St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies: Recent submissions
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Patterns of commemoration in central Italy : manuscript calendars and social time in Perugia, Assisi and Gubbio, c. 1100–1500
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines the use of medieval calendars as commemorative devices. Medieval calendars were practical and open-ended texts that could remain in use for several generations, accumulating layers of modification ... -
Livery and dule : dressing life and death in the late medieval Scottish royal household
(University of St Andrews, 2021-07-01) - ThesisThis thesis examines the use of meaningful and symbolic dress at the late medieval Scottish royal court, arguing that group displays of colour-coded clothing, exemplified by livery and mourning dress, played key political ... -
Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-06-07) - Book itemIn Roman law, an inheritance could be passed on according to the rules of intestate or testate succession. The Roman law of succession presents people with an enormous display of legal ingenuity. This chapter analyses some ... -
Unrecorded copies of Middle English verse and prose in Dublin, Trinity College, MS 352
(2018) - Journal articleThis article gives details of otherwise unrecorded copies of extracts from Walter Hilton's 'Scale of Perfection' and from 'Dives and Pauper' which occur in a sixteenth-century manuscript commonplace book, Dublin, Trinity ... -
The eponymous Jacquerie : making revolt mean some things
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-11-29) - Book itemLabelling an activity makes it mean something. The decision to term a group of actions a ‘revolt’ or an ‘uprising’ today has profound implications for interpretation, just as calling them ‘rumours’ or ‘takehan’ went to the ...