Powers over Space, Spaces of Powers. The Constitution of Town Squares in the Cities of the Low Countries (12th - 14th Century)

2013 ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Chloé Deligne
Keyword(s):  
Low Countries ◽  
14Th Century

The Romandie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Scott
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Lake Geneva ◽  
Jura Mountains ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Cheese Making ◽  
New Town ◽  
Cattle Rearing

The Romandie lay at the intersection of international trade routes from Italy over the alpine passes (controlled by Savoy) and north-westwards over the Jura mountains into the Franche-Comté and onwards to France and the Low Countries, though the pre-eminence of the Genevan fairs was challenged by Lyon. Western Switzerland was heavily reliant upon grain from Alsace and above all salt from the brine pits of the Franche-Comté (essential in cattle-rearing, dairying and cheese-making). The Vaud, on the northern littoral of Lake Geneva was agriculturally fertile (especially viticulture, while Lakes Geneva and Neuchâtel were important sources of fish. Yet the Vaud had few urban centres of importance, barring Lausanne and Geneva, while many new town foundations of 13th/14th century subsequently disappeared.

De Spiegel historiael in Italië: onbekende fragmenten te Valenza

2019 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-295
Author(s):  
Davide Bertagnolli
Keyword(s):  
Dutch Text ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Italian Region ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Middle Dutch ◽  
Manu Script

Abstract The public library of Valenza, in the Italian region of Piedmont, holds two parchment fragments of Jacob van Maerlant’s Spiegel historiael which are used to protect other documents. The present paper is the first study dedicated to them. The leaves are first described separately, highlighting their shape as well as the text which has been handed down to us. Taking into account paleographical, ortho-graphical and linguistic aspects, the author tries to reconstruct the original manu-script from which both fragments derive, reaching the conclusion that it was writ-ten in the first quarter of the 14th century in the area of (South-)Eastern Flanders or Western Brabant. Furthermore, special attention is paid to the hypothesis that the fragments reached Piedmont because of the strong presence in the Low Countries of Italian money lenders, the so called ‘Lombards’, who came exactly from that re-gion. The complete edition of the Middle Dutch text, followed by notes, concludes the study.

The correction of double entry bookkeeping errors in the late 14th century

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kuter ◽  
Marina Gurskaya ◽  
Ripsime Bagdasaryan
Keyword(s):  
14Th Century ◽  
Double Entry

The hortus siccus (1566) of Petrus Cadé: a description of the oldest known collection of dried plants made in the Low Countries

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Maarten J. M. Christenhusz
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACT: A sixteenth century Dutch hortus siccus of Brabantian origin has been rediscovered and is described here. The plants preserved in it are identified and most of its history is revealed.

Some Medieval Drawings of St Swithun

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-179
Author(s):  
Julian Luxford
Keyword(s):  
14Th Century ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
Finding Aids ◽  
Made In

This article examines three drawings of the head of St Swithun made in the late 13th and early 14th century. The drawings were devised and put into registers of documents created in the royal exchequer at Westminster, where they functioned as finding-aids. As such, they are unusual examples of religious imagery with no religious purpose, and throw some light on prevailing ideas about Winchester cathedral priory at the time they were made. Their appearance was possibly conditioned by their maker's acquaintance with head-shaped reliquaries: this matter is briefly discussed, and a hitherto unremarked head-relic of St Swithun at Westminster Abbey introduced.

ISLAMIC COINS FROM EASTERN GIZA (EGYPT)

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
E. Yu. Goncharov ◽  
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S. E. Malykh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Ancient Rock ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article focuses on the attribution of one gold and two copper coins discovered by the Russian Archaeological Mission of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Giza. Coins come from mixed fillings of the burial shafts of the Ancient Egyptian rock-cut tombs of the second half of the 3rd millennium B.C. According to the archaeological context, the coins belong to the stages of the destruction of ancient burials that took place during the Middle Ages and Modern times. One of the coins is a Mamluk fals dating back to the first half of the 14th century A.D., the other two belong to the 1830s — the Ottoman period in Egypt, and are attributed as gold a buchuk hayriye and its copper imitation. Coins are rare for the ancient necropolis and are mainly limited to specimens of the 19th–20th centuries. In general, taking into account the numerous finds of other objects — fragments of ceramic, porcelain and glass utensils, metal ware, glass and copper decorations, we can talk about the dynamic nature of human activity in the ancient Egyptian cemetery in the 2nd millennium A.D. Egyptians and European travelers used the ancient rock-cut tombs as permanent habitats or temporary sites, leaving material traces of their stay.

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