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Papers on Medieval Prosopography: Session #47 at KZOO 2015

Medievalists.net — Sat, 30 May 2015 00:49:56 +0000

Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.

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Vice, Tyranny, Violence, and the Usurpation of Flanders (1071) in Flemish Historiography from 1093 to 1294

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:46:15 +0000

The earliest sources of the history of medieval Flanders do not agree on the origins of the counts. The earliest source, the so-called “Genealogy of Arnold [I],” credibly traces the counts’ origin to Baldwin I “Iron Arm,”...

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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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What Remains: Women, Relics and Remembrance in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:00:13 +0000

After the fall of Constantinople to the Latin Crusaders in 1204 hundreds of relics were carried into the West as diplomatic gifts, memorabilia and tokens of victory. Yet many relics were alsosent privately between male crusaders and their spouses and female kin.

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The influence of conflicting medieval church and social discourses on individual consciousness : dissociation in the visions of Hadewijch of Brabant

Medievalists.net — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:43:36 +0000

This article examines the influence of the conflicting dis- courses in the medieval church and its social context on the subconscious experiences of Hadewijch of Brabant, a 13th century Flemish visionary, mystical author, vernacular theologian and Beguine leader

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Northern Renaissance? Burgundy And Netherlandish Art In Fifteenth-Century Europe

Medievalists.net — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 07:44:16 +0000

Everyone who has studied medieval or modern history knows that the periodisation of the eras on either side of the Renaissance provides much food for thought. This contribution aims irst to address the usefulness of the widespread concept of the ‘Northern Renaissance’.

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Elite and government in medieval Leiden

Medievalists.net — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:01:58 +0000

The development of Leiden's 61ite is traced up to 1420. The siege of the city in that year and the assumption of power by Jan van Beieren resulted in important changes in the urban government: the faction of the Hoeken finally lost ascendancy and the viscount of Leiden ceased to have control over the city's administration.

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En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:27:05 +0000

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.

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Transylvanian Identities in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:33:42 +0000

Identity has become a subject of historical exploration as it is also one of the themes examined from the perspectives of various disciplines belonging to the social sciences such as sociology, psychology or anthropology.

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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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