Martha Bayless, ed., Fifteen Medieval Latin Parodies. (Toronto Medieval Latin Texts 35.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Centre for Medieval Studies, 2018. Paper. Pp. 119. $17.95. ISBN: 978-0-8884-4485-1.

Speculum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-477
Author(s):  
Katell Lavéant
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Medieval Latin

Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic. Trans. with an intro. by Dan Attrell and David Porreca. Based on the Latin edition by David Pingree. The Magic in History Series. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019, xii, 372 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 530-532
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern Time ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Early Modern Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

Ordinary readers would welcome this new translation as one of many publications rendering a medieval Latin into modern English. All those efforts are certainly most welcome and necessary to maintain the scholarly and pragmatic-didactic approach to Medieval Studies. However, the Picatrix represents a unique magical treatise which every European pre-modern magician consulted and which enjoyed greatest respect for its universal relevance. Many contributors to the edited volume Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time, ed. by Albrecht Classen (2018) refer to the Picatrix, acknowledging it as a most important source for magic throughout the entire pre-modern world.

Writing the New Middle Ages

PMLA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 422-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Modal Logic ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Medieval Latin

Medieval studies are big—in fact, have rarely been livelier … or more controversial. This energy has succeeded in breaching the ramparts that traditionally divided the field into a series of vigorously defended fiefs. In a word, the discipline has gone interdisciplinary. Visual literacy, patristics, modal logic, grammar, rhetoric, onomastics, philosophical anthropology, sociology, historiography, linguistics, codicology, vernacular literature, classical and medieval Latin thought and letters, philology, and myriad other subsets conjugate in dizzying and unexpected configurations to produce exciting views of the period.

Supposed and True Knowledge of the Qur’ān in Early Medieval Latin Literature, Eighth and Ninth Centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-54
Author(s):  
Matthias M. Tischler
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Latin West ◽  
Religious Book ◽  
True Knowledge

Abstract This article intends to revise the still unrivalled opinion in Medieval Studies according to which knowledge of the Qur’ān in the early medieval Latin West is almost completely missing. For this purpose, it revises the current state of the art, enriches this panorama with some new findings in rarely studied or unknown sources and tries to assess a new profile of Latin reception of the Muslims’ central religious book. The study can show that authors of the early medieval Latin world ventured first, yet still polemical and apologetic approaches to the new religious phenomenon ‘Islam’ that produced not only superficial, hearsay-based, but first detailed knowledge of the Qur’ān.

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