Our Medieval Heritage

Essays in honour of John Tillotson

This web site provides abstracts of articles as well as adjunct visual material in the form of photographs, maps, diagrams and web links for a series of articles published as a festschrift for John Tillotson on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The book Our Medieval Heritage is published by Merton Priory Press ©2002.

Dr John Tillotson has been lecturing in medieval history at the Australian National University in Canberra for over 30 years. Many of the contributors are current or former students of his. Others are colleagues and one is a wife. The diversity of articles in this collection reflects the range of interests which John has espoused over the years, and which have sparked further researches in others. There is a core of medieval church history, but contributors have ranged into studies of art, literature, archaeology and the use of computer technology in the service of the humanities.

CONTENTS

Valerie Spear Change and Decay? The Nunnery and the Secular World in Late Medieval England

Linda Rasmussen Order, Order! Determining Order in English Nunneries

Julie Hotchin Abbot as Guardian and Cultivator of Virtues: Two Perspectives on the cura monialum in Practice

Yvonne Parrey Dangerous Persuasion: Bishop Reginald Pecock and the Vernacular Instruction of the Laity

Richard Campbell 'And This We Call God'

Libby Keen Under Cover of Stories: Bartholomew the Englishman and the World of Land and Sea

Bill Craven Vanities, Bonfires and Popular Religious Culture in Florence

Stephanie Tarbin Moral Regulation and Civic Identity in London 1400-1530

Tania Colwell Medieval Masculinities: Transgressions and Transformations

Ralph Elliott Sir Gawain and the Wallabies

Alexander Grishin Açik Saray and Medieval Military Campaigns

Graham McLennan The Lady of Caesarea: A Colonist in Outremer

Pam Kelloway A Significant Friendship

Judith Pearce Finding Medieval Manuscripts: Discovery and Citation in the Digital Era

Dianne Tillotson Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modern World

Greta-Mary Hair 'Viderunt omnes': A Computer Teaching Package on the Transcription of Eleventh Century Aquitanian Chant Notation with Technical Notes by John Gormley

This website has been prepared by the editors of the volume, Valerie Spear, Linda Rasmussen and Dianne Tillotson, who can be contacted by email here. The site is hosted by the Arts Faculty at the Australian National University. All visual material on this site is copyright to the contributors.

Last updated 5/2/2004.