Medievalists.net » Colonialism 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 Race, Periodicity, and the (Neo-) Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/25/race-periodicity-neo-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/25/race-periodicity-neo-middle-ages/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2014 06:54:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52114 My goal is to intervene in ongoing discussions of race and periodicity, particularly vis-à-vis medieval culture, in order to investigate the informing role of the medieval and more particularly of medievalisms in the construction, representation, and perpetuation of modern racisms.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/25/race-periodicity-neo-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Church Reunification: Pope Urban II’s Papal Policy Towards the Christian East and Its Demise http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/18/church-reunification-pope-urban-iis-papal-policy-towards-the-christian-east-and-its-demise/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/18/church-reunification-pope-urban-iis-papal-policy-towards-the-christian-east-and-its-demise/#comments Mon, 19 Aug 2013 01:25:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42977 What separates this brief work from that of previous historians is that it focuses on the formation and changes of papal policy in regards to the Eastern Orthodox Church during the First Crusade, exclusively.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/18/church-reunification-pope-urban-iis-papal-policy-towards-the-christian-east-and-its-demise/feed/ 0 Intermarriage in fifteenth-century Ireland: the English and Irish in the ‘four obedient shires’ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/31/intermarriage-in-fifteenth-century-ireland-the-english-and-irish-in-the-four-obedient-shires/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/31/intermarriage-in-fifteenth-century-ireland-the-english-and-irish-in-the-four-obedient-shires/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:28:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40197 The so-called ‘four obedient shires’ of Meath, Kildare, Louth and Dublin are a fruitful area for a study of marriage between the English of Ireland and the Irish, as these counties comprised the region of the colony most firmly under English control in the fifteenth century. Much of the anti-Irish rhetoric that survives in sources from the period...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/31/intermarriage-in-fifteenth-century-ireland-the-english-and-irish-in-the-four-obedient-shires/feed/ 0 Colonization activities in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/24/colonization-activities-in-the-latin-kingdom-of-jerusalem/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/24/colonization-activities-in-the-latin-kingdom-of-jerusalem/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:58:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40050 The following paper is an attempt to describe one important feature of the social and economic problems of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: The colonization activities of the Crusaders in the Holy Land.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/24/colonization-activities-in-the-latin-kingdom-of-jerusalem/feed/ 0 Functions of the Cantred in Medieval Ireland http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/functions-of-the-cantred-in-medieval-ireland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/functions-of-the-cantred-in-medieval-ireland/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:39:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39907 The cantred as territorial division was recognised everywhere in Ireland by the Anglo-Norman colonists in the first decades of the establishment of the colony. The subsequent use made of these units depended on a number of variables.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/functions-of-the-cantred-in-medieval-ireland/feed/ 0 The Archaeology of Colonialism in Medieval Ireland: Shifting Patterns of Domination and Acculturation http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/the-archaeology-of-colonialism-in-medieval-ireland-shifting-patterns-of-domination-and-acculturation/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/the-archaeology-of-colonialism-in-medieval-ireland-shifting-patterns-of-domination-and-acculturation/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:05:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37302 This project seeks to identify the processes at work in Scandinavian and Anglo- Norman colonialism in Ireland, and their interaction with the landscape, by examining the impact of each phase of activity on the settlement pattern in two representative case-study regions. The successes, failures, similarities and differences of Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman settlement and society in Ireland are examined and compared in this project in terms of three sub-phases of the overall process, namely expansion, consolidation and domination, within an overall developmental diachronic framework.

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