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Medieval Literature refers to the body of written works produced in Europe during the Middle Ages, approximately from the 5th to the late 15th century. This field encompasses various genres, including poetry, prose, and drama, reflecting the cultural, religious, and social contexts of the time, often characterized by themes of chivalry, morality, and allegory.
La Madre dell'Acqua del Sud è Domnu, la Madre dei Fomoriani (1), così come Danu era la Madre dei Túatha Dé Dánann. Lei è la Donna dell'oceano. Regina delle profondità oceanine, Madre delle acque che evaporano formando le nuvole: e così la... more
Для широкого круга исследователей мифология абазин — одного из коренных народов Кавказа — остаётся во многом terra incognita. Данная статья является первой частью цикла работ по её изучению в глобальной перспективе и широком историческом... more
Edición das 704 cantigas de amor galego-portuguesas transmitidas polos cancioneiros medievais. O texto (crítico) de cada cantiga vai acompañado das fontes manuscritas, as edicións anteriores existentes e unha paráfrase en galego actual,... more
Dopo l’edizione parziale del volgarizzamento A delle Meditationes vitae Christi sulla base del MS. Riccardiano 1346 (pubblicata in questa stessa rivista nel fascicolo XXVII-XXVIII, 2022-2023), il secondo e ultimo saggio della serie... more
Halakhah and Aggadah: It has been over one hundred years since Hayim Nahman Bialik challenged the notion that these two concepts are opposites, and yet a dichotomous understanding still pervades scholarly discussion. In his 1916 essay,... more
Grußwort der Priörin von Kloster Preetz Es ist mir eine große Freude und Ehre, den nun dritten Band der 2022 ins Leben gerufenen Buchreihe Forschungen zu Kloster und Stift Preetz präsentieren zu können. Das hier vorliegende Buch, das sich... more
The title of this brief article quite clearly illustrates its aims and evident limitations. In principle, a search for a Greek basis of the misogynist content of Andreas Capellanus's De amore is likely to lead researchers to focus on... more
One of the potential attractions of the Arthurian story lies in its historical roots. Chris Brooks and Inga Bryden suggested that "[t]he enduring English cultural fascination with Arthur can be located in a process of myth-making whereby... more
Al-Lujjain ad-Daanii, manuscript that consists of the biography of Syeh Abdul Qodir al-Jaelani. He is the known well Wali all around the society of Indonesia, especially in Java and Madura, this manuscript is the weekly reading in the... more
Based on the surviving sources, which constitute only a small part of the originally produced testimonies, one may be tempted to conclude that St. Stephen was identified as the first king of Hungary/Hungarians in the early 12th century.... more
English figurai and narrative representations of penance are assessed for their rhetorical function in the teaching of penance and their intended influence, as representational modes, upon lay understandings of penitential theory. Central... more
L’articolo presenta due nuovi libri a stampa riconducibili alla biblioteca di Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447-1513): le Elegantiolae di Agostino Dati e le Historiae di Polibio nella versione latina di Niccolò Perotti. Dopo una breve... more
Resumen La intención de este artículo es caracterizar las Novelas de Pedro de Salazar (ca. 1560-1565), recientemente publicadas, como un regimiento de príncipes. Para ello, después de contextualizar la colección de novelas en la tradición... more
Credinciosul Soroka îşi duse polcovnicul prin păduri neumblate; nici el nu ştia unde să meargă, ce să facă, încotro s-o apuce. Pe lângă că era rănit, Kmicic mai era şi asurzit de împuşcătură. Din când în când, Soroka muia cârpa în găleata... more
Acts of the XVth International Congress of the SIEPM, Paris 22-26 August 2022. 2 vol. 1200 p.
Relationships between the Greeks and the Indigenous peoples in between the Danube and the Black Sea.
Sommaire du volume 8 de Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée/Contents of Volume 7 of New Comparative Mythology. Cliquez sur les noms des articles pour y accéder via le lien/Click on the article names to access them via the link. Une mise à jour... more
Mi-am dat o şuviţă de păr după ureche şi am zâmbit. Nici măcar nu ştie că astăzi e ziua mea liberă. Am înghiţit în sec şi am încercat să nu plâng. M-am uitat la mâna stângă şi mi-am scos ambele inele simţind cum inima mea începe să se... more
Colloque organisé par. B. Autiquet (UPJV), S. Douchet (UCA), M. Roussillon (USN) et L. Piettre (AMU) à l'Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, les 6 et 7 novembre 2025. Les propositions de communication, d'une longueur d'environ 500 mots,... more
The following text traces the story and evolution of Toledo as is experienced through its architecture, geography and historical narratives. It is the fascinating story of how the political, religious and cultural lives of the people... more
Copertina e indice del libro in uscita per la Casa Editrice Condaghes
Si alguna mujer aprende tanto como para escribir sus pensamientos, que lo haga y que no desprecie el honor sino más bien que lo exhiba,
Titre : De finibus bonorum et malorum (« Des termes extrêmes des biens et des maux »). Lieu et datation du manuscrit : [Italie (Milan ou environs), ca. 1460] Langue : latin. Présentation Avocat et homme politique, Cicéron fut en outre un... more
A Sea of Civilisations, a Mirror of History From the dawn of the Roman Empire to the emergence of the Atlantic powers, the Mediterranean has never been a passive stage—it has always stood at the centre of historical change. Storia del... more
The Occitan lyrical tradition offers various possibilities to identify an epistemological processing axis of the concept of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ as dimensions to indicate the interiority and outer manifestation of it. Starting from the... more
Ил. 1. Св. Богородица Умиление със светци, икона от (НЦИАМ инв. № 3550), (фотография И. Ванев) Ill. 1. The Mother of God Eleousa with Saints (NCMHA, Inv. № 3550), (photo by I. Vanev)
Cette version est légèrement différente de celle publiée puisqu'elle contient des illustrations. Article publié dans l'ouvrage Royauté, écriture et théâtre au Moyen Âge. Mélanges en l'honneur d'Elisabeth Lalou, sous la direction de M.... more
Tools can the build space for human consciousness to dwell is article discusses a semantic e pansion of immaterial worlds through tools functioning as s mbolic indicator of another world Comparing ritual objects as ancient mediator models... more
Article publié dans M. Coudry-M. T. Schettino (dir.), Enjeux interculturels de l’utopie politique dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine, Alessandria, 2020, p. 327-350
This paper explores the ways in which religion and science-broadly defined-have been used to construct and imagine ideal societies in the medieval and early modern periods. By examining how otherness is constructed through descriptions of... more
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or... more
Scholars [=some but not all!] have argued that this powerful tale is based on the tragic myth of Hippolytus, son of king Theseus, and Phaedra, his lustful stepmother (cf. Euripides, Hippolytus). Like Theseus, Rónán, king of Leinster, has... more
Imágenes portada e interiores del Artista visual Óscar Vázquez delatripa: narrativa y algo más Comenzaré este recorrido breve por la obra de don Alfonso, encaminado a beber de su caudal centrado en el engarce de las artes y las ciencias,... more
It takes some time for the reader to fathom what Eugenia Russell's book is really about, all the more so since the title of the book and the titles of the chapters are somehow misleading. The book does not offer a general overview of... more
In this paper, we aimed to focus on the unusual intitulation found in the charters of the Bosnian bans, from the period of Ban Stephen II Kotromanić, who, in documents addressed to local recipients, was titled “I, Saint Gregory, named Ban... more
У раду се анализира употреба појма законопреступници у дјелима српских писаца 13. вијека. У првом реду овај термин су користили Стефан Првовјенчани и Доментијан, за означавање негативних особина ликова који су устали против праведних... more
I have extracted this particular chapter from my current ongoing book 'The Last Death' (which can also be found at AcademiaEdu) and tweaked a few things. I believe it is a paper in its own rights that studies the relationship of war to... more
Four of the Twelve Caesars appear in Geoffroy of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and in Wace's Roman de Brut: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Claudius and Vespasian (plus a short mention of Nero's name). This article identifies the... more
espanolSe presenta un estudio comparativo entre Enrique de Aragon, marques de Villena, y el mago Merlin. A traves de la vision diabolica que recayo sobre estos personajes por su relacion con la actividad profetica y adivinatoria de... more
Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. 216 CE) was a doctor and immensely prolific writer on medical and other subjects. An important component of his legacy, as well as a subject dear to his heart, was anatomy. He would come back to the topic... more
This article explores Byzantine reflections on the significance of literature (or logoi), as well as the connections between literature and the human experience. It argues that moral attitudes towards literature are central to Byzantine... more