Explaining Viking Expansion
This thesis studies and explains employment opportunities, political motives, and societal norms as separate, individual motives that perpetuated Scandinavian migration, conquest, and adventure from the eighth through the eleventh centuries AD.
World Without End – Review of Episode 4: Check
In this week’s episode, Edward III goes to war against France in 1334. Meanwhile, bridge building under Merthin’s guidance begins. Gwenda has Ralph’s baby, Caris and Mother Cecilia fight for their hospital and Godwyn continues to plot and scheme as Prior.
Fashion and Self-Fashioning: Clothing Regulation in Renaissance Italy
In 1378 a ten-year-old girl named Nicolosa was fined fourteen lire for wearing a fine silk gown with tassels on the streets of Florence. In 1398 a prostitute of the same city was prosecuted for failing to wear high-heeled slippers and a bell on her head.
Ecclesiastics and Ascetics: Finding Spiritual Authority in Fifth and Sixth Century Palestine
In the context of ongoing christological controversy and division within eastern Christianity, the relationship between ecclesiastic and ascetic authority is a fruitful avenue of investigation.
Knowledge of Ephraim’s Writings in the Merovingian and Carolingian Age
The florilegium entitled Liber Scintillarum, the book of sparks from the words of God and of his saints, was composed by the monk Defensor of Ligugé. Our evidence for the life and date of Defensor derives entirely from his preface.
A Historiography of Chastity in the Marriage of Edith of Wessex and Edward the Confessor
While records of Edith’s life and her marriage to Edward are poor, the historiography of those who narrated her life after her death is rich. In some ways, the historiography of her life was directly related to that of her husband’s.
A Distant World: Russian Relations with Europe Before Peter the Great
Despite their isolation and poverty, the Slavic plowmen succeeded in settling this unforgiving region, expanding their numbers, and, most importantly, creating the beginnings of a trading network along the many rivers of the region—the western Dvina, the Volkhov, the northern Dvina, and the Dniepr and its tributaries.
Hafa nu ond geheald husa selest: Jurisdiction and justice in “Beowulf”
This coincidence of literary image with legal significance, is as I shall attempt to show in this study, by no means unique in Beowulf.
The Implications of Slave Women’s Sexual Service in Late Medieval Italy
The focus on black slaves in the Christian Mediterranean provides a connection between slavery’s more remote past and its more recent, better understood past.
Textile and Embroidered Bookbindings of Medieval England and France
These are rich, elaborately crafted objects that required binders to collaborate with craft persons skilled in needlework. Beautifully woven fabrics were used, some of which were made for clothing.
The Naples L’homme arme masses, Burgundy and the Order of the Golden Fleece: The origins of the L’homme arme tradition
The six anonymous L’Homme arme masses in naples MS VI E 40, of the Biblioteca Nazionale, have prompted heated debate concerning their genesis since Dragan Plamenac discovered them in 1925.
Mandeville’s Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
While Chaucer‟s knight has traveled to and fought in Spain, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia Minor, Sir John claims to have visited the entire known world from Constantinople and the Holy Land to the farthest reaches of Asia.
Moors and Saracens in Europe: estimating the medieval North African male legacy in southern Europe
Our results confirm a general correlation between historical and genetic data: Iberia and Sicily are the regions with the highest MNA male legacy.
Richard III and the Lost World of Greyfriars
Why has Richard rested there? Clearly the last Plantagenet ruler did not designate Greyfriars of Leicester for this honor.
Dental treatment in Medieval England
Cures, mainly for toothache and ‘tooth worm’ were based on herbal remedies, charms and amulets.
BOOK REVIEW: Edric the Wild
A book review of the new release “Edric the Wild”, by Jayden Woods
Interview with James Forrester, author of Sacred Treason
‘The whole plot becomes so much more sensational when set in the Elizabethan period, and the struggle the conscientious individual to ‘do the right thing’ becomes a battle in itself.’
Negotiations and love songs : Heloise and the question of religious authenticity
This thesis argues, however, that the letters by Abelard and Heloise, together with their liturgical works for the Oratory of the Paraclete, constitute an ongoing negotiation for the redefinition of authenticity within the religious life.
Annals of Ulster of the Early Middle Ages AD 500-1000
In Ireland and Scotland the monks invented a connection between the peoples of the Bible and the Gaels of Ireland and Scotland; they invented a genealogy which ‘proved’ they were descended from an Egyptian pharoah’s daughter called Scota.
La Vie en Breton: Anne of Brittany’s Enduring Legacy and Appeal
Anne of Brittany (1477-1514) has inspired painters, poets, Breton nationalists, and even a wildly popular French rock opera.
An earlier version of the Mona Lisa?
The Swiss-based Mona Lisa Foundation believes they have proven that Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier version of the Mona Lisa.
Worlds writ small: four studies on miniature architectural forms in the medieval Middle East
While academic discussion of ornament within medieval Islamic art has laboured much over the codification and meaning of certain forms, there has been relatively little research to date on the visual and iconographic function of architecture as ornament in this context…This thesis proposes, first and foremost, that there is significant cultural meaning inherent in the use of architecture as an inspiration for the non-essential formal qualities of portable objects from the medieval Islamic world.
Waldensians at the turn of the fifteenth century in the Duchy of Austria: Perception of Heresy and Action against Heretics
The other major field of research that pertains to my current investigation is the inquisition; or the repression of heresy, as Richard Kieckhefer asserts. He notes that there was no such a thing as the Inquisition, because it existed only as mere offices, or functions of carrying out the inquisitorial justice, and did not as an institution as such, not even institutions, as was later the case in the sixteenth century.