East Anglian Margarets: Lydgate, Bokenham, and the Harley 4012 compiler

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Dresvina
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
John Lydgate ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Osbern Bokenham ◽  
Three Lives

Given that the cult of St Margaret was particularly strong in the East Anglian region (a quarter of all church dedications to St Margaret in England are found in Norfolk and Margaret was the most popular late-medieval name in that region), it is unsurprising that fifteenth-century East Anglia engendered three lives of St Margaret, commissioned by local patrons: by John Lydgate, by Osbern Bokenham, and by a compiler of MS BL Harley 4012, which used to belong to Anne Harling of East Harling. Chapter 6 discusses their sources, context, patrons, special features, and manuscripts.

A Mathematical Turn

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Oosterhoff
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
University Reform ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Nicholas Of Cusa ◽  
Devotio Moderna ◽  
Court Politics ◽  
Spiritual Reform ◽  
The University

Lefèvre described his own mathematical turn as a kind of conversion. This chapter explains what motivated his turn to mathematics, considering the place of mathematics in fifteenth-century Paris in relation to court politics and Lefèvre’s own connections to Italian humanists. But more importantly, Lefèvre’s attitude to learning and the propaedeutic value of mathematics drew on the context of late medieval spiritual reform, with its emphasis on conversion and care of the soul. In particular, Lefèvre’s turn to university reform seems to have responded to the works of Ramon Lull, alongside the devotio moderna and Nicholas of Cusa, which he printed in important collections. With such influences, Lefèvre chose the university as the site for intellectual reform.

Public and Private: The Late Medieval Wall Paintings of Haddon Hall Chapel, Derbyshire

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 179-205
Author(s):  
Mellie Naydenova
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Public Statement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
Private Devotion

This paper focuses on the mural scheme executed in Haddon Hall Chapel shortly after 1427 for Sir Richard Vernon. It argues that at that time the chapel was also being used as a parish church, and that the paintings were therefore both an expression of private devotion and a public statement. This is reflected in their subject matter, which combines themes associated with popular beliefs, the public persona of the Hall's owner and the Vernon family's personal devotions. The remarkable inventiveness and complexity of the iconography is matched by the exceptionally sophisticated style of the paintings. Attention is also given to part of the decoration previously thought to be contemporary with this fifteenth-century scheme but for which an early sixteenth-century date is now proposed on the basis of stylistic and other evidence.

scholarly journals El perfil de las elites pecheras en los concejos bajomedievales: prácticas y trayectorias. Piedrahíta en el siglo XV

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e038
Author(s):  
Rocío Bello Gay
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Late Medieval

El estudio de la documentación concejil de Piedrahíta da cuenta de la creciente consolidación de miembros provenientes del estamento pechero que a lo largo del siglo XV ocupan cargos políticos y de gestión tanto a nivel urbano como a nivel rural, al mismo tiempo que desarrollan procesos de acumulación de distinto tipo. El seguimiento de algunas de las figuras destacadas de los no privilegiados permite aportar a la caracterización de las prácticas, estrategias y trayectorias de dichos sectores en los siglos bajomedievales. Palabras claves: elites pecheras-prácticas-trayectorias- Piedrahíta-Siglo XV Title: The profile of the elites pecheras in the late medieval councils: practices and trajectories. Piedrahíta in the Fifteenth Century.

Evidence for the cult of St Margaret in late medieval England

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Dresvina
Keyword(s):  
Medieval England ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval England

Chapter 8 discusses the evidence for the cult of St Margaret in late-medieval England. A map is used to plot the ecclesiastical dedications to the saint and known locations of production or circulation of her life’s manuscripts. The chapter offers suggestions for St Margaret’s greater popularity in the region of East Anglia.

St Margaret on the stage

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Dresvina
Keyword(s):  
East Anglia ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Religious Drama ◽  
Margaret Of Anjou

Chapter 5 surveys the known references to St Margaret appearing in medieval English religious drama, parish pageants in London and East Anglia, and civic triumphs of Queen Margaret of Anjou. It also introduces a discussion of a link between St Margaret and St George in late-medieval culture.

Amateur Book Production and the Miscellany in Late Medieval East Anglia

Insular Books ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol M. Meale
Keyword(s):  
Family Study ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
University Library

The manuscripts discussed here, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner MS 407 and New Haven, Yale University Library, Beinecke 365, were produced roughly contemporaneously and within a relatively small geographical area. Tanner is the work of one man, Robert Reynes of Acle, and is noted for the eclecticism of its contents. Beinecke, meanwhile, was the work of two scribes, the first anonymous, the second Robert Melton of Stuston. The first copyist’s work is largely religious and exemplary; Melton’s contributions are non-literary, consisting of prayers and copies of accounts and deeds relating to his role of steward to the Cornwallis family. Study of content is complemented by analysis of the structure of each book while comparison of the dramatic texts lends particularity to the taxonomic distinctions which must be drawn between them.

Legal English and the Vernacularization of Law

Law in Common ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 213-240
Author(s):  
Tom Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Common People ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Third ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The Common ◽  
Late Medieval England

This chapter explores the growing use of English as a written ‘legal vernacular’ over the course of the fifteenth century. It argues that one can only understand the emergence of vernacular writing in legal discourse by looking to the local contexts of legal production. The emergence of English as a legal vernacular did not take hold uniformly across late-medieval society, and so we need to think more carefully about the specific kinds of discursive value that it held; the chapter argues that, as a legal language, English worked as a signifier of authenticity, a mode of signalling fidelity to real speech, and as a way of gesturing towards wider audiences or publics. This leads to the third argument that the growing significance granted to English as a legal language affected common people in late-medieval England in ambivalent ways. While in some ways the processes of vernacularization in the fifteenth century seem to follow a trajectory towards a more inclusive public discourse, as the ‘common tongue’ spoken by the majority of the populace became a language appropriate for expressing ideas about legitimacy, it was ultimately constrained by the relatively limited modes in which English was allowed to be legal.

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