The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in the Medieval Islamic City
The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in the Medieval Islamic City By Abbas Hamdani Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol.17:1 (2008) Introduction: the ancient…
The Economic Role of the State in the Classical Islamic Literature: The Views of Ibn Taimiyah
The Economic Role of the State in the Classical Islamic Literature: The Views of Ibn Taimiyah By Bassam Abu Al-Foul, and Mohamed Soliman Digest of…
Domestic violence in late-medieval Bologna
The aim of this paper is to suggest that married life in Renaissance Italy was much more violent than the current historiography allows.
Transition to the Renaissance: Republican Values and Ideals in Florence and Siena, 1300-1500
By the close of the fourteenth century, Siena, once an expanding medieval Italian commune, was declining almost as quickly as she had risen.
Palaces and the Street in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The relationship between the private house and the environment of public space in the Italian city underwent a fundamental reordering in the late Middle Ages.
Labor Use and Landlord Control: Sharecropping and Household Structure in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany
Labor Use and Landlord Control: Sharecropping and Household Structure in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany By Rebecca Jean Emigh The Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol.11:1 (1998)…
English and Galician in the Middle Ages: A Sociohistorical Survey
English and Galician in the Middle Ages: A Sociohistorical Survey By Begoña Crespo García Revista Alicantina de Estudios Inglese, No.17 (2004) Introduction: It is the…
Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages: History and Theory
What was the nature of feudalism in the European Middle Ages? How did the specicity of the feudal mode of social organization inform wider forms of medieval geopolitical relations? What distinguishes them from modern and early modern interstate relations? What are the implications for IR theory?
Medieval Articles and Theses posted in July 2009
Here is the list of articles and theses posted to Medievalists.net in July 2009: The God-man: an engagement with the theology of Athanasius of…
Latin Charms of Medieval England: Verbal Healing in a Christian Oral Tradition
In what follows I shall address four elementary questions: (1) What are the near-allied genres? In other words, in what contexts do charms appear in the manuscripts? (2) In what sense can the genre be described as oral traditional? (3) What are the forms of language in which the genre coheres? (4) How, on what occasion, by whom, and for whom are charms performed, and how do they function within these situations?
Killing Cats in the Medieval Period: An Unusual episode in the history of Cambridge, England
Were they viewed as pets or pests? How important were they in the extermination of vermin? How much value was put on their skins? And were they ever eaten?
Renaissance Magazine
For those browsing the magazine shelves in their local bookstore, they can come across a few magazines that deal with history, including History…