Medieval History
This image holds the imagination, suspends and upends narrative. And yet, all I really want to consider are the wine stains all over its pages, and the stories of seders past that these might tell. As expansive as the story of this manuscript is (you might start with the December 2007 New York article, and then there's the historical fictionalization), it's those oenophilic traces that appeal. One coupled with a smile, another with a gesture, a third with a quote, jostled between ritual and remembrance. Fugitive drops that now join the copper and the gold of the manuscript. Patterns made with caring hands, warmed by good company. I think of last year and of walking home after, and now of the tales the children still tell.
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Medieval History
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| The Sarajevo Haggadah, c. 1350 |
- Birds? Head Haggadah ? Scholar Gives New Insights Into Jewish Medieval Text
The Birds? Head Haggadah, a manuscript dating from around the year 1300, is considered one of the most interesting and mysterious pieces of Jewish art from the Middle Ages. In ?Birds Head Revisited: Identity, Politics and Polemics the Birds? Head Haggadah?,...
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The illuminators of medieval manuscripts found creative ways to tell stories through pictures. A sequence of illustrations was often linked on a page, or several parts of a tale were incorporated in a single image. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum,...
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The Carolina Chocolate DropsWell, wow! Maybe it's music that is going to save the world after all. It certainly did tonight - as a little slice of heaven from North Carolina came to our humble town and played and played. The Carolina Chocolate...
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Please find A. Keith Kelly's review of: Edward L. Risden, Alfgar's Stories from Beowulf (Witan Publishing, 2013), at Medievally Speaking. The review was curated by Leah Haught. Revisiting the Middle Ages in order to find...