Articles Archive
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No Game for Knights: The Arthurian Legend in Hardboiled Detective Fiction
Posted on May 22, 2012 | No CommentsIn America, novels ranging from The Great Gatsby to John Steinbeck’s Cup of Gold borrowed Arthurian conventions to discuss contemporary American life. -
Confronting the End: The Interpretation of the Last Judgment in a Novgorod Wisdom Icon
Posted on May 22, 2012 | No CommentsA large Novgorod icon, dated in the mid-fifteenth or early sixteenth century, has been called a Last Judgment composition by scholarship. -
Glossaries and Other Innovations in Carolingian Book Production
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsCarolingian book production needs to be understood within the context of the communication of knowledge, the transmission of ideas across time and space and the consequent formation of what can be described as a cultural map in Europe. -
Edward I, Arthurian Enthusiast
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsThe association of the kings of England with the legends of Arthur may be assumed to start with the dedication of one of the manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae to... -
Problems with medieval Welsh local administration – the case of the maenor and the maenol
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThis article proposes to look more closely at one level of this emergent Welsh territorial order, namely, the level of the maenor/maenol. -
Environs and hinterland: Cologne and Nuremberg in the later middle ages
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsPursuing the question of economic development and its spatial articulation with reference to the two most important German cities and their hinterlands during the transition from the middle ages to the early modern period is a double-edged venture. -
Beasts and Buildings: Religious Symbolism and Medieval Memory
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsFar from being a rare or special practice, the use of this mnemonic system was the universal foundation of medieval monastic education. -
Á Þá Bitu Engi Járn: a brief note on the concept of invulnerability in the Old Norse Sagas
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsHarald made for Thorir's ship because he was the greatest berserk, and very brave. There was the fiercest fighting on both sides. Then the king ordered his berserks forward. They were called wolfskins; but iron could not bite on them and when they charged nothing could withstand them -
The burh of Wallingford and its context in Wessex
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThere are many reasons for holding that the 31 burhs listed in the Burghal Hidage constituted a system in its fullest sense. One of the most telling of these is that the burghal territories of these burhs – the areas assigned to them for their upkeep – form a spatial jigsaw whose individual elements interlock with each other within the shires or their precursors. -
The Pictish Tattoo: Origins of a Myth
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsBy tracing the extant literary references based on Caesar’s remark it is possible to see just how the innocent observation came to apply to a totally different people—how the myth was born. -
Thomas Bradwardine: Forgotten Medieval Augustinian
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsIn spite of this dearth of scholarly publications on Bradwardine, he deserves serious consideration. From a church historical perspective, he represents a resurgence of a relatively pure Augustinianism in the late Middle Ages. -
Canute and his Empire
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe first mention of Canute in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is in the entry for 1013, where it is recorded that his father Sweyn, after taking hostages from the conquered territories of Northumbria, Lindsey, and the Five Borough Towns, -
The cost of enclosure and the benefits of convertible husbandry among peasant holdings in medieval England
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe present paper will attempt to address these issues and outline the attitudes of the peasantry in regard to the potential of enclosing land and adopting convertible husbandry. -
The Uses of Pragmatic Literacy in the Medieval Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (from the State Foundation to the End of the Sixteenth Century)
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe aim of my thesis is to reveal and understand processes behind the appearance and dissemination of literacy in the medieval principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. I will focus on the social and cultural factors that contributed to the adoption and use of writing from the appearance of the state until the end of the sixteenth century. -
Authentic performance of troubadour melodies
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsAncient Rome is remembered as one of the greatest military powers in history, its fame derived from the fearsome reputation of the empire's legionnaires. Lost in the telling, however, is the important role that espionage played in Rome's ascent to empire
