A new article by the project PI, dr N. Petrovskaia, entitled ‘(写本の)空間と中世の百科全書 – (Manuscript) Book Space and the Medieval Encyclopedia -‘  has appeared in the volume テキストと/の空間性 , publishing the 文献学の世界 Lecture Series 2021 edited by Prof. Satoko Tokunaga and published by the Keio University Faculty of Letters. The article is a lecture report based…

At the workshop “Compilations, Collections and the Composite Manuscript in the Middle Ages: Genres on the Move and Networks of Dissemination”, held at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in Venice on 17-18 March 2022, dr. Natalia Petrovskaia presented a paper entitled ‘The Manuscript Context of the Imago mundi and the Question of Genre’.  The presentation…

A new article by the project PI has just been published in E. Louviot, C. Garcia, & S. Morrison (Eds.), La Formule au Moyen Âge IV / Formulas in Medieval Culture IV, ARTeM Atelier de Recherche sur les Textes Médiévaux Vol. 31 (Brepols, 2022), pp. 197-217. The article, entitled, ‘La formulation tripartite du monde dans…

On 24 June, at 11.00am, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies will host the final UCMS lecture of the academic year. Prof. Yu Onuma (Doshisha University) will give the lecture, entitled  ‘Migration of Marvels across Genres and the Ages’. The lecture will take place online via Zoom. All are welcome to attend. A link to the…

Dr. Natalia Petrovskaia has been awarded the Journal of the International Arthurian Society Essay Prize 2021 for her article “Peredur and the Problem of Inappropriate Questions”. The article is scheduled to appear in this year’s issue of the journal. For the announcement on the Journal of the International Arthurian Society page see the JIAS Twitter…

Natalia Petrovskaia’s edition of the medieval Welsh translation of the Imago mundi has just been published as part of the MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature. This edition presents extracts from the medieval Welsh encyclopedia Delw y Byd. A medieval Welsh translation of the first book of the Latin encyclopedia known as Imago Mundi, written by Honorius…

The new edition of Delw y Byd, the medieval Welsh translation of the Imago mundi, edited by N. I. Petrovskaia, is currently in production. Published by the Modern Humanities Research Association, this edition presents extracts from all surviving medieval manuscripts of Delw y Byd, with introduction, commentary and glossary. The introduction includes new findings on the…

On Thursday 26 November, the first Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies (UCMS) guest lecture of the academic year took place on Zoom. The lecture was by Dr Seb Falk, University of Cambridge, and was on the topic of “The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery”. An abstract for the talk can be seen here….

Dr. Natalia Petrovskaia’s article, ‘Translation and Transmission of Texts in Medieval Europe: Two Aspects of Translatio‘ has been published in Literature, Science & Religion. Textual Transmission and Translation in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Manel Bellmunt Serrano, Joan Mahiques Climent (eds.) (Problemata Literaria 88) Edition Reichenberger, 2020; xxiv, 468 pp. ISBN: 978-3-967280-03-6. For more information,…

We are delighted to announce that the duration of the project “Defining Europe in the Medieval European Geographical Discourse” has been officially extended, to continue until 31 January 2021.

Dr. Natalia Petrovskaia’s article on the medieval Welsh figure of Gawain has appeared in Japanese translation as 「中世ウェールズ文学におけるグワルフマイ」 in 『アーサー王研究』中央大学人文科学研究所研究叢書71 (=Research on the Arthurian Legend, Chuo University Humanities Research Institute Pubilcations 71), edited by Prof. Koji Watanabe (2019), at pp. 361-379. The article was translated by Prof. Koji Watanabe.  

On 21 November 2019 Dr Natalia Petrovskaia gave a gallery talk at the exhibition “Regnum Imaginarium: Realm of the Marvelous and Uncanny” at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. Dr Petrovskaia’s talk introduced the Hereford Map and the marvelous beings depicted on this medieval mappa mundi (world map). The exhibition ran from 29 August…

Dr Natalia Petrovskaia presented a paper entitled ‘The Transmission of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts of the Imago Mundi Tradition’ at the Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages conference held at the University of Birmingham (UK) on the 24-25 September 2019. The PowerPoint slides from this presentation will shortly be made available…

The conference ‘Semiotic Approaches to Celtic Studies’ took place at Trier University on the 3rd and 4th of September 2019. At this conference, Dr Natalia Petrovskaia spoke about the project and its database, and presented a paper applying medieval semiotic theories to the Imago mundi and to Delw y  Byd in a paper entitled: “Using Boethian Semiotics…

Our database of manuscripts of the Imago mundi and its vernacular translations and adaptations is now publicly available online at https://imagomundi.hum.uu.nl/ . The digital platform of the database was created by Robert Loeber at the Utrecht Digital Humanities Lab.