Manorial court roll inventories as evidence for English peasant consumption and living standards, c.1270-c.1420
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Visibility Politics in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
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The Heretic’s Tale: Adam Duff O’Toole (died 1327 AD)
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The Lanterns of Chuko Liang
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The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt
The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt Edited by Douglas L. Biggs, Katherine L. French and…
New Light on the Economic Practices of Cistercian Women’s Communities
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A Crusader’s Sword: Concerning the Effigy of Jean d’Alluye
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The Plague of 542: Not the birth of the clinic
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Sins of Tongues, Pains of Members: Speech, Division and Sacrament in Late Medieval Exempla
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The Getty Manuscripts
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A King, A Ghost, Two Wives, and the Triumph of Love: Romance, Confession and Penance in Sir Orfeo and The Gast of Gy
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The Medieval World: An Illustrated Atlas
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Discretion and deceit: a re-examination of a military stratagem in Egils saga
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“[S]che was evry aferd”: Pilgrimage and Medieval Women in the Book of Margery Kempe
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Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe – now at the Walters Art Museum
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The Anglo-Saxon Influence on Romano-Britain: Research past and present
The Anglo-Saxon Influence on Romano-Britain: Research past and present By Charlotte Russell Durham Anthropology Journal, Volume 13:1 (2005) Abstract: The Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon…
Mediaeval cereal yields in Catalonia and England: an empirical challenge
Mediaeval cereal yields in Catalonia and England: an empirical challenge By Peter J. Reynolds Acta historica et archaeologica mediaevalia, No.18 (1997) Introduction: The…
Military orders in Osona during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
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Another Look at the Uprising of the Townsmen of Vic (1181-1183)
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The “convenientiae” of the Catalan counts in the eleventh century: a diplomatic and historical analysis
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Medieval Churches in England receive funding for repairs
Several medieval churches in England have received funding the Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage as part of their joint Repair Grants for…
Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference – “Crisis of Categorization”
“The Anglo-Saxon Death Lists: Crisis and Categorization” David Lennington (Princeton University) The Exeter Book details the various ways of dying. In The Fates…
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Seventh Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference – “Crisis of Categorization”
“Internal/External Interactions in the Exeter Book ‘Storm Riddles’” James Paz (King’s College London) This paper discussed some of the Riddles in the Exeter…
The Runes of Bergen: Voices from the Middle Ages
In July 1955, a disastrous fire swept through a section of the waterfront in Bergen, Norway, destroying nearly half of the ancient district known as ‘Bryggen.’