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A peasant is a peasant, is a peasant? : Medieval Maritime Peasant Lives

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:08:25 +0000

A peasant is a peasant, is a peasant...or is s/he? Was the life of a peasant who lived in the coastal regions of England the same as that of the peasant who made his livelihood toiling on the land for his local lord?

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Of sagas and sheep: Toward a historical anthropology of social change and production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:50:13 +0000

This dissertation deals with the formation of chiefdoms, communities, ecclesiastical institutions and state, and with production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland in the context of climatic change and ecological succession.

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Enemy and Ancestor: Viking Identities and Ethnic Boundaries in England and Normandy, c.950 – c.1015

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:14:42 +0000

This thesis is a comparison of ethnicity in Viking Age England and Normandy. It focuses on the period c.950-c.1015, which begins several generations after the initial Scandinavian settlements in both regions.

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Death as an architect of societies Burial and social identity during the Viking Age in South-western Scania

Medievalists.net — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:45:09 +0000

In my opinion, the mono-cultural Viking Age is largely the product of one past social group, that had imposed on us their narration about the events, through production of tangible and durable monuments and sources. If analysis of the past should be of any value, it needs to be not only specifically spatially located, but also socially located.

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Friendship Networks in Medieval Europe: New models of a political relationship

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:51:44 +0000

The relationship between friendship and politics in medieval Europe can appear to be fundamentally different from that experienced in modern societies. Friendship has, for some time, been recognised by medievalists as having an integral place in the formation of social bonds and political groupings and as contributing to the creation and maintenance of political order...

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Call for Papers: Moving Women, Moving Objects (300-1500) (ICMA CAA 2015)

Medievalists.net — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:05:58 +0000

CFP: Moving Women, Moving Objects (300-1500) (ICMA CAA 2015)

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Stature and frailty during the Black Death: the effect of stature on risks of epidemic mortality in London, A.D. 1348-1350

Medievalists.net — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:50:14 +0000

Recent research has shown that pre-existing health condition affected an individual ’ s risk of dying duringthe 14th-century Black Death. However, a previous study of the effect of adult stature on risk of mortality during the epidemic failed to ﬁnd a relationship between the two; this result is perhaps surprising given the well-documented inverse association between stature and mortality in human populations.

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Tooth-tool Use and Yarn Production in Norse Greenland

Medievalists.net — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 01:02:26 +0000

During a dental study of medieval Norse skeletons from Greenland, Iceland, and Norway, a distinct pattern of wear was observed on twenty-two anterior teeth of twelve Greenlanders.

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The Anglo-Saxon influence on Romano-Britain : research past and present

Medievalists.net — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:32:18 +0000

The Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition in Britain is one of the most striking transitions seen in the archaeological record. Changes in burial practice between these periods, along with historical, anthropological, environmental and linguistic evidence have all been thought to indicate that a mass migration of Angles and Saxons into Britain occurred in the 5th century A.D.

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Blood beliefs in early modern Europe

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:54:43 +0000

This thesis focuses on the significance of blood and the perception of the body in both learned and popular culture in order to investigate problems of identity and social exclusion in early modern Europe.

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