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Nota Necrológica. Bonifacio Palacios Martín
Nota Necrológica. Bonifacio Palacios Martí
Medieval Pottery Research Group Bibliography
The MPRG Bibliography is an on-line national bibliography of published reports, books and articles on post-Roman ceramics. The on-line, searchable version of this bibliography as released by the ADS in 2010 contains nearly 13000 entries covering the whole of the British Isles, including the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Searches into the bibliography can be carried out on a number of fields including author, title, publication date, site type, period, county and ceramic category
58th International Congress on Medieval Studies
The printed program of the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 11–13, 2023), together with the Corrigenda
The Remanence of Medieval Media
The Remanence of Medieval Media (uncorrected, pre-publication version)
For: The Routledge Handbook of Digital Medieval Literature, edited by Jen Boyle and Helen Burgess (2017
The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence
The catastrophic impact of fishing pressure on species such as cod and herring is well documented. However, the antiquity of their intensive exploitation has not been established. Systematic catch statistics are only available for ca. 100 years, but large-scale fishing industries existed in medieval Europe and the expansion of cod fishing from the fourteenth century (first in Iceland, then in Newfoundland) played an important role in the European colonization of the Northwest Atlantic. History has demonstrated the scale of these late medieval and post-medieval fisheries, but only archaeology can illuminate earlier practices. Zooarchaeological evidence shows that the clearest changes in marine fishing in England between AD 600 and 1600 occurred rapidly around AD 1000 and involved large increases in catches of herring and cod. Surprisingly, this revolution predated the documented post-medieval expansion of England's sea fisheries and coincided with the Medieval Warm Period-when natural herring and cod productivity was probably low in the North Sea. This counterintuitive discovery can be explained by the concurrent rise of urbanism and human impacts on freshwater ecosystems. The search for 'pristine' baselines regarding marine ecosystems will thus need to employ medieval palaeoecological proxies in addition to recent fisheries data and early modern historical records
Common Medieval Pigments
This paper discusses the pigments used in medieval manuscripts. Specific types of pigments that are examined are earths, minerals, manufactured, and organics. It also focuses on both destructive and non-destructive methods for identifying medieval pigments
Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise
The article intends to draw attention to some of the most significant and telling appropriations
of traditional themes of Biblical paradise in medieval Christian dualism (namely, Paulicianism,
Bogomilism and related groups in Eastern Christendom and Catharism in Western Christendom) and initiate discussion on the important but presently not always explicable problem of their theological and literary provenance. The significance of this problematic is highlighted by the increasing amount of direct and indirect evidence of the role played by a number of early Jewish and Christian
pseudepigraphic works in the formation of medieval Christian dualist cosmogonic, cosmological, satanological,
Christological and biblical history traditions. The preliminary survey of medieval dualist
conceptions of biblical Paradise shows also once more that the doctrinal evidence for Bogomilism
and Catharism is too complex and polyvalent to be defined or ignored apriori as representing medieval
heresiological constructs drawing on earlier heresiological texts and stereotypes. The material examined in the article shows that the text-critical treatment of the primary sources to first establish
the most plausible literary and theological provenance of the respective teachings attributed to medieval
Christian dualist groups or individuals still remains indispensable to the study of medieval heresy and needs to precede the application of models and approaches drawn from contemporary
anthropological and sociological theory to the source material
Castellu di la Chitati
One of the least understood of all the works of
fortification to have stood watch over the Maltese islands
in antiquity is the castellu di la chitati - the medieval
castle of the old town of Mdina. The arcanum that
surrounds this ancient stronghold stems primarily from
the fact that it was dismantled way back in the 15th
century and what little had remained of the building
thereafter, eventually disappeared altogether in the
metamorphosis that accompanied the Hospitaller refortification
of the medieval town into a gunpowder
fortress throughout the course of the 16th, 17th and 18th
centuries. This, coupled with the limited nature of
contemporary documentary information has ensured that
the true form and features of the medieval stronghold
have been lost to the point that now only archaeology
can hope to really figure out. Whilst acknowledging the severe limitations imposed
by any approach that falls short of a full archaeological
investigation, this paper seeks to re-examine the existing
documentary, cartographic and physical evidence
unearthed to-date in order to suggest a rudimentary
model of Mdina's medieval stronghold. Undoubtedly,
the greatest contribution to-date to the study of Mdina
and its medieval fortifications has been the masterly
work of Prof. Stanley Fiorini and Dr. Mario Buhagiar.
This paper only undertakes to re-evaluate the evidence
and some of the conclusions presented so far in the light
of my own research into medieval military architecture
and castle typologies.peer-reviewe
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