Brepols - The Playful Middle Ages

Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal, the exuberance and ambiguity of verbal and visual play is interrogated in order to decode layers of meaning in texts and artefacts. These twelve papers celebrate the work of Elaine C. Block, whose dedicated study of misericords has, through countless articles and books, made the riches of this dizzying iconographic resource easily available to scholars for the first time. Her monumental Corpus on Medieval Misericords volumes will no doubt inform medieval scholars for generations to come, and those included in the present collection are both proud and grateful to be of the first generation to benefit from her work on this body of carvings which challengingly - and playfully - straddles thesometimes invisible line between the sacred and profane.   Paul Hardwick has a D.Phil in English medieval vernacular anticlericalism from the University of York, and has published widely on medieval literature and art.

Jerusalem Reformed: Rethinking Early Modern Pilgrimage, Renaissance Quarterly

Blacks in the Middle Ages What About Race and Racism in the Past? Literary and Art-Historical Reflections

Introduction: Witness Without Locus

In Your Mind's Eye: Strange Mental Architecture to Help You Remember

The Medieval Love Letters of H and a lady

marriage – Medieval Studies Research Blog: Meet us at the Crossroads of Everything

The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages (Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult) [1 ed.] 9780814213032, 0814213030

Volvelles of knowledge. Origin and development of an instrument of scientific imagination (13th-17th centuries) - Document - Gale Academic OneFile

Paul Sturtevant - Audience Research Specialist - Smithsonian Institution

Golden Psalter of Charlemagne - Dagulf Psalter - Ziereis Facsimiles

Toying with dance: A medievalist interprets The Nutcracker ballet