México Medieval
The Middle Ages from Mexico: nobles and peasants, wars and books, saints and monsters, legends, power, and everyday life.
Courses, lectures, podcasts, and gatherings for discovering and enjoying the Middle Ages inside and outside the classroom.
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Books
Annotated primary texts and rare first editions from the New Spain press.
Articles
Scholarly critiques on ecclesiastical architecture and colonial governance.
Podcast
Discussions with historians specializing in the syncretism of Medieval México.
Events
Lectures, appearances, and curated moving-image resources on medieval México and related scholarship.
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Papers
Conference presentations and papers in scholarly repositories.
Peer-reviewed article
A Stemma of Sigurgarðs saga frækna, and a Case Study of Saga-Anthologization
This article publishes the first stemma of the manuscripts of Sigurgarðs saga frækna, Icelandic romance of the 15th century, from 58 of the 61 known testimonies. The study makes use of digital publication to offer open data and examine the postmedieval transmission of the saga. It also analyzes manuscripts produced between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Dalir region of Iceland to study how scribes constructed anthologies and how those decisions influenced subsequent compilations.
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