Month: December 2009

Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Sucess or Mongol Failure?

Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Sucess or Mongol Failure? By John Masson Smith, Jr. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 44:2 (1984) Introduction: The battle of…

by Medievalists.net December 7, 2009

Constructing a Vantage Point from which to regard Women and History: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de Femmes

Constructing a Vantage Point from which to regard Women and History: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de Femmes By Reghina Dascal Didactica,…

by Medievalists.net December 6, 2009

Features

Medieval Warfare

Medieval warfare and military history were an important of medieval society. The development of military systems, the efforts to gather resources to support…

by Medievalists.net December 6, 2009

Videos

Medieval Italian Military And Defenses

Medieval Italian Military And Defenses Analysis of medieval military defenses in Tuscany and Northern Italy. Shot in 2009 in Lucca, Garfagnana, Venice, Florence,…

The Development of Battle Tactics in the Hundred Years War

By their very nature battles are ephemeral events, and historians have to rely upon largely subjective accounts in reconstructing them.

Medieval Siege Warfare: A Reconnaissance

The proper focus of medieval siege warfare and indeed of medieval warfare in general is the manner in which medieval polities developed their grand strategy or military policy in order to preserve, improve, and often expand these fortifications of Roman and even earlier origin in response to the threats posed by their adversaries.

The Military Revolution from a Medieval Perspective

The idea of a military revolution was introduced by Michael Roberts, who argued that the tactical reforms pioneered by the Dutch army at the end of the sixteenth century and perfected by the Swedish army under Gustavus Adolphus

Killing or Clemency? Ransom, Chivalry and Changing Attitudes to Defeated Opponents in Britain and Northern France, 7-12th centuries

In the British Isles before 1066, the general fate of those defeated in battle or taken in war was either death or enslavement. The Norman Conquest, however, was to mark the importation into England of a differing military ethos, which placed an increasing stress on ransom and the sparing of knightly captives, and which eschewed the enslavement of prisoners of war as a token of barbarism.

Richard I and the Science of Warfare

My own strategy will be twofold. First, to take Richard I’s military carer as a model of medieval generalship. Second, to use vernacular sources wherever possible, in the belief that the vernacular brings us close than Latin to the thoughts and actions of soldiers.

Gower’s Confessio Amantis IV, 1963-2013: The Education of Achilles

Gower’s Confessio Amantis IV, 1963-2013: The Education of Achilles Zambreno, Mary Frances Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1986) Abstract John Gower’s Confessio…

The Passive Poet: Amans as Narrator in Book 4 of the Confessio Amantis

The Passive Poet: Amans as Narrator in Book 4 of the Confessio Amantis Levin, Rozalyn Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1986) Abstract…

Humor and Humor and Humor and Chaucer

Humor and Humor and Humor and Chaucer Graybill, Robert V. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1986) Abstract The dull are often overly…

Chaucer’s Inversion of Augustinian Rhetoric in the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale

Chaucer’s Inversion of Augustinian Rhetoric in the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale Hicks, James E. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1986) Abstract Coolidge…

The Yeoman Transmuted: An Evaluation of Penitence and Poetry

The Yeoman Transmuted: An Evaluation of Penitence and Poetry Schleicher, Frank N. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1986) Abstract The relative paucity…

The Three Worlds of Love in Troilus and Criseyde

The Three Worlds of Love in Troilus and Criseyde Lundberg, Patricia Lorimer Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1996) Abstract Chaucer’ s Troilus…

European Chancelleries and the Rise of Standard Written Languages

European Chancelleries and the Rise of Standard Written Languages Fisher, John H. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 3 (1986) Abstract The decline of…

The Myths of Medieval Warfare

The study of medieval warfare has suffered from an approach that concentrates on its social, governmental and economic factors to the detriment of military methods and practice.

A Short Catalogue of the Slavic Manuscripts in Vatopedi

A Short Catalogue of the Slavic Manuscripts in Vatopedi By CYRIL PAVLIKIANOV BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA Vol.10 (1996) Introduction: In the summer of 1992 a field trip…

The Social Structure of the Byzantine Countryside in the First Half of the Xth Century

The Social Structure of the Byzantine Countryside in the First Half of the Xth Century By Nikos Oikonomides BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA Vol.10 (1996) Introduction: The Xth…

The Decline of the Opsikian Domesticates and the Rise of the Domesticate of the Scholae

The Decline of the Opsikian Domesticates and the Rise of the Domesticate of the Scholae By T.K. LOUNGHIS BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA, Vol.10 (1996) Introduction: In this…

Courtly Patronage of Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic

Courtly Patronage of Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic By Sonja Brentjes Al-Qanṭara, Vol.29:2 (2008) Abstract: In this paper I study evidence for courtly patronage for…

Formal and informal Patronage among Jews in the Islamic East: evidence from the Cairo Geniza

Formal and informal Patronage among Jews in the Islamic East: evidence from the Cairo Geniza By Marina Rustow Al-Qanṭara, Vol.29:2 (2008) Abstract: This paper investigates…

Mītham b. Yaḥyā al-Tammār: an Important Figure in Early Shī‘ism

Mītham b. Yaḥyā al-Tammār: an Important Figure in Early Shī‘ism By Khalid Sindawi Al-Qanṭara, Vol.29:2 (2008) Abstract: The present study provides an analysis of an…