Pope Gregory the Great and the Irish
Pope Gregory the Great and the Irish By John R C Martyn Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 1 (2005) Abstract:…
British Christian continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: the case of Sherborne/Lanprobi
British Christian continuity in Anglo-Saxon England: the case of Sherborne/Lanprobi By Martin Grimmer Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 1 (2005)…
Beyond ‘History and Memory’. Traces of Jewish Historiography in the Middle Ages
Beyond ‘History and Memory’. Traces of Jewish Historiography in the Middle Ages By Johannes Heil Medieval Jewish Studies, Vol. 1 (2007/8) Abstract: “Beyond…
The Commentary on the Song of Songs Attributed to R. Samuel ben Meïr (Rashbam)
The Commentary on the Song of Songs Attributed to R. Samuel ben Meïr (Rashbam) By Hanna Liss Medieval Jewish Studies, Vol. 1 (2007/8)…
Bloodline, by Katy Moran
Bloodline By Katy Moran Candlewick Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780763640835 For Young Adult Readers: In the wilds of Dark Age Britain, a bard abandons…
The High City, by Cecelia Holland
The High City By Cecelia Holland Forge Books, 2009 ISBN: 9780765305596 It is the early years of the reign of Basil II, who…
Rural Fortifications in Western Europe and Byzantium, Tenth to Twelfth Century
Rural Fortifications in Western Europe and Byzantium, Tenth to Twelfth Century By Mark Whittow Byzantinische Forschungen v.21 (1995) Introduction: In 1992 – warmly…
Wars and Warriors in Gregory of Tours’ Histories I-IV
Although wars do not dominate the Histories, enough are described to cause surprise at the relatively scant attention given to Gregory’s ideology of war in the scholarly literature, an unfortunate lacuna given the resulting insights into both ideological and institutional realities of late sixth-century Gaul.
Knightly Arms – Plebian Arms
Knightly Arms – Plebian Arms By Zdzislaw Zygulski Jr Quaestiones medii aevi novae, v. 4 (1999) Introduction: The science dealing with the arms…
Bawds, Pimps and Procurers: Images of the prostitute in medieval England
Bawds, Pimps and Procurers: Images of the prostitute in medieval England By Tom Clegg Medieval History Magazine, Issue 5 (2004) Introduction: The history…
A Family Conflict Set in Stone: The story of Henry, eldest son of Henry II of England
A Family Conflict Set in Stone: The story of Henry, eldest son of Henry II of England By Janet Gillepsie Medieval History Magazine,…
Appropriation of Pagan Roman Motifs in Christian Byzantine Coinage
Appropriation of Pagan Roman Motifs in Christian Byzantine Coinage Lecture by Kelly Hughes, given at the University of Richmond February 2, 2009 Art…
The Road to Jerusalem
The Road to Jerusalem By Jan Guillou Harper, 2009 ISBN: 9780061869877 Born in 1150 to a noble family in the Kingdom of Western Götaland,…
Hangman blind
Hangman blind By Cassandra Clark Minotaur Books, 2009 ISBN: 9780312537302 In November 1382, the month of the dead, Abbess Hildegard rides out for York from…
The Joys of My Life
The Joys of My Life By Alys Clare Severn House Publishers, 2008 ISBN: 9780727866950 The 12th novel in the Hawkenlye series – May 1199.…
The construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium : the rhetoric of empire
The construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium : the rhetoric of empire By Sarolta A. Takács Cambridge University Press, 2009 ISBN:…
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England By Nathaniel L. Taylor Haskins Society Journal, Vol. 15 (2005) Synopsis: In…
Women and Wills in Catalonia: Sterility and Testacy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Women and Wills in Catalonia: Sterility and Testacy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries By Nathaniel L. Taylor Mediaeval Encounters, Vol. 12:1 (2006)…
Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England
Scholars of the medieval family would agree that the lot of the medieval wife was not an easy one.
Gupta artistic tradition in the reign of Kumaragupta I Mahendraditya, 414-456 A.D.
Gupta artistic tradition in the reign of Kumaragupta I Mahendraditya, 414-456 A.D. By Trudy Jacobsen Access History, Vol. 2:1 (1999) Introduction: The freshness…
Joachim of Fiore
The twelfth century monastic theologian Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) holds an important place in the progression of the linear Christian theory of time, through his reinvention of a numeric plan for history, and the widespread diffusion of his interpretations of the Apocalypse with their extreme consequences for the medieval Church.
The Understanding of Papal Supremacy as revealed in the Letters of Pope Gregory the Great
By the end of the sixth century, the city of Rome had been without the emperor in residence for over 250 years and itself outside the empire for a period of nearly seventy years before the disastrously liberating twenty years of war under the policies of the Emperor Justinian.
The Lollards and social and religious reform
The Lollards and social and religious reform By Doris Haddock Access: History Vol. 1:2 (1998) Introduction: Lollardy, the indigenous Proto-Protestant movement that evolved…
Friendship through fourteenth-century fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao and Ding Henian
Friendship through fourteenth-century fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao and Ding Henian By Anne Gerritsen Nan Nu, Vol. 9:1 (2007) Abstract: This essay analyzes…
From demon to deity: Kang Wang in Thirteenth-Century Jizhou and beyond
From demon to deity: Kang Wang in Thirteenth-Century Jizhou and beyond By Anne Gerritsen T’oung Pao, Vol. 90:1-3 (2004) Abstract: This essay discusses…