Domestic Peace and Public Order in Anglo-Saxon Law
Domestic Peace and Public Order in Anglo-Saxon Law By Rebecca Colman The Anglo-Saxons, synthesis and achievement, edited by J. Douglas Woods, David Anthony…
The Vikings in Wales
The Vikings in Wales By Henry Loyn Dorothea Coke memorial lecture, 1976 Published for University College London by the Viking Society for Northern Research…
North American Universities that specialize in Medieval History
This is a list of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada that have History Departments that specialize in medieval history.…
The Vinland Mystery
Made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1984, this short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America – Vinland the Good.
John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance
Made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1964, this short film documents John Cabot’s quest to discover a westward route across the sea to the Orient in 15th-century Europe.
Manorial organisation in early thirteenth-century Tipperary
Manorial organisation in early thirteenth-century Tipperary By Mark Hennessy Irish Geography, Vo.l 29:2 (1996) Abstract: Research in Ireland on medieval manors has tended to focus…
Documentary evidence for domestic buildings in Ireland c.400-1200 in the light of archaeology
Documentary evidence for domestic buildings in Ireland c.400-1200 in the light of archaeology By Hilary Murray Medieval Archaeology, Vol.23 (1979) Introduction: Excluding archaeology…
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland By John Morrissey Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 6:4…
FROM AL-GHAZALI TO AL-RAZI: 6TH/12TH CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS IN MUSLIM PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY
FROM AL-GHAZALI TO AL-RAZI: 6TH/12TH CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS IN MUSLIM PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY By Ayman Shihadeh Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Vol. 15:1 (2005) Abstract: According to…
The Other Saint Bernard: The ‘Troubled and Varied Career’ of Bernard of Abbeville, Abbot of Tiron
His abbey was the source for more than a hundred communities throughout France and, perhaps surprisingly, in Scotland, Wales and England.
Dover Castle and the Great Siege of 1216
Commanding the shortest sea crossing between England and the Continent, Dover Castle was a vital strategic and communication lynch-pin in the empire of the Angevin kings of England.
To Have and to Hold: Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe 1200 – 1700
To Have and to Hold: Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe 1200 – 1700 Peter and I had the pleasure interviewing Professor Ann Crabb (…
The Borja Family: Historiography, Legend and Literature
The Borja Family: Historiography, Legend and Literature By Eulàlia Duran Catalan Historical Review, Vol.1 (2008) Abstract: The Borja family from Valencia (the Italian spelling is…
Barcelona, a Society and its Law: 11th-13th Centuries
The legal system in Barcelona in the Lower Middle Ages – which we regard as a synthesis of rights (usages, customs, privileges, laws, and so on) and organization (municipality, universitat de prohoms, consulates, etc.) – had already attained maturity in the 13th century.
James I and his Era: Brief Analysis of a Major Political and Cultural Inheritance
James I, like his contemporaries Emperor Frederick II and Fernando III of Castile, was a major figure of the Mediterranean and Iberian Middle Ages.
Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity
Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity By Mary Olson Constructing the Past, Vol.9:1 (2008) Abstract: One of the few things that prisons were not…
Three Sources of Textual Evidence of Columbus, Crypto Jew
Three Sources of Textual Evidence of Columbus, Crypto Jew By Estelle Irizarry Published Online (2006) Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to add new…
The Importance of the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade, 1189-1192
Analyzing the causes of the Third Crusades helps to explain how and why the Siege of Acre occurred and why it’s significant to understand.
To Have and to Hold: Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe 1200 – 1700
Peter and I had the opportunity to attend the To Have and to Hold: Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe 1200 – 1700 conference at…
Post-settlement history of Icelandic forests
In a book that Ari the Learned (1068-1148) wrote to describe the settlement of the country, he tells that Iceland was covered with wood between the seashore and the mountains.
The Sons of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and the Politics of Puppets: Where Did It All Start?
The Sons of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and the Politics of Puppets: Where Did It All Start? By Frédéric Bauden Mamluk Studies Review, Vol.13:1 (2009) Introduction: The…
Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi
Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi Lecture by Br. Bill Short, O.F.M. Franciscan School of Theology & Graduate Union – Berkeley, CA Given…
Military Slavery in the Islamic World: 1000 Years of a Social-Military Institution
From its first clear appearance in the early ninth century of the Common Era, to the extinguishing of its last embers in the nineteenth century, military slavery has played a significant – even decisive role – in the military, political, economic, social and even cultural history of the region from Central Asia to Egypt, and perhaps beyond.
The Monarchy with David Starkey
The Monarchy with David Starkey Lecture given on November 19, 2005 More than the biographies of the kings and queens of England, this…
Pen and Parchment – The Beautiful Evidence of Medieval Drawings
Edward Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University, and the leading authority on information design, discusses how drawings from the Middle Ages exhibit ‘graphical excellence.’