#otd 1444 Władysław III, King of Poland, Hungary and Croatia, died in the Battle of Varna. His mortal remains were lost. He is commemorated by this symbolic tomb (20th century) in Wawelburg Castle in Krakow. #medieval @medievodons #medievaldeath Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Jakub Niedzwiedz, Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Vilnius. Forms of Writing and Rhetorical Spaces in the City (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 55), Turnhout 2023.
Outstanding talk today by @erik_kwakkel on the unique combination of intuition and rational analysis that allow the expert paleographer to identify the time and place when a #medieval#manuscript was produced.
'The Hidden Voice of the #Medieval Scribe' with Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia : Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies : UMass Amherst
Five-College Seminar in the #History of the #Book, hosted by the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte (ed.), Der deutsche Territorialstaat im 14. Jahrhundert I (Vorträge u. Forschungen 13), Sigmaringen 1986 (2. ed.).
#otd 1473 died Sibet Attena, East Frisian chieftain. In the same year, this impressive sandstone tomb was created for him in Esen in what is now St Magnus Church. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons
#otd 1225 Engelbert I, Archbishop of Cologne, was murdered. His remains are in various reliquaries, the picture shows the particularly magnificent one in Essen. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
Rutger Kramer, Helmut Reimitz, Graeme Ward (ed.), Historiography and Identity III: Carolingian Approaches (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 29), Turnhout 2021.
#otd 1328 died John I of Strasbourg, chancellor of King Albrecht I, prince-bishop of Eichstätt (1305/6) and of Strasbourg (1306-1328). He was buried in the hospital of Molsheim and later his tomb was moved to the Jesuit church there. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte (ed.), Untersuchungen zur gesellschaftlichen Struktur der mittelalterlichen Städte in Europa (Vorträge und Forschungen 11), Sigmaringen 1974 (2. ed.).
#otd 1485 Giovanni Mocenigo, 72nd Doge of Venice, died. His impressive tomb in San Zanipolo took more than 20 years to build by sculptor Tullio Lombardo. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte (ed.), Die Alpen in der europäischen Geschichte des Mittelalters (Vorträge und Forschungen 10), Sigmaringen 1976 (2. ed.).
Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte (ed.), Die Alpen in der europäischen Geschichte des Mittelalters (Vorträge und Forschungen 10), Sigmaringen 1976 (2. ed.).