Kult św. Stanisława w późnośredniowiecznej i wczesnonowożytnej Warszawie

Author(s): Agnieszka Bartoszewicz / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Najstarsze średniowieczne świątynie chełmskie i archeologia

Author(s): Andrzej Buko / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Appunti sul Dictatus Pape di Gregorio VII

Author(s): Glauco Maria Cantarella / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Bamberg i Trzebnica – przyczynek do badań nad znaczeniem relacji między tymi ośrodkami u progu XIII w.

Author(s): Anna Agnieszka Dryblak / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Ze studiów nad tytulaturą książąt polskich w XII w. (Bolesław Wysoki, Mieszko Stary)

Author(s): Marian Dygo / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Oratio periculosa, politica sed religiosa O znaczeniu kanonu rzymskiego Mszy w kulturze średniowiecza

Author(s): Paweł Figurski / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Opowieści niesamowite. Trzy przyczynki źródłowe do późnośredniowiecznych wierzeń ludowych

Author(s): Tomasz Jurek / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Kościół Najświętszego Salwatora w Krakowie na podstawie fragmentu relacji Martina Grunewega z 1603 r.

Author(s): Zbigniew Pianowski / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Figura ojca w karolińskich tekstach polemicznych z pierwszej połowy IX w.

Author(s): Aneta Pieniądz / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

O początkach kultu Najświętszej Marii Panny w katedrze w Chartres

Author(s): Jerzy Pysiak / Language(s): French,Polish,German,Italian Publication Year: 0

An anniversary publication for the renowned medieval historian Professor Roman Michałowski. The articles collected in the volume address the widely understood issues of medieval political and religious culture as well as the history of the Church in that period. Their authors, experts on the Middle Ages, come from Poland and from abroad and are not only historians but also archaeologists.

Practical Advice on Equine Care from Jordanus Rufus, c. 1250 CE

Author(s): Jennifer Jobst / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

While ostensibly a book on veterinary medicine for horses, the highly influential De medicina equorum by Jordanus Rufus (c. 1250), also provides insight into horse care and training practices in the mid-thirteenth century. This paper presents an English translation of Rufus’ work, based on Brigitte Prévot’s analysis of the early fourteenth century Paris BNF, MS Fr. 25341, the first Old French translation of the original Latin. The English translation allows us to compare Rufus’ practices to both ancient and modern horse care techniques, demonstrating both the strong oral tradition of horse care and training techniques, and how little both have changed in nearly 800 years.

Counting Your Blessings in Froissart’s “Debate of the Horse and the Greyhound”

Author(s): Anastasija Ropa / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Dialogues and debates between animals, or narratives that feature animals acting as human beings, have a long tradition in European literature, going back to Aesop’s fables. However, Jean Froissart’s “Debat dou cheval et dou levrier” [Debate between the horse and the greyhound] is different in that it presents the discussion from the animals’ point of view. The two companion animals debate the advantages and disadvantages of each other’s position, considering such issues as duties, capacities to perform their respective duties, rewards and punishments, feeding, as well as general and medical care accorded to the horse and the greyhound. Unsurprisingly, each animal argues that the other’s burden is lighter and the benefits are more bountiful, at the same time highlighting one’s own hardships and obligations. The article examines the information provided by each animal in light of other evidence from literature, hippiatric treatises and hunting books as well as illuminations to elucidate Froissart’s representation of the lives of the horse and the greyhound and the animals’ relations to their human owner.

Equestrian Military Equipment of the Eastern Roman Armies in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries

Author(s): Mattia Caprioli / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study examines artefactual, literary, and other evidence relating to equestrian military equipment of the sixth and seventh centuries from the reigns of the Emperors Justinian and Heraclius. Evidence from these sources are compared with that of territories and cultures outside the empire such as those of the Sasanians and Avars. Research questions explored and analyzed include: how widespread was the use of horse armor in the Eastern Roman army; were two types of saddle possibly in use; how widespread was the adoption of stirrups, newly introduced at this time; what evidence is there for equestrian decorative pieces; how was equestrian military equipment produced. Some major issues are analyzed: how widespread was the actual use of horse armors in the Eastern Roman army; the possibility of the usage of at least two different types of saddle; how widespread actually was the use of the newly introduced stirrups; the actual evidence for equestrian decorative devices; the production of the equestrian military equipment.

Magic and Disbelief in Carolingian Lyon

Author(s): Michael D. Bailey / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Middle Ages are often associated with credulity, especially toward magic, compared to modern Western society, which is often regarded as thoroughly disenchanted. Yet not all medieval people believed unhesitatingly in all magical practices. The early ninth-century Carolingian archbishop Agobard of Lyon described a remarkable system of weather-magic widely believed by people in his diocese of which he was completely skeptical. He justified his disbelief through references to biblical texts, but this study argues that his disbelief was grounded in his own encounters with and investigations of these magical practices, and focused only on certain elements within them.

The Merseburg Charms

Author(s): Martina Lamberti / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Among the texts of Old High German literature, two alliterative spells, the Merseburg charms, contained in a tenth-century liturgical manuscript, show some analogies with Christian prayers. This chapter focuses on the role of Christianity in the literary production of medieval Germany, with special regard to magic formulas. Attention is drawn on the manuscriptʼs paleography and contents, and it continues with the magic “genre” and the study of spells. Then, the Merseburg charms are analysed on the basis of content, structure, language, and parallels with other texts. The purpose of this study is to show the analogies between Christian prayers and heathen charms with regard to their allusions to the divine and the fulfillment of performative acts.

Hirsuta et cornuta cum lancea trisulcata

Author(s): Francesco Marzella / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper investigates the perception of witchcraft and magic in three Latin literary sources that were written or circulated in twelfth century Britain. The study focuses on both historical and narrative aspects, stressing how the approach to witchcraft can be influenced by the different purposes of the texts. The analysis of the texts will prove how very often behind the images of women endowed with supernatural powers or learned in magical arts lies a warning against potentially dangerous cultural and religious ‘othernesses’.

Sympathetic Graphophagy in Late Medieval Scandinavian Leechbooks and Collections of Charms

Author(s): Andrea Maraschi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article examines four late medieval Scandinavian manuscripts (ca. 1400-1500 AD), namely three leechbooks and a collection of charms, with the aim of investigating the still remarkable importance of sympathetic magic in Christian times for practitioners of both magic and medicine. Particular attention is paid to the role of graphophagy, that is, the practice of eating or drinking written formulas so as to absorb their powers. The sources show that modern distinctions between magic, religion, and science are unsuitable to describe the mindset of their authors. On the contrary, these sources shared the ancient belief that written formulas (whether Christian or not) could be literally taken via ingestion.

Operari per fidem

Author(s): Noel Putnik / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This essay examines Cornelius Agrippa’s understanding of magic and magical ritual, which was profoundly religious, albeit not in line with mainstream Christian theology. Through a textual analysis, I scrutinize the Neoplatonic roots of Agrippa’s theory of magic and suggest that he viewed a properly executed magical ritual as resulting in a state of rapture, or an altered state of consciousness. As part of the analysis, I explore tempting textual parallels between the suggested notion of magical rapture in Agrippa and similar concepts found in the New Testament, Plotinus, and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

Reasoning with Witchcraft

Author(s): Melissa Pullara / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In this chapter, I argue that the Weird Sisters in Macbeth influence him to pursue rational deliberation, a key facet of humanist moral philosophy, wherein people make decisions that serve an individual good rather than a universal morality. I conduct a literary analysis of the play to demonstrate how Shakespeare parallels the witches and Macbeth by highlighting their linguistic similarities and shared propensity for rhetorical, and by extension, psychological manipulation through rationalization. In so doing, Shakespeare reveals that the potential for the abuse of reason towards individual gain is an innate part of a flawed human nature which people, particularly those who make up larger religious and political institutions, seek to deny by displacing that internal threat onto external forces in an attempt to ignore their own moral fallibilities. I end the chapter with a brief look at Thomas Middleton’s The Witch and Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens to demonstrate how other early modern English playwrights complicate the relationship between witch and human characters to demonstrate how closely related the two are.

Envisioning the Afterlife from the “Seaport of Friuli”

Author(s): Cora Presezzi / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0