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"From Kehinde Wiley to W.E.B. DuBois, from Nubia to Cuba, from Willie Doherty's terror in ancient landscapes to the violence of institutional Neo-Gothic, from Reagan's AIDS policies to Beowulf fanfiction, this richly illustrated volume brings together art historians and literature scholars to articulate a more inclusive, intersectional medieval studies. It will be of interest to students working on diaspora and migration, white settler colonialism and pogroms, Indigenous studies and decolonial methodology, slavery, genocide, and culturecide. The authors confront a legacy of medieval studies and its current failures, and analyze fascist, nationalist, colonialist, anti-Semitic, and other ideologies to which medieval was and is yoked. They set out concrete ethical choices and aims in research and teaching. In the face of rising global fascism and ideological mobilizations, contemporary and past, of cultural heritage and history as weapons of symbolic and physical oppression, the chapters on Byzantium, Medieval Nubia, Old English, Hebrew, Old French, Occitan, and American and European medievalisms brought together in this volume examine how educational institutions, museums, universities, and individuals are guided by ethics in research, collecting, and teaching. The volume includes pieces by current important voices in the field, including Andrea Myers Achi, Seeta Saganti, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Eva Frojmovic, Anna Kłosowska, Roland Betancourt, Joshua Davies, Alison Elizabeth Killilea, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Adam Miyashiro, Megan Cavell, Daniel Thomas, Stewart Brookes, Diane Watt, Jennifer Neville, Carla María Thomas, and Catherine Karkov"--

History --- Medieval studies --- race --- International Medieval Congress --- racism --- history

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Countless texts from world literature teach us that at the heart of every intimate encounter there is an inexpressible moment that transcends language. The nature of this inexpressibility and how, despite all obstacles, it can be put in words, varies historically and culturally. Using transformation theory and Luhmann's concept of intimacy, this volume examines specific kinds of inexpressibility. Im Kern jeder intimen Begegnung, das können wir unzähligen Texten der Weltliteratur entnehmen, findet sich ein Moment des Nichtsagbaren, der die Sprache transzendierenden Liebe. Was dieses Unsagbare aber ist, und wie es eben doch gesagt werden kann, sei es als Topos, als Umschreibung, Metapher oder Auslassung, ist historisch variabel und kulturell spezifisch. Der Band versammelt Aufsätze, die diese spezifischen Unsagbarkeiten in beispielhaften Studien vom 12.-17. Jahrhundert herausarbeiten. Als theoretische Basis dient einerseits das Transformationskonzept des SFB644, andererseits die Arbeiten zur Intimität und Liebe Niklas Luhmanns, deren mögliche Historisierung und Applikabilität für mittelalterliche Literatur Gegenstand des Teilprojekts B16 war.

Love in literature --- Inexpressibility. --- Medieval studies. --- intimacy. --- love.

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"Terrae motus factus est magnus". In diesen und ähnlichen Worten erinnern mittelalterliche Geschichtsschreiber stets an das verspürte Eintreten von Erdbeben. Für die ereignisgeschichtliche Rekonstruktion der historischen Seismizität besitzt das Verständnis, dieser seit dem Frühmittelalter zunehmend standardisiert gebrauchten Narrativen, einen hohen Wert. Daher ist es wichtig, mit den bislang nahezu unerkannt geblieben Intentionen, Vorstellungsstrukturen und Argumentationsstrategien früh- und hochmittelalterlicher Geschichtsschreiber bekannt zu werden. Ausgehend von den antiken Ursprüngen ermittelt diese Arbeit die Bandbreite einer auf "terrae motus" aufbauenden, spezifisch mittelalterlichen Traditionsbildung und setzt sie in den Kontext zum Wissens- und Erfahrungshorizont früh- und hochmittelalterlicher Gelehrter. Erdbeben besaßen ein außerordentliches hermeneutisches Potential für das mittelalterliche Weltverständnis. Somit sind mittelalterliche Erdbebenbeschreibungen hinsichtlich ihrer deskriptiven Qualität und argumentativen Wertigkeit verschieden. Die Historiographie- und Ideengeschichte sowie die seismologische Parametrisierung von mittelalterlichen Erdbeben wird von diesem Wissen gleichermaßen profitieren. Reports of earthquakes feature regularly in the history of the Early and High Middle Ages. This is the first study to discuss the origins, understanding, and application of medieval earthquake descriptions. It opens a linguistic, intellectual, and conceptual horizon that will shape the understanding of medieval earthquakes in medieval studies and seismology.

Medieval studies. --- catastrophe studies. --- geophysics. --- historical seismology. --- philosophy. --- seismology. --- theology.

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History is an annual publication of historiographical essays on the pre-modern world. As a venue for sustained investigations, it plays a significant role in the dissemination of interpretative scholarship that falls in the niche between the journal article and the monograph.This is the final volume in series 3 and primarily comprises essays in memory of Paul E. Szarmach, the eminent Old English scholar and former executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

Renaissance --- Early medieval culture. --- Medieval Studies. --- Paul Szarmach, medievalist.

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Le 12 epistole di Dante Alighieri costituiscono un eccezionale documento sulla sua vita dopo il bando dalla città di Firenze (1302). Oltre al valore biografico, esse sono opere letterarie a tutto tondo, che spaziano dalla scrittura «di servizio» (nelle lettere redatte su commissione della moglie di Simone di Guido Guidi) all'autocommento (nelle epistole al marchese Malaspina e a Cino di Pistoia, che accompagnavano dei testi poetici) e al manifesto politico (soprattutto nelle cosiddette «arrighiane»). Questo volume è il primo dedicato alle lettere dantesche, e offre finalmente al lettore i risultati di due momenti di incontro e discussione sviluppati a Venezia, Università Ca' Foscari, nel 2016 e 2017, nell'ambito di un progetto ERC BIFLOW. Più di 20 specialisti di diverse discipline (filologia, storia, letteratura) si sono misurati con questi testi, fornendone una interpretazione puntuale, sviluppando nuove letture, inserendoli nel contesto sociale e intellettuale del tempo, collocandoli nella tormentata biografia di Dante. Oggetto dell'interesse dei contributi è anche la sparuta, ma assai qualificata, tradizione manoscritta dei testi, che viene studiata tenendo presente sia gli illustri copisti (Giovanni Boccaccio; il notaio, poi vescovo, Francesco Piendibeni da Montepulciano) sia i contesti di trasmissione. Notevole spazio è anche dato alle competenze epistolografiche di Dante e al rapporto tra la sua scrittura e la tradizione del dictamen. Notwithstanding an impressive amount of secondary literature, an exhaustive study has been never devoted to the twelve letters written by Dante Alighieri after his banishment from Florence (1302-1315). This book answers to this important need of Dante Studies, offering an important tool for the increasing community of specialists interested in Dante's works and posterity linked to the seventh centenary of his death (2021). A section is devoted to study in depth the theory and practice of the dictamen of the age in relationship with the concrete style of Dante's texts. A preliminary overview is provided by Latin Philologists and Paleographers on the subject of the manuscript trasmission envisaging the problems dealing with the critical editions of the texts. Example of political communication realized by a layman, the papers gathered in this volume intend to offer a new reading and interpretation of these important letters, studying them in their socio-cultural context.

Brief. --- Dante Alighieri. --- Italian medieval studies. --- Italien/Mittelalter. --- medieval Italy. --- medieval epistolography. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian. --- Italian Medieval Studies. --- Medieval Epistolography. --- Medieval Italy.