Personifications of Old Age in medieval poetry: Charles d’Orléans
Can we really expect to learn anything about ageing from later medieval allegories?
A Pictish burial and Late Norse/Medieval settlement at Sangobeg, Durness, Sutherland
A Pictish burial and Late Norse/Medieval settlement at Sangobeg, Durness, Sutherland By Keven Brady, Olivia Lelong and Colleen Batey Scottish Archaeological Journal, Vol.29:1…
The Staffordshire Hoard Fieldwork, 2009-2010
The Staffordshire Hoard Fieldwork, 2009-2010 By Alex Jones Paper given at the Staffordshire Hoard Symposium, held at the British Museum, March, 2010 Summary: Two…
Rare 15th century copy of Book of Calculation by Fibonacci goes up for auction
A fifteenth-century copy of a medieval mathematical book is expected to sell for between $120,000 and 180,000 at a New York City auction…
The Ordination of Women in the Early Middle Ages
The author analyzes a number of references to the ordination of women in the early Middle Ages in light of the meaning given to ordination at that time and in the context of the ministries of early medieval women
Unauthorised miracles in mid-ninth-century Dijon and the Carolingian church reforms
In the early 840s, Archbishop Amolo of Lyons wrote to one of his suffragan bishops about extraordinary miracles reportedly taking place at Dijon in the wake of the arrival of mysterious new relics.
Representing the Negative: Positing the Lesbian Void in Medieval English Anchoritism
Moreover, the anchoritic cell provided something that the majority of medieval households did not have – a private space. This space was specifically female, specifically female-controlled, and specifically eroticized.
“De Hedificiis Communibus Murandis …”: Notes on the Beginning of Building Regulations in Medieval Tuscany
The formation of the independent town in Italy during the eleventh and twelfth centuries is a central theme of historic sciences.
Gylfaginning and Early Medieval Conversion Theory
Gylfaginning and Early Medieval Conversion Theory By Christopher Abram Saga-Book, Vol. 33 (2009) Introduction: Snorra Edda’s attitude towards pagan religion, and its possible…
Cardigan Castle receives £4.7m grant
Cardigan Castle, which dates back to the eleventh century, has received a grant of nearly £4.7m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to…
Drinking and Debauchery: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Beowulf (Butchered)
The filmic renditions analysed are Zemeckis’s 2007 performance capture Beowulf (the Hollywood version), and Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf and Grendel (2005, a Canadian-Icelandic production): they both deviate from the original poem, but given their closeness in date, the different treatment is so considerable as to warrant comparison.
Medieval Mystery Plays: Cain and Abel
The medieval playwrights take the brief thirteen-verse account from the fourth chapter of Genesis and expand it into a play—the N-town version is the shortest of the medieval Cain and Abel plays and the Wakefield version is the longest.
The enigmatic threatening Margery Kempe
Perhaps no person has aroused more interest and suspicion than Margery Kempe, alive to us in her autobiography The Book of Margery Kempe.
Child Mortality and Amartya Sen’s Discussion of the Standard of Living
Child Mortality and Amartya Sen’s Discussion of the Standard of Living By Kayla Jacobs Published Online (2006) Introduction: A baby born in America…
Asceticism, differentiation, government : ‘anorexia nervosa’ as an achievement
Asceticism, differentiation, government : ‘anorexia nervosa’ as an achievement By Gordon Tait The Australian Sociological Association Conference (1992) Introduction: From the thirteenth to…
Commerce and Coexistence: Muslims in the Economy and Society of Norman Sicily
Commerce and Coexistence: Muslims in the Economy and Society of Norman Sicily By Timothy James Smit PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2009 Abstract:…
Where Cornish was Spoken and When: a Provisional Synthesis
Roman colonial rule in much of Britain from the mid-first century AD represented language contact as well as major changes to material culture and many other aspects of life.
The Problem of Cathar Apocalypticism
Of all the heresies in the Middle Ages, none posed more of a threat to the Catholic Church in either perception or reality than did Catharism.
Medieval management of spinal injuries: parallels between Theodoric of Bologna and contemporary spine surgeons
Theodoric of Bologna, in his text Chiurgica de Theodoric (ca. AD 1267), described an extracorporeal approach to the management of traumatic spinal column misalignments.
Madness in the Realm: Narratives of Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
This dissertation situates madness within the specific historical context of late medieval France, before, during, and after the reign of King Charles VI, whose episodes of mental disturbance contributed to the kingdom’s political crises.
A Syrian-Christian Perspective on the Supernatural
A Syrian-Christian Perspective on the Supernatural By Silke Trzcionka Paper given at the Western Pacific Rim Patristics Society Inaugural Conference (2004) Introduction: Whenever…
The worldview of women in demotic historic, akritic and epic poetry of the late Byzantine period (9th century to 1453)
The worldview of women in demotic historic, akritic and epic poetry of the late Byzantine period (9th century to 1453) By Virginia A.…
The Typochronology of Sword Pommels from the Staffordshire Hoard
The Typochronology of Sword Pommels from the Staffordshire Hoard By Svante Fischer and Jean Soulat Paper given at the Staffordshire Hoard Symposium, held at…
The Albigensian Crusade: A Comparative Military Study, 1209-1218
This thesis addresses the military aspects of the Albigensian Crusade in the region of Languedoc between 1209 and 1218.
The Anti-Red Shift—To the Dark Side: Colour Changes in Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300–1550
Can anyone possibly imagine the use of clothing in any society, past or present, while ignoring its colours?