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		<title>The Barbican in Krakow</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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The Barbican is one of the remaining portions of the medieval walls that once surrounded Krakow. Built around 1498, the Barbican protects one of the main gateways into the city. With walls that are almost three meters thick, seven high turrets and over one hundred and thirty windows or loopholes ideal for shooting, the Barbican [...]


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		<title>Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities
By Francesco Salvestrini
The Medieval Chronicle II (Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle), edited by E. Kooper (Amsterdam, 2002)

Introduction: Giovanni Villani was undoubtedly one of the most important Florentine chroniclers of the communal era1 . His lifetime spanned the most dynamic period of Florentine medieval [...]


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		<title>Project to examine images of Hell in the medieval churches of Crete</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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Frescoes from the island of Crete depicting scenes of Hell and the punishments of the damned are the focus of a new research project led by historians in England and Germany.
Angeliki Lymberopoulou of The Open University, and Vasiliki Tsamakda, from the University of Mainz, aim to place and assess these representations within a wider geographical [...]


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		<title>The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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What constitutes ‘Britishness’ is turning out to be more complicated than many people previously believed. An innovative multidisciplinary research programme led by the University of Leicester is set to investigate its many dimensions and components.
The University is to receive a £1.37 million Research Programme Award granted by the Leverhulme Trust, over five years, to carry [...]


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		<title>Vultures, Whores, and Hypocrites: Images of Lawyers in Medieval Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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Vultures, Whores, and Hypocrites: Images of Lawyers in Medieval Literature
By James A. Brundage
Roman Legal Tradition, Vol. 1 (2002)
Introduction: I propose to examine in this paper the faults that medieval writers found with the lawyers they encountered during the high Middle Ages (by which I mean the two centuries between about 1150 and 1350) and to [...]


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		<title>Lawyers Laid Bare: The Private Lives of Medieval and Early Tudor Lawyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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The results of a two year project will soon reveal new insights into the rise of lawyers in the medieval and Tudor periods.  Professor Anthony Musson, a legal historian at the University of Exeter, is about to complete a new book entitled, Lawyers Laid Bare: The Private Lives of Medieval and Early Tudor Lawyers, [...]


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		<title>Karlsgrab: The Site and Significance of Charlemagne’s Sepulcher in Aachen</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalists.net/2010/09/01/karlsgrab-the-site-and-significance-of-charlemagne%e2%80%99s-sepulcher-in-aachen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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Karlsgrab: The Site and Significance of Charlemagne’s Sepulcher in Aachen
By John F. Moffitt
Quidditas, Vol. 30 (2009)
Abstract: The intention of what follows is to clear up one of the mysteries still surrounding the Charles the Great, now most commonly known by his later appellation “Charlemagne.” Born in 742, the son of King Pepin the Short (ca. [...]


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		<title>The End of Roman Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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The End of Roman Spain
By Michael Kulikowski
PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1997
Abstract: &#8216;The End of Roman Spain&#8217; narrates the                     history of the last years in which the         [...]


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		<title>Politics and the feud in late mediaeval Scotland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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Politics and the feud in late mediaeval Scotland
By Stephen Boardman
PhD Dissertation, University of St Andrews, 1990
Abstract: From the mid-fifteenth century onwards, the Scottish aristocratic community made increasing use of formal bonds of lordship, service and friendship. The first section of this thesis examines the relationship between formal bonding and the pursuit of feud and tenurial [...]


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		<title>A Layered Landscape: How the Family Sagas Mapped Medieval Iceland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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A Layered Landscape: How the Family Sagas Mapped Medieval Iceland
By Carol Hoggart
Limina, Vol.16 (2010)
The Icelandic Family Sagas – Old-Norse prose narratives written during the 1200s – inscribe in retrospect a process by which the unknown terrain of late ninth-century settlement Iceland is ‘mapped’ through association with human story. Space begs history: family sagas locate past deeds [...]


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