Franchises north of the Border: Baronies and regalities in medieval Scotland
Franchises north of the Border: Baronies and regalities in medieval Scotland By Alexander Grant Liberties and Identities in Medieval British Isles, edited by…
Banditry and the Subversion of State Authority in China: The Capital Region during the Middle Ming Period (1450-1525)
Banditry and the Subversion of State Authority in China: The Capital Region during the Middle Ming Period (1450-1525) By David M. Robinson Journal…
Value and symbolic practices: objects, exchanges, and associations in the Italian courts (1450-1500)
Value and symbolic practices: objects, exchanges, and associations in the Italian courts (1450-1500) By Leah Ruth Clark PhD Dissertation, McGill University, 2009 Abstract: Arguing…
Lordship and Principality: Colonial Policy in Ireland and Aquitaine in the 1360s
Lordship and Principality: Colonial Policy in Ireland and Aquitaine in the 1360s By David Green Journal of British Studies, Volume 47, Number 1…
Taxation Mechanisms and Growth in Medieval Paris
We model the mechanism used by the city of Paris to collect the taille and show it was efficient and effective.
Iran under Mongol domination: The effectiveness and failings of a dual administrative system
Iran under Mongol domination: The effectiveness and failings of a dual administrative system By Denise Aigle Bulletin d’Etudes Orientales, Suppl.57 (2008) Introduction: At the beginning of…
Isola non isolata. Le Stinche in the Middle Ages
Isola non isolata. Le Stinche in the Middle Ages By Guy Geltner Annali di Storia di Firenze, Vol.3 (2008) Introduction: The Italian government’s Department of…
Barcelona, a Society and its Law: 11th-13th Centuries
The legal system in Barcelona in the Lower Middle Ages – which we regard as a synthesis of rights (usages, customs, privileges, laws, and so on) and organization (municipality, universitat de prohoms, consulates, etc.) – had already attained maturity in the 13th century.
Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity
Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity By Mary Olson Constructing the Past, Vol.9:1 (2008) Abstract: One of the few things that prisons were not…
The Financial Reforms of Sultan Qāytbāy
The Financial Reforms of Sultan Qāytbāy By Igarashi Daisuke Mamluk Studies Review, Vol.13:1 (2009) Introduction: The expansion of the Ottoman Empire from the middle of…
Symbiotic Relations: Ulama and the Mamluk Sultans
Symbiotic Relations: Ulama and the Mamluk Sultans By Yaacov Lev Mamluk Studies Review, Vol.13:1 (2009) Introduction: The ulama played a vital role in the…
THE RECRUITMENT SYSTEM OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAUCRACY OF LATER HAN
THE RECRUITMENT SYSTEM OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAUCRACY OF LATER HAN By Rafe de Crespigny The Chung Chi Journal, Vol.6:1 (1966) Introduction: After the civil…
Handbooks and local jurisdiction in Ming China. According to the sections on judicial matters in the «Shih cheng lu» by Lü K’un, a handbook for magistrates
Handbooks and local jurisdiction in Ming China. According to the sections on judicial matters in the «Shih cheng lu» by Lü K’un, a…
Forests as Exercises in Medieval Power
It has been estimated by historian and professor Charles R. Young that during the thirteenth century one quarter of the land in England was designated as royal forest.
The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in the Medieval Islamic City
The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in the Medieval Islamic City By Abbas Hamdani Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol.17:1 (2008) Introduction: the ancient…
Transition to the Renaissance: Republican Values and Ideals in Florence and Siena, 1300-1500
By the close of the fourteenth century, Siena, once an expanding medieval Italian commune, was declining almost as quickly as she had risen.
On German Knights in Denmark during the reign of Valdemar Atterdag 1340-1375
On German Knights in Denmark during the reign of Valdemar Atterdag 1340-1375 By Juha Heinänen Ennen Ja Nyt, Vol.4 (2004) Introduction: German nobility in 14th…
Lords and Lordship in the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages
Lords and Lordship in the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages By Rees Davies, edited by Brendan Smith Oxford University Press, 2009…
The trip of the Great Persian Embassies to Byzantium during the reign of Justinian I (527-565) and its logistics
The trip of the Great Persian Embassies to Byzantium during the reign of Justinian I (527-565) and its logistics By Ioannis Dimitroukas BYZANTINA…
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government By Thomas N. Bisson Princeton University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-691-13708-7 Medieval…
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England By Nathaniel L. Taylor Haskins Society Journal, Vol. 15 (2005) Synopsis: In…
Before the Welfare State: the City and Welfare in the Veneto, 13th to 15th Centuries
From the 12th century on parts of northern and central Italy developed welfare systems that would characterize social life during the age of the Communes and throughout the following centuries.
Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries By Fabrizio Titone Brepols, 2009 ISBN: 978-2-503-52757-4 The volume examines urban…
Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance
Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance Edited by W. Mark Ormrod, Gwilym Dodd and Anthony Musson Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781903153253 The mechanics, politics and culture…
The Establishment of the Town Consulate in Medieval Agen
The Establishment of the Town Consulate in Medieval Agen By Frank Williams Paper given at the Austrian Scholars Conference (2002) Introduction: When in 1789 the leading…