Full Metal Jousting – review of Episode 8: Go to War
Review of the eighth episode from Full Metal Jousting
Medieval Merrie Melodies
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig go medieval!
Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France
These days when chivalry is everywhere on the decline, and no one dares to tourney anymore, and all knights are cowards, women are all the more courageous in battle.’
Beowulf, a Christian poem: an approach to certain difficulties
This work has for its object to show that Beowulf is a Christian poem, written by a Christian poet, for a Christian audience of the eighth century.
“Ek Skal Hér Ráða”: Themes of Female Honor in the Icelandic Sagas
A major goal of this thesis is to not only interpret the representations of women from these sagas, but also to place these representations in the context of the time and the writers. Icelanders wrote these sagas a couple centuries after the Viking age ended and are based nearly entirely on oral tradition.
Medievalists part of Canada’s largest academic conference
This year’s Congress, hosted jointly by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, includes more than 7,000 delegates from nearly 70 associations in Canada’s largest and most significant interdisciplinary academic gathering.
Bohemond of Taranto’s 1107-8 campaign in Byzantine Illyria – can it be viewed as a Crusade?
How did this relate to that of the First Crusade ten years earlier?
Hildegard of Bingen: Interdisciplinarian of Medieval Europe
Born in 1098, Hildegard was the tenth child to Hildebert von Bermersheim and his wife Mechtild. They were a very well‐to‐do family of the free nobility from the Bermersheim region of Germany. When she was eight years old, Hildegard’s parents dedicated her to the church as a tithe. Hildegard was placed in a Benedictine monastery in an enclosed room with an anchoress and tutor named Jutta von Sponheim.
The archaeological record of domesticated and tamed birds in Sweden
This paper is based on a review of approximately 520 sites with subfossil bird remains in Sweden (ERICSON & TYRBERG in press). This comprises essentially all published sites plus a majority of the sites where the avian remains have been determined but not yet published.
New facial recognition software to help solve art mysteries
Anyone who has admired centuries-old sculptures and portraits displayed in museums and galleries around the world at some point has asked one question: Who is that?
Shaping Medieval Markets: The Organisation of Commodity Markets in Holland, c. 1200 – c. 1450
The late Middle Ages witnessed the transformation of the county of Holland from a peripheral agrarian region to a highly commercialised and urbanised one. This book examines how the organisation of commodity markets contributed to this remarkable development
Academic Migration to Italy before 1500: Institutional Perspectives
Scholars who wish to investigate the mobility of university men across regions or countries in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance have to make a journey of translatio that in many ways echoes that undertaken by their subjects
The economic decline of the church in medieval England
The early medieval Church was a ubiquitous presence which wielded considerable economic power. R.H. Tawney describes it as “the greatest of political institutions”.
Did the tenth-century Viking Egil Skallagrimsson (c. AD 910–990) have Paget’s disease?
Egil’s Saga provides a perspective of the Viking world in the ninth and tenth centuries. The saga tells the story of a demonic Viking hero, one Egil Skallagrimsson (ie, son of bald Grim)
Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond – exhibition now underway in Australia
Exhibition of illustrated Persian manuscripts now showing in Melbourne; will go on display at Oxford later this year.
Plague, pox and the physician in Aberdeen, 1495–1516
This article discusses responses to disease in Aberdeen during a formative period in the provision of healthcare within the city
The Survival of Nasrid Granada during the Reconquest
Ruled by the Nasrid dynasty, the Nasrid kingdom of Granada managed to survive and go on to thrive for two and a half more centuries.
Beleaguered Muslim fortresses and Ethiopian imperial expansion from the 13th to the 16th century
This thesis challenges this common conception by demonstrating that throughout Ethiopia’s medieval period (1270-1555), the time of greatest conflict between the Ethiopian Empire and its Muslim neighbors, Muslim forces did not besiege the Ethiopian Empire.
Imagining the Witch: A Comparison between Fifteenth-Century Witches within Medieval Christian Thought and the Persecution of Jews and Heretics in the Middle Ages
This paper will examine how the prominent image of the witch in Christian thought during the early modern period emerged from earlier images of the non-Christian Other, Jews and heretics for example.
Frankish Rivalries and Norse Warriors
Normandy can be said to have begun in 911 with the treaty of St.Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and the viking Rollo.
Imagining defeat: An Arabic historiography of the crusades
This study shows that in medieval Arabic sources, the campaigns and settlement of the Christian Franks is not seen as a discrete event, and despite modern interpretations of a two-hundred year struggle between two sides, that the Franks are seen as just one more facet in the political scene of the era, often of less concern than ‘internal’ enemies.