Birds in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg
Birds in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg By Charles Vaurie The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 29, no. 6 (1971)…
The Expression of Power in a Medieval Kingdom: Thirteenth-Century Scottish Castles
The Expression of Power in a Medieval Kingdom: Thirteenth-Century Scottish Castles By Fiona Watson Scottish power centres: from the early Middle Ages to…
Centres of royal power: New findings about the realms of medieval itinerant kings
In the 900-1000s the power of the monarch in Norway was consolidated through the establishment of a new system of royal estates. Similar…
Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic Literature
The purpose of this thesis is to examine Old English and Old Icelandic literary examples of monstrosity from a modern theoretical perspective.
Supernatural Abductions in Japanese Folklore
Supernatural Abductions in Japanese Folklore By Carmen Blacker Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 26:2 (1967) Introduction: The belief that children may in an unguarded…
Marie de France’s Yonec: Sex, Blood and Shapeshifting in a Twelfth-Century Verse
Marie de France’s Yonec: Sex, Blood and Shapeshifting in a Twelfth-Century Verse By Hannah Priest Paper given at the 1st Global Conference: Magic…
The Colour Green in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Natural, Supernatural, Symbolic?
The Colour Green in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Natural, Supernatural, Symbolic? By Anna Zanchi Paper given at the Thirteenth International Saga Conference (2006) Introduction: According…
Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform
Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform By R.I. Moore Historien, Vol.6 (2006) Introduction: In the district of Toulouse a damnable…
Cultural Hybridity in the Medieval Mediterranean: A Concept in Search of Evidence?
Cultural Hybridity in the Medieval Mediterranean: A Concept in Search of Evidence? Lecture by Peregrine Horden, professor of medieval history, University of London…
The Turk as a Tool of God: Augustinism and the Battle of Nicopolis
Morand-Métivier examines the Battle of Nicopolis (1396) where the Ottomans under Sultan Bayazid defeated a Crusader army of mostly French and Burgundian troops.
Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England: An Analysis of Selected Hagiography from Northumbria Written in the Years after the Council of Whitby
Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England: An Analysis of Selected Hagiography from Northumbria Written in the Years after the Council of Whitby By Carrie Couvillon…
The Symbolic Nature of Gold in Magical and Religious Contexts
The Symbolic Nature of Gold in Magical and Religious Contexts By Charlotte Behr Paper given at the Staffordshire Hoard Symposium, held at the…
Sims: Medieval released
Sims: Medieval, a new video game that allows people to recreate the Middle Ages in SIMS fashion, was launched earlier this week. The…
Between Mars and Venus: balance and excess in the chivalry of the late-medieval English romance
Between Mars and Venus: balance and excess in the chivalry of the late-medieval English romance By Ilan Mitchell-Smith PhD Dissertation, Texas A&M University,…
Child Guardian Spirits (Gohō Dōji) in the Medieval Japanese Imaginaire
Child Guardian Spirits (Gohō Dōji) in the Medieval Japanese Imaginaire By Irene H. Lin Pacific World Journal, Third Series No.6 (2004) Introduction: The…
The Bishop in the Bedroom: Witnessing Episcopal Sexuality in an Age of Reform
A significant number of bishops continued to marry during the eleventh century.
Family, economy and consumption in the medieval English village, c. 1300
Family, economy and consumption in the medieval English village, c. 1300 Schofield, Phillipp (Aberystwyth University) Patterns of Consumption and Standards of Living in the…
Furnishings of medieval English peasant houses: investment, consumption and life style
Medieval peasant houses have been much studied in England in the last 60 years, and gradually the questions that have been asked have changed.
The reception of Copernicus as reflected in biographies
The reception of Copernicus as reflected in biographies Kühne, Andreas Proceedings of the 2nd ICESHS (Kraków, Poland, September 6–9, 2006) Abstract Problems of the…
Medievalists and the 2012 rankings for Best Graduate Schools in the US
U.S. News and World Report has released its 2012 rankings for Best Graduate Schools, with Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the University…
Venetian Art and the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-17)
Venetian Art and the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-17) By Krystina Stermole PhD Dissertation, Queen’s University, 2007 Abstract: This dissertation explores…
The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188-1789
The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188-1789 By Jan Luiten van Zanden, Eltjo Buringhn and Maarten Bosker Centre for Economic Policy Research…
How accurate were medieval chroniclers in describing warfare?
The Battle of Margate is one of the lesser-known episodes of the Hundred Years’ War, but a historian has recently analyzed this naval…
Emperor Charles IV (1346–1378) as the Architect of Local Religion in Prague
This essay takes a different path through the religious culture of fourteenth-century Bohemia and of Prague, in particular.
Multiple Options: The World of the Fifteenth-Century Church
Multiple Options: The World of the Fifteenth-Century Church Van Engen, John Church History 77:2 (June 2008) Abstract Any historical period called “late” is…