The current issue of Speculum (July 2019) features a new review of Natalia Petrovskaia’s book, Medieval Welsh Perceptions of the Orient (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015) : Michael A. Faletra, “Natalia I. Petrovskaia, Medieval Welsh Perceptions of the Orient,” Speculum 94, no. 3 (July 2019): 879-880. https://doi.org/10.1086/703950    

Dr Natalia Petrovskaia presented a paper at the International Congress ‘Traductio et Traditio Mediaevales’, 14-16 March, 2019. The video of the congress can be viewed here. The beginning of dr. Petrovskaia’s paper is recorded at 4:11 on this video.     For more on the congress, see the conference website  and the published programme.

A new article by Natalia Petrovskaia on the Imago mundi, its medieval Welsh translation Delw y byd and its medieval French adaptation Image du monde, has been published in Landscape and Myth in Northwestern Europe , ed. by Matthias Egeler(Brepols: 2019). The article is published in Green Open Access and its pre-peer-review version is available freely now from the Publications page…

At the workshop on “Medieval Devotional Texts: Technologies Old and New ” held at the University of Düsseldorf on 7-8 March 2019, Natalia Petrovskaia presented some of the patterns yielded by initial analysis of the project database in a paper entitled “Encyclopedic Texts as Devotional Reading? The manuscript context of the Imago Mundi of Honorius…

In the course of this project we have been putting together a database of manuscripts, collecting information on the manuscript tradition of the Imago mundi and its vernacular adaptations. Working together with Utrecht University’s Digital Humanities Lab, we plan to make this searchable database available online in the next academic year. Project Assistant Kiki Calis, who…

On 24 January 2019, Natalia Petrovskaia will be giving a lecture on the transmission of the encyclopaedic treatise Imago mundi into Wales. The lecture is organised by SV-Asterix Keltisch. For more on this event, see https://www.facebook.com/events/519491725238658/ .

Congratulations to Kiki Calis on her MA! Kiki, who has been working as project assistant on the “Defining Europe” project since early 2018, has been awarded the MA degree cum laude at the graduation ceremony for the Research Master in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies held at Utrecht University on November 7th, 2018. 

dr. Natalia Petrovskaia’s article A Very Pleasurable Pilgrimage. Celtic Forum, 20, 2017 (pp. 27-34) can be read in full here: CelticForum20 “Pleasurable Pilgrimage”    

Research on the formulation of the tripartite division of the world in medieval geographical and literary texts was presented by dr. Natalia Petrovskaia at the 4th international conference on Formulas in Medieval Culture “La Formule au Moyen Âge” at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale at Poitiers University on 13 June 2018. The presentation slides shown at…

New article: Natalia Petrovskaia, “Translatio and Translation: The Duality of the Concept from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period”, Doshisha studies in English 99 (2018), pp. 115-136 Translatio studii et imperii (translation/movement of learning and empire), a medieval theory describing the westward movement of civilization, is intricately connected to geography. Texts refering to the concept…

A paper and a poster introducing the current stages of the project were presented by dr. Natalia Petrovskaia at the conference organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Oxford in March 2018. The poster presented at the conference, can be seen here.

Research results linking literary texts and geographical knowledge in medieval Europe were presented by dr. Natalia Petrovskaia as the opening paper at the Conference ‘Ce qui advient… les déclinaisons de l‘aventure‘ held at the Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (March 14-16, 2018), organized by the Université de Picardie-Jules Verne and the Unité de recherche TRAME…

The project and some initial research results were introduced by dr. Natalia Petrovskaia at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, session 123 “‘Self’ and ‘Otherness’ across Conceptual, Geographical, and Religious Boundaries”, organised by dr. Yu Onuma (Doshisha University) and moderated by dr. Alaric Hall (Leeds University).