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Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II
Posted on January 3, 2011 | No CommentsTelling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II By V.A. Kolve Stanford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780804776585 Telling Images investigates certain symbolic traditions in Geoffrey Chaucer’s major poetry and... -
Arguments, Texts, and Contexts: Anselm’s Argument and the Friars
Posted on October 25, 2010 | No CommentsArguments, Texts, and Contexts: Anselm’s Argument and the Friars Matthews, Scott Medieval Philosophy and Theology 8 (1999) Abstract The contrast between the reception of Anselm’s Proslogion in the work of... -
The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan
Posted on August 24, 2010 | No CommentsThe Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan By Leland Liu Rogers Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009 ISBN: 978-3-447-06074-5 The Golden Summary of Cinggis Qayan (Cinggis Qayan-u Altan Tobci) is the earliest post-Mongol Empire... -
Article on Old English Bede, Book on Frankish Formulae, win Royal Historical Society prizes
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsThe Royal Historical Society announced their awards for outstanding historical scholarship and achievement earlier this summer, and two young medievalists came out as winners. George Molyneaux of Oxford University won... -
The Maps of Matthew Paris
Posted on July 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe Maps of Matthew Paris: Medieval Journeys through Space, Time and Liturgy By Daniel K. Connolly Boydell and Brewer, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834786 The illustrations of the Benedictine monk, artist, and chronicler... -
Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe
Posted on July 8, 2010 | No CommentsLandscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe By Lisa Bitel Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780195336528 At a time when... -
Licoricia of Winchester: Marriage, Motherhood and Murder in the Medieval Anglo-Jewish Community
Posted on July 5, 2010 | No CommentsLicoricia of Winchester: Marriage, Motherhood and Murder in the Medieval Anglo-Jewish Community By Suzanne Bartlet Vallentine Mithcell, 2009 ISBN: 978-05-85303-822-1 On a spring day in 1277, the prominent Jewish businesswoman... -
Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland
Posted on April 3, 2010 | No CommentsHofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age Feasting Hall in North-Eastern Iceland Edited by Gavin Lucas Institute of Archaeology (Iceland), 2009 An international group of 45 archaeologists provide an in-depth and... -
Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm
Posted on March 13, 2010 | No CommentsRecords, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm: Papers Commemorating the 800th Anniversary of King John’s Loss of Normandy Edited by Nicholas Vincent Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834854 The major... -
A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417)
Posted on March 13, 2010 | No CommentsA Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) Edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Thomas M. Izbicki Brill, 2009 ISBN: 978 90 04 16277 8 The division of the Church or... -
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsIn 2009 two books were published, each with the same title. Here is some details about both books: Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of... -
Medieval Dublin IX
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsMedieval Dublin IX Edited by Seán Duffy Four Courts Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-84682-171-4 This is the ninth volume of published proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposia held annually... -
Great Houses, Moats and Mills on the South Bank of the Thames
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsGreat Houses, Moats and Mills on the South Bank of the Thames: Medieval and Tudor Southwark and Rotherhithe By Simon Blatherwick and Richard Bluer Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2009... -
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450
Posted on December 31, 2009 | No CommentsConquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450 By Juliet Barker Little Brown, 2009 ISBN: 9781408700839 Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten,... -
The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe
Posted on December 13, 2009 | No CommentsThe North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Edited by James Muldoon Ashgate Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7546-5958-7 Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection... -
Absolutism in Renaissance Milan: Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329-1535
Posted on December 2, 2009 | No CommentsAbsolutism in Renaissance Milan: Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329-1535 By Jane Black Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780199565290 Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority... -
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I
Posted on November 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I By Nancy Goldstone Walker & Company, 2009 ISBN: 978-0802716705 On March 15, 1348, Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for... -
The Visigoths in History and Legend
Posted on November 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe Visigoths in History and Legend By J.N. Hillgarth Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2009 ISBN: 978–0–88844–166–9 This book explores one of the central myths of Spain: the idea that Spanish... -
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Posted on November 22, 2009 | No CommentsLost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization By Lars Brownworth Crown Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-307-40795-5 In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell – or rather,... -
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
Posted on November 22, 2009 | No CommentsThe Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire By Edward N. Luttwak Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-674-03519-5 In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the... -
The Invention of the Jewish People
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No CommentsThe Invention of the Jewish People By Shlomo Sand Verso, 2009 ISBN: 978-1844674220 Publisher’s Description: Leading Israeli historian evaluates the national myth of the Jewish exile from the promised land... -
Hildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No CommentsHildegard of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies: Speaking New Mysteries By Beverly M. Kienzle Brepols, 2009 ISBN: 978-2-503-51777-3 Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the only medieval woman known to have authored... -
Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No CommentsRewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century, Volume II, National Traditions Edited by J. Aurell Cardona and J. Pavón Benito Brepols, 2009 ISBN: 978-2-503-53144-1 The first volume of Rewriting... -
Ancient Warfare
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No CommentsAncient Warfare Edited by John Carman and Anthony Harding The History Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7524-5471-9 The authors examine the evidence of warfare in the prehistoric and early historical period to... -
Fish and Fishermen In English Medieval Church Wall Paintings
Posted on November 4, 2009 | No CommentsFish and Fishermen In English Medieval Church Wall Paintings By Frederick Buller Medlar Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-899600-98-4 Fred Buller is well respected as one of angling’s great historians but this book...