Daily Life Archive
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The cost of enclosure and the benefits of convertible husbandry among peasant holdings in medieval England
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe present paper will attempt to address these issues and outline the attitudes of the peasantry in regard to the potential of enclosing land and adopting convertible husbandry. -
The genetic and historical linkage between the Old Norwegian Sheep, the Icelandic Sheep and the Navajo Churro
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsIt may be possible to substitute a readily available double coated sheep fleece from the American Southwest for the original Scandinavian double coated fleece in order to make suitable vadmal fabric for clothing -
‘The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsSumptuary legislation can be defined as a set of regulations, passed down by legislators through statutory law and parliamentary proclamations, that sought to regulate society by dictating what contemporaries could own or wear based on their position within society. -
Personal Piety or Priestly Persuasion: Evidence of Pilgrimage Bequests in the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsHowever, when we consider the number of individuals, particularly from the lower orders, who actually undertook a pilgrimage at some point in their lives, we find that we actually know remarkably little about them. -
The origin of chantries
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThroughout Western Europe, the chantry and the chantry chapel represented a characteristic form of late medieval piety, to which large resources were committed, both spiritual and temporal. -
Women and Marriage in Medieval Society
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe feudal world was a face-to-face society in which women participated in important activities and were expected to submit to social discipline like their men. -
Flowers for the Book-binder’s Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women’s Writing
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsTo an early modern, nothing could be fully learned through a “hands off” approach. Heidi Brayman Hackel corroborates this with her book, Reading Material. Critical to early modern thoughts on comprehension was “taking note,” a phrasing that carried the double implication of both noticing and annotating... -
The female body, animal imagery, and authoritarian discourse in the Ancrene Riwle
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsThrough close reading and rhetorical analysis of numerous passages in the guide, this dissertation re-examines the importance of the body and authority in this work and notes the points at which the discourse of the Ancrene Riwle tends to place restrictions on its audience of medieval women religious. -
Bones4Culture project to examine a thousand medieval skeletons from northern Europe
Posted on April 16, 2012 | No CommentsA new project is underway to analyze population, life, health and culture of the people that lived in the German-Danish border land during the Middle Ages (AD 1050 – 1536). -
Stress Along the Medieval Anglo-Scottish Border? Skeletal Indicators of Conflict-Zone Health
Posted on April 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe medieval British populations living along the Anglo-Scottish border from the 10th through the 16th century were hypothesised to have significantly higher mortality and morbidity rates than contemporary populations living in other regions of Britain that were not exposed to chronic border warfare. -
Joan of Kent : life and legends
Posted on April 10, 2012 | No CommentsThere is no biography of Joan, contemporary or modern. All that we know about her life has been pieced together from chronicles and legal records. -
The Viking Cities of Dublin and York: Examining Scandinavian Cultural Change and Viking Urbanism
Posted on April 10, 2012 | No CommentsDubh Linn and Jorvik, as Dublin and York were known in the Viking Age, both experienced enormous change during their time as Viking colonial centers. -
The mandrake plant and its legend: a new perspective
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsAs a specialist in German mediaeval studies, until the time Peter Bierbaumer introduced me to Old English plant names and approached me with the idea of republishing and updating his Der botanische Wortschatz des AltenglischenI had no idea how fascinating Old English could be. -
VAGANTES: Hālnes and hǽlþ:Anglo-Saxon Bodily Wellness
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No CommentsSince most of the surviving mentions of wellness relate to the health of the soul, it is not clear what constituted a healthy Anglo-Saxon body. This paper will use the Old English poem Soul and Body and Old English medical texts to explore Anglo-Saxon bodily wellness. -
Chaucer’s female characters in the Canterbury Tales
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsThis essay will also demonstrate that in order to be considered a good wife a woman needed to be humble and obedient and to accept her fate as being subject to male authority figure without resistance.
