This was another interesting paper from the Mental Health in Non-medical Terms session at KZOO on notaries, and how crimes committed under “mental duress” were processed.
Chivalry and Public Disorder in Thirteenth-Century Florence
May 13, 2013 By
The was the second of two fabulous papers given at the my first session on Medieval violence. Whereas the first paper in this series looked at violence in the university setting, this one tackled violence in an elite sphere – Florentine knights and their retinues.
Stepmothers as Villains: The Dark Side of Medieval Motherhood
April 16, 2013 By
Anglo-Norman writers seem to assign women to one of two extremes within the chronicles: on one side there are women who are presented as visions of perfection. With almost super-human ease, these women excel at marriage, motherhood, and religious devotion all of which are reflected in their physical beauty.
The Birth of Heloise: New Light on an Old Mystery
March 18, 2013 By
So where did she come from, this extraordinary woman and what was the composition of genes that went into her inheritance?
The Family Consciousness in Medieval Genoa: The Case of the Lomellini
March 10, 2013 By
The most famous figure of the family in this century was Napoleone Lomellini. He was a member of the ‘anziani’ and was known as ‘multum dives et magnus mercator a very rich and important merchant’
Personal’ Rituals: The Office of Ceremonies and Papal Weddings, 1483-1521
March 3, 2013 By
This analysis reveals the increasing involvement of papal ceremonialists in the preparation and supervision of wedding events,5 highlighting the ceremonialists’ own broad definition of their mandate and a pragmatic approach to the boundaries of papal ritual.
The Church and sexuality in medieval Iceland
February 13, 2013 By
From its earliest days Christianity has attempted to control human sexuality. The letters of Paul and the writings of the Church Fathers praise the state of virginity above that of marriage, and within matrimony permit sex only for procreation.
En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
January 27, 2013 By
Late-medieval representationsof the births of holy and heroic children invariably show a domestic interior with the new mother lying in bed attended
by female assistants.These images thus appearto show a `genderedspace’ in which women cared for each other and from which men were marginalized.
Spouses, Siblings and Surnames: Reconstructing Families From Medieval Village Court Rolls
January 7, 2013 By
From the perspective of a medievalist, this work is clearly essential; most medieval people, quite simply, were peasants, and we shall better understand the histories of medieval parliaments, towns, and universities when we have successfully uncovered their rural underpinnings.
Matrimonial politics and core-periphery interactions in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Scotland
December 31, 2012 By
The medieval kingdom of Scotland was a rich amalgam of diverse ethnic elements which reflected the turbulent history of the first millennium of its development.
The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Ecclesiastical Administration, Literacy, and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity
November 28, 2012 By
In what follows, therefore, I provide a detailed study of Icelandic clergy and the institutions of the Icelandic Church in the period from 1300 to 1404.
Noble and Urban Family-Structures in the Late Middle Ages in the Hungarian Kingdom
November 15, 2012 By
The everyday life of the clan people was filled with disputes over small plots, since it was the main duty of each generation to preserve and enlarge the lands of the clan. It was also the basic interest of the members of the clans to secure the survival of the clan by marriages that were fertile in every sense. It was a sign of the strength of the clan that the members had to consult before taking decisions in questions of marriage, inheritance.
Shifting Experiences: The Changing Roles of Women in the Italian, Lowland, and German Regions of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
November 12, 2012 By
Specifically, the thesis compares and analyzes the changing roles that women could employ economically, politically, socially, and religiously.
Coptic Conversion and the Islamization of Egypt
October 28, 2012 By
Most recently, Tamer el-Leithy has made a comprehensive study of Coptic conversion during the Mamluk period. In length and depth, this still-unpublished work eclipses the preceding article-length studies. Its subject is focused on conversion among the Coptic upper class in Cairo during the fourteenth century…
The Family of Wilfred I, the Hairy: Marriage and the Consolidation of Power, 800-1000
October 16, 2012 By
My principal objective is to reconsider the system of marriage alliances of the counts of the Marca Hispanica during the generations immediately before and after Wilfred I
The status of women in Roman and Frankish law
October 10, 2012 By
Under both Roman and Frankish laws, women, although they did not have judicial equality with men, did have many legal rights and freedoms.
The Three Loves of Cúchulainn: The Impact of Warrior Relationships in The Táin
September 30, 2012 By
Before discussing the relationship between Cúchulainn and Fergus, fosterage in medieval Ireland must be understood. The fostering of children was common in the early middle ages. It entailed send- ing children away from their birth parents to be raised in comparable households until about the age of seventeen. This system was important for both the families and the children who were fostered.
The development of incest regulations in the early Middle Ages : family, nurturance, and aggression in the making of the medieval West
September 13, 2012 By
In the late sixth century, Brunhild, queen mother for one branch of the Merovingians and herself a Visigothic princess, met with Guntram, the over-king of the Franks, to discuss the marriage of her daughter Chlodosind to her first cousin once removed, Reccared.
Mothering in the Casa Datini
September 8, 2012 By
The Casa Datini flourished in a region and during a period that historians have carefully explored for decades. Despite its value, however, few researchers travel to Prato to use the Datini collection.
Gender Equality in Wage Labour Relations: the example of statutory regulation in late medieval and early Tudor England
September 2, 2012 By
The first question, not yet raised in labour historiography, is about the impact of wage labour relations on gender equality.
The second question is related to the first one: what role did women play as protagonists of wage labour relations.
Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France
May 25, 2012 By
These days when chivalry is everywhere on the decline, and no one dares to tourney anymore, and all knights are cowards, women are all the more courageous in battle.’
The Emergence of the Medieval Family
November 8, 2011 By
By in large, the consensus is now that there was nothing linear, nothing coherent or historically invariant about the emergences and maturation of the medieval family. It is a wild, chaotic, and often difficult story to follow.
Providers and Educators: The Theory and Practice of Fatherhood in Late Medieval Basel, 1475-1529
January 4, 2011 By
Using Basel as a case-study reveals important connections between the various roles that fathers played. Two roles stand out: father as provider and father as educator.
Coming of Age and the Family In Medieval England
October 23, 2010 By
When and how did children become adults in medieval society?
The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424–1529
July 26, 2010 By
When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of her tether.
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