Rhetoric and Ethnicity in Gerald of Wales
This paper was given at the 2013 Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto.
Will stone coffin reveal medieval knight buried in the same church as Richard III?
The archaeologists who discovered King Richard III under a car park are now hoping that a 600-year-old lead lined stone coffin found nearby will lead them to the remains of a knight buried in the 14th century.
Late Medieval Attitudes on the Evil in Warfare: Honoré Bouvet’s Arbre des batailles and its Sources
My approach in this paper will be to look at Bouvet’s view on the nature of warfare under these broad guidelines, and to treat them as a part of the greater tradition of medieval thought that was fed simulatenously by both pagan and Christian writings.
‘Fromm thennes faste he gan avyse/This litel spot of erthe’: GIS and the General Prologue
This paper was given at the Canada Chaucer Seminar on April 27, 2013.
War and Peace in the Works of Chaucer and his Contemporaries
But whenever authors of work on chivalry and war during the Middle Ages have tried to determine the exact historical influence and result of chivalric ideals, they have run into difficulties. That is why there are such widely varying hypotheses concerning the ‘Golden Age’ of chivalry.
Call for Papers: Light in the Religions of the Book: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Upcoming Conference at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, December 13-15, 2013
What did the Renaissance man wear? Historian recreates outfit from the 16th century
In the sixteenth century an accountant in the German city of Augsburg named Matthäus Schwarz was busy moving up the social circles, and he did it in part by knowing the latest fashions and dressing well. By 1541 he succeeded in becoming a member of the nobility. Now his efforts are being recreated in an experimental research project at the University of Cambridge.