WHO’S WHO IN THIS WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD
This is a running list (alphabetical by author, approximately) of works, people, and places referred to in passing in class. And some more who may be tangential. Links go to Wikipedia. It’s intended for quick reference: some names will return, some will be added along the way, and by the end of term this will constitute a kind of Medieval virtual reference-shelf and a Medievalist mini-Wikipedia.
Please add comments if I’ve missed anything, anyone, or any place I referred to in class…
The Arabian Nights / The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Order of St Benedict, Benedict of Nursia, Rule of Saint Benedict, Monte Cassino, Cluny Abbey
Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian Order, Cîteaux Abbey
Charlemagne, Carolingian renaissance
Dominican Order, Dominic de Guzman
Franciscans, Order of Friars Minor, Francis of Assisi
John of Salisbury:
Polycraticus
The Justinian Code (+ Digest & Institutes)
The Lamentations of Matheolus (extracts: not from Wikipedia)
Ovid:
Metamorphoses and Heroides (on Greco-Roman myth; the “heroines” in the “catalogue of good women” of the latter offer another side to some of these mythical stories)
Amores, Ars amatoria, and Remedia amoris(on love)
Paris, Abbey and school of St Victor, Abbey of Ste Geneviève, Cathedral, university
The Polychronicon
Ptolemy & Almagest & Gerard of Cremona
William of Saint-Amour: see also:
Joachim of Fiore and his Liber figurarum, inc images of his visions of/for (inter alia: visionary images) a future society, manuscript images also at Centro internationale di studi gioachimiti; and an article thereon (Matthias Riedl, Central European University), Mirabilia 14 (2012)
Gerardo of Borgo San Donnino (German version is more complete), more on him from ALCUIN – Infothek der Scholastik (University of Regensburg, History of Philosophy) & 13th-18th c Franciscan bibliography (Maarten van der Heiden & Bert Roest, Nijmegen)
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