The Templar Knight: Book Two Of The Crusades Trilogy
The Templar Knight: Book Two Of The Crusades Trilogy By Jan Guillou Publisher: Harper Collins, May 4, 2010 ISBN:9780061688577 The Knight Templar (Swedish:…
Dark Age Traffic on the Bristol Channel, UK: A Hypothesis
Dark Age Traffic on the Bristol Channel, UK: A Hypothesis By Nancy Hollinrake International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Vol.36:2 (2007) Abstract: Exotic pottery…
A Dark Age Peter Principle: Beowulf’s incompetence threshold
Many readers, recognizing the incompatibility of heroism with the duties of kingship, have argued that Beowulf tells a story of colossal failure.
The Traitor’s Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II
The Traitor’s Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II By Susan Higginbotham Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2009 ISBN:978-1402217876 In fourteenth-century England, young…
The Rebel Princess
The Rebel Princess By Judith Koll Healey Publisher: Harper Collins, June 22, 2009 ISBN: 9780061673566 Alaïs, the spirited and indomitable princess of France,…
The Road To Jerusalem: Book One Of The Crusades Trilogy
The Road To Jerusalem: Book One Of The Crusades Trilogy By Jan Guillou Publisher: Harper Collins, April 14, 2009 ISBN: 9780061688539 For power.…
To Know Evil
To Know Evil By Stephen Gaspar Publisher: Pemberley Press, October 1, 2009 ISBN: 9780977191390 The source of evil and the conflict between faith…
Medieval Castle for Sale in Southern France
This medieval castle for sale in southern France dates back to the year 978. The castle was built by the Viscounts of Narbonne to guard a main road – it lies 13 km southwest of Narbonne, and sits on a a rocky knoll 180 m (590 ft) above sea level.
The viking’s defiant bride
The Viking’s Defiant Bride By Joanna Fulford Publisher: Harlequin, February 1, 2009 ISBN:9780373295340 Northumbria, 867 A.D. Beautiful and courageous, the Lady Elgiva is…
The Saxons within Carolingian Christendom: post-conquest identity in the translationes of Vitus, Pusinna and Liborius
The Saxons within Carolingian Christendom: post-conquest identity in the translationes of Vitus, Pusinna and Liborius By Eric Shuler Journal of Medieval History, Vol.36:1…
The custom of the English Church: parish church maintenance in England before 1300
A division of responsibility for parish church fabric and contents between rector and parishioners first appeared in English ecclesiastical legislation in the early thirteenth century and was to remain in place until the mid-nineteenth century.
A translation and historical commentary on book one and book two of the Historia of Georgios Pachymeres
Pachymerēs’ Historia is an important source for a pivotal period in Byzantine Imperial history, and many scholars have not used it as efficiently as they could due to the denseness of his prose and his ‘tortuous syntax’.
Robin Hood in Film
The story of Robin Hood has been made into a movie at least fifty times – with many films going on to become financial and critical successes.
‘An Entirely Masculine Activity’? Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered
What if women did play a more significant part in military history than traditionally has been assumed?
The Vikings in the East : a Survey of Settlement, Trade and Military Activity c.700 – 1100
The Vikings in the East : a Survey of Settlement, Trade and Military Activity c.700 – 1100 By D.A.F. Adams MA Thesis, University…
From footnotes to narrative: Welsh noblewomen in the thirteenth century
The women studied include the mothers, wives and daughters of the native Welsh rulers of Gwynedd as well as noblewomen from northern Powys, Cydewain, Ceredigion, and so on.
From Dubrovnik (Ragusa) to Florence: Observations on the Recruiting of Domestic Servants in the Fifteenth Century
From Dubrovnik (Ragusa) to Florence: Observations on the Recruiting of Domestic Servants in the Fifteenth Century By Paola Pinelli Dubrovnik Annals, Vol. 12…
The Chronology of Leonardo Bruni’s Later Works (1437-1443)
The Chronology of Leonardo Bruni’s Later Works (1437-1443) By James Haskins Studi medievali e umanistici, Vol. 6 (2007) Introduction: In the preface to Leonardo…
Royal Piety in Thirteenth-Century Scotland: the Religion and Religiosity of Alexander II (1214-49) and Alexander III (1249-86)
Did these kings act on religious impulses driven solely by dynastic tradition and Scottish political concerns or can we, at the same time, discern genuine personal motivations and an awareness of wider liturgical development?
Diffinicione successionis ad regnum Scottorum: royal succession in Scotland in the later middle ages
Diffinicione successionis ad regnum Scottorum: royal succession in Scotland in the later middle ages By Michael A. Penman Making and breaking the rules:…
Lordship and Environmental Change in Central Highland Scotland c.1300–c.1400
Lordship and Environmental Change in Central Highland Scotland c.1300–c.1400 By Richard Oram and W. Paul Adderley Journal of the North Atlantic, Vol.1 (2008)…
Reputations in Scottish History: King Robert the Bruce (1274-1329)
Have peculiarly Scottish circumstances and processes of change over time coalesced to leave this hero king with a reputation which would, in another country, have taken a more vibrant form far sooner?
The Bruce Dynasty, Becket and Scottish Pilgrimage to Canterbury, c.1178-c.1404
This paper seeks to question the assumption that the outbreak of prolonged Anglo-Scottish war in 1296 brought an abrupt decline in Scottish interest in St Thomas, his shrine at Canterbury and the great abbey dedicated to him in Scotland at Arbroath
Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea: The Eastern Campaigns of Julian and Justinian, 4th and 6th centuries A.D
By using both of these historians it is hoped that the Persian campaigns of Julian and Justinian will be made clearer in the context of the emperors and their goals and flaws.
Christians and Jews in thirteenth-century Castile: the career and writings of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Archbishop of Toledo (1209-1247)
The life of Archbishop Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada offers a window on many of the principal issues of his day. He is best known for his role in the victory over the Almohads at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212) and for several works of history in which he traces the emergence of Castile, with Toledo as its political and spiritual centre.