Donationes pro remedio animae as Total Social Facts: A Case Study from the Twelfth Century Margraviate of Istria
The author analyzes the donation charter by which a noble couple, Ulrich II and his wife Adelaide, gifted numerous properties in Istria to the Church of Aquileia for the salvation of their souls (16th November, 1102).
How Legend Constructs French National Identity: Jeanne d’Arc
Since the fifteenth century, French authors have (re)told the story of Jeanne d’Arc.
Medieval Ideas of the Multiverse
To most of the theologians in Paris, anything not forbidden by logical contradiction was possible for God.
New Medieval Books: Add a little color to your Viking
Four new books to read, and one to color, for this week’s edition of new medieval books.
Joan of Arc through the Ages: In Art and Imagination
Since her death at the hands of the English in 1431, Joan of Arc has inspired and puzzled millions.
Greening Gawain: connecting environmental damage and masculinity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
This paper explores medieval environmental attitudes through a historical reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
What You Look At, You Make: Menstruation and Fertility in Italian Renaissance Art
This project seeks to better comprehend Renaissance Italian attitudes towards menstruation and its roles in art through fertility imagery.
Clothes Make the (Wo)Man: Interpreting Evidence of the Secondhand Clothing Trade in Late Medieval England
There is very little work done on the topic of secondhand clothing in the Middle Ages, but what has been done has revealed a new phenomenon that reshaped the social structure of medieval England.
Get Thee to a Nunnery: Unruly Women and Christianity in Medieval Europe
These texts also demonstrate that women’s power waned in the shift between pre-Christian and Christian Europe.
Perceptions of Hot Climate in Medieval Cosmography and Travel Literature
This article is an attempt to examine bow climate, especially hot weather in exotic locations, was viewed by European travellers and writers in the middle ages.
Magic, Technology and New Categories of Knowledge in the Central Middle Ages
This article proposes to discuss the extent to which medieval sources differentiate between an idea of applied technological knowledge, which could be close to our modern notion of science, and actual magic.
Thousands of Vikings were based at Torksey camp, archaeologists find
A huge camp which was home to thousands of Vikings as they prepared to conquer England in the late ninth century has been uncovered by archaeologists.
World Championships in medieval combat comes to Denmark
Over 500 fighters from 28 different countries will be taking part at Spøttrup Castle.
The Medieval Magazine (Volume 3, Issue 9) : The Magic of King Arthur
In this issue: A Man for All Centuries: The Changing Myth of King Arthur, Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur comes to the big screen!, Medieval Minded with author Guy Gavriel Kay, Books: Harold: The King Who Fell at Hastings, Travel: A hidden medieval garden in Southern France
The Prior, the Prioress, and the Kidnappers
Monks were deserting their pastoral posts and in some cases their vows altogether; nuns were having covert affairs with local men and—worse—getting caught.
10 Milestones in Medieval Law
Which moments from the Middle Ages have changed the way we look at the law and justice?
Infantry versus Cavalry: The Byzantine Response
The Byzantines encountered many different nations on the battlefield during their long history.
How did the Merovingian Kings wear their hair?
We must accept, I think, that the Franks, like all Germans, attached a particular importance to the hair
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Queen and A Mother
The mere mention of Eleanor of Aquitaine brings to mind an remarkable woman in many respects.
Henry V and the crossing to France: reconstructing naval operations for the Agincourt campaign, 1415
On 11 August 1415 a large fleet slipped out of the Solent and headed to the Chef de Caux.
Reclaiming past, present and future stories of a deserted medieval village
This practice-based research explores challenges in documenting the physically shifting site of a deserted medieval village, previously an island and now a reclaimed landscape, located on a saltmarsh in East Sussex.
The Shadow of Chinggis Khan on Istanbul: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Asian Context, 1300 – 1600
Prof. Ali Yaycioğlu examines the making of the Ottoman State and socio-economic formation between the late 14th to the 17th centuries.
Student Life in the Medieval University: The Swedish Experience
What was it like to attend a university in the Middle Ages?
Verba vana: empty words in Ricardian London
Verba vana: empty words in Ricardian London By Robert Ellis PhD Dissertation, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012 Abstract: Verba Vana, or ‘empty…
Women’s Medicine and Female Embodiment in the Morte Darthur, a Middle English Trotula Treatise, and The Mists of Avalon
In this essay, I will read the Morte Darthur alongside the Middle English Trotula treatise, a fifteenth-century gynecological handbook, and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon, a twentieth-century fantasy adaptation of the Arthurian legend.