja and part of the provinces of Burgos and Alava) we will study three roadways of Roman origin that continued in use throughout the Middle Ages. By studying the settlement pattern of churches, fortresses with religious centres, and cave dwellings, we may strengthen the theory of the survival of Roman roadways in the region. For this purpose, medieval documentary sources and data provided by archeology will be used.

The Berserker/Blind Rage Syndrome as a Potentially New Diagnostic Category for the DSM-III

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Simón
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Diagnostic Category ◽  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Great Strength ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Middle Ages

It is proposed that a new type of disorder be incorporated in the DSM-III under the category of Dissociative Disorders. The disorder, the Berkserker/Blind Rage Syndrome is characterized by (a) violent overreaction to physical, verbal, or visual insult, (b) amnesia during the actual period of violence, (c) abnormally great strength, (d) specifically target-oriented violence. Some case studies are presented for illustration and a parallel is made with the Viking Berserkers of the Middle Ages.

Yuhanna al-Samannudi, the Founder of National Coptic Philology in the Middle Ages

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel Sidarus
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter examines Yuhanna al-Samannudi's pioneering contribution to Coptic philology, which documented the fundamentals of the Coptic language to preserve it for generations to come. Nothing definite is known about this bishop of Samannud before his consecration by Patriarch Kyrillos III Ibn Laqlaq on June 29, 1235, at St. Mercurius/Abu Sayfayn Church in Old Cairo. Considering the crystallized form “Yuhanna al-Samannudi”—or simply “al-Samannudi”—which prevailed among his contemporary and coreligionist writers and philologists, it may be assumed he had published his grammar known as al-Muqaddima al-samannudiya, together with his Sullam kana'si, sometimes named al-Sullam al-samannudi, before his consecration as bishop.

Royal and Aristocratic Landscapes of Pleasure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mileson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The Middle Ages

This chapter summarizes the current state of research on royal and aristocratic landscapes of pleasure, including forests, parks, warrens, gardens, and tournament grounds. It is shown that archaeological evidence has made a strong contribution to knowledge about the function, extent, and significance of these landscapes across Britain. Nevertheless, much fieldwork remains to be done, especially in Wales and Scotland. The most fruitful approach to individual case studies and regional analysis is to combine documents, maps, and place-names with material remains. Future advances in understanding will require close engagement with wider debates about changes in the distribution of power during the Middle Ages.

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