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Hearkening to the 'voice' of Teika: Authors and readers of poetry treatise forgeries in medieval Japan
This essay takes up the Maigetsushō , a forged text on theories of waka poetry attributed to Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241), a poet regarded as...
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‘I’m on the dark side of the road’: Bob Dylan, William Langland, and being already gone
Fourteenth-century alliterative verse and Bob Dylan’s music reflect movement from western towns to eastern cities, clearest for the fourteenth...
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Medieval re-creation and translation in Edwin Morgan and Derek Jarman’s archives: A dialogue
This dialogue brings together two archives: the Derek Jarman collection at Tate Britain and the Edwin Morgan manuscripts at the University of Glasgow...
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Breath, bodies, and sacred text: Thinking about recitation with al-Ghazālī and Kūkai
This dialogue draws on the writings of the Buddhist monk Kūkai (774–835 CE) and the Islamic philosopher al-Ghazālī (1058–1111 CE) to explore...
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Forging the medieval on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a major source for public information. Wikipedia materials are proliferated across the Internet of Things, are reused in journalism and...
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Forging the medieval amidst loss: The Public Record Office of Ireland and Ireland’s medieval history
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI) in June 1922 during the opening battle of the Irish Civil War, and...
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Medieval and modern race-thinking in Frank Yerby’s The Saracen Blade
The popular historical novelist and expatriate author Frank Yerby was criticised by his fellow African American writers for his historical novels,...
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Migrants sha** Europe, past and present: A roundtable
Critics of early Arabic, French, Italian, and Spanish literatures, and a historian of religions engage with questions raised by the collection, Migrant...
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Osbert of Clare and the reforging of Westminster Abbey’s past
Twelfth-century Westminster Abbey was a centre of forgery production: its scriptorium not only produced charters claiming rights and privileges for...
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Medievalist forgery? Editions, adaptations, and translations of Kudrun in the nineteenth century
This ‘terms of art’ essay considers whether, and how far, the term forgery can usefully be applied to the study of translations and adaptations in...
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Are there limits to globalising the medieval?
The aim of this article is threefold: firstly, it seeks to critique, from the perspective of Iberian and Latin American studies, the Eurocentrism...
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Hic sunt dracones: Eastern Europe in the study of the Middle Ages
Eastern Europe continuously holds a precarious position in the Anglophone study of the Middle Ages. Although technically a part of Europe, it fell...