Crusade administration in fifteenth-century England: regulations for the distribution of indulgences in 1489
These crusades attracted varying amounts of attention. The Flanders expedition of 1383 generated considerable comment among chroniclers, and was fiercely castigated by Wyclif as an illegitimate war between Christians. The crusade of 1512 is so obscure that some historians doubt that it was actually preached.
The Loss of Ponthieu: Nationalism or Particularism
The birth of European nationalism from amidst the carnage of the Hundred Years War has become one of the truisms of medieval history.
Pilgrims and Fashion: The Functions of Pilgrims’ Garments
A medieval pilgrimage was a dangerous undertaking. The search for salvation and spiritual as well as physical healing could end in illness, injury, even death.
Inter-frontal Cooperation in the Fourteenth Century and Edward III’s 1346 Campaign
In this article I will endeavour to fill this gap, and examine to what extent medieval commanders campaigning on different fronts could have cooperated with each other in pursuit of a common plan, and what was the potential importance of such cooperation.
A Chivalrous Man is Not a Gentleman: A Look at Chivalry in the Age of Chaucer
The concept of knighthood began as a military strategy used to supply men to fight kings’ wars, but it gradually developed into the glamorized ideal of chivalry and became associated with virtuous behavior expected during times of both war and peace.
Art, Exegesis, and Affective Piety in Twelfth-Century German Manuscripts
The extensive holdings of the Admont library include a fairly simple pen drawing that, despite its modest aesthetic value, open a door into the rich world of twelfth-century monastic art and intellectual life in the German-speaking lands of central Europe
Mmmmm….Medievalicious! Medieval Soups from Battle Castle
The good people at Battle Castle are offering their viewers three medieval soup recipes, just in time for Christmas.
CastleVille – the latest video game craze
For millions of fans who wanted to command their own castle, the new game CastleVille is giving them the opportunity to do so – at least in the online world.
Tony Robinson’s Gods and Monsters premieres this weekend
Tony Robinson’s Gods and Monsters, a new five-part series, begins on British television on Saturday night with a look at a history of the undead in Britain over the last two thousand years.
Odoacer: German or Hun?
The careers of Odoacer, of his father, and of his brother – even of his ill-fated son – were entirely consistent with those which could have been achieved by noble Huns in the generation after Attila’s death
Fiorenza: Geography and Representation in a Fifteenth Century City View
Of the representations studied by art history, topographic images – and city views first in time – are among the most likely to share the informational requirements of modern map making.
Salt trade and warfare in early medieval Transylvania
For medieval man, salt was a strategic resource as important as iron and gold.
Saints or Sinners? The Knights Templar in Medieval Europe
What did medieval contemporaries think of military orders such as the Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights? Helen Nicholson investigates.
The Top 11 of 2011: Our Medievalicious Wish List!
We have compiled a list of 11 books published this year which our readers might to be great reads about the Middle Ages
£200,000 goes to monastic sites in eastern England
The Heritage Lottery Fund is spending almost £200,000 on two projects for medieval monasteries in eastern England – the first two discover excavate the site of Ramsey Abbey and the second to promote Wymondham Abbey.
Medieval Archaeological finds reported at Tipton
Archaeologists from MetroMOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) have recently completed the excavation of a site in the West Midlands town of Tipton, which has yielded exciting new findings about the medieval origins of Tipton Green.
Anglo-Saxon bodies discovered in Warwickshire
When a Warwickshire couple were having their home extended the last thing they expected to find were bodies buried under the patio.
Labouring to Make the Good Wife Good in the journées chrétiennes and Le Menagier de Paris
This paper focuses on two related moments of hybridity in late medieval conduct literature concerned with the management of the conduct of the good wife’s daily life.
New book examines the medieval history of St Paul’s Cathedral
The past archaeological lives of the St Paul’s Cathedral site have been revealed in a new English Heritage book.
Medieval Student Violence
Throughout the middle ages university towns such as Oxford, Paris and Bologna were incredibly dangerous places to live.
Lay Religiosity, Piety, and Devotion in Scotland c. 1300 to c. 1450
This paper presents an overview of recent research on the popular experience of religion in pre-Reformation Scotland and focuses especially on that experience in the century-and-a-half after 1300
Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries
Monks and nuns living together: not a cause for scandal but, as Barbara Mitchell explains, an intriguing window onto the variety of monastic life – under the aegis of remarkable abbesses – before the Conquest.
God and the Normans
David Crouch reconsiders William I and his sons as men of genuine piety – as well as soldiers.
Moravian College to Host Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Moravian College will host the Sixth Annual Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies on Saturday, December 3
Lackland: The Loss of Normandy in 1215
Nick Barratt argues that Normandy’s loss in the reign of King John has had a far-reaching impact on Britain.