A History of Women in the West. Vol II: Silences of the Middle Ages

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
James Eastgate Brink ◽  
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Early Medieval Textiles at Maaseik, Belgium

1985 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mildred Budny ◽  
Dominic Tweddle
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
The West ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western European ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article offers an account of the components, the structure and the history of the so-calledcasulaandvelaminaof Sts Harlindis and Relindis preserved at the Church of St Catherine at Maaseik in Belgium as relics of the two sisters who founded the nearby abbey of Aldeneik (where the textiles were kept throughout the Middle Ages). The compositecasulaof Sts Harlindis and Relindis includes the earliest surviving group of Anglo-Saxon embroideries, dating to the late eighth century or the early ninth. Probably similarly Anglo-Saxon, a set of silk tablet-woven braids brocaded with gold associated with the embroideries offers a missing link in the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon braids. The ‘David silk’ with its Latin inscription and distinctly western European design dating from the eighth century or the early ninth offers a rare witness to the art of silk-weaving in the West at so early a date. Thevelamenof St Harlindis, more or less intact, represents a remarkable early medieval vestment, garment or cloth made up of two types of woven silk cloths, tablet-woven braids brocaded with gold, gilded copper bosses, pearls and beads. Thevelamenof St Relindis, in contrast, represents the stripped remains—reduced to the lining and the fringed ends—of another composite textile. Originally it was probably luxurious, so as to match the two other composite early medieval textile relics from Aldeneik. As a whole, the group contributes greatly to knowledge of early medieval textiles of various kinds.

The Sense of the Horizon

Philosophy ◽  
1933 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 301-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Delisle Burns
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
The West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

Not for the first time in the history of our tradition, we are conscious of the defects of our inheritance and look doubtfully forward to a future whose structure we can hardly surmise. There was a Decline of the West in the first years of our era and again at the close of the Middle Ages. Now once more the beliefs and customs are shaken, on which our tradition is based; and there is no certainty that we shall carry forward what that tradition has so far achieved into a new form of civilized life. But, on the other hand, there is no reason to suppose that Western Civilization will disappear.

scholarly journals Doubt & Social Policy: The Long History of Malingering in Modern Welfare States

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-393
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Western History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractThis essay explores the long Western history of anxieties about feigned illness connected specifically to social policy. There is a remarkable consistency of such anxieties across time, as they appear in almost every major historical period in the West since the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals Issykhasm in the culture of Kievan Rus and Tauris

1999 ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
N. Zhyrtuyeva
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The West ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Middle Ages

The foundations of Christian culture were formed by Byzantium, which became a kind of "bridge" between the West and the East, between antiquity and the Middle Ages. For the Byzantine culture of the IV-XII centuries, there was a characteristic existence of three directions - the official theology (patristic), ascetic (intrinsic) and "anti-knitting" (oriented to dialogue with the ancient culture). The relationship between them varied in different ways during the history of Imperialism, which was reflected in its culture. In the IV-VI centuries dominant were patristic and ascetic directions. The official (moderate) theology at this stage of history was closely connected with the "anti-knotting" and sought dialogue with the ancient tradition. Only during the "Comnenian Renaissance" in the XI-XII centuries was the confrontation between ascetic and "anti-knitting" directions

The Merchant Adventurers of Bristol in the Fifteenth Century

1928 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
E. M. Carus-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
New World ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
At Home

Ashrewd Italian visitor, writing of England more than four hundred years ago, remarked:—“There are scarcely any towns of importance in the kingdom excepting these two: Bristol, a seaport to the West, and Boraco, otherwise York, which is on the borders of Scotland; besides London to the South.” Now York was not a port, though it traded far afield through Hull; London was a port, but it was so much else that its story is confusingly complex; moreover it was not by the Thames but by the Severn that Englishmen first found a pathway to the New World at the end of the Middle Ages. Hence Bristol, then the second port in England, is of peculiar interest to the student of the still unwritten history of English commerce in the fifteenth century—a history unchronicled, but not unrecorded, and quite as significant as the wars abroad and the strifes at home which have too often earned for the century a character of futility.

scholarly journals Historia formularza mszalnego uroczystości Wszystkich Świętych

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Jan Szczych
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

The cult of the saints had its beginning in the Christian ancient times. Since then it was transformed in its own celebrations in honour of All the Saints. The official liturgy of the feast-day of Omnium Sanctorum (All Saints) was stabilized in close relation to the development of collective worship of the saints in the West. The historical liturgical witnesses from the Middle Ages and of the Trident Council time demonstrate a progressive and very natural process of establishment the missal texts of this liturgical celebration. The form of some liturgical directions in the current Missale Romanum (Latin Missal), unchanged for ages, confirms the continuity and constancy of this celebration in the history of Catholic Church. These missal directions explicitly show the same idea of celebration and timeless meaning of the All Saints Solemnity.

scholarly journals A Lepra no Oriente e Ocidente: da Antiguidade à Idade Média

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Roseli Martins Tristão Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
The West ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Middle Ages

O trabalho é parte de nossa pesquisa de doutorado, trata-se de uma análise sobre a presença da enfermidade lepra, desde a Antiguidade até a Idade Média. O objetivo é identificar como o medo milenar do contágio, fortalecido pelos estigmas, acarretou um impacto profundo na vida das várias sociedades humanas do Oriente e do Ocidente. Pretende-se, ainda, demonstrar que as interpretações dadas a essa doença por religiões de matrizes, judaica e cristã tornaram-se institucionalizadas, gerando fortes representações negativas e preconceituosas que lhes são atribuídas. Para lançar luz à história da lepra e para tornar compreensível o medo e as interpretações preconceituosas lançadas aos indivíduos acometidos por ela, o aporte é buscado nas ciências econômicas, especificamente, no institucionalismo histórico, abordagem que tem como premissa básica a ênfase sobre a influência das instituições sobre o comportamento das sociedades, além de considerar a contingência histórica de toda e qualquer instituição (NORTH, 1990; 1991; 1994; 2000.) e (HODGSON, 1998; 2001; 2004; 2006; 2009).    Leprosy in the East and West: from Antiquity to the Middle Ages The work is part of our doctoral research, it is an analysis of the presence of leprosy disease, from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The goal is to identify how the millennial fear of contagion, strengthened by the stigmas, led a profound impact on life of the various human societies of the east and the west. It is also intended to demonstrate that the interpretations given to this disease by matrix religions, Jewish and Christian have become institutionalized, generating strong negative and prejudiced representations attributed to them. To shed light on the history of leprosy and to make understandable the fear and interpretations prejudices released to individuals affected by it, the contribution is sought in the economic sciences, specifically, in historical institutionalism, approach that has as basic premise emphasis on the influence of institutions about the behavior of societies, in addition to considering the historical contingency of any and all institutions (NORTH, 1990; 1991; 1994; 2000)and (HODGSON, 1998; 2001; 2004; 2006; 2009).

scholarly journals XXVI. The Secret of Kanishka

1912 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 981-1020
Author(s):  
J. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

We have considered Kanishka, so far, only as an Indian king, whose existence is revealed to us through the incidental mention of him in inscriptions and the accounts of the Yue-che (Tokhāri) given by the Chinese. And we have found that his permanent achievements were twofold. A barbarian prince, he became a convert to an alien faith, and set an example which was followed by his tribe; he also instituted an era which, although essentially Buddhist, was accepted by the Brāhmans and the Jains, and has endured to the present day. So far we might regard him merely as a prototype of many a barbarian chief of the West in the early centuries of the Middle Ages. We have now to consider him as an important figure on a much larger stage, a connecting link in the history of the earliest commerce between China and Europe. I have already brought forward direct evidence to prove that he flourished in the latter half of the first century B.C. I shall now show by two independent lines of research that he cannot be assigned to any other period. The basis of our study is the coinage of Kanishka and his successors, more particularly of Huvishka. This coinage is quite striking in its novelty.

REINTERPRETING THE ROLE OF MUSLIMS IN THE WEST AFRICAN MIDDLE AGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-340
Author(s):  
Mauro Nobili
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
West African ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslims In The West ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Discursive Approach

AbstractRecent research points to a renewed scholarly interest in the West African Middle Ages and the Sahelian imperial tradition. However, in these works only tangential attention is paid to the role of Muslims, and especially to clerical communities. This essay tackles theoretical and historiographical insights on the role of African Muslims in the era of the medieval empires and argues that the study of Islam in this region during the Middle Ages still suffers from undertheorizing. On the contrary, by using a ‘discursive approach’ scholars can unravel access to fascinating aspects of the history of West African Muslims and in particular to the crucial role played by clerical communities, who represented one node of the web of diffused authority which is characteristic of precolonial West African social and political structures.

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