Although many of Spain's earliest poetic texts give expression to a female voice, 1 it is not until the fifteenth century that Spain's first female authors are documented.2 It is perhaps for this reason that gender-conscious studies of medieval Spain have been so scarce in relation to those concerning other parts of Europe. Researchers with a feminist perspective have had to limit their investi...

A small assemblage of sieved fish remains was analysed from a medieval site on Lindisfarne. Haddock, cod and whiting were the most commonly consumed species, with small numbers of other taxa recovered, including herring and flatfish. Most were probably caught in local inshore or coastal waters, and most were only of moderate size. It is likely the remains include gutting and processing waste (i...

This work presents our first contribution to the discrimination of the medieval manuscript texts in order to assist the palaeographers to date the ancient manuscripts. Our method is based on the Spatial Grey-Level Dependence (SGLD) which measures the join probability between grey levels values of pixels for each displacement. We use the Haralick features to characterise the 15 medieval text sty...

Composition is an important topic in visual art. The literature suggests a bias for objects on the right side (Levy, 1976) and two additional biases with respect to positioning of objects within a rectangular frame: a Centre bias and an Inward bias (Palmer, Gardner, & Wickens, 2008). We analysed images of animals from three datasets of works of art: two datasets were from artists well known for...

A small assemblage of animal bones and marine shells was recovered from Mill Mount, Tadcaster Road, York, during excavations in 2004. An assessment of these remains was undertaken. The preservation of the animal remains was consistently fair throughout the assemblage. Two phases contained reasonable quantities of bone. Phase 1 (Roman) material consisted of a mixture of remains from the major do...

Charles H. Talbot, PhD, BD, BCL, died at his home in London on 13 September 1993 of a stroke at the age of eighty-seven. He was best known to medical history as a leading expert on medieval England. He also made notable contributions to the fields of Cistercian studies and the history of the Anglo-Saxon church. Born in Portsmouth in 1906, Charles Talbot received his education at Mundella School...

his early tract on the diseases of the Augsburg goldsmiths (1473, printed 1524), and whose service at the court is here well documented. The study of medieval medicine is thus alive and well in Germany. This book, with its excellent indices, can serve as a model for similar collections dealing with vernacular medicine in other countries and as the basis on which to write a sound history of medi...

both positive and negative; in the medieval world, however, it held a precise meaning, often also referred to as “contemplation” or “the contemplative life.” The mysticism of this period had some merits, but also some serious flaws in both theology and practice. In many respects, the mysticism of the medieval world derived from early Latin mysticism, which in turn evolved from an amalgamation o...

Tiling Theory studies how one might cover the plane with various shapes. Medieval Islamic artisans developed intricate geometric tilings to decorate their mosques, mausoleums, and shrines. Some of these patterns, called girih tilings, first appeared in the 12 Century AD. Recent investigations show these medieval tilings contain symmetries similar to those found in aperiodic Penrose tilings firs...

In this study, Ascaris DNA was extracted and sequenced from a medieval archaeological sample in Korea. While Ascaris eggs were confirmed to be of human origin by archaeological evidence, it was not possible to pinpoint the exact species due to close genetic relationships among them. Despite this shortcoming, this is the first Ascaris ancient DNA (aDNA) report from a medieval Asian country and t...