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Magna Carta Conference Offers New Insights Into The 800-year-old Document

Medievalists.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:32:45 +0000

Magna Carta just celebrated its 800th birthday this past Monday. In honour of this incredible milestone, King’s College London, and the Magna Carta Project, hosted a 3 day conference dedicated to this historic document.

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Bishops and Their Towns

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:17:37 +0000

Another #KZOO2015 post - this one examines Bishops and Their Towns.

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KZOO 2015: Session #42 – Magna Carta in Context

Medievalists.net — Mon, 18 May 2015 15:51:29 +0000

This coming week I’ll be featuring summaries on some of my favourites sessions and papers from #KZOO2015. I kicked off my first session on Thursday with the Magna Carta.

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Intersex in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:25:46 +0000

A brief look at how the medieval world viewed the Intersex individual.

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Raymund’s Daughter’s Divorce in the 9th-Century: a Woman’s Textual Role in the Breaking of an Alliance

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:57:39 +0000

This chapter will analyse an aspect of one of the divorce cases of the mid 9th century: I review its links with politics of the day and reconsider the roles given to wife and husband in the only text that deals with this case...

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Gender and Matrimonial Litigation in the Church Courts in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of the Court of York

Medievalists.net — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:09:41 +0000

If some later medieval males thought the courts were biased, what might the female perspective have been?

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Monsters: An etymological and cultural reading of the ‘freak’ in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:04:38 +0000

That the medievals did not interpret 'freaks' as an insult to creation is the theme of this paper, showing that medieval thought on the disabled body was not as 'backward' as the Dark Ages school of popular historical perception teaches

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Gratian’s Dilemma: The Man, the Prostitute, the Maid and the Infidel

Medievalists.net — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:33:34 +0000

The 12th-century scholar Gratian offers us a fictitious case of a man who wants to marry a prostitute. It only gets crazier from there!

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Emergency Baptisms in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Tue, 13 May 2014 14:03:47 +0000

What to do if the priest might not arrive in time to carry out a baptism?

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Intermarriage Between Christians and Jews in Medieval Canon Law

Medievalists.net — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:39:27 +0000

Restrictions on contact between Christians and Jews appeared early in Christian history and remained a prominent feature of ecclesiastical law throughout the Middle Ages.

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