Difference and the Difference it Makes: Sex and Gender in Chaucer’s Poetry
Difference and the Difference it Makes: Sex and Gender in Chaucer’s Poetry By Sheila Delany Florilegium, Vol.10 (1988-91) Introduction: “My indecision is final,” the…
Exhuming Trotula, Sapiens Matrona of Salerno
Exhuming Trotula, Sapiens Matrona of Salerno By Beryl Rowland Florilegium, Vol.1 (1979) Introduction: In the catalogues of the mediaeval libraries as Canterbury and Dover…
The N-Town Trials and the Image of the Community
The N-Town Trials and the Image of the Community Flood, Victoria Marginalis, Vol. 8, Cambridge Yearbook (2007-2008) Abstract In his game theory V.A.…
Wynnere and Wastoure in Robert Thornton’s ‘Up Sodowne’ World
Wynnere and Wastoure in Robert Thornton’s ‘Up Sodowne’ World Byrne, Aisling Marginalia, Vol. 8, Cambridge Yearbook (2007-2008) Abstract In Wynnere and Wastoure we…
Warfare in the Medieval Gaelic Lordships
Warfare in the Medieval Gaelic Lordships By Katherine Simms Irish Sword, Vol.12 (1975) Introduction: It is possible for a modern reader to exaggerate…
Food and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries in Medieval England
In this chapter, both zooarchaeological and historical evidence are used to explore variation in patterns of consumption among different sectors of medieval English society (ca. A.D. 1066-1520).
Perceptions versus reality: changing attitudes towards pets in medieval and post-medieval England
In 1994 a survey of pet ownership within the European Union revealed that there were a startling 36 million pet dogs, 35 million pet cats and 173 other pet species
Representation in the Gesta Henrici Quinti
‘Not in the strict sense a chronicle or history, and certainly not a ‘compilation’, it is rather an original and skilful piece of propaganda in which narrative is deliberately used to further the larger theme.’
The Meanings of Devotional Space: Female Owner-Portraits in Three French and Flemish Books of Hours
I would argue that owner-portraits create a new textual space for women. Indeed, they are the means of a new way, not just of seeing women, but also of women seeing.
The Fourteenth Century Tree of Jesse in the Nave of York Minster
The Fourteenth Century Tree of Jesse in the Nave of York Minster Reddish, Elisabeth York Medieval Yearbook, ISSUE No. 2, (2003) Abstract Window sXXXIII…
Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy in Byzantium
The main concern of this paper will be with the problems raised by the reception of ancient alchemy in Byzantium.
Website features the history of Yorkshire Dales
History-lovers can now access a website about the historic lands in Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England. Staff at the Yorkshire Dales National…
The English Inflation of 1180-1220
The English Inflation of 1180-1220 By P.D.A. Harvey Past and Present, no. 61 (1973) Introduction: Historians have for long been aware of the rise…
Middle English and Anglo-Norman in Contact
Middle English and Anglo-Norman in Contact Ingham, Richard (Birmingham City University) ENGLISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF JAPAN CONFERENCE, TOKYO UNIVERSITY, MAY (2009) Abstract Anglo-Norman: some ‘internet…
The Wool Trade In English Medieval History
In the middle ages cloth was produced for local consumption almost everywhere, and export trade too was fed from a large number of countries; from England, from the Languedoc and from many of the Italian towns.
A Neglected Viking Burial with Beads from Kilmainham, Dublin, Discovered in 1847
A Neglected Viking Burial with Beads from Kilmainham, Dublin, Discovered in 1847 BRIGGS, C. S. Medieval Archaeology, Vol.29 (1985) Abstract The discovery of a…
Scandinavia After the Fall of the Kalmar Union: A Study in Scandinavian Relations, 1523-1536
The balance of power and control shifted in Scandinavia as the Kalmar Union, which had joined Denmark, Norway and Sweden together under one king since 1397, crumbled in 1523.
Iona in the kingdom of the Picts: a note
In his poem on the martyrdom of the cleric Blathmac mac Flainn in a raid by Vikings on the island of Iona in 825, the Rhineland poet Walahfrid Strabo describes that island as insula Pictorum, or perhaps more accurately, as being off the shore of the Picts: insula Pictorum quaedam monstratur in oris
The Baptism of Kiev
A thousand years ago, in 988, the Slav principality of Kievan Rus’, or Kievan Russia, came into being as one of a cluster of Christian States in Europe
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The Three-Dimensionalisation of Giotto’s 13th-century Assisi Fresco: Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo
Giotto’s thirteenth-century fresco Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo in the Church of San Francesco in Assisi is often referred to as marking the transition from the flattened medieval Byzantine ritualised image to the more spatially realistic perspectives of the Renaissance proper.
Medieval Cornwall
For the purposes of this paper, which covers the period from the 5th to 16th centuries, the following terminology has been followed: early medieval — 5th to 11th centuries; later medieval — late 11th to mid 16th century.
“Rural Towns” and “In-Between” or “Third” Spaces. Settlement Patterns in Byzantine Epirus (7th-11th c.) from an interdisciplinary approach
“Rural Towns” and “In-Between” or “Third” Spaces. Settlement Patterns in Byzantine Epirus (7th-11th c.) from an interdisciplinary approach By Myrto Veikou Archaeologia Medievale,…
Gift exchange at the court of Charles the Bold
Gift exchange at the court of Charles the Bold By Mario Damel In but not of the market: movable goods in late medieval and early…
Foundation Myth as Legal Formant: The Medieval Law Merchant and the New Lex Mercatoria
Foundation Myth as Legal Formant: The Medieval Law Merchant and the New Lex Mercatoria By Nicholas Foster Forum Historiae Juris (2005) Introduction: ‘Once upon…