Irony as illumination: didactic communication in the verbal texture of the Mystery Cycles
Irony as illumination: didactic communication in the verbal texture of the Mystery Cycles Bates, Linda R. Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract In the…
Simplifying Access: Metadata for Medieval Disability Studies
Simplifying Access: Metadata for Medieval Disability Studies Guerra, Francesca (University of California, Santa Cruz) PNLA Quarterly, Volume 74, no. 2 (Winter 2010) Abstract…
What did the Order‘s brothers eat in the Klaipėda castle? (The Historical and zooarchaeological data)
What did the Order‘s brothers eat in the Klaipėda castle? (The Historical and zooarchaeological data) By Vladas Žulkus and Linas Daugnora Archaeologica Baltica,…
THE SEPHARDIM DIASPORA: A MODEL OF FORCED MIGRATION AND CONFISCATION
THE SEPHARDIM DIASPORA: A MODEL OF FORCED MIGRATION AND CONFISCATION Faria, João Ricardo Studies in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of…
Canons and Cities: Cathedral Chapters and Their Social Composition in Medieval Portugal
Canons and Cities: Cathedral Chapters and Their Social Composition in Medieval Portugal Vilar, Hermínia Vasconcelos (Universidade de Évora – CIDEHUS) e-Journal of Portuguese History,…
Salvage Recording of Romano-British, Saxon, Medieval, and Post-Medieval remains at North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Salvage Recording of Romano-British, Saxon, Medieval, and Post-Medieval remains at North Street, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire Saville, Alan Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 103 (1985) Abstract…
Manufacturing Techniques of Belt and Harness Fittings of the 10th Century AD
The present study includes approximately 900 items of belt and horse harness fittings. They have been found on the Upper Dnieper, Smolensk region, the site of the Gnezdovo settlement and cemetery dating from the end of 9th to the beginning of 11th century.
‘Privies and Other Filthiness…’ The Environment of Late Medieval Aberdeen c.1399-1650
This talk will look at aspects of public hygiene in medieval Aberdeen with specific focus on the streets.
Saracen Archers in Southern Italy
The Normans, soon after the conquest of Sicily was complete, began using Sicilian Saracen mounted and foot archers as auxiliary troops: in 1076 they were included in the Guiscard army at the seizure of Salerno
Byzantine Textiles
Byzantine Textiles By Roger Gilman and Jane Bowler Gilman Art and Archeology, Vol. 13 (1922) Introduction: Silks and spices – the magic of…
Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century
Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century By Donnchadh Ó Corráin Peritia Vol.12 (1998) Abstract: This study attempts to provide a…
The Historical Setting of Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess
Criticism of Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, the first major work of a young man who was to become England’s most famous poet, has sometimes neglected not only the immediate historical setting of the poem and the most probable circumstances of its first publication, but also the mores of its audience.
Pipers and waits in the English royal households, c1290-1475: issues of identity and function
In studying the minstrels of the English royal households in the late Middle Ages I did say something about those minstrels described as ‘piper’, but not enough.
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History
One thousand, one hundred and four years ago, a criminal trial took place in Italy, a trial so macabre, so gruesome, so frightful, that it easily qualifies as the strangest and most terrible trial in human in human history.
Armenian Architecture in Twelfth-Century Crusader Jerusalem
Armenian Architecture in Twelfth-Century Crusader Jerusalem Kenaan-Kedar, Nurith (Tel Aviv University) Assaph Studies in Art History, 3 (1998) Abstract The art and architecture of…
Cripping the Middle Ages, Medievalizing Disability Theory
Cripping the Middle Ages, Medievalizing Disability Theory Wheatley, Edward The University of Michigan Press, (2010) Abstract This event shocks modern readers with its calculated…
SIMONE MARTINI’S ST. LOUIS OF TOULOUSE AND ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT
SIMONE MARTINI’S ST. LOUIS OF TOULOUSE AND ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT Scotti, Suzette Denise MA Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, August (2009)…
Institutionalized Sufism and Non-Institutionalized Sufism: A Reconsideration of the Groups of Sufi Saints of the Non-Ṭarīqa Type as Viewed through the Historical Documents of Medieval Maghreb
Institutionalized Sufism and Non-Institutionalized Sufism: A Reconsideration of the Groups of Sufi Saints of the Non-Ṭarīqa Type as Viewed through the Historical Documents of Medieval Maghreb…
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences
The Later Pre-Conquest Boroughs and their Defences RADFORD, C. A. RALEGH Medieval Archaeology Vol. 14 (1970) Abstract ‘For nearly two centuries before the…
Anglo-Saxon Magico-Medicine
A mass of folly and credulity?
The Tercentenary of the Four Masters of Ireland
The Tercentenary of the Four Masters of Ireland KENNEY, JAMES F. Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report, Vol.12 (1944-45) Abstract Ireland is the end…
Three Views of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Three Views of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster Rocke, Sean Published Online ~ Course: British Studies (ID 382), Harlaxton College, Spring (2011) Abstract John…
Source materials for fishing in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Instead of searching for ancient parallels to the fishery statistics, tithe-books and tax records of the early modern periods – a waste of time, since such records are not preserved and probably never existed – we should look at all possible approaches to the problem and all possible sources.
THE COINS OF THE DANISH KINGS OF IRELAND
THE COINS OF THE DANISH KINGS OF IRELAND Roth, Bernard The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. 6 (1910) Abstract Charles Haliday says ~ “It must…
The Middle Ages on the block: animals, Guilds and meat in the medieval period
Understanding the place of butchery in the medieval period requires a more in depth appraisal of the place of animals in medieval English culture. Fortunately, this period is perhaps one of the most interesting in terms of the lines of information available for this assessment. The rich historical evidence has led to research detailing the manufacture and uses of tools; the animals acquired and eaten in a number of different social contexts and accounts relating to the organisation of butchery.