Simia langobardorum: Were African apes traded in late medieval Lombardy?
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DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23462
Abstract: Depictions of and references to apes (tailless hominoids) are very limited in early historical written accounts. The first known published representations of ape‐like primates appear in Medieval European books during the first century following the… read more here.
Keywords: iconography; simia langobardorum; late medieval; african apes ... See more keywords
The Vita of Marie d’Oignies and Late Medieval England
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DOI: 10.1007/s11061-020-09657-3
Abstract: Two late medieval Latin manuscripts and one fifteenth-century Middle English manuscript testify to English interest in Jacques de Vitry’s thirteenth-century Vita of Marie d’Oignies, a mulier religiosa of the diocese of Liège. Both the Latin… read more here.
Keywords: marie; marie oignies; late medieval; vita marie ... See more keywords
Mass burial genomics reveals outbreak of enteric paratyphoid fever in the Late Medieval trade city Lübeck
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102419
Abstract: Summary Medieval Europe was repeatedly affected by outbreaks of infectious diseases, some of which reached epidemic proportions. A Late Medieval mass burial next to the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital in Lübeck (present-day Germany) contained the skeletal remains of… read more here.
Keywords: enteric paratyphoid; beck; paratyphoid fever; mass burial ... See more keywords
The beginning of glazed ware production in late medieval Cyprus
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101963
Abstract: Abstract This study presents the first characterisation of the early glaze technology that emerged in Cyprus during the 13th century CE, with the glazed ware assemblage recovered from the theatre site at Nea Paphos as… read more here.
Keywords: glazed ware; beginning glazed; production; late medieval ... See more keywords
Ceramic fabrics and lead glazes of late medieval redware pots in the Helsinki, Turku and Tallinn regions (ED-XRF, SEM-EDS)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102627
Abstract: Abstract We report on ceramic and glaze chemical and technological data on lead-glazed redware pottery, sampled from late medieval, ca. 14th–17th century CE contexts at five sites across the Gulf of Finland, in modern Finland… read more here.
Keywords: sem eds; turku tallinn; redware; late medieval ... See more keywords
New insights into Zwischgold application from a multi-analytical survey of late medieval polychrome sculptures at the Swiss National Museum
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DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2020.104810
Abstract: Abstract Zwischgold, or part gold, is a bi-layered metal foil made from gold and silver, popular in European sculptures from the 14th century. It is notoriously difficult to unambiguously identify and to study in detail,… read more here.
Keywords: swiss national; late medieval; application; gold ... See more keywords
Heresy in Late Medieval Germany: The Inquisitor Petrus Zwicker and the Waldensians. By Reima Välimäki. York: York Medieval Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 335. Cloth $130.00. ISBN 978-1903153864.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938921000868
Abstract: (143–44), he makes sweeping claims based on scant evidence. Historians of leprosy, hospitals, and public health alike have queried the extent towhich such a framing of medieval leprosy is justifiable. Though Jankrift cites Carole Rawcliffe… read more here.
Keywords: work; public health; york; late medieval ... See more keywords
Cushions, Kitchens and Christ: Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing. By Louise Campion. Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press, 2022. xv + 180 pp. $88.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640723000136
Abstract: the 1609–1614 expulsions, Morisco families could and did find ways to gain support of local priests to be acknowledged as loyal Christians who could remain. Nonetheless the suspicion that they and others faced, also glimpsed… read more here.
Keywords: mapping domestic; late medieval; kitchens christ; christ mapping ... See more keywords
Reinterpreting space: mapping people and relationships in late medieval and early modern English cities using GIS
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DOI: 10.1017/s0963926820000164
Abstract: Abstract Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly popular in historical research, especially in urban contexts. However, digitizing historical sources in a way that can be mapped using the Cartesian co-ordinate systems of a GIS… read more here.
Keywords: reinterpreting space; gis; early modern; late medieval ... See more keywords
Writing histories for late-medieval objects: The engagement of conservation with theoretical perspectives on material culture
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DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2016.1210752
Abstract: The current discipline of conservation lacks a satisfactory theoretical and methodological framework to guide historical writing beyond scientific methods. To address this gap, this paper evaluates disciplinary shortcomings and proposes a solution for a project… read more here.
Keywords: perspectives material; late medieval; conservation; theoretical perspectives ... See more keywords
Decline or Transformation? Archaeology and the Late Medieval ‘Urban Decline’ in Southern England
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DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2017.1229895
Abstract: Archaeological evidence is used to examine how urban life changed in the later medieval towns of Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire in southern England, in light of ongoing debates about the existence of a fifteenth-century urban… read more here.
Keywords: archaeology; late medieval; southern england; decline ... See more keywords