Medieval landmarks in danger from rising sea levels
The Tower of London, the church of Mont-Saint-Michel, and the city of Venice are all in danger of flooding because of rising sea levels, a new study suggests.
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Drug Overdose, Disability and Male Friendship in Fifteenth-Century Mamluk Cairo
Posted on February 22, 2014 | No CommentsShihab al-Din al-Hijazi (1388-1471) was an unexceptional legal student in Mamluk Cairo, who, at the age of 24, overdosed on marking nut, a potent plant drug valued for its memory-enhancing properties -
Writing the Antithesis of María of Aragón: Alvaro de Luna’s Rendering of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris
Posted on February 22, 2014 | No CommentsOf the many works that form the canon of the debate on women in the fifteenth century, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula, there is a text that often omitted. This lesser known text was written by one of the most notorious figures in Spanish history: don Alvaro de Luna. -
Notarial Convention in the Facilitation of Trade and Economics in Mid-Thirteenth Century Marseille
Posted on February 22, 2014 | No CommentsThis paper examines Marseillaise notarial documents of 1248 from the cartulary of Girauld Amalric. Amalric’s cartulary demonstrates how notarial techniques and related legal conventions facilitated Marseille’s long- and short-distance trade. -
Textual Efflorescence and Social Resources: Notes on Mediaeval Iceland
Posted on February 21, 2014 | No CommentsThe overt double function of culture traits and products, namely instrumental- ity and symbolicity, which may be explicit in some elements, often remains hidden for other ones. -
The Charters of the Cinque Ports – Are They Still Needed?
Posted on February 21, 2014 | No CommentsThe heyday of the Cinque Ports was in medieval times when they provided a vital navy for the protection of the realm. Today, the Cinque Ports, and their charters, still exist. -
Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds
Posted on February 20, 2014 | No CommentsA Professor in Applied Linguistics believes he has decoded a few words from the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, a 600-year old work that has baffled scholars for the last hundred years. -
When Urine is like Snot – Middle English Uroscopy Texts
Posted on February 20, 2014 | No CommentsPeople in late medieval England were concerned about their health, and like their modern-day counterparts they might turn to self-help guides. One of the most popular ways to do this in the Late Middle Ages would be to analyze your own urine. -
Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy and Regent of the Netherlands
Posted on February 20, 2014 | No CommentsMargaret’s Motto: Fortune, Infortune, Fortune pretty much sums up her extraordinary life. -
Oh, Baby!
Posted on February 20, 2014 | No CommentsLike most things in the Middle Ages, the process of giving birth was mired in both superstition and religion. -
Call for Papers: Medieval and Renaissance Lost Libraries
Posted on February 20, 2014 | No CommentsThe 2014 conference of CILIP’s Library and Information History Group will have the theme 'Medieval and Renaissance Lost Libraries'. It will be held at Senate House in London on Saturday 12 July 2014. -
Conference: Guthlac of Crowland: Celebrating 1300 Years
Posted on February 20, 2014 | No CommentsYou are invited to attend Guthlac of Crowland: celebrating 1300 years’ in London, 10-11 April 2014. -
Medieval Castle and Hamlet for Sale in Italy: Castello Izzalini
Posted on February 18, 2014 | No CommentsGet an entire medieval village, dating back to the 12th century, with its own castle and church. -
Deceptive appearances? Reading medieval child monuments
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsTomb effigies and monuments offer important evidence on how dead children were commemorated and thus also on the status of children in the Middle Ages. -
Antiquarians, Archaeologists, and Viking Fortifications
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsThis article addresses the depth of our knowledge regarding Viking fortifications in England, Scotland, and Wales, assessing perceptions of them as a monument type -
Virgins, mothers, monsters : late-medieval readings of the female body out of bounds
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsThis dissertation examines representations of female corporeality in three late-medieval texts: the Pseudo-Ovidian poem, De vetula (The Old Woman); a treatise on human generation erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus, De secretis mulierum (On the Secrets of Women); and Julian of Norwich’s Showings, an autobiographical account of visions she experienced during an illness in 1373 -
Trading Networks, Monopoly and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Europe: an Agent-Based Simulation of Early Hanseatic Trade
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsLittle is known, however, on the emergence of this Hanseatic trading system in the high Middle Ages, a period characterised by a significant migration into the Baltic region and the foundation of numerous towns alongside the Baltic sea’s southern shore. -
Medieval studies as a state-supporting power: basic problems of German medieval studies in the German Empire until the Republic of Weimar
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsThe following paper is meant as a contribution to the mentioned critical description of German medieval studies, by referring to the history of historiography. -
Asserting Political Authority in a Sacred Landscape: A Comparison of Umayyad and Israeli Jerusalem
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsMaintenance of authority is of course the end goal, but how does political leadership 'build' political authority in the first place? -
A Medieval Guide to Friendship
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsWhat kind of friend are you? A 13th-century writer looks at types of friends, most of whom you want to stay away from! -
Medieval Mass Grave discovered underneath the Uffizi Gallery in Florence
Posted on February 17, 2014 | No CommentsWorkers doing renovations at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy have uncovered what seems to be the remains of a mass grave from the fifth-century AD. -
The date of Procopius’ Buildings in the light of recent scholarship
Posted on February 16, 2014 | No CommentsIn the last few years there has been a huge increase in the work on Procopius. While much of this has focussed, as usual, on the Anecdota or Secret History, there have also been important discussion of the De Aedificiis or Buildings. -
The Meek And Mighty Bride: Representations of Esther, Old Testament Queen of Persia, on Fifteenth-Century Italian Marriage Furniture
Posted on February 16, 2014 | No CommentsCassone and spalliere panels depicting the Old Testament Book of Esther were produced by a number of Florentine artists during the fifteenth century. -
BOOKS: Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Posted on February 16, 2014 | No CommentsEver wonder how monks, women and Vikings lived their day to day lives in the Middle Ages? These books will give you a glimpse into their world. -
Blue Eyes in the Islamicate Middle Ages
Posted on February 16, 2014 | No CommentsNegative representations of blue eyes in Islamicate literature and art have been ubiquitous since the advent of Islam in the seventh century CE -
Traditional Jewish Sexual Practices and Their Possible Impact on Jewish Fertility and Demography
Posted on February 15, 2014 | No CommentsWhy do Jews have such a low reproduction rate? And is this something that also characterized them in earlier periods?
