Brepols - The Playful Middle Ages

Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal, the exuberance and ambiguity of verbal and visual play is interrogated in order to decode layers of meaning in texts and artefacts. These twelve papers celebrate the work of Elaine C. Block, whose dedicated study of misericords has, through countless articles and books, made the riches of this dizzying iconographic resource easily available to scholars for the first time. Her monumental Corpus on Medieval Misericords volumes will no doubt inform medieval scholars for generations to come, and those included in the present collection are both proud and grateful to be of the first generation to benefit from her work on this body of carvings which challengingly - and playfully - straddles thesometimes invisible line between the sacred and profane.   Paul Hardwick has a D.Phil in English medieval vernacular anticlericalism from the University of York, and has published widely on medieval literature and art.

Shrugging at the Sacred: Dreams, Punishments, and Feasting in the Daniel-Nebuchadnezzar Cycles of Illuminated Weltchroniken, ca. 1400

Simon Bening's Flowers Book of Hours - Ziereis Facsimiles

Global Medievalism

Full article: The Letter as Presence, Process, and Partnership: Mergers of Message and Medium in the Medieval Initial

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Comic Book Markup Language: An Introduction and Rationale

Medieval manuscripts blog: Illuminated manuscripts

Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings

The Playful Middle Ages: Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning, Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block: 23 (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern

Brepols - The Playful Middle Ages

Veldhuizen, (Un)staþolfæstnes and its Problems: Grounding Minds in Early Medieval England

Red colored woodblock print hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Satirizing the Sacred: Humor in Saint Joseph's Veneration and Early Modern Art - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art

Volvelles of knowledge. Origin and development of an instrument of scientific imagination (13th-17th centuries) - Document - Gale Academic OneFile