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Ava's New Testament Narratives: "When The Old Law Passed Away", James A. Rushing Jr. Jul 2003

Ava's New Testament Narratives: "When The Old Law Passed Away", James A. Rushing Jr.

TEAMS Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions

Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime early in the twelfth century, no later than 1127. It seems certain that she was a layperson, and her work reflects a level of learning that raises all sorts of interesting questions about the education of the laity, especially the education of lay woman, and about the nature of authorship in the Middle Ages, generally and particularly in medieval Germany.


History As Literature, Graeme Dunphy Jul 2003

History As Literature, Graeme Dunphy

TEAMS Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions

This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems's Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. These three works are close in language, in date, and in conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval society: courtly, monastic, and urban. The excerpts have been chosen from the beginning of Rudolf's chronicle, the middle of the Christherre-Chronik and the end of Enikel, so that taken together they give something of an impression of the chroniclers' arrangement of material in a continuum from …


The Cistercian Studies Conference, 2003, The Institute Of Cistercian Studies May 2003

The Cistercian Studies Conference, 2003, The Institute Of Cistercian Studies

Conference on Cistercian Studies Programs

Program for the 2003 Cistercian Studies Conference at Western Michigan University in conjunction with the 38th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies. This conference happened between May 8-11 2003.


38th International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University May 2003

38th International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-11, 2003), including the Corrigenda.


York Art: A Subject List Of Extant And Lost Art, Clifford Davidson, David E. O'Connor Jan 2003

York Art: A Subject List Of Extant And Lost Art, Clifford Davidson, David E. O'Connor

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A list, classified by subject, of extant and lost art from pre-Reformation York originally compiled by Clifford Davidson and David E. O'Connor in 1978 and updated by Clifford Davidson, apparently in 2003. This digital reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU.