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From Mosques to Cathedrals: Converting Sacred Space Dur­ Ing the Spanish Reconquest______113 MEDIAEVISTIK Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung Herausgegeben von Peter Dinzelbacher Band 21 • 2 0 0 8 P€T€R LANG Frankfurt am Main • Berlin • Bern • Bruxelles • New York • Oxford • Wien Wandmalerei in der Kirche von Raasted bei Aarhus Der romanische Zyklus von ,Kalkmalereien‘ in dieser ostjütländi- schen Kirche ist sowohl wegen seiner guten Erhaltung als auch seines frühen Datums (um 1125) bekannt. Die erste Sünde, der Ungehorsam Adams und Evas, ist am nördlichen Triumphbogen dem ersten Mord, dem Kains an Abel, gegenübergestellt. Die Ureltern erkennen, wie ihre Gesten zeigen, bereits ihre Nacktheit, womit, wie häufig, zwei hintereinander liegende Momente verschmolzen werden. Die sichere und ästhetische Linienführung verweist auf ein erfahrenes Atelier; die Farbigkeit ist wie stets in der dänischen Wandmalerei gedämpft: Hellblauer Hintergrund und gelbliches Inkarnat. (Bild und Text: Peter Dinzelbacher) Dieser Ausgabe liegt ein Prospekt des Aschendorff Verlages bei. Wir bitten um freundliche Beachtung. ISSN 2199-806X0934-7453 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2009 Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Das Werk einschließlich aller seiner Teile ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Jede Verwertung außerhalb der engen Grenzen des Urheberrechtsgesetzes ist ohne Zustimmung des Verlages unzulässig und strafbar. Das gilt insbesondere für Vervielfältigungen, Übersetzungen, Mikroverfilmungen und die Einspeicherung und Verarbeitung in elektronischen Systemen. www.peterlang.de Mediaevistik 21 • 2008 1 Inhalt Aufsätze A. CLASSEN, Der Gürtel als Objekt und Symbol in der Literatur des Mittel­ alters ________________________________ ________________________ 11 P. DINZELBACHER, Der mittelalterliche Kraftgürtel__________________ 39 L. IRLENBUSCH-REYNARD, L'européanisation des idéaux humains en Scandinavie au XIIIe siècle_______________________________________ 49 D. KAGAY, The Murder of the Abbot: A Homicide and its Wider Impact in Fourteenth-Century Catalonia_____________________________________ 87 J. KROESEN, From Mosques to Cathedrals: Converting Sacred Space Dur­ ing the Spanish Reconquest_______________________________________ 113 Edition A. CLASSEN, P. DINZELBACHER, Futilitates Germanicae medii aevi redivivae______________________________________________________ 13 9 Rezensionen Gesamtes Mittelalter Reading the Middle Ages. Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World. Ed. B. ROSENWEIN (A. CLASSEN)____________________________ 159 G. SCHEIBELREITER, Hg., Höhepunkte des Mittelalters (A. CLASSEN) _ 161 A. CLASSEN ed., Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (J. GLOWA)______________________________________________________ 162 B.-U. HERGEMÖLLER, Die Kindlein spotten meiner schier. Quellen und Reflexionen zu den Alten und zum Vergreisungsprozeß im Mittelalter (A. CLASSEN)________________________________________________ ___ 165 A. NEDKVITNE, Mötet med döden i norrön medeltid (T. BIRKMANN)___ ___ 167 D. WASSENHOVEN, Skandinavier unterwegs in Europa (1000-1250) (T. NYBERG)_________________________________________________ ___ 169 J. PERCAN, Femina dulce malum. La donna nella letteratura medievale lati- na (E. CESCUTTI)_________________________________________________ 172 R. MAZO KARRAS, Sexuality in Medieval Europe / Sexualität im Mittelal­ ter (S. VANDERPUTTEN)_______________________________________ ___ 175 J. VERDON, L'Amour au Moyen Age (M. RUS)______________________ 177 2 Mediaevistik 21 • 2008 C. McCARTHY, Marriage in Medieval England. Law Literature and Practice / Ders., ed., Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages (P. DINZEL- B ACHER)____________________________________________________ 179 Arbeit im Mittelalter, hg. von V. POSTEL (A. CASSEN)_______________ 180 R. JONES, M. PAGE, Medieval Villages in an English Landscape (C. DE­ LIGNE)_______________________________________________________ 183 Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Ed. A. MULDER-BAKKER, J. WOGAN-BROWNE (M. GRAF)____ 187 E. GRANT, Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 (F. AMERINI)___ 191 ,A great Effusion of Blood'? Interpreting Medieval Violence. Ed. M. MEYERSON u.a. (P. DINZELB ACHER)____________________________ 194 K. DE VRIES, A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology (P. DINZELB ACHER)________________________________ 196 H. HECKER (Hrsg.), Krieg in Mittelalter und Renaissance (S. TER BRAAKE)____________________________________________________ 197 O. WAGENER, H. LASS (Hgg.), ... würfen hin in steine / gröze und niht kleine ... Belagerungen und Belagerungsanlagen im Mittelalter (H.-W. HEINE)_______________________________________________________ 199 J.-D. LEPAGE, The Fortifications of Paris (A. CLASSEN)______________ 201 A. ALDUC-LE BAGOUSSE (Hg.), Inhumations et édifices religieux au Moyen Âge entre Loire et Seine (W. HEINZ)_________________________ 203 M.-A. WAGNER, Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques (P. DINZEL- BACHER)____________________________________________________ 207 C. WALCH, Entwurf einer vollständigen Historie der Ketzereien VI-X (P. DINZELBACHER)__________________________________________ 210 Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom, ed. N. MORGAN (P. DINZEL­ BACHER) ____________________________________________________ 212 D. HARMENING, Wörterbuch des Aberglaubens (P. DINZELBACHER)__ 214 Communicating with the Spirits. Ed. G. KLANICZAY u.a. (P. KREUTER) _ 215 G. MENSCHING ed., Selbstbewußtsein und Person im Mittelalter (H. KRAML)_____________________________________________________ 218 Progrès, Réaction, Décadence dans L'Occident Médiévale. Ed. E. BAUM­ GARTNER, L. HARF-LANCNER (A. CLASSEN)____________________ 222 V. MOBERG, A History of the Swedish People. From Prehistory to the Ren­ aissance (L. VAN WEZEL)_______________________________________ 224 Buchkultur im Mittelalter: Schrift - Bild - Kommunikation. Hg. v. M. STOLZ (H. VOGELER)_________________________________________ 227 Writing Medieval History, ed. N. PARTNER (D. RANDO)______________ 228 Mediaevistik 21 • 2008 3 R. SCHIEFFER, J. WENTA edd., Die Hofgeschichtsschreibung im mittelal­ terlichen Europa (S. VANDERPUTTEN)____________________________ 231 E. KOOPER (Hg.), The Medieval Chronicle III (H. REIMANN)__________ 234 W. MARVIN, Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature (G. KOHL)_______________________________________________________ 236 H.-D. HEIMANN, P. MONNET (Hg.), Kommunikation mit dem Ich. Signa­ turen der Selbstzeugnisforschung an europäischen Beispielen des 12. bis 16. Jahrhunderts (P. DINZELBACHER)________________________________ 238 Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modem Periods, ed. R. VOADEN, D. WOLFTHAL (A. CLASSEN)______ 239 The Voyage of St Brendan. Representative Versions of the Legend, ed. W. BARRON, G. BURGESS (P. DINZELBACHER)_____________________ 240 Lexique Latin-Français. Antiquité et Moyen Age, ed. M. PARISSE (P. DIN­ ZELBACHER) _________________________________________________ 241 L. JIROUSKOVÀ, Die Visio Pauli (P. DINZELBACHER)______________ 242 M. GOTTSCHALD, Deutsche Namenkunde (J. JEEP)__________________ 244 A.SCHÖNBACH, Studien zur Erzählungsliteratur des Mittelalters I-IV (P. DINZELBACHER)_____________________________________________ 245 M. DESMOND, Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath. The Ethics of Erotic Vio­ lence (A. CLASSEN)____________________________________________ 246 F. OHLY, Sensus Spiritualis. Studies in Medieval Signifies and the Philology of Culture (A. CLASSEN) __ _____________________________________ 249 König Artus lebt! Hg. S. ZIMMER (A. CLASSEN)____________________ 251 S. ZIMMER, Die keltischen Wurzeln der Artussage (A. CLASSEN)_______ 254 The Fortunes of King Arthur. Ed. N. LAC Y (A. CLASSEN)_____________ 256 B._BURRICHTER, Erzählte Labyrinthe und labyrintisches Erzählen. Roma­ nische Literatur des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (A. CLASSEN)______ 257 A. ARNULF, Architektur- und Kunstbeschreibungen von der Antike bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (P. DINZELBACHER)______________________________ 259 J. DALARUN (Hg.), Das leuchtende Mittelalter (P. DINZELBACHER)____ 261 Medioevo: immagini e ideologie. Atti... a c. di A. QUINTAVALLE (P. DIN­ ZELBACHER) _________________________________________________ 262 R. MELLINKOFF, Averting Demons. The Protective Power of Medieval Visual Motifs and Themes (E. DEN HARTOG)_______________________ 263 Medieval Mastery. Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475, ed. L. PREEDY (A. CLASSEN)______________________ 267 Secular Sacred. 11th - 16th Century. Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, ed. N. NETZER (A. CLASSEN)___________ 268 4 Mediaevistik 21 • 2008 R. LIDDIARD, Castles in Context. Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500 (H.-W. HEINE)_____________________________________________269 S. LANDSBERG, The Medieval Garden (A. CLASSEN)___________________273 Mittelalter und Renaissance in honorem Fritz Wagner, hg. A. LOZAR u.a. (A. CLASSEN)________________________________________________ ___275 F. WAGNER, Philologia sacra cisterciensis (P. DINZELBACHER)_______ ___276 Frühmittelalter M. KNAUT, D. QUAST (Hg.), Die Völkerwanderung (G. CECCHONI)___ 277 From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms, ed. T. NOBLE (P. DINZEL­ BACHER) ____________________________________________________ 279 N. CHRISTIE, From Constantine to Charlemagne. An Archaeology of Italy AD 300-800 (P. DINZELBACHER)________________________________ 282 Charlemagne. Empire and Society, ed. J. STORY (J. FÜHRER)__________
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