Medievalists.net » Edward II http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:44:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Tall Tales: The Trouble with Tours http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/tall-tales-the-trouble-with-tours/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/tall-tales-the-trouble-with-tours/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2015 22:19:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=63016 Tours. They can be great, or they can be cringeworthy and rife with misinformation. A great tour guide knows how to add a flourish or two to a story to keep the audience engaged and the history interesting. A bad tour guide invents things and hopes there isn’t a historian in the audience dismayed by the falsehoods they’re spreading to unwitting listeners...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/05/tall-tales-the-trouble-with-tours/feed/ 0 Magna Carta Conference Offers New Insights Into The 800-year-old Document http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/22/magna-carta-conference-offers-new-insights-into-the-800-year-old-document/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/22/magna-carta-conference-offers-new-insights-into-the-800-year-old-document/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:32:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59130 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/22/magna-carta-conference-offers-new-insights-into-the-800-year-old-document/feed/ 0 Chronicles and Politics in the Reign of Edward II http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/10/chronicles-and-politics-in-the-reign-of-edward-ii/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/10/chronicles-and-politics-in-the-reign-of-edward-ii/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:09:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58876 Historians have tended to give more weight to sources such as governmental and legal records than to chronicles, not least because so many survive. They open up areas of history impossible to access through chronicles alone, and they also provide a much more precise and detailed political narrative.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/10/chronicles-and-politics-in-the-reign-of-edward-ii/feed/ 0 Papers on Medieval Prosopography: Session #47 at KZOO 2015 http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/#comments Sat, 30 May 2015 00:49:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58508 Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/feed/ 0 How Significant Were Perceptions Of Marital Fidelity As An Aspect Of Kingship In The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries? http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/23/how-significant-were-perceptions-of-marital-fidelity-as-an-aspect-of-kingship-in-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/23/how-significant-were-perceptions-of-marital-fidelity-as-an-aspect-of-kingship-in-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:19:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57849 This paper, concentrating on the above mentioned monarchs, will argue that marital fidelity, whilst no means encouraged as a form of acceptable behaviour, was rarely used to criticise the kings of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and played little part in perceptions of their rule.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/28/edward-ii-children/feed/ 0 What’s the Matter?: Medieval Literary Theory and the Irish Campaigns in The Bruce http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/02/whats-matter-medieval-literary-theory-irish-campaigns-bruce/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/02/whats-matter-medieval-literary-theory-irish-campaigns-bruce/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:05:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50848 John Barbour’s Bruce, composed in the mid 1370s, is the first long poem in the Scots vernacular. It contains twenty books, the first thirteen of which trace the Wars of Liberty from their origins until triumph at the Battle of Bannockburn. At this point the Irish ‘matter’ enters the poem.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/02/whats-matter-medieval-literary-theory-irish-campaigns-bruce/feed/ 0 Alice de Lacy and the Hazards and Possibilities of Medieval Widowhood, 1322-1348 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/25/alice-de-lacy-hazards-possibilities-medieval-widowhood-1322-1348/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/25/alice-de-lacy-hazards-possibilities-medieval-widowhood-1322-1348/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:45:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48559 The widow of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, Alice found herself in a precarious position after her husband’s execution for treason in 1322.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/25/alice-de-lacy-hazards-possibilities-medieval-widowhood-1322-1348/feed/ 0 The Management of the Mobilization of English Armies: Edward I to Edward III http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/31/the-management-of-the-mobilization-of-english-armies-edward-i-to-edward-iii/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/31/the-management-of-the-mobilization-of-english-armies-edward-i-to-edward-iii/#comments Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:47:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47185 This thesis examines government administrative action that can be described as 'management', in the context of the logistics of mobilizing royal armies during the reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/31/the-management-of-the-mobilization-of-english-armies-edward-i-to-edward-iii/feed/ 0 Queer times: Richard II in the poems and chronicles of late http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/07/queer-times-richard-ii-in-the-poems-and-chronicles-of-late/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/07/queer-times-richard-ii-in-the-poems-and-chronicles-of-late/#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:14:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46462 The article focuses on the representation of deviant sexual behavior in 14th-century English poetry and other chronicles. The portrayal of King of England Richard II as a rebellious youth, which is interpreted as perverse and lacking manliness, and the propaganda needed to offset this perception are discussed. Historical information is given about the political culture and power of the church. The murder of Edward II after being accused of sodomy by the Bishop of Hereford is mentioned.

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