Ecclesiastical History Archive
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Top 10 Antipopes
Posted on January 25, 2015 | No CommentsA list of men who ultimately failed to become Pope. -
Raymund’s Daughter’s Divorce in the 9th-Century: a Woman’s Textual Role in the Breaking of an Alliance
Posted on November 23, 2014 | No CommentsThis 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... -
King’s sister, queen of dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her evangelical network
Posted on November 7, 2014 | No CommentsThis study reconstructs the previously unknown history of the most important dissident group within France before the French Reformed Church formed during the 1550s. -
Conflicting expectations: Parish priests in late medieval Germany
Posted on November 2, 2014 | No CommentsThe study investigates the expectations various groups in late medieval German society held of their parish priests and how these expectations were mediated through specific relationships. -
Bede’s Temple as History
Posted on October 28, 2014 | No CommentsAnother IHR paper, this time, a talk given about Bede’s writing and his interest in the image of the Temple and its relation to Christianity. This paper also examined how Bede’s views shifted over time. How did Bede view Judaism? Was he truly ambivalent? -
Instructions for a Parish Priest
Posted on October 24, 2014 | No CommentsMyrc was a clergyman writing in England in the early fifteenth century, and his long poem was created to help priests who were not particularly learned remember all the most important parts of their work. -
10 Terrifying Reads for Halloween!
Posted on October 23, 2014 | No CommentsHere are some spooky medieval books for you to celebrate with over Halloween! -
Does a Reformation End?: Rethinking Religious Simulation in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Posted on October 21, 2014 | No CommentsA paper examining the Italian Reformation. -
The Episcopal Body and Sexuality in Late Medieval England
Posted on October 15, 2014 | No CommentsHow was long-term celibacy thought to affect the health of religious men? How could medical knowledge help clerics to achieve bodily purity? -
Gender and Matrimonial Litigation in the Church Courts in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of the Court of York
Posted on October 8, 2014 | No CommentsIf some later medieval males thought the courts were biased, what might the female perspective have been? -
The Floating State: Trade Embargoes and the Rise of a New Venetian State
Posted on October 1, 2014 | No CommentsThis paper was given by Georg Christ and examined embargoes and state formation in the late medieval and early modern period in Venice. -
Latin Patrons, Greek Fathers: St Bartholomew of Simeri and Byzantine Monastic Reform in Norman Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
Posted on September 29, 2014 | No CommentsSt Bartholomew of Simeri (ca. 1050-1130), a Greek monastic founder and reformer from Calabria, saw the effective end of Byzantine imperial power in southern Italy in 1071, the conquest of Muslim Palermo by Robert Guiscard the following year, and the rise of the Norman kingdom of Roger II at the end of his life. -
Aberdeen Breviary goes online
Posted on September 26, 2014 | No CommentsA copy of the Aberdeen Breviary, one of the first printed books in Scotland, has been purchased by the National Library of Scotland and is now available to read online. -
10 Things to See at Southwark Cathedral
Posted on September 24, 2014 | No CommentsMy 10 favourite things about Southwark Cathedral. -
Fast and Feast – Christianization through the Regulation of Everyday Life
Posted on September 7, 2014 | No CommentsThis article will illustrate that an important part of rulers’ wish to create a Christian society was the introduction of Christian legislation. -
Europe and the beginning of Scottish sovereignty
Posted on September 6, 2014 | No CommentsScotland’s story may have been distinctive, but its experience was not. -
![Objections to Episcopal Elections in England, 1216-1272 Katherine Harvey Nottingham Medieval Studies: 55 (2011), pp. 125-48 Abstract In August 1228, following the death of Stephen Langton, the monks of Christ […]](http://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IMG_1057-115x115.jpg "Objections to Episcopal Elections in England, 1216-1272")
Objections to Episcopal Elections in England, 1216-1272
Posted on August 21, 2014 | No CommentsObjections to Episcopal Elections in England, 1216-1272 Katherine Harvey Nottingham Medieval Studies: 55 (2011), pp. 125-48 Abstract In August 1228, following the death of Stephen Langton, the monks of Christ […] -
Women’s Devotional Bequests of Textiles in the Late Medieval English Parish Church, c.1350-1550
Posted on August 18, 2014 | No CommentsMy investigation is set within the context of the current high level of interest in the workings of the late medieval parish. -
Amending the Ascetic: Community and Character in the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt
Posted on August 12, 2014 | No CommentsAmong the most eligible saints for such treatment, Mary of Egypt deserves particular consideration: her popularity is evidenced by over a hundred extant Greek manuscripts of her Life and her uniquely prominent position in the Lenten liturgical cycle in the Eastern Church. -
Redating the East-West Schism: An Examination of the Impact of the Sack of Constantinople in 1204
Posted on August 12, 2014 | No CommentsAlthough 1054 is indeed the date most often found on timelines and in textbooks—and therefore the date most often memorized by students of the medieval period—the majority of modern scholars recognize that the East-West Schism was in fact, as Timothy Ware writes, “something that came about gradually, as the result of a long and complicated process.” -
The Myth of Pope Joan
Posted on August 6, 2014 | No CommentsThe legend of Pope Joan is a myth whose origins can be traced to papal politics in the thirteenth century. -
Norse Influences in the Organisation of the Medieval Church in the Western Isles
Posted on August 5, 2014 | No CommentsIn its definitive form of a system of local churches serving identifiable districts, usually known as parishes, grouped together under a diocesan bishop, the medieval church cannot be said to have existed in the general area of Scotland until the twelfth century. At this time, and for some three centuries previously, the islands to the north and west, with parts of the adjacent mainland, were under Norse control. -
Saints’ Cults in Medieval Livonia
Posted on August 3, 2014 | No CommentsSaints' cults played a crucial role in medieval society. Although we know very little about the beliefs and rituals of the indigenous peoples of Livonia, either before or after the thirteenth-century conquest, we may assume that the process of Christianization must have caused major changes in their religious practices. -
![Fund-Raising for a Medieval Monastery: Indulgences and Great Bricett Priory R.N. Swanson Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History: Vol.40:1 (2001) Abstract Although they tend to evoke derision and […]](http://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Great_Bricett_-_Church_of_St_Mary__St_Laurence-115x115.jpg "Fund-Raising for a Medieval Monastery: Indulgences and Great Bricett Priory")
Fund-Raising for a Medieval Monastery: Indulgences and Great Bricett Priory
Posted on July 27, 2014 | No CommentsFund-Raising for a Medieval Monastery: Indulgences and Great Bricett Priory R.N. Swanson Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History: Vol.40:1 (2001) Abstract Although they tend to evoke derision and […] -
Pope vs State: The Medieval Catholic Church as an International Governmental Organization
Posted on June 16, 2014 | No CommentsThe object of this thesis is to understand the nature of these power struggles and to demonstrate that the medieval Church functioned in many ways like a prototype IGO.
