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Becoming Material: Devotional Encounters Between Humans And Objects In The European Middle Ages, Debra L. Hilborn-Davis 2021 CUNY Graduate Center

Becoming Material: Devotional Encounters Between Humans And Objects In The European Middle Ages, Debra L. Hilborn-Davis

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In our current moment of profound ecological crisis, scholarship across disciplines is calling for a closer look at the objects proliferating around us in order to find new, increasingly reciprocal ways of relating to the material world. In Becoming Material: Devotional Encounters Between Humans and Objects in the European Middle Ages, I answer this call by looking to the past and examining people’s encounters with material objects described in and around three devotional texts: the Holy Week ceremonies proscribed in the tenth-century monastic agreement, the Regularis Concordia; the embodied devotional practices of a thirteenth-century lay woman, Elizabeth of …


Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture In Medieval England, Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, Jessica Brantley, Stephen Parkinson 2021 Western Michigan University

Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture In Medieval England, Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, Jessica Brantley, Stephen Parkinson

Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations

This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into dialogue with twenty-first-century scholarship on pre-modern visual culture. Devotional alabaster images, too often thought of as a narrowly English “folk art,” were avidly collected and appreciated throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages. This collection of essays seeks to place the alabasters within a variety of late medieval textual and visual contexts, taking into account questions of materiality, the role of seriality in the changing modes of artistic production of the late Middle Ages, and broad debates about …


Tolkien’S Penchant For Alliteration: Using Xml To Analyze The Lay Of Leithian, Rebecca Power 2021 Valparaiso University

Tolkien’S Penchant For Alliteration: Using Xml To Analyze The Lay Of Leithian, Rebecca Power

Journal of Tolkien Research

This analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lay of Leithian focuses on the inclusion of alliteration in the poem, aided by the encoding of the poem in XML and the creation of accompanying XSLT documents that transform and represent the data encoded. Tolkien’s unfinished poem The Lay of Leithian, totalling 4223 lines across 14 cantos, exists in various drafts compiled by Christopher Tolkien and published in The Lays of Beleriand. The Lay of Leithian is written in octosyllabic couplets, following the form of the lay, and is organized into stanzas and cantos of varying length that divide the narrative …


2020 Medieval Object Assignment And Instructions, Maryanne Kowaleski 2021 Fordham University

2020 Medieval Object Assignment And Instructions, Maryanne Kowaleski

Digital Pedagogy: Omeka Medieval London

Assignment with instructions on researching the medieval object and loading metadata and images into the Omeka digital platform for each item and exhibition.


D. Mld Mapping Sample Coded Sheet, Maryanne Kowaleski 2021 Fordham University

D. Mld Mapping Sample Coded Sheet, Maryanne Kowaleski

Digital Pedagogy: Medieval Londoners Mapping Project

Contains examples of fully structured deeds from medieval London.


E. Mld Mapping Empty Sheet, Maryanne Kowaleski 2021 Fordham University

E. Mld Mapping Empty Sheet, Maryanne Kowaleski

Digital Pedagogy: Medieval Londoners Mapping Project

Empty spreadsheet with MLD field headings for students to use to code mediveal London deeds.


F. Layers Of London Grid Template, Maryanne Kowaleski 2021 Fordham University

F. Layers Of London Grid Template, Maryanne Kowaleski

Digital Pedagogy: Medieval Londoners Mapping Project

Empty grid form to be filled out with data on each deed; the data entered are then transferred to an online Layers of London record.


B. Part Ii Mld Mapping Instructions, Maryanne Kowaleski, Camila Marcone 2021 Fordham University

B. Part Ii Mld Mapping Instructions, Maryanne Kowaleski, Camila Marcone

Digital Pedagogy: Medieval Londoners Mapping Project

Instructions for accessing and creating a record in the Layers of London digital mapping platform.


C. Mld-Mapping Dataset 1250-1334, Maryanne Kowaleski, Camila Marcone 2021 Fordham University

C. Mld-Mapping Dataset 1250-1334, Maryanne Kowaleski, Camila Marcone

Digital Pedagogy: Medieval Londoners Mapping Project

The original dataset of London deeds selected for the undergrad students, taken from the website of The National Archives (TNA), E40 class, which took the deed abstracts from A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office: Series A, 3837-6122; Series B, 3871-4232; Series C, 2916-3764; Series D. 1-1330. Ed. H C Maxwell Lyte. London, 1890. Includes the names of cataloguers assigned to these deeds, which were mapped on Layers of London.


09 The Arma Christi And The Croxton Play Of The Sacrament: A Prolegomenon To Regional Iconographic History, Ann Eljenholm Nichols 2021 Western Michigan University

09 The Arma Christi And The Croxton Play Of The Sacrament: A Prolegomenon To Regional Iconographic History, Ann Eljenholm Nichols

Early Drama, Art, and Music

An otherwise unpublished study of the East Anglian Croxton Play of the Sacrament in relation to devotion to the instruments of the Passion.


00 Preface, Clifford Davidson 2021 Western Michigan University

00 Preface, Clifford Davidson

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A preface to a collection of fourteen essays, most reprinted, with or without revisions, from the EDAM Newsletter or Early Drama, Art, and Music Review plus three newly written for this context.


01 The Investiture Contest And The Rise Of Herod Plays In The Twelfth Century, John Marlin 2021 Western Michigan University

01 The Investiture Contest And The Rise Of Herod Plays In The Twelfth Century, John Marlin

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A reprint of a study of the figure of Herod in liturgical drama, originally published in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 23 (Fall 2000).


02 Liturgy And Drama At St-Omer In The Thirteenth Through Sixteenth Centuries, Lynette R. Muir 2021 Western Michigan University

02 Liturgy And Drama At St-Omer In The Thirteenth Through Sixteenth Centuries, Lynette R. Muir

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A reprint of a study of ceremonies and the Easter play at the collegiate church of St-Omer, originally published in the EDAM Newsletter 9, no. 1 (Fall 1986).


03 Il Doge And The Liturgical Drama In Late Medieval Venice, Nils Holger Petersen 2021 Western Michigan University

03 Il Doge And The Liturgical Drama In Late Medieval Venice, Nils Holger Petersen

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A reprint of a study of the Easter Quem Queritis and the involvement of the Venetian Doge, originally published in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 18, no. 1 (Fall 1995).


11 Medieval Actors And The Invention Of Printing In Late Medieval France, Graham A. Runnalls 2021 Western Michigan University

11 Medieval Actors And The Invention Of Printing In Late Medieval France, Graham A. Runnalls

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A reprint of a study of the dissemination of play texts in print and the performance of drama, originally published in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 22 (Spring 2000).


04 Palm Sunday Ceremonies In Poland: The Past And The Present, Teresa Bela 2021 Western Michigan University

04 Palm Sunday Ceremonies In Poland: The Past And The Present, Teresa Bela

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A reprint of a study of a long-lasting tradition of religious processions in Poland, originally published in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 12, no. 2 (Spring 1990).


10 The "Stuff" Of The Medieval Palette: Paint, Painters, And The Dramatic Records, Jon Terry Wade 2021 Western Michigan University

10 The "Stuff" Of The Medieval Palette: Paint, Painters, And The Dramatic Records, Jon Terry Wade

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A revision of a study of the availability of pigments painters used for pageant wagons, props, and costumes, originally published in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 23 (2001).


05 From Synthesis To Compromise: The Four Daughters Of God In Early English Drama, Hans-Jürgen Diller 2021 Western Michigan University

05 From Synthesis To Compromise: The Four Daughters Of God In Early English Drama, Hans-Jürgen Diller

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A reprint of a study of the Four Daughters of God in Middle English drama, originally published in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 18, no. 2 (Spring 1996).


08 Embodying Text: Reassessing Characterization And Performance In The Medieval English Herod Plays, Carolyn Coulson 2021 Western Michigan University

08 Embodying Text: Reassessing Characterization And Performance In The Medieval English Herod Plays, Carolyn Coulson

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A reprint with revisions of a study of the character of Herod in the English play cycles, originally published in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 23 (2001).


07 Fox, Bull, And Lion In The Towneley Coliphizacio, John W. Velz 2021 Western Michigan University

07 Fox, Bull, And Lion In The Towneley Coliphizacio, John W. Velz

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A reprint of a study of patterns of coercion exemplified in the Towneley Coliphizacio, originally published in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review 14, no. 1 (Fall 1991).


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