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The Floating State: Trade Embargoes and the Rise of a New Venetian State

Medievalists.net — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:42:06 +0000

This paper was given by Georg Christ and examined embargoes and state formation in the late medieval and early modern period in Venice.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Barbarossa – Siege Lord

Medievalists.net — Wed, 28 May 2014 10:46:49 +0000

MOVIE REVIEW: Barbarossa – Siege Lord “I order Milan to be raised to the ground. None of its towers will ever be standing. I also order all the Milanese to leave the city before sunset, in all different directions so that no one will be able to call themselves Milanese and the name “milan” will […]

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Regnum et sacerdotium in Alsatian Romanesque Sculpture: Hohenstaufen Politics in the Aftermath of the Investiture Controversy (1130-1235)

Medievalists.net — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 23:01:05 +0000

Although no longer preserved today, a series of paintings in the St. Nicholas chapel of the Lateran palace in Rome incurred Frederick Barbarossa’s wrath because they presented his predecessor, King Lothar of Supplinburg (1025-1137), in a submissive position as the pope’s vassal

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Penance and Peter Abelard’s Move Within

Medievalists.net — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:03:42 +0000

Of the many individuals in the twelfth century whose fame in their own time has reached down to ours, figures like Thomas Becket, Frederick Barbarossa and Bernard of Clairvaux, there is no one whose fame surpassed that of Master Peter Abelard and no figure more public. Indeed, fame was something Abelard coveted, something he consciously built.

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Furor Teutonicus: The View of the ‘Germans’ in Italy during the Reign of Emperor Frederick I, ‘Barbarossa’ (1152-90)

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:49:23 +0000

“Medieval Europe did not love the Germans. The Italians hated them, the French admitted their courage, but detested their manners, the English were jealous of them, the Slavs both feared and hated them, while the Germans despised and contemned the Slavs.”16 But it is the Italian side I would like to concentrate on in this paper. Further, I do not wish to examine the reasons for the conflicts between 'Germans' and 'Italians' in this era, nor the events surrounding them. I will try to focus strictly on the views that were expressed about Germans in mediaeval Italy in general and during the reign of Frederick Barbarossa in particular.

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The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade

Medievalists.net — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:29:12 +0000

It is my intention to show that the participation of monarchs in the Third Crusade had an adverse effect on the outcome of the Crusade. Whatever positive aspects of monarchical involvement in the Third Crusade were to be had can be seen at the beginning of the venture, when the Church needed financial and material support, as well as the prestige that royal participation could offer.

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