While music from medieval and early-modern Europe has long been an object of digitally and computationally inflected musicological research, such efforts have tended to focus either on issues of musical style or on the publication of primary sources such as manuscript images, ma…
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Sarasins and Franks examines the ways in which European Christians and Mediterranean Muslims portrayed one another in purportedly learned works dealing with geography and ethnography, as well as in popular works of fiction and non-fiction. Using Edward Said's concept of the Othe…
The thesis presents a first edition and English translation of the Battalname (Battalname), an anonymous work of Old Ottoman literature. The manuscript used as a basis for the present edition is the earliest known manuscript dated AD 1436-7. It was established that it is itself …
With the exception of three isolated settings of "In exitu Israel," no polyphonic settings of psalms survive until around 1480. In the period 1480-1500 no fewer than four collections of Vespers psalms appeared, preserving 108 unique settings of polyphonic psalms. These psalms re…
Alfonso de la Torre's Vision Deleytable, an allegorico-didactic fable and the only extant primer of philosophy in Spanish from the 15th century, offers a complex witness to an important feature in Spanish religious history: the belated impact of Medieval Aristotelianism on the r…
The historian of Southeast Asian Buddhism faces many questions regarding Buddhist identity. Using the case study of Arakan (western Burma), two critical questions are pursued in this dissertation: why did Theravada Buddhism emerge as a religious identity for the majority of Arak…
The present study addresses the fundamental question of how a legal idea of private immovable property emerged and developed in Northeastern Russia. In particular, this work focuses on the development of land ownership laws in the Russian principalities during the era of politic…
This dissertation analyzes the development and play of tarot cards (carte da trionfi) in fifteenth-century Northern Italy, beginning with their origins in playing card decks imported from the Islamic East, then moving to the popularity of tarot decks at the courts of Milan and F…
This study shows medieval writers transforming animal fable, twelfth century to Robert Henryson, with comparisons to bestiary. It discusses innovators in social satire and in witty freedom with meanings. Their moralizations for traditional stories provide test cases for modern t…
Fifteenth-century Italy constitutes one of the watersheds in western civilization: city-states became territorial empires, population growth and new learning transformed the urban landscape, and a new religious spirit changed the dynamic of civic life. My dissertation investigat…
In 1453 Constantinople, the capital of eastern Christendom, fell to the Turks. Shocked at the news, most western thinkers and leaders rattled their swords and called for a crusade. But the aged Spanish theologian Juan de Segovia (d. 1458) wrote several letters and treatises argu…
This dissertation examines three fifteenth century travel accounts to show the effects of the commercial milieu on personal religious identity of individuals. Afanasii Nikitin (1468-1474), a Russian merchant from Tver', Nicolo de Conti (1419-1444), a merchant from Venice, and Lu…