Where the Middle Ages Begin
“With them she had her playful game”: The Performance of Gender and Genre in Ulrich von Lichtenstein’s Fraunendienst By Lisa Perfetti Chapter 4 of Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature, by Lisa Perfetti (Ann Arbor, 2003) Introduction: She was still on her horse, that paragon; many knights and pages were standing next to her. […]
Geometers at Brou: Architecture and ornament in Spain, Brabant and Western Europe around 1500 Kavaler, Ethan Matt (University of Toronto) Brou, a European Monument in the early Renaissance (2009) Abstract In this essay I wish to discuss connections between the brabantine Late Gothic Ornament of brou and architectural trends in late fifteenth-century Spain. Markus Hörsch has […]
‘Bastard Urbanism’? Past Forms of Cities in the Alpine Area of Tyrol-Trentino By Hannes Obermair Concilium medii aevi, Vol.10 (2007) Introduction: In this paper, I would like to link a regional historical examination with several conceptual considerations that lead into the topic of the formation of cities in the High and Late Middle Ages. In […]
“Maistrin” (Mastress) and Business-Woman Jewish Upper Class Women in Late Medieval Austria Keil, Martha Jewish Studies Public Lectures II (1996-1997) Abstract Apart from working as servants Jewish women primarily worked in the loan business in the Middle Ages, and they did this not only in Austria. Already the first Jewish woman mentioned in documents in […]
BUSINESS SUCCESS AND TAX DEBTS: JEWISH WOMEN IN LATE MEDIEVAL AUSTRIAN TOWNS Keil, Martha Jewish Studies Public Lectures II 1999 – 2001 (2002) Abstract In medieval Austria, the status of the Jews as individuals and as a community was regulated by the privilege given by Duke Frederick II in 1244, providing the legal basis for […]
Warfare and Society in the Carolingian Ostmark By Charles R. Bowlus Austrian History Yearbook, vol.14 (1978) Introduction: The relationship between military and social organization has long been a topic of major concern and debate among scholars specializing in the history of the European Middle Ages. It is a topic of importance, for, as we who live in […]
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