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Flandria Illustrata: Flemish Identities in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Medievalists.net — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:08:16 +0000

This chapter discusses identity formation in early modern Flanders. It argues that policy makers and their intellectual agents transformed the perception of a province that had been divided by urban rivalries, civil war and conflicts with the Burgundian and Habsburg overlords, into a bastion of the Catholic Counter Reformation with strong ties to the Spanish King and his representatives.

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Did Purchasing Power Parity Hold in Medieval Europe?

Medievalists.net — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:22:52 +0000

This paper employs a unique, hand-collected dataset of exchange rates for five major currencies (the lira of Barcelona, the pound sterling of England, the pond groot of Flanders, the florin of Florence and the livre tournois of France) to consider whether the law of one price and purchasing power parity held in Europe during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

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Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 May 2014 11:51:53 +0000

With a population of almost 10,000, Bristol was later medieval England’s second or third biggest urban place, and the realm’s second port after London. While not particularly large or wealthy in comparison with the great cities of northern Italy, Flanders or the Rhineland, it was a metropolis in the context of the British Isles.

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Lords Of The North Sea: A Comparative Study Of Aristocratic Territory In The North Sea World In The Tenth And Eleventh Centuries

Medievalists.net — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:32:58 +0000

The paper is a comparative study on the aristocrats of eastern England, eastern Normandy, western Flanders and central Norway.

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Learning by doing or expert knowledge? Technological innovations in dike-building in coastal Flanders (13th-18th centuries AD)

Medievalists.net — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:04:27 +0000

Dike construction apparently uses simple technology, with slow and gradual change; not the kind of technology that reshaped the material conditions of living, comparable to the spread of electricity or sanitation in the 19th century ‘networked’ city (and linked to the disciplining of society and the rise of domesticity and the modern self-reflexive individual) (often inspired by Latour and Foucault).

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Thomas Fitzanthony’s Borough: Medieval Thomastown in Irish History, 1171-1555

Medievalists.net — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:13:50 +0000

Thomas Fitzanthony’s Borough: Medieval Thomastown in Irish History, 1171-1555 Marilyn Silverman In the Shadow of the Steeple VI, Duchas-Tullaherin Parish Heritage Society (1998) Abstract In the year 1295, King Edward I “ordered that all goods belonging to subjects of the King of France should be seized and sold”. A man named Richard Ie Marshall then […]

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The Anna Selbdritt in late medieval Germany : meaning and function of religious image

Medievalists.net — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:58:30 +0000

The Anna Selbdritt in late medieval Germany : meaning and function of religious image Virginia Nixon Doctor of Philosophy, Concordia University, School of Graduate Studies, Montreal, Canada (1997) Abstract In the decades between 1480 and 1520 the production of images of Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child increased in Germany and the Netherlands in […]

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The God of History: The Concept of God in the Works of Galbert of Bruges and Walter of Thérouanne

Medievalists.net — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:26:48 +0000

Charles the Good, count of Flanders, was surrounded by assassins and killed by a sword blow to the forehead while praying in an upper chapel of his castral church of Saint Donation in Bruges on March 2, 1127.

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Urban Space and Political Conflict in Late Medieval Flanders

Medievalists.net — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:33:04 +0000

This essay investigates political claims over space in Ghent, urban Flanders’ largest city during the late Middle Ages.

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Flemings in the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381

Medievalists.net — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:30:56 +0000

While the Peasants’ Revolt has been studied in depth by generations of medieval historians, the same cannot be said of England’s foreign-born inhabitants, and the largest group among these, the so-called Flemings (a term which was also applied to those from other principalities in the Low Countries besides Flanders).

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