A Layered Landscape: How the Family Sagas Mapped Medieval Iceland
In this paper I discuss three ways in which the family sagas inscribed cognitive maps over Iceland: firstly, sagas explain how places received their names through the people who lived and acted there; secondly, saga narratives traversing the named landscape act to imprint it further with human meaning; and finally, Íslendingasögur refer us to physical evidence of saga action in the landscape, asserting it can ‘still be seen today’.
‘She was ravished against her will, what so ever she say’: Female Consent in Rape and Ravishment in late-medieval England
Very little distinction was made between rape and ravishment in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Muzeum Zamkowe w Malborku
Muzeum Zamkowe w Malborku The castle was built by the Teutonic Order, they named it Marienburg, “Mary’s Castle”. The town which grew around…
The expansion of a European feudal monarchy during the 13th Century: the Catalan-Aragonese Crown and the consequences of the conquest of the kingdoms of Majorca and Valencia
The expansion of a European feudal monarchy during the 13th Century: the Catalan-Aragonese Crown and the consequences of the conquest of the kingdoms…
Medieval England to be featured in two BBC shows
Television viewers in the United Kingdom will have the chance to watch two new history programmes that feature medieval England. The BBC will…
William Wallace’s Invasion of Northern England in 1297
In the winter of 1297 William Wallace, fresh from his victory over the English at Stirling Bridge, presided over a ferocious and prolonged devastation of northern England.
Excavations at Caherconnell Cashel, the Burren, Co. Clare: implications for cashel chronology and Gaelic settlement
Excavations at Caherconnell Cashel, the Burren, Co. Clare: implications for cashel chronology and Gaelic settlement By Michelle Comber and Graham Hull Proceedings of…
Katedra Oliwska – Gdańsk
Katedra Oliwa is located in the city of Gdańsk, in the Oliwa district of the city. On July 2, 1186, Sambor I Gdański,…
Interview with Rafe de Crespigny
Rafe de Crespigny is Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University. He is considered to be one of the most important historians on…
The Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages
The society aims to focus on how the general public views the Middle Ages through various media, an to interact with authors, filmakers, festival organizers, etc, who help shape the image of medieval society in the contemporary world.
Interview with author Jayden Woods – August 29, 2010
Last week, we reviewed a book entitled “Eadric the Grasper: Sons of Mercia Vol. I”. I had the pleasure of interviewing author Jayden…
Medieval Festival at Herstmonceux Castle takes place this weekend
The Medieval Festival at Herstmonceux Castle, which is taking place this weekend in the English county of East Sussex, is expected to draw…
Servant to England: The Biography of Adam Marsh (de Marisco)
Servant to England: The Biography of Adam Marsh (de Marisco) By Jason A.S. Drake Honors BA Thesis, College of William and Mary, 2008…
Bielsko-Biała – Katedra św. Mikołaja/Zamek książąt Sułkowskich
Bielsko-Biała is a city in southern Poland located 1 hour south of Katowice and approximately 1 and 1/2 hours south-west of Kraków. Bielsko-Biała…
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village By Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7636-1578-9 Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons…
Human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature
In this survey, early Irish examples of human sacrifice are classified in four types.
Logic and the condemnations of 1277
Logic and the condemnations of 1277 By Sara L. Uckelman Journal of Philosophical Logic 39, no. 2 (2010) Abstract: The struggle to delineate…
Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages
Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages By Michael A. Cramer Scarecrow Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8108-6995-0…
‘Castles of Communities’: medieval town defences in England; Wales and Gascony
This paper introduces the findings of a research project exploring the phenomenon of town defences in the later medieval period.
Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts on display at The Met
Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts—a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made…
Stubbs, Steel, and Richard II as Insane: The Origin and Evolution of an English Historiographical Myth
‘Richard II had become dangerous, perhaps dangerously mad. His final breakdown is . . . tragic…’
Midwives and Medical Texts: Women’s Healing Practices in the Crown of Aragón, 1300-1600
Throughout the kingdom of Aragón, women who performed healing actions were only periodically titled midwives and very rarely called doctors. They were even more infrequently licensed or counted in censuses in such a way that we can reliably estimate the number of female healers.
The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan
The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan By Leland Liu Rogers Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009 ISBN: 978-3-447-06074-5 The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan (Cinggis Qayan-u…
Fact or folklore: the Viking attack on London Bridge
One of the most dramatic events in London’s history is the Viking attack, led by Óláfr (or Olaf) Haraldsson on London Bridge.
Sandwich – The ‘Completest Medieval Town in England’: A Study of the Town and Port from its Origins to 1600
Sandwich – The ‘Completest Medieval Town in England’: A Study of the Town and Port from its Origins to 1600 By Helen Clarke,…