HUMN220 FA16

course site for HUMN220-01 at CSU Chico, FA16

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Wife of the theologian and philosopher Peter Abelard, with whom she was involved in one of the best known love tragedies of history. Fulbert, Héloïse’s uncle and a canon of Notre-Dame,...

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Premodern Space Project: River Thames

River Thames

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The latest Tweets from Amphitheater at Epi (@epi_theater). Creative account for college class. no association with actual Amphitheater

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An African Abbot in Anglo-Saxon England

To commemorate Black History Month in the United Kingdom, today we remember one of the first Africans to live in Anglo-Saxon England. The man in question was Hadrian (d. 709), the abbot of St Peter’s and St Paul’s at Canterbury, who played a pivotal role in the development of the early Anglo-Saxon Church.

Read More at the British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog!

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Examples from previous semesters of some Premodern Space Projects.

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Medieval Jewish History Trail in Winchester (by University of Winchester; opens as PDF)

Via Twitter

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#HOCW20: Nestor's Cup. From Pithekoussai, Ischia, Italy. Circa 740 to 720 BCE.

Unknown Nestor's Cup , c.740-720 B.C., Clay Museo Archeologico di Pithecusae , Ischia, Italy

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Ashburnham Pentateuch

f. 65v: A mother and father grieve for their child

Spain or Italy (5th or 6th C.)

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334

Consider this manuscript in light of the article I posted 2 days ago about historical European mixed race families. A lot of similar articles go right from Roman Britain to Renaissance Italy, but documents like this that often bridge the historical “gap” because go unremarked upon because they’re often not considered analgous to written records or artistic depictions. What they do, rather, is show that in the imagination of artists during this time, racial diversity was part of their social consciousness and how they envisioned concepts like “a family”. My thanks to Dr Caitlin R Green on bringing this manuscript to my attention.

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With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, 1,250 of the first printed books (ca. 1455 - 1500), and an important collection of post-1500 deluxe editions, this extraordinary collection chronicles the art of the book over more than 1,000 years. The collection is from all over the world, and from ancient to modern times. It features deluxe Gospel books from Armenia, Ethiopia, Byzantium, and Ottonian Germany, French and Flemish books of hours, as well as masterpieces of Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman manuscript illumination. It also includes important first printed editions of ancient texts by great thinkers such as Aristotle and Euclid, diaries written by Napoleon and intricate bindings crafted by Tiffany. The early printed book collection highlights the experimental nature of the first attempts at printing. Some of these books have been illuminated by hand, and many are unique objects.

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List of manuscripts by number of illustrations

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3,500 stunning images from key manuscripts of the 8th to 15th centuries cast light on regional art and culture across Britain and Ireland.

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