scholarly journals The Doomsday Scenario Depicted by Frau Ava: The Question of Sources

2020 ◽  
pp. 190-201
Author(s):  
Aleksej Burov
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
End Times ◽  
Source Of Information

The present article explores an excerpt depicting the scenario of the last days in the poem Das Jüngste Gericht (Eng. The Last Judgement), written by the first-named German female writer Frau Ava (circa 1060–1127). The study addresses the question of sources used in the depiction of the end times in the excerpt under consideration (lines 1–160). The study does not question the affinity between the scenes of the last days illustrated in the excerpt and the apocalyptic plot of the Latin texts of Pseudo-Beda (the turn of the 12th century) and Petrus Daminanus (1006–1072); however, it is assumed that Frau Ava may have drawn not only on the aforementioned Latin sources but also on the apocalyptic song Muspilli, written by an anonymous author circa 870. The analysis of the excerpt suggests that the apocalyptic narrative of Muspilli may have shaped the scene of the fifteenth day illustrated in the poem The Last Judgement. Moreover, Frau Ava, unlike Pseudo-Beda and Petrus Daminanus, does not refer to St. Jerome as a source of information but to wisten (Eng. wise men). As no evidence of other German apocalyptic texts referring to wise men, except for Muspilli, can be found, the study concludes that depicting the scenario of the last days in her poem, in addition to the Latin texts, Frau Ava used the song Muspilli as her source.

scholarly journals New Lead Seal of Adrian Komnenos, Protosebastos and Megas Domestikos of the Entire West, Discovered in the Area of Rusokastro in Southeastern Bulgaria

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Nikolay Kanev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Source Of Information

ntroduction. The present article is a primary publication of a newly discovered sphragistic artefact from the area of the medieval fortress of Rusokastro, which was acquired by the Regional Historical Museum in Burgas in 2019. Methods. In their entirety, the Byzantine lead seals are an important primary and reliable source of information on various aspects of Byzantine history. Byzantine seals are especially important from the perspective of prosopography. First of all, they are invaluable evidence of individuals who, in one way or another, participated in the social and political life of the Byzantine Empire. Therefore, the discovery of each new sphragistic monument is of great importance and the available information must be carefully analyzed. Analysis. This interesting artefact is a lead seal of the brother of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Komnenos (1081–1118), Adrian Komnenos as a protosebastos and megas domestikos of the entire West. The obverse depicts Saint George, nimbate, standing, facing forward, holding a spear in his right hand, and resting his left hand on a shield. Inscription in 7 lines within dotted border on the reverse: + Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἀδριανῷ (πρωτο)σεβαστῷ (καὶ) μ(ε)γ(άλῳ) δομ[ε]στίκῳ πάσης Δύσεως τῷ Κομνην(ῷ). The seal dates from the end of the 11th century. Results. This new Byzantine lead seal, described in this article, increases the number of medieval sphragistic finds in the Rusokastro area, which belong to an undeniably wide chronological range – from the second half of the 8th century to the beginning of the 12th century. Thus, the number of lead seals from the area of Rusokastro grow to six, five of which are Byzantine and one is a Bulgarian imperial seal.

scholarly journals An Important Source of Information about Islamized Armenians

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2 (6)) ◽  
pp. 251-261
Author(s):  
Sergey Vardanyan
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village ◽  
Source Of Information

The history of Armenians has been accompanied with struggles against forced Islamization. The Islamized Hamshen-Armenians are of particular interest in this regard. The present article provides solid evidence about Islamized Armenians in general and those in the village of Khevak in particular, making reference to new sources of information that confirm the ideas stated.

Das Kirchweihoffizium in den mittelalterlichen Graner liturgischen Handschriften

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Czagány
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Central European ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Coherent Sequence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Almost All

The office for the feast of the Dedicatio Ecclesiæ was used and transmitted mainly in the same form in the great majority of medieval liturgical codices. Within this general uniformity, however, the arrangement of the antiphons for the first Vespers varies from tradition to tradition. The present article examines the repertory of the Dedicatio in medieval Hungarian manuscripts, comparing it to the offices found both in other Middle European and in West Frankish sources. This comparative analysis made clear, that although the vesper antiphons in question were already included in the Codex Albensis (the earliest extant office manuscript from 12th-century Hungary) and can be found in almost all manuscripts from the medieval Hungarian archdiocese of Esztergom (Strigonium), they were rarely used in other Central European areas. These items may originate from the Rhineland, from within the region of Liège (Lüttich), what is confirmed by their occurrence in a 14th-century antiphoner from Aachen and in the Breviarium Præmonstratense. Furthermore, the five antiphons were probably not composed as a coherent sequence of chants. Although occasionally we come accross the individual pieces in sources of different time and place, their organization into cycles may be the result of later and secondary local initiations. The cycle might have been transferred to Hungary during the 11th century where it remained unchanged until the end of the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals Frau Ava’s, the first named German female writer’s, poem Jüngstes Gericht ‘The Last Judgement’ and its Lithuanian translation

Literatūra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Aleksej Burov ◽  
Ignė Vrubliauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Present Article ◽  
German Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Middle High German ◽  
World War ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Manuscript Dating

The present article offers an overview of several poems written by Frau Ava (1060–1127), a German poetess whose literary works are virtually unknown in Lithuania. Ava, an anchoress in Melk Abbey, is the first named German female writer, who broke ‘the deep silence of German literature’ lasting over a century (Stein 1976, 5). All poems attributed to Frau Ava are of religious character: Johannes ‘John the Baptist’ (446 lines), Leben Jesu ‘Life of Jesus’ (2418 lines), Antichrist (118 lines) and Jüngstes Gericht ‘The Last Judgement’ (406 lines), which make up an impressive biblical epic of 3388 lines. Leben Jesu, Antichrist and Jüngstes Gericht are found in the Vorau Manuscript dating the first half of the 12th century (Codex 276, 115va-125ra), whereas the Görlitz Manuscript (Codex A III. 1. 10), compiled in the 14th century but lost during World War II, contains the poem Johannes as well as the other poems mentioned above, excluding the epilogue of Jüngstes Gericht (lines 393-406).The article presents an overview of Frau Ava’s life and works as well as a Lithuanian translation of her poem Jüngstes Gericht, written in Early Middle High German (Ger. Frümittelhochdeutsch). The translation is based on Maike Glaußnitzer and Kassnadra Sperl’s text, published in 2014.

Yana Kuncheva-Nacheva – Vasil Levski’s Sister

Epohi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stancho Todorov ◽  
◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Source Of Information

In addition to the researches of life and deeds of the Apostle of Freedom, we learn a lot of things concerning not only his times, but also his near and dear, among whom is also the object of the present article. Although Yana Kuncheva-Nacheva did not do great deeds, she takes a well-deserved place among many other women of that heroic epoch. She, as well as her family, helped Levski and the future revolution in general, as far as they could. Furthermore, her valuable memoirs about her brother and his times, and her life after the Liberation in the new social and political situation – a double process in itself – is a source of information of Yana herself and her relatives, as well as of the period in question.

scholarly journals The role of violence in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 167-175
Author(s):  
Miha Pintarič
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Common Occurrence ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Individual

Chretien de Troyes, the most famous of the French 12th-century authors of chivalric romaces, comes to a very personal view of violence towards the end of his writing career, in his Perceval or the grail story. While in his previous works, the first of which was Erec and Enid, the object of the present article, he abided by the commonly accepted norms concerning the description of »violence«: there's no »abstract violence«, and it should never befall and idea or a tradition while the violence against the individual is a common occurrence considered "creative" and legitimate, if not indispensable, for the making of social hierarchy and order, violence ceases to be a topic of interest in his last, unfinished text.

scholarly journals Bigámia nászajándékba: Samuel Spillenberger nászéneke Máriássy János és Palugyay Zsófia esküvőjére (1635)

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
Ágnes Máté
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Present Article ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
The 19Th Century

The present article discusses a set of poems registered in print nr. 1620 of the Régi Magyarországi Nyomtatványok catalogue. The poem was dedicated by a doctor of medicine from Levoča, Samuel Spillenberger to his alleged godson, the nobleman János Máriássy. Spillenberger wrote three poems in the name of each married brothers of Máriássy. The second poem, allegedly sang by Máriássy’s youngest brother, András, tells a story about a bigamist crusader from the 12th century. After presenting the family backgrounds of both the author and the addressees, the paper sheds light on the origin and possible sources of the story. Pointing out some specific textual properties of Spillenberger’s poem, the paper tries to trace down its exact source. It also offers a panoramic picture about the presence of the bigamist figure in German neo-Latin Literature and culture from the 16th to the 19th century. Finally, the article closes with some remarks about the position of the poem in its own literary context of seventeenth-century neo-Latin wedding poetry in Hungary.

scholarly journals Dinâmica de participação social na construção coletiva de informação no campo museal: estudo de caso dos museus na Wikipédia no âmbito do Instituto Brasileiro de Museus | Dynamics of social participation in the collective construction of information in the museum field: case study of the museums in Wikipedia under the Brazilian Institute of Museums

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalton Lopes Martins ◽  
Danielle Do Carmo
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Field Case ◽  
Collective Construction ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Production Of Information

RESUMO O presente artigo identifica e descreve dados relativos à dinâmica de participação coletiva e colaborativa na produção de informações sobre os museus brasileiros na Wikipédia. Utilizando como amostra os museus administrados diretamente pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Museus (Ibram), foi realizada a coleta de dados da Wikipédia utilizando o software XTools. Dessa forma o presente artigo busca demonstrar o potencial da Wikipédia como fonte de pesquisa, principalmente no que tange à produção de informações sobre os museus brasileiros na internet. Os resultados identificam que 20 museus possuem página na Wikipédia, tendo sido editadas por um total de 555 usuários que realizaram um total de 1.108 edições nas páginas. Identifica-se grande desigualdade na dinâmica de produção de informação nas páginas e uma expressiva rede de editores realizando ações de curadoria.Palavras-chave: Wikipédia; Museus Brasileiros; Fonte de Informação; Humanidades Digitais; Ibram.ABSTRACT This article identifies and describes data on the dynamics of collective and collaborative participation in the production of information about Brazilian museums on Wikipedia. Using as sample the museums administered directly by the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram), the data gathering was carried out articles using the XTools software. In this way, the present article seeks to demonstrate the potential of Wikipedia as a source of research, especially in what concerns the production of information about Brazilian museums on the Internet. The results identify that 20 museums have a page on Wikipedia, having been edited by a total of 555 users who have made a total of 1.108 editions on the pages. It identifies great inequality in the dynamics of information production in the pages and an expressive network of publishers performing curatorial actions.Keywords: Wikipedia; Brazilian Museums; Source of Information; Digital Humanities; Ibram.

scholarly journals Štajerski grb in njegovi začetki v 12. in 13. stoletju

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2019) (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bele
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
English Summary ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
First Descriptions

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovene (Abstract in Slovene and English, Summary in English) Key words: duchy of Styria, styrian coat of arms, Otakars, house of Babenberg, Ottokar II of Bohemia, Béla IV of Hungary, lords of Wildon, Austrian Rhyme Chronicle, Ottokar aus der Gaal, Zürich Armorial Extract: The theme of the present article are the origins and the beginning of the coat of arms of the duchy of Styria, still in use today by today's Austrian state with the same name. Before 1918 it was used by the then still undivided duchy. The basic purpose of the research is the critical review and supplementation of the currently already known facts, discovered by the Austrian historians of the past. The very first beginnings of the Styrian coat of arms with the (white or. silver) panther (on a green base) can be traced back to the 12th century. This symbol obviously did not have its origins with the noble house of Bamberg. Its motive is clearly much older. The present coat of arms became established by the 13th century. Considering the sources of that time, what we have in mind are mostly seals on contemporary documents, together with the first descriptions in narrative sources. Here we mean the so-called Austrian Rhyme Chronicle.

On Some 12th and 13th Century Doctrines of Restriction

1980 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain de Libera
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Tense Operators ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
White Point ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
Over Time

Summary The problem of the variation of the truth-status of the propositions over time is one of the favourite topics of the logicians as soon as the end of the XIIth century. The aim of the present article is to acknowledge the various theories of restriction provided in the 12th and 13th centuries, to solve semantic problems by means of contextual determination. Given the texts presently available, up to seven different doctrines are accounted for, depending on whether or not subjects and predicates, on the one hand, substantial and accidental terms, on the other hand, are actually distinguished. Among those doctrines, particular attention is paid to that of the so-called Dialectica Mona-censis. This anonymous treatise, dating from the last decades of the 12th century, introduces two different theories. The first one suffers from a discrepancy between the content of the rules of restriction through present, past and future tense verbs and that of the various conditions laid down in these rules. Thus, though substantial and accidental terms have theoretically the same supposition, whether they be subjects or predicates, in each different tensed form of the verbs, the author practically draws a line between substantial terms like ‘homo’ and accidental ones, like ‘album’. As a matter of fact, the truth of the proposition “homo curret” at instant S (Reichenbach’s ‘point of speech’) necessarily entails that of “homo currit” at instant E (the ‘point of event’), but this is not the case with ‘album’ in “album curret”, since that which is now white (point S) might very well be no longer white at time E. Those difficulties determine a second theory which offers a more satisfying account of the difference between substantial and accidental terms. Finally, a comparison is made between the first theory in the Dialectica and William of Sherwood’s account of the compounded and divided senses of the propositions, and a parallel is suggested with modern paraphrases using A. N. Prior’s tense operators.

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