Immigration and Identity in the Middle Ages : French Immigrants to Constantinople and Greece in the Thirteenth Century

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Immigration and Identity in the Middle Ages : French Immigrants to Constantinople and Greece in the Thirteenth Century Erica Jo Gilles Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre, Vol. 10 (2006) Abstract After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory. Starting from the captured imperial center, westerners moved into […]

Domestic violence in late-medieval Bologna

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The aim of this paper is to suggest that married life in Renaissance Italy was much more violent than the current historiography allows.

Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England

Detail of a miniature of a monk or a canon as judge separating a husband and wife holding a baby, at the beginning of causa 30

Scholars of the medieval family would agree that the lot of the medieval wife was not an easy one.

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