L’ouvrage est le compte rendu tardif et partiel d’une journee d’etudes qui a eu lieu au Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies (Universite de Glasgow), 15 mars 2014, dans cadre du programme AHRC « Paradox of Medieval Scotland ». Il illustre les possibilites offertes par fabuleux outil mis en ligne equipes Dauvit Broun (Glasgow), avec la participation King’s College (Londres), savoir base prosop...

Christianity in late medieval Europe, and a more integrated intellectual view of medieval physicians. Readers are warned against considering the case of Arnau as unique and exhausting every possible relationship between medicine and religion. Nor should this historical exploration be restricted to medicine, for a general change in attitude towards nature involved every intellectual area in late...

Since the 16th century, art historians have debated the methods of medieval artists. A frequent topic of discussion and one that has been invoked at times to distinguish the medieval artist from his early modern successor is the extent to which medieval art is based on the observation of nature. In this vein, much recent commentary has focused on selected works whose descriptiveness challenges ...

Examination Committee Chair: András Kovács (Nationalism Studies Program, CEU) Members: Gerhard Jaritz (Department of Medieval Studies, CEU) Gábor Buzási (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Zsuzsanna Urbach (Museum of Fine Arts) Béla Zsolt Szakács (Department of Medieval Studies, CEU) Carsten Wilke (Departments of History, Medieval Studies, and Nationalism Program, CEU) External readers: Hans-W...

This article presents a research update from the INSAP-UCL excavations at UNESCO site of medieval Walīla (Roman Volubilis), Morocco. Though is best known as Roman city Volubilis, in Middle Ages, and by then called Walīla, it took on new importance Berber centre, probable locale an Umayyad or Abbasid garrison capital Idrīs I, founder one earliest Islamic states It only Morocco – North Africa mor...

Historians of medieval philosophy have always paid attention to the topic of intentionality. This is not surprising. For medieval authors, the analysis of the metaphysics and the mechanisms of human cognition became over time one of the most important instruments for approaching a bundle of basic philosophical and theological questions, such as the nature of universals, the mind-world relation,...

Medieval manuscripts or other written documents from that period contain valuable information about people, religion, and politics of the medieval period, making the study of medieval documents a necessary pre-requisite to gaining in-depth knowledge of medieval history. Although tool-less study of such documents is possible and has been ongoing for centuries, much subtle information remains loc...