Medievalists.net » Bavaria http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Castle for Sale in Bavaria http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/01/medieval-castle-sale-bavaria/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/01/medieval-castle-sale-bavaria/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:49:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50831 Now a ruin, Castle Nesselburg was first mentioned in 1302 but is perhaps as old as the 11th century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/01/medieval-castle-sale-bavaria/feed/ 0 The Reputation of the Queen and Public Opinion: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/12/the-reputation-of-the-queen-and-public-opinion-the-case-of-isabeau-of-bavaria/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/12/the-reputation-of-the-queen-and-public-opinion-the-case-of-isabeau-of-bavaria/#comments Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:05:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46605 This essay takes issue with a still common tendency to read contemporary criticisms of powerful women as straightforward evidence of their “unpopularity,” using as a cast study Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435), who was generally imagined to have suffered the scorn of her contemporaries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/12/the-reputation-of-the-queen-and-public-opinion-the-case-of-isabeau-of-bavaria/feed/ 0 The Early German Settlement of North Eastern Moravia: and What the Pied Piper of Hamelin Had to Do with It http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-early-german-settlement-of-north-eastern-moravia-and-what-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-had-to-do-with-it/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-early-german-settlement-of-north-eastern-moravia-and-what-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-had-to-do-with-it/#comments Sun, 29 Dec 2013 20:45:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46173 Long ago, primordial forests, dark and impenetrable, surrounded the mountainous frontier, which today separates northeastern Bohemia from large parts of northern Moravia in the Czech Republic. This area was situated north of the sparsely populated flatlands of the March (Morava) River. The stillness of the forests remained largely undisturbed by man.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-early-german-settlement-of-north-eastern-moravia-and-what-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-had-to-do-with-it/feed/ 0 The Brewer, the Baker, and the Monopoly Maker http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-brewer-the-baker-and-the-monopoly-maker/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-brewer-the-baker-and-the-monopoly-maker/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:33:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45217 This paper seeks to examine how productive entrepreneurial activities, such as innovation, influence unproductive entrepreneurial activities, such as regulatory rent seeking.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-brewer-the-baker-and-the-monopoly-maker/feed/ 0 Why There May Have Been Contacts between Slovenes and Jews before 1000 A.D. http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/16/why-there-may-have-been-contacts-between-slovenes-and-jews-before-1000-a-d/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/16/why-there-may-have-been-contacts-between-slovenes-and-jews-before-1000-a-d/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:19:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39887 The first documented evidence of a Jewish presence in Slovenia dates from the 13th century, when Yiddish- and Italian-speaking Jews migrated south from Austria to Maribor and Celje, and east from Italy into Ljubljana. This is a good three centuries after the first mention of Jews in the Austrian lands.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/16/why-there-may-have-been-contacts-between-slovenes-and-jews-before-1000-a-d/feed/ 0 Pilgrimage and Embodiment: Captives and the Cult of Saintsin Late Medieval Bavaria http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/pilgrimage-and-embodiment-captives-and-the-cult-of-saintsin-late-medieval-bavaria/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/pilgrimage-and-embodiment-captives-and-the-cult-of-saintsin-late-medieval-bavaria/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 06:16:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38235 Chief among the stories contained in these miracle stories are tales of escapes from captivity. Almost forty percent of the reports in the two Munich Latin miracle collections deal with liberations from imprisonment and escapes from captivity of various sorts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/24/pilgrimage-and-embodiment-captives-and-the-cult-of-saintsin-late-medieval-bavaria/feed/ 0 Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/12/modernization-of-the-government-the-advent-of-philip-the-good-in-holland-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/12/modernization-of-the-government-the-advent-of-philip-the-good-in-holland-2/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:48:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32679 As I have shown elsewhere, the county of Holland underwent a structural change in the second half of the fourteenth century, when economically the emphasis shifted from agriculture to trade and industry and demographically from the country to the towns. The institutions however did not change.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/12/modernization-of-the-government-the-advent-of-philip-the-good-in-holland-2/feed/ 0 Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/02/modernization-of-the-government-the-advent-of-philip-the-good-in-holland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/02/modernization-of-the-government-the-advent-of-philip-the-good-in-holland/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:58:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26081 Modernization of the Government: the Advent of Philip the Good in Holland Jansen, H.J.H Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Vol.95 (1980) Abstract On the sixth of January 1425 John of Bavaria died. He had been a former bishop-elect of Liège in Belgium and had been for the last six years of his life […]

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