57 Citations
An Unknown Mappamundi in an English Almanac of c.1420 (British Library, Royal MS 17.A.XVI, Folio 2v)
- HistoryImago Mundi
- 2021
Abstract The British Library’s vast manuscript collection includes a well-illustrated almanac created in northern England and dated to c.1420. Among its miscellaneous contents are three T-O maps, one…
Feeding the dragon: The devouring monster in Anglo-Saxon eschatological imagery
- LinguisticsSELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.
- 2019
This essay deals with two intertwined eschatological motifs of the literary and iconographic culture of early medieval England: the devouring devil, especially in the guise of a dragon, and the mouth…
The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition
- History
- 2019
Since the 1960s historians studying gift giving have significantly deepened and nuanced our understanding of social, political and religious relations in medieval Europe. From the outset, historians…
Prophecy as History: A New Study of the Prophecies of Merlin Silvester
- Art
- 2018
The Prophecies of Merlin Silvester is the name given to a thirteenth-century collection of Latin prophecies, which has long been, problematically, understood to be a translation from an earlier Welsh…
Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires
- History, Economics
- 2018
The English colony in Ireland was over two centuries old in 1399 and a complex web of social, economic, and legal relationships had evolved between its two main population groups – the English of…
The Manuscripts of the Livre des fais d'armes et de chevalerie
- History
- 2017
This article gives the first complete list of all the known manuscripts of Christine de Pizan's Livre des fais d'armes et de chevalerie (1410) according to their most salient feature, first…
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MS ADD. 4100: A BOOK OF HOURS ILLUMINATED BY THE MASTER OF THE PRAYER BOOKS OF CIRCA 1500?
- History
- 2016
The importance of Flemish illumination workshops in the late fifteenth and in the beginning of the sixteenth century is sufficiently known. Abundantly illuminated manuscripts have already been…
FITZWILLIAM 1058-1975 AND THE 'CAPRICCIO' IN FLEMISH BOOK ILLUMINATION
- History
- 2016
Like so many important Flemish manuscripts the beautiful Book of Hours that entered the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1975 had not escaped the attention of Friedrich Winkler, the great pioneer amongst…