Medieval world comes alive at the Dales Countryside Museum
Historic happenings aren’t unusual at a museum, but visitors to the Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England got a little more than…
New fight over the Battlefield of Shrewsbury
Robert Hardy, the veteran actor and a star of the Harry Potter films, is heading a campaign to save the site of one…
Reflections on praxis and facture in a devotional portrait diptych: A computer analysis of the mirror in Hans Memling’s Virgin and Child and Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Reflections on praxis and facture in a devotional portrait diptych: A computer analysis of the mirror in Hans Memling’s Virgin and Child and…
Musica secundum imaginationem : Notation, Complexity, and Possibility in the Ars subtilior
Musica secundum imaginationem : Notation, Complexity, and Possibility in the Ars subtilior By Thomas W. Patteson Published Online (2008) Introduction: To write about…
A stroll through the park: evaluating the usefulness of phytolith and starch remains found on medieval sherds from Wicken, Northamptonshire, England
A stroll through the park: evaluating the usefulness of phytolith and starch remains found on medieval sherds from Wicken, Northamptonshire, England By Thomas…
Waterways and Shipbuilding in North-western Russia in the Middle Ages
Waterways and Shipbuilding in North-western Russia in the Middle Ages By Petr Sorokin Published Online (2002) Introduction: The investigations of the waterways, which…
Metallography of the 9th century sword of a Great Moravian nobleman buried in Mikulčice
Metallography of the 9th century sword of a Great Moravian nobleman buried in Mikulčice By Hosek Jiri and Kosta Jiri Metalurgija: Journal of…
The Mese: Main Street of Constantinople
The Mese: Main Street of Constantinople By David Bergstein Published Online (2010) Introduction: Imagine the main street of your own town, the center…
The Use of Gunpowder Weaponry by and Against Joan of Arc During the Hundred Years War
This article explores the possibility of a link between Joan of Arc and evolution of gunpowder weaponry during the Hundred Years War, a thesis for which there is some evidence.
The Medieval Pilgrimage Business
The Medieval Pilgrimage Business By Adrian R. Bell and Richard S. Dale Enterprise and Society (2011) Abstract: Although medieval pilgrimage has been the…
Make-Up as Understructure: Renaissance Cosmetics in Renaissance Self-Fashioning
Make-Up as Understructure: Renaissance Cosmetics in Renaissance Self-Fashioning By Michelle Laughran Paper presented at the Costume Society of America, Region 1 Annual Meeting…
Querns, Millstones, and Trade in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain
Querns, Millstones, and Trade in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain By Jon Addison Classlcal Studies Honours Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1995 Introduction: Using millstones…
The Medieval Girdle Book Project
The Medieval Girdle Book Project By Margit Smith and Jim Bloxam International Journal of the Book, Vol.3:4 (2005/6) Abstract: The study of girdle…
Islamic Heraldry: An Introduction
Islamic Heraldry: An Introduction By David B. Appleton Published Online (2008) Introduction: The scope of this presentation concerns the heraldry the Muslims in…
Courtly Love and the Representation of Women in the Lais of Marie de France and the Coutumes de Beauvaisis of Philippe de Beaumanoir
This interdisciplinary, cultural perspective on the relation of courtly love and the representation of women in Marie de France’s Lais puts the discourse of courtly love and its image of women in the Lais into a dialogue with the historical representation of women in the Coutumes de Beauvaisis
The Genoese Colonies In Front Of The Turkish Advance (1453-1475)
The Genoese Colonies In Front Of The Turkish Advance (1453-1475) By Giustina Olgiati Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Tarih Bölümü Tarih Araştırmaları…
Acropolites And Gregoros On The Byzantine- Seljuk Confrontation At Antioch-On-The Maeander (A.D.1211). English Translation And Commentary
Modern research has conclusively established that the battle of Antiochad-Maenderum in Phrygia, considered to be the third most hotly contested confrontation between the Byzantines and the Seljuks since Manzikert (Malasgirt) in 1071 and Myriocephalum (Çardak) in 1176, took place is the spring or early summer of A.D. 1211 and not in A.D. 1210, as it was previously believed
The bishops of King Stephen’s reign
Traditionally, the bishops who held office during the civil war which dominated King Stephen’s reign (1135-1154) have been considered weak and ineffective
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition
Amor vs. Roma: Cathars and the Birth of the Inquisition From the CBC Radio series Ideas, this 2-part show examines the rise and…
Soldier Biographies and Family Chronicles: Uncovering Lost Sources of the Middle Byzantine Period
Soldier Biographies and Family Chronicles: Uncovering Lost Sources of the Middle Byzantine Period By Kyle Sinclair Rosetta, Issue 9: Suppl. (2011) Introduction: As…
Barbarian interest in the Excerpta Latina Barbari
Barbarian interest in the Excerpta Latina Barbari By Benjamin Garstad Early Medieval Europe, Vol.19:1 (2011) Abstract: Joseph Justus Scaliger dubbed the text of…
Some general hypoteses on English Medieval peasant house construction from the 7th to the 17th centuries
Some general hypoteses on English Medieval peasant house construction from the 7th to the 17th centuries By Stuart Wrathmell Ruralia, Vol.4 (2001) Introduction:…
Medieval painting discovered at Oystermouth Castle in Wales
Remnants of an ornate medieval painting dating back to the 14th century have been discovered at Oystermouth Castle, near the Welsh town of…
1500-year-old building discovered at Acre
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a 1500 year old building in the historic city of Acre (also known as Akko). The Israel Antiquities…
Lorraine Stock awarded the Bonnie Wheeler Summer Fellowship
From Camelot to Sherwood Forest, Lorraine Stock has taken students on a host of literary adventures. Now, the University of Houston associate professor…