Dietmar von Aist shows a variety of purses and belts to his love interest while disguised as a peddler in the Manesse Codex, circa 1300–1320, Zürich, Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. pal. Germ. 848, fol. 64 recto A margin scene possibly portraying negotiations between a man and a prostitute in a manuscript of the Romance of [...]
Bibliography Anderson, Jaynie. Gardens of love in Venetian painting of the Quattrocento. Vol. 2005, in Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. , edited by F.W. Kent and Charles Zika, 201-234. Focuses on a painting attributed to the studio of Antonio Vivarini, now in the National Gallery [...]
General Description of Topic: I have loosely defined my interest as “Romance Items” and how they can be analyzed in the context of feminism and semiotics. Since my “target object”, aumonieres ( alm’s purses) have no research dedicated specifically to them I have identified several themes that relate and several other romance items ( like [...]
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Lapidary- a text that investigates and chronicles the physical, magical and medicinal property of a stone. Pliny the Elder’s Natural History was admired in the Middle Ages for its compendium of minerals and metals. Marbodus, Bishop of Rennes, wrote one of the most famous lapidaries, Liper Lapidum Book of Stones, in 1067-81. In this book he [...]
Why is hair important? 1. hair can be like clothing, malleable, changeable with dye, styling, accessories, yet it grows from the body and is more organic. 2. hair surrounds the face, the most communicatively diverse area of the body, ie its the most socially visible. 3. In come cases gives biological information In the Middle Ages: [...]
After the return of the Crusaders, small pouches began to be attached to girdles called amonieres sarrasimoises (Saracen almsbags.) These bags were meant for carrying money and bits of food to distribute to the poor. Purses have existed since ancient Greek times, but the actual archeological record is rare. Before the Crusades, small purses have [...]
This article discusses Renaissance and Baroque jewelry, but her ideas are useful when thinking of medieval jewelry. Rodini’s main points can be summarized: – though small in size jewelry signified the relationship between the wearer and society – During the Renaissance the world was considered to be infused with signs, and it was a necessary [...]
Men were put in a conundrum during the Middle Ages. If they grew their hair too long, they were put down for looking like women, but a series of edicts given in the years 1187-1220 aimed to seperate secular clothing styles from that of the clergy, who were now required to be unmarried and celibate. [...]
Purse Cover From Burial at Sutton Hoo The burial site of Sutton Hoo is one the most complete and rich archeological finds of this era. The richness of the burial ship has drawn comparisons to the world described in the epic Beowulf.