Fourteenth Century Archive
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Edward I and the Ritualization of English Royal Round Table Festivals
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn the Annales Angliae et Scotiae, a chronicle written around the year 1312 by a monk from the abbey of St Albans, there is a description of the wedding ceremonies between King Edward I and Margaret of France, that took place on 10 September 1299. -
Thomas Bradwardine: Forgotten Medieval Augustinian
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsIn spite of this dearth of scholarly publications on Bradwardine, he deserves serious consideration. From a church historical perspective, he represents a resurgence of a relatively pure Augustinianism in the late Middle Ages. -
The introduction and use of the pavise in the Hundred Years War
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No CommentsWhen the Genoese had all been brought together and put in order, and after they had begun to approach their enemy, they started to shout as loud as they could to frighten the English. -
Ibn Battuta: An Overview
Posted on May 6, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the most difficult tasks of the historian's profession is vividly recreating the past, not as a series of events, but as a living reality filled with living people. For this reason, eyewitness accounts like those of Ibn Battuta's are invaluable for gaining insights into this dynamic entity. -
Contributions of contemporary science to Chaucer’s work
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No CommentsThe thesis shows that the Medieval Sciences made a significant contribution to Chaucer's mind and art, and that Chaucer shared the attitude of great scholars before and after him -
A Hotbed for Dissidence: Southeast England in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
Posted on May 2, 2012 | No CommentsWhat were the causes and circumstances that led not only to the ebullient revolt in Southeast Europe, but also to ist relative success? -
A Merchant’s Franklin’s Tale
Posted on May 2, 2012 | No CommentsExamines Geoffrey Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale, found in The Canterbury Tales, and a 15th century exemplum known as A Good Matter of the Merchant and His Son. -
‘He contents the people wherever he goes’ Richard III: His Parliament and Government
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsIn recent years new biographies of great figures such as Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy have shed great light on key issues of English-European relations, while studies of Margaret Beaufort have redefined the political role of the women of this era. -
In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe river Lima, which crosses the upper Minho region, one of the great and beautiful landscapes in Portugal, had witnessed some of the most significant moments of her life. And yet, Inês had probably been born very far away in England, in the reign of Edward III. -
Guillaume de Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame” in the context of fourteenth-century polyphonic music for the Mass Ordinary
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsIt is a contention of this thesis that, among these sources of fragmentary or whole (that is, five- or six- movement), Mass cyles, a historical context may be found for the Messe de Nostre Dame, a work which has traditionally been approached as though is possessed no such context. -
“Hic Facet Arthurus, Rex Quondam, Rexque Futurus:” The Analysis of Original Medieval Sources in the Search for the Historica King Arthur
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe heroic tales of the legendary King Arthur have survived throughout many centuries. Modern society has learned of this celebrated figure through oral and literary tradition, such as the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s pseudo-history Historia Regum Britanniae, Sir Thomas Malory’s romantic epic Le Morte d’Arthur and medieval Arthurian poetry. -
William of Ockham’s Early Theory of Property Rights: Sources, Texts, and Contexts
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis is nominally about William of Ockham, a theologian who did not care to read potentially damning papal constitutions until tapped to do so by a superior (superiore mandate). Following a suggestion of R. G. Collingwood, a proper first question we should ask, is what was this supposedly unwilling theologian trying to do by composing the longest defense of Franciscan poverty ever written? -
Men for all seasons? The Strathbogie earls of Atholl and the Wars of Independence, c.1290-c.1335
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsWhen Edward Balliol died without direct heirs in 1364, the dynastic rivalry between the Bruce and Balliol families that existed since 1290 came to an end. -
Factionalism and noble power in English Ireland, c 1361-1423
Posted on April 21, 2012 | No CommentsIreland in the late middle ages was a conflicted land. The most obvious manifestation of this was the schism between the English colonists, whose acquisitive ancestors had invaded Ireland in the late twelfth century, and the native Gaelic population. -
Lollard Theology: A Soteriological Analysis of the English Wycliffite Sermon Cycle
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsPrototestant ideas are evident throughout Wyclif's later works and the flood of Wycliffite tracts and writings which were published in the late 1370's and 80's; but they are most clearly and systematically communicated in the collection of English Wycliffite sermons which were compiled, one sermon for each of the services in the church calendar year, sometime near, or soon after, the end of Wyclif's life.
