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Conflict and Coercion in Southern France
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper endeavors to examine the mechanisms by which the crown of France was able to subsume the region of Languedoc in the wake of the Albigensian Crusade in the thirteenth century. -
The Possible Reasons for the Arab-Khazar Wars
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsFrom the middle of the 7th century until the second half of the 8th century, the Arab-Khazar wars were fought by the Umayyad, and later by the Abassid Caliphate against the regional power, the Khazar Khaganate. -
The Development of Stained Glass in Gothic Cathedrals
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsIn this research paper, I will be primarily focusing on the stained glass windows and architectural styles employed in five gothic buildings in France, each having their own unique and notable attributes pertaining to the development of stained glass windows. -
Peter of Dusburg’s attitude towards the Holy Land in the Crusades Period
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsPeter of Dusburg, a monk and brethren of the Teutonic Order had been one of the greatest Chronicles writers of the Military Order. He had written his book 'Chronicon Terrae Prussiae' in Latin in 1326, during the tenure of the Teutonic Grand Master Werner von Orseln. -
Access to the Margins: Outlawry and Narrative spaces in medieval Icelandic outlaw sagas
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsIn a society where social ties and solidarity were needed in order to endure the unwelcoming weather and landscape, exclusion and isolation appear as the worst punishment that man can inflict to man, even worse than death. -
Signs and Senses: Diagnosis and Prognosis in Early Medieval Pulse and Urine Texts
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No Commentsin which they were made. These early medieval anthologies are quite different from Scholastic anthologies such as the Artkella, which were compiled as curriculum texts for the new, formalized medical instruction of the nascent universities. -
Magic for the dead? The archaeology of magic in later medieval burials
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsWas this magic healing or protective? Did it aim to safeguard the living or conjure the dead? Who were the recipients of such magical rites — and who was responsible for performing them? -
The Seven Deadly Sins: Some Problems of Research
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsIn the following pages, I should like to point out a number of aspects or areas which my own study of acedia has convinced me must and can be fruitfully explored.The account does not aim at comprehensiveness; certainly, other students of mediaeval thought and literature will be able to point out other desiderata. If it merely revives some interest in its subject, it will have fulfilled its purpose. -
The Eucharistic Man of Sorrows in Late Medieval Art
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsEucharistic devotion also found it's ways of visual expression in the art of the period. Numerous new iconographical types were created in late medieval art for the purpose of visualizing the mystery of the Eucharist. -
Dancing plagues and mass hysteria
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsJohn Waller on how distress and pious fear have led to bizarre outbreaks across the ages -
Maps Illustrating the Viking Invasions of England
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsThe accompanying maps, which were prepared for lecture-purposes, may perhaps be useful to others who want to illustrate a popular account of the Viking invasions of this country -
Lincolnshire and the Arthurian Legend
Posted on April 28, 2013 | No CommentsThis article is intended to rectify this, proceeding from the widely-held assumption of the existence of a genuinely ‘historical Arthur’, before going on to consider the even more fundamental question of whether we ought to believe in Arthur’s existence at all. -
Queen’s Gold and Intercession: The Case of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Posted on April 26, 2013 | No CommentsThis essay will consider basic questions about queen’s gold and intercession. First it will address the mechanics of the levy and collection of queen’s gold, beginning with fundamentals such as the nature of the levy and who paid. An investigation into the origins of queen’s gold will follow. -
King John’s Testament and the Last Days of his Reign
Posted on April 26, 2013 | No CommentsKing John's testament is the first royal testament or will to survive in its original form in an English context. -
Writing Away the Caliph: Political and Religious Legitimacy in Late Medieval Islamic Political Thought
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsIn 632, the death of the Prophet Muhammad was met with confusion, as he died without naming a successor; nor did he leave a blueprint detailing how political rule should take shape after his death -
Unusual Life, Unusual Death and the Fate of the Corpse: A Case Study from Dynastic Europe
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsThis article explores how deviant behaviour in life, deviant circumstances of death, and young age at death affected mortuary treatment among historically documented individuals from Medieval and Post-Medieval European dynasties. -
Economic Credit in Renaissance Florence
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsWhat were the social and institutional factors that led to, and reinforced, the precocious emergence of Florentine commercial capitalism, especially in the domain of international merchant banking? -
Society and Settlement in Glendalough and the Vartry before 1650
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsGlendalough and the Vartry yielded some of its secrets in these last four years and I became aware of its many unique aspects and the fact that the island viewpoints ofthe general political historian were not necessarily appropriate. -
The commons in medieval England
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsWhy was the same term 'commons' used to describe both a part of the English legislature and a large gathering of rebellious people? How had this double meaning come about and what did it imply for the workings of politics in late medieval England? -
From Montpèlerin to Tarabulus al-Mustajadda: The Frankish-Mamluk Succession in Old Tripoli
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsModern Tripoli still shows the division into two different urban areas existing since the Middle Ages. Until the arrival of the Crusaders Tripoli merely consisted of the ancient town on the coast. -
Identifying Women Proprietors in Wills from Fifteenth-Century London
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsMost Londoners lodged their post obit requests with the Husting Court, the county court of London. The testators were primarily wealthy artisans and merchants, since one needed to possess a substantial amount of property in order to register the details of the division of that property. -
“Walkynge in the mede” : Chaucerian gardens and the recasting of the Edenic fall
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsIn this thesis, I intend to illustrate how Chaucer uses his knowledge of garden traditions, both biblical and practical, to discuss the concept of the Garden of Eden and the Fall of humanity. -
Penance and Peter Abelard’s Move Within
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsOf the many individuals in the twelfth century whose fame in their own time has reached down to ours, figures like Thomas Becket, Frederick Barbarossa and Bernard of Clairvaux, there is no one whose fame surpassed that of Master Peter Abelard and no figure more public. Indeed, fame was something Abelard coveted, something he consciously built. -
Down and Out in Westeros, or: Economy and Society in George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsSo What’s a Dragon Worth, Anyway? -
Captain of Fortune: Galeazzo da Montova
Posted on April 20, 2013 | No CommentsEqually part knight and part bandit, the profession of condottiero created opportunity and social mobility unlike anything seen in the rest of Europe