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Medieval art1/8/2024 ![]() ![]() Portal to digital projects from the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. The eMGH-2 contains a selection of more than 400 works from different series and also offers a majority of the texts that have been edited in the subseries, Auctores Antiquissimi and Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum. Developed from the Manchester University Press Medieval Sources series. Web-based learning resource containing hundreds of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history. Created and maintained Professor Robert Peckham at University of Tennessee, Martin. Index of links to internet resources for French medieval literature. It also includes works absent from Migne's Patrologia Latina or previously published incomplete. The Continuatio assembles Christian texts from the Carolingian era to the end of the Middle Ages. Bernardi opera omnia and Biblia sacra juxta vulgatam versionem. Series Latina Patrologiae Latinae supplementum Sources chrétiennes S. Series Latina Corpus Christianorum.Continuatio Medievalis Corpus Christianorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Patrologiae cursus completus. Latin texts with translations in English, French, German, and Italian, chiefly from the following corpora: Corpus Christianorum. Created and maintained by York University. Index to PDFs of medieval texts, translations, and commentaries from a wide variety of disciplines. Texts may be searched and downloaded as PDFs. ![]() Multiple Swiss libraries have joined in an ongoing project to digitize important 16th century religious texts with an emphasis on the Reformation. Covers Great Britain in Old English and Latin.Į-rara: Schweizer Drucke des 16. Created and maintained by theĪ searchable collection of 3037 texts, representing a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. Thomae de Aquino: Opera omniaĬomplete works of St. Created and maintained by Calvin College.Ĭollection of Middle English texts assembled by University of Michigan faculty and from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive and works created specifically for this Corpus by the Humanities Text Initiative.Ĭorpus Thomisticum: S. Students with a reading knowledge of French or German are especially welcome.Searchable parallel versions of the Bible in French, German, English, and Latin.ĭatabase of extensive early and medieval Christian writings searchable by author, title, and subject. Stephen Jaeger, Mitchell Merback, Kathryn Park, Leo Steinberg, and others. Readings will include works by Caroline Walker Bynum, Michael Camille, Madeline Caviness, Jeffrey Hamburger, C. Placing such visual arts into dialogue with medieval texts (e.g., saints’ lives, visionary accounts, devotional treatises) will provide further insights into the continuities and tensions in historical attitudes toward the flesh. Among the subjects we will investigate are: the veneration of actual remnants of holy bodies, enshrined in sumptuous containers the iconography of death, Resurrection, and the afterlife the depiction of bodies and bodily processes in medical handbooks the use of the expressive sculpted body as a communicative tool for sparking empathy and modeling behavior. This seminar examines various approaches to embodiment manifested in the visual arts produced in northern and central Europe between around 9. The human body, above all, was the site of massive contradictions: despised for its uncontrollability and messiness, its sexual impulses and pressure for nourishment, it also formed the tangible, visible link between fallen humanity and the Christian God and was thus beloved as a vehicle of salvation. 900-1450) was a period of profound ambivalence when it came to the material world. Despite its reputation as an “age of spirituality” piously committed to the rejection of earthly things, the Western Middle Ages (ca.
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