Medieval - Related  ... Extra Materials ... 

​Some Links to Extra Readings / E-Texts:

• A Collection of Ancient Alchemical Texts/Writings
• Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love​
• Machiavelli’s The Prince, Chapter XIX 
• Bernard of Clairvaux’s On Loving God, Chs.I-IV 
• Omar Khayyam’s The Rubaiyat, 1-50 
• Ibn Sina’s (Avicenna) Remarks & Admonitions, Pt.1: Logic, “Methods” 
• Richard de Bury’s The Philobiblon, Prologue, Chs.1-2 
• Anonymous’ Cloud of Unknowing, Chs.1-6 
• The Trial of Joan of Arc, pp.27-47

Links to Medieval Arts (etc.) Resources:

• Byzantium Art & Architecture Overview
• Byzantium Artists
• Romanesque Art Overview 
• Romanesque Artists
• Gothic Art & Architecture Overview 
• Gothic Artists
• Illuminated Manuscripts, Overviews & Archives: 
• Illuminated Medieval Bestiaries   
• More Medieval Bestiaries ​   
• Border Crossing in Medieval Manuscripts  
• Medieval Monsters
• Medieval Beast 
• Oddity of Illuminated Manuscripts
• Article on Plague Masks  
• Medieval Writers on Black Death
• More on Medieval Black Death
• Black Death in Ireland
• Plague Changes Art History
• ​Anchorites on Social Isolation
• Medieval Castles Digitally Reconstructed ​
• Students Recreate Medieval Art
• Medieval Masters in Art Market
• Women Saints Defy Patriarchy 
• Exhibition 'Gold & Glory'
• Medieval History of France in Comics
• ​Three Magi Story
• ​Jan & Hubert van Eyck's Ghent Altar piece
• ​Jan van Eyck's Art: Light & Dark
• ​Jan van Eyck's 'Lamb'
• ​Medieval 'Shame Flute'

​Films about or set in the Middle Ages:

• Igmar Bergman, “The Seventh Seal” (Swedish, 1957). 
• Robert Bresson, “Diary of a Country Priest” (French, 1951).
• Jean-Jacques Annaud, “Name of the Rose” (Italian, 1986).           
• Laurence Olivier, “Henry V” (English, 1944).
• Carl Theodor Dreyer, “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (French, 1928).       
• Anthony Mann, “El Cid” (Amer., 1961).
• Andrei Tarkovsy, “Andrei Rublev” (Russian, 1966).  
• Akira Kurosawa, “Throne of Blood” (Japanese, 1957) or “Ran” (1985).
• Frantisek Vlácil, “Marketa Lazarova” (Czech, 1967).  
• Bruno Dumont, “Jeannette: Childhood of Joan of Arc” (French, 2018).
• Eric Rohmer, “Romance of Astrea & Celadon” (French, 2007) or “Perceval le Gallois” (1978). 

“Today, in our highly developed societies, we take a complex and ambivalent interest in the Middle Ages, but centuries of scorn lie just below the surface.  We view the Middle Ages as primitive, attractive, perhaps, like African art but definitely barbarous, a source of perverse pleasure and a way of revisiting our origins”

(Jacques le Goff, The Medieval Imagination, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988), 19). 

“Since the unknowing of what is beyond being is something above and beyond speech, mind, or being itself, one should ascribe to it an understanding beyond being” 

​-- Pseudo-Dionysius, Divine Names, 588A

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