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…

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…

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.  

These slides are from the presentation entitled “Ibi sunt quedam monstra : Locating the Marvelous in Medieval European Encyclopedias”, delivered by dr. Natalia Petrovskaia at the KAKENHI International Workshop “Boundaries of the ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’”, which took place on Sunday 24 November 2019 at the ‘Minpaku’ National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. The workshop at…

The presentation entitled ‘The Transmission of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval Europe: Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts of the Imago Mundi Tradition’ was presented by dr. N. Petrovskaia at the Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages conference in Birmingham on 25 September 2019. The presentation slides can be accessed by clicking on the image below.

The presentation entitled “Using Boethian Semiotics to Understand the Organization of Knowledge in Imago mundi and Delw y Byd” was delivered  by Dr. Natalia Petrovskaia at the University of Trier, at the conference “Semiotic Approaches in Celtic cultural studies” on 4 September 2019. The presentation can be accessed by clicking on the image below.  

These slides illustrated N. Petrovskaia’s presentation of the project at the Alexander von Humboldt Colloqium ‘Research without Borders’ held in Madrid 11-13 April, 2019.  

A poster introducing the project, its initial results and output,  was presented by Dr Natalia Petrovskaia at the Humboldt Colloquium “Research without Borders – Alexander von Humboldt’s Legacy Today” in Madrid on 11-13 April, 2019. The poster can be accessed at: Petrovskaia_Poster2 (1)

The pre-peer-review version of Natalia Petrovskaia’s new article,  ‘Mythologizing the Geographical Landscape: Religion and History in Imago Mundi, Image du Monde, and Delw y Byd’, published in Matthias Egeler, ed., Landscape and Myth in Northwestern Europe (Brepols: 2019), pp. 159-211 can be accessed here (with permission of the publisher as Green Open Access).

A copy of the PowerPoint presentation of “Encyclopedic Texts as Devotional Reading? The manuscript context of the Imago Mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis”, presented at the workshop on “Medieval Devotional Texts: Technologies Old and New ” held at the University of Düsseldorf on 7-8 March 2019 by Natalia Petrovskaia, can be viewed here.

New article: Natalia Petrovskaia, ‘The Concept of Europe in the Medieval Welsh Geographical Treatise Delw y Byd‘, Celtic Forum 21 (2018), pp. 23-34. The present article discusses the concept of Europe in Delw y Byd, the medieval Welsh translation of the geographical section of the twelfth-century encyclopedia Imago mundi, written in Latin by Honorius Augustodunensis.  An early…

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”    

  This paper, introducing the recent results of the project, was presented at the international conference “La Formule au Moyen Âge” held at the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation at Poitiers University on 13-15 June 2018. An abstract of the paper is available in the abstracts booklet of the conference here. The presentation file can be accessed by…