Christian Living Explained: Alcuin’s De virtutibus et vitiis liber in a Carolingian Instructional Manual
Another paper from the yesterday’s SESSION I: Lived Religion in the Middle Ages. This paper focused on Alcuin of York’s contribution to the standardisation of Carolingian Christian texts for pastoral instruction.
“Kings as Catechumens: Royal Conversion Narratives and Easter in the Historia Ecclesiastica” by Carolyn Twomey (Boston College)
This is the first paper from the Haskins Conference at Boston College – it focused on Bede’s narratives of Royal conversion.
The Medievalverse – Boston 2012 – Day 1
We are in Boston, Massachusetts to cover two history conferences: The Haskins Society Conference and the 38th Byzantine Studies Conference.
The Rise and Fall of Medieval Wicklow: An Irish ‘Game of Thrones’
This article is the story of eastern Wicklow in the later medieval period when it was torn apart by one of the worst crises recorded in human history
Conference: Islamic Archaeology “Mini-Symposium”: Villages, Caravansaries, and Border Towns
17 papers at the American Schools of Oriental Research 2012 Annual Meeting November 14-17, 2012
‘The Flood’ of 1524: The First Mass-media Event in European History
The next very important ‘Grand Conjunction’ after 1484 took place in 1524 in the sign of Pisces. All seven planets joined together in February of that year to a kind of super conjunction – and that did not augur well!
The sea republic of Genoa and the conquest of Black Sea in 1261
I’m going to explain how Genoa conquered the Black Sea in 1261, which was the most important, or better, only road to Asia
Falcons and Falconry in Al-Andalus
Falconry was valued as a major element of the cultural transfer between the medieval elite of western Christianity and Islam, connecting the pre-Islamic world of the Near East with the Umayyad and Abbasid courts on one hand and Christian Europe on the other.
Rome in the imperial idea of the 14th century: The age of emperor Lewis the Bavarian
The town of Rome has had a huge importance within the medieval world. Besides Jerusalem it has always been seen as one centre place in medieval philosophy.