...Peter Low This essay explores the peculiar character of innovation in monastic art around 1100 CE, and what specially monastic concerns may have motivated this underacknowledged thirst for invention. It focuses on the relationship between the main portal at the Cluniac abbey of Vézelay, created...

... Fox on Female Monastic Reform  615 – 634 750  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.3 / 2012 Low, Peter Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art: The Case of the Main Narthex Portal at Vézelay  657 – 698 Orlemanski, Julie Jargon and the Matter of Medicine...

... in the early twelfth century and interrogates the specifically monastic concerns that may have motivated this under-­acknowledged desire for invention. His essay focuses on the relation- ship between the early twelfth-­century main portal at the Cluniac abbey of Vézelay and a number of Anglo-­Saxon...

.... To understand the full significance of these inscriptions, we must look to the physical world that Perret himself inhabited, where vernacular 580  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.3 / 2015 Figure 5. Seventeenth-­century portal inscriptions from the château de Bloué in Ardin, France...

... as an architectonic structure: eyes as win- dows (3.76), ears as ports (3.81), nose as arch (3.91), lips as ruby doors (3.97), teeth as ivory piles (3.100), and the mouth as this portal s inner vault (3.105). The perfect architecture of the human body recalls Pauline and Calvinist accounts of bodily...

... Press, 2023. 344 pp., 32 color plates, 64 halftones. Hardcover, ebook. [A cultural history that uses hair as a portal through which to examine Lorenzo de Medici's Florence, studying hundreds of documents that engage with hair and its associations.] Odle, Mairin. Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps...

.... As outward-­ looking portals, these doorway apertures framed views onto significant land- forms. Windows, meanwhile, defined the vistas and outlooks of Inca obser- vatories: at Machu Picchu — built in the decades immediately preceding the Herring / Caught...

... repeatedly criti- cized Galen and sided with Vesalius on specific points like the controversial origin of the intestinal veins that Vesalius had located in the portal vein (JB 167r and 174r). More fundamentally, they agreed with Vesalius, for example in the case of the uterus’s anatomy, that Galen...

..., however, are additions rather than corrections, each no more than two or three lines long. But some additions are much more substantial. A single paragraph devoted by Guinter to the branches of the portal veins is expanded by Vesalius over several pages to include a detailed description...

... as a portal for the devil. Yet Malory elimi- nates this section, along with the Queste’s comparisons of Guenevere to other infamous temptresses (La Queste Del Saint Graal, ed. J. Douglas Bruce [Paris: Libraire Honoré Champion, 1980], 125). 19 When Edward IV displaced Henry VI in 1461...

... here is not the fight but the threshold itself: for Spenser it is a perfectly equivocal place, suspended between the kinds of power and justice disposed on either side. Much as Virgil foregrounds the limen or portal of Priam’s hall as the locale where, taking his final stand, he will be killed...

... but otherwise has received little attention, being regarded as a curiosity rather than something worthy of study in its own right.20 I prefer to see it as a portal to another world, as Alice’s rabbit-­hole, leading us we know not where. Upon encoun- tering the manuscript, the sixteenth-­century scholar...

... is, as leasings, tales, and lies.” Yet before we pass the portal of Book II (in which the vision of Alma occurs), Spenser addresses these concerns: Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine,   That all this famous antique history,   Of some th’aboundance on an idle braine...

... published six illustrations on large sheets of paper: these depict the portal, caval, and arterial systems of the body and a skeleton seen from the front, back, and side. Known today as the Tabulae anatomicae sex or Six Tables, these constitute Vesalius’s first anatomical publication...

..., explores the Pythagorean themes of animal sensibility that Erasmus also entertains in his commentary on “Dulce bellum.” Shakespeare's Erasmian inquiry into human vulnerability as a portal to both care and bellicosity continues as the different parties enter Arden from court. Celia is famished...

... to leave Egypt, Antony foolishly locates Cleopatra’s power in her visual beauty: “Would I had never seen her” (1.2.138). 56 On the origins of the Magi tale and its popularity in late medieval Europe, see Marcia R. Rickard, “The Iconography of the Virgin Portal at Amiens,” Gesta 22 (1983...

... simultaneously on the stage at one time in the fiction of the play. Hamlet shares his stage space with two other bodies and insists on his reality as he tells Gertrude to look “On him, on him,” and commands her “Look you” on the object that “even now” leaves “at the portal” (3.4.116, 127). Gertrude...

... of Antisemitism,” 77 – 79; Mark J. Zucker, “Anti-­Semitic Imagery in Two Fifteenth-­Century Italian Engravings,” Source: Notes in the History of Art 8/9, nos. 4/1 (1989): 5 – 12. 38 See, for example, the relief of “December” found on the twelfth-­century north portal of Modena Cathedral...

... of recep- tion: a willingness to import foreign forms and to use them in the heart of the most quintessentially Islamic building on the Iberian Peninsula. In con- trast, the portal sculpture of Madinat al-Zahra’ is an example of pure recep- tion: a non-Islamic work of art, rounded and fleshy...

..., portals of metamorphosis and special delivery whose porches, cornices, canopies, mezuzot, welcome mats, and garden gnomes frame and soften the terror produced by the linkage of unlike spaces.45 In the scene chez Capulet, the visored Romeo is, of course, the flaming torchbearer of all these risks...