"The ultimate objective of this work is to demonstrate that it is possible to reconsider the emergence of modern science as a process of disintegration of the quadrivium, which was considered a stable scheme for the organization of knowledge."
#otd 1322 Philip V of France died. His bones were buried in Saint Denis Basilica, his viscera in the church of the now-demolished Couvent des Jacobins in Paris. In Staint Denis, he is commemorated today the most left effigy. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
Pic: Wikipedia Commons
#otd 1369 died John Chandos. He had been wounded in a night skirmish because he slipped. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: The Hague, KB, 72 A 25, f. 320v
🙏 for mentioning the biography by Frances A. Underhill, 'For Her Good Estate'. I edited the expanded 2nd edition. The booksite at https://barnes1.net/FHGE/ includes a resource page with many free downloads, & an account of the Lady's insistence on choral music at #ClareCollege. Book sales support this! the hardback more so.
#otd 1460 Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York died in the Battle of Wakefield. His opponents are said to have displayed his impaled head - with a crown made of paper, to mock him. Today, this monument commemorates him. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
After #ThomasBecket was assassinated in #CanterburyCathedral on 29 Dec 1170, reports of miraculous healing started to circulate within a week, and pilgrim numbers soared. The vibrant colours of the #StainedGlass windows around his shrine may have seemed almost as wondrous to #medieval visitors as the #miracles they depict.
Today is the feast of St #ThomasBecket, assassinated in #CanterburyCathedral#OTD 1170. Reports of miraculous healing started to circulate within a week. The vibrant #StainedGlass windows around his shrine may have seemed almost as wondrous to visiting pilgrims as the #miracles they depict.
#otd 1170 Thomas Becket was murdered. His martyrdom is a very often depicted #medievaldeath#medieval. @medievodons Some examples: BL Additional 54782 f. 55v, BL Harley 2982 f. 13v, BL Harley 5102 f. 32r, BL Royal 2 B VII f. 298r.
#otd 1446 died Gil Sánchez Muñoz y Carbón, one of the antipopes of the Avignon Papacy. Unitl 26 July 1429, he was reigning as Clement VIII. He was buried in Palma Cathedral. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons Pics.: Wikipedia Commons
"It aims to extend the study of the dissemination of plainchant from localized research focused mostly on Europe and the Middle Ages to global research tracing transmission to other continents through to the modern era. "
Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3
#otd 1417 died Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Cyprus. She is buried in this tomb in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia in Barcelona. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
"The project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ will show the importance of medieval reading culture as a European movement by bringing together (digitised) manuscripts produced between c. 500 and c. 1550 from across Europe, unlocking their educational potential by curational and editorial enrichment, using innovative ways for displaying and handling digital objects in an educational context."
"This book does not attempt to answer this seemingly unsolvable puzzle either but aims to shed light on a simple fact usually overlooked by linguists and laypeople alike: the conceptual pair is not a timeless given but has a history, and a much shorter one than one might assume."