Here is the list of articles posted on the Medievalists.net website in November 2008:
Architectural representation in late medieval manuscript illumination
Figural representation in early Islamic Art
Were the Roman catacombs abandoned in the ninth century AD?
“Necessity the Mother of Invention” in early medieval enamel
The rise and decline of Italian city-states
Regional fairs, institutional innovation and economic growth in late medieval Europe
Some observations on mid-to-late medieval domestic planning in England
Practice versus Theory: Medieval Materia Medica according to the Cairo Genizah
A Foundation of Western Ophthalmology in Medieval Islamic Medicine
Kingship in Malory’s Morte Darthur and the Scots Lancelot of the Laik
Clothing Bodies, Dressing Rooms: Fashioning Fecundity in The Lisle Letters
Philosophy and Metaphor: The Significance of Christine’s ‘Blunders’
The Proverbial Heart of Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða: Mér þykkir þar heimskum manni at duga, sem þú ert
A charter of William the Conqueror and two of his sons
Five charters concerning the early history of the chapter at Avranches
Matilda, countess of the Perche (1171-1210): the expression of authority in name, style and seal
Howard’s Idea and the Idea of Hypertext
Sports Spectators from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Sports of the Byzantine Empire
German Tournament Regulations in the 15th Century
Sports and Recreations in Thirteenth-Century England: The evidence of the Eyre and Coroners’ Rolls
Sport and Social Hierarchy in Medieval England
The Medieval Tournament: A Functional Sport of the Upper Class
From “Manifying” to “Pegasizing”: Ramon Llull’s Theory of Definition Between Arabic and Modern Logic
Christian Heroism and the West Saxon Achievement: The Old English Poetic Evidence
Unity, Genre, and Subverting the Absolute Past: The Case of Malory’s “Tournament at Surluse”
“Of this I can make no sense”: Wulf and Eadwacer and the Destabilization of Meaning
Music and Magic in Le Bel Inconnu and Lybeaus Desconus
I Alisoun, I Wife: Foucault’s Three Egos and the Wife of Bath’s Prologue
“Turn, traitor untrew”: Altering Arthur and Mordred in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
The Battle of the Books: An Attack on Nationalism
Charles Homer Haskins and Medieval Science
The Wife of Bath: Sexuality vs. Symbol
Reclaiming the Sheela-na-gigs: Goddess Imagery in Medieval Sculptures of lreland
The Role of Women in Musical Life: The Medieval Arabo-Islamic Courts
“She Swims and Floats in Joy”: Marguerite Porete, an “Heretical” Mystic of the Later Middle Ages
The Writings of Julian of Norwich as Accomodation and Subversion
Prisoners in the Castellany of Arras in the Early Fourteenth Century
Scientia Sermocinalis: Grammar in Medieval Classifications of the Sciences
The Vulnerable Body of Havelok the Dane
Web Spotlight: Medieval Portal Sites
Hypertext: A Sacred (He)Art? Cor ad cor loquitur from Augustine to Shelley Jackson
The Acts of Matthew and Andrew in the City of Cannibals
Emaré’s Fabulous Robe: The Ambiguity of Power in a Late Medieval Romance
Anger with God and Man: The Social Contexts of Melibee’s Anger
Fracture and Containment in the Icelandic Skalds’ Sagas
Conception Through Infancy in Medieval English Historical and Folklore Sources
Cynewulf the Poet, Alfred the King, and the Nature of Anglo-Saxon Duty
Truth, Translation, and the Troy Book Women
“I am the Creator”: Birgitta of Sweden’s Feminine Divine
From Address to Debate: Generic Considerations in the Debate Between Soul and Body
God Our Mother: The Feminine Cosmology of Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen
Courtesy Books, Comedy, and the Merchant Masculinity
Resurrection: Representation v. Reality in a Miracle of St John of Beverley
Imperfect Heroes and the Consolations of Boethius
Boundaries of Law: Code and Custom in the Legal Practice of Early Medieval Catalonia
Ayyubids, Mamluks, and the Latin East in the Thirteenth Century
The Islamic Origins Debate Goes Public
Medieval Christianity: The State of the Field
The Study of Canon Law and the Eclipse of the Lincoln Schools, 1175–1225
Peter Martyr: The Inquisitor as Saint
“Now the First Stone Is Set”: Christine de Pisan and the Colonial City
The Power, the Body, the Holy: A Journey Through Late Antiquity with Peter Brown
From Text to Man: Re-Creating Chaucer in Sixteenth-Century Print Editions
Santa Sophia in Nicosia: the Sculpture of the Western Portals and Its Reception
Marian Lyric in the Cistercian Monastery during the High Middle Ages
The First Lithuanian Book in Print
Indigenous and Early Fisheries in North Norway
Bruges and the German Hanse: Brokering European Commerce
A View of the Irish Language: Language and History in Ireland from the Middle Ages to the Present
The Taming of a Turbulent Earl: Henry I and William of Warenne
Society and Politics in 4th and 5th–Century Armenia. The invention of the Armenian Alphabet
Misconceptions about Medieval Medicine: Humors, Leeches, Charms, and Prayers
Modern Medieval Map Myths: The Flat World, Ancient Sea-Kings, and Dragons
A New Source for Andrea del Castagno’s Vision of St. Jerome
Bastards or Kings or Both? Louis III and Carloman in Late-Medieval French Historiography
French Medieval Regions: A Concept in History
The Murder of Henry Clement and the Pirates of Lundy Island
World History Sacred and Profane: The Case of Medieval Christian and Islamic World Chronicles
Religious Responses to Social Violence in Eleventh-Century Aquitaine
Queen’s and Princesses’ Political Function at the end of the Middle Ages (14th and 15th Centuries)
Defining the gentleman and the gentlewoman in the Italian Renaissance
Women and Power in the Middle Ages: Political Aspects of Medieval Queenship
Religion and culture in classical Islam and the Christian West
Witnesses of God: Exhortatory Preachers in Medieval al-Andalus and the Magreb
Obscene Onomastics in Medieval Trickster Tales
The Liturgical Drama in the Middle Ages as the Music Drama
Enforcing cooperation among medieval merchants: The Maghribi traders revisited
Population change in medieval Warwickshire: Domesday Book to the Hundred Rolls of 1279–1280
The medieval Irish plea rolls – an introduction
Medieval Women’s Guides to Food during Pregnancy: Origins, Texts and Traditions
Polish-Flemish Trade in the Middle Ages
Deer and Deer Farming in Medieval England
History that ‘Turns on its Own Axis’: European Women and Historical Writing, 1400-1800
The Virgin In The Tower: St Barbara In Medieval And Modern Hagiography












How you can Follow Us!