...Mary Franklin-Brown; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Alone among the French romances of Alexander the Great penned in the twelfth century, Thomas de Kent’s Roman de toute chevalerie reproduces the story of Alexander’s illegitimate birth from the principal Latin source. According to this account...

...Sara Ritchey According to long-standing scholarly opinion, the twelfth century discovered nature. This essay argues that earthly nature was not discovered in the twelfth century. The twelfth-century authors of the philosophia mundi or the sculptors who fashioned the acanthus capitals at Rheims...

...Maile Hutterer Appearing in the mid-twelfth century in and around the Paris basin, flying buttresses fundamentally transformed churches, representing a radical break with architectural tradition. While flying buttresses were visually unprecedented forms, they quickly became standard components...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Suzanne M. Yeager Saewulf’s Relatio de situ Jerusalem is one of the most significant yet understudied pilgrim texts of the twelfth century. Documenting the Jerusalem-bound traveler’s adventures through the medieval Mediterranean, the text is the first extant pilgrim...

... in the early twelfth century, and a number of Anglo-Saxon manuscript illuminations, produced in the monastic scriptorium at Winchester in the tenth century. A careful examination of these works of art reveals that the makers of the portal at Vézelay, in a triangular process of creation, drew on the earlier...

... earlier centuries. Scrutinizing sources for the earliest burnings of heretics and witches up to the eleventh century shows that these burnings were mere lynchings and not the outcome of juridical processes administered by secular or clerical authorities. Not until the twelfth century did authorities...

...Barbara F. Weissberger Anti-Semitic myths of ritual murder are less developed and more belated in medieval Spain than in northern Europe, where they flourished since the twelfth century. This essay suggests one reason for this difference: the presence and increasing importance in late medieval...

...José Pardo-Tomás; Àlvar Martínez-Vidal Consultation by mail had been common in medical practice more or less since the time of its consolidation in Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but this mode of communication vastly expanded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...

..., using the example of Mankind , this essay examines how the actor, seen as engaged in both collaborative and competitive play, can illuminate certain strategies in Shakespeare's work. Examples drawn from Richard III, Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing , and King Lear illustrate how different kinds...

... Moore / Eleventh Century in Eurasian History 5 and medieval Eurasia risks missing the common experience of late antique civilizations while diverting attention from the epochal eleventh and twelfth centuries, when everywhere truly portentous choices were made, leading to what turned out...

... Holly Dugan George Washington University Washington, D.C. On February 2, 2002, precisely four hundred years after its first recorded performance, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Or What You Will) was staged, once again, in front of a packed...

... marriages. Following this revelation, Bede describes how the uncorrupted corpse was placed within a stone sarcophagus and conducted with ceremony into the monastic church.5 The twelfth-century Liber Eliensis augments Bede’s eighth-century narrative to illustrate the events following the founder’s...

... between kings of France and dukes of Normandy since at least the early twelfth century, as the region around the Epte in the county of the Vexin, northwest of Paris, marked the bound- ary between their two areas of direct rule. On this occasion negotiations ended in acrimony. In the fullest...

... to convert to Christianity is surprising. It suggests a world in which the lines between Islam and Christianity were more fluid than we would at first expect. Certainly the account troubled twelfth-­century readers, as we learn from a series of other histories of the siege of Antioch in which...

...” and “the natural” in the medieval and early modern period urgently need revisiting and retheorizing. The eld is much larger, more interdisciplinary, and less anthropocentric than it once was; it is also less concentrated than it used to be on privileged moments or schools (twelfth- century neoplatonism...

... the fifth-century revela- tion of an entrance to purgatory through a cave located on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal; the foundation of a monastery at the site; and an explanation of the rituals surrounding entrance into the purgatory. It then follows the twelfth-century knight Owein as he...

... it used to be on privileged moments or schools (twelfth-­century neoplatonism, early modern science). Scholars have begun to recognize tensions or even contra- dictions between the way particular disciplines or practices understand “the natural” (sexuality/medicine/ethics, science/anthropology...

... is much larger, more interdisciplinary, and less anthropocentric than it once was; it is also less concentrated than it used to be on privileged moments or schools (twelfth-­century neoplatonism, early modern science). Scholars have begun to recognize tensions or even contra- dictions between...