scholarly journals Fragments of Local Polyphony in Late Medieval Central Europe: Towards a Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Sources

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Late Medieval

Characterization of a Messer – The late-Medieval single-edged sword of Central Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 232-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fajfar ◽  
Jožef Medved ◽  
Grega Klančnik ◽  
Tomaž Lazar ◽  
Marijan Nečemer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Late Medieval

Frictions and Fictions of Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-228
Author(s):  
Julia Burkhardt
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Medieval

This article analyses structures and representations of power in late medieval Central Europe between 1350 and 1500. Using the examples of the medieval kingdoms of Poland, Bohemia, Hungary and Germany, the study describes and compares social structures and their political implementation, fora of political discourse, achievements in constitutional and theoretical writing as well as codification of laws and privileges. The focus on “community” as a key term in the political discourse allows shedding light on modes of distributing political powers, the reciprocity and interconnections of political players and the development of notions of political representation. Against this background, the article presents the formation of structures and representations of power in late medieval Central Europe as a highly dynamic process, revealing both fictions and frictions of community.

scholarly journals Późnośredniowieczne naczynia z Międzyrzecza. Przyczynek do studiów nad pochodzeniem i użytkowaniem wyrobów szklanych

2020 ◽  
pp. 371-392
Author(s):  
Joanna Sawicka
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Basic Goods ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
Potassium Magnesium

In the late medieval settlement layers of the gord in Międzyrzecz, a small collection of glass vessels was excavated. Several forms of tableware were reconstructed and research was conducted into the chemical composition of the glass. The examined piece of a vessel and the glass is potassium glass which comes in two varieties: calcium-potassium-magnesium-silica (CaO-K2O-MgO-SiO2) and calcium-potassium-magnesium-aluminium-silica (CaO-K2O-MgO-Al.2O3-SiO2). The forms of the vessels and the chemical composition of the examined glass indicate the basic goods manufactured in Central Europe.

scholarly journals Droughts, Dry Spells and Low Water Levels in Medieval Hungary (and Croatia) I: The Great Droughts of 1362, 1474, 1479, 1494 and 1507

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kiss ◽  
Zrinka Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Food Shortage ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Dry Spells ◽  
One Year

Abstract In the present paper five significant late medieval drought events, occurred in Hungary (4 cases) and Croatia (1 Dalmatian case), are discussed based on contemporary documentary evidence. Information on long-term lack of precipitation, severe annual (or multiannual) water shortage, extreme low water levels of major rivers or bad harvest and severe food shortage in 1362, 1474, 1479, 1494 and 1507, often accompanied or followed by locust invasions, were documented both in narratives, account books, charters and letters. Apart from causing food shortage or difficulties in transportation (e.g. of salt), these greatest known documented drought events of medieval Hungary were blamed for weakening the country's military defence (e.g. low water levels) and providing good opportunities for Ottoman-Turkish attacks. These great drought events sometimes occurred one year later than those of the neighbouring areas in Central Europe - a fact that can be probably explained by the bi- or multi-annual nature of dry spells (e.g. in and around 1474, 1479, 1507) that does not necessarily fit the frame of a calendar year.

Introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Howard Louthan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Johan Huizinga ◽  
Religious Landscape

For most scholars, the religious landscape of late medieval Central Europe is familiar terrain. Its geography was most famously mapped in the early twentieth century by the Dutch scholar Johan Huizinga. Casting this period as one of decay and decline, Huizinga shaped the historiography of the late Middle Ages for succeeding generations. The church's moral and institutional failings called forth the reforming efforts of first Jan Hus in Bohemia and then a century later Martin Luther in Germany. But as John Van Engen has recently reminded us, “any historical period called ‘late’ is headed for interpretive trouble.” During the past decade in particular, a number of scholars have reexamined this period and region with fresh eyes.

scholarly journals A Medieval European Value for the Circumference of the Earth

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-151
Author(s):  
C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Independent Measurement ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Earth

Abstract Geographic and astronomical texts from late-medieval Central Europe frequently give 16 German miles, or miliaria teutonica, as the length of a degree of terrestrial latitude. The earliest identifiable author to endorse this equivalence is the Swabian astronomer Heinrich Selder, who wrote about the length of a degree and the circumference of the Earth on several occasions during the 1360s and 1370s. Of particular interest is his claim that he and certain unnamed experimentatores established their preferred value empirically. Based on an analysis of relevant statements in Selder’s extant works and other late-medieval sources, it is argued that this claim is plausible and that the convention 1° = 16 German miles was indeed the result of an independent measurement.

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