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Movie Review: Tristan and Isolde

Medievalists.net — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:35:38 +0000

As far as medieval movies go, Tristan and Isolde definitely isn’t the worst I’ve seen. I was looking for a movie to watch after work, and I thought, hey, James Franco, Sophia Moyles, Henry Cavill, and Rufus Sewell, all directed by Ridley Scott?! - this can’t be that bad. Well, it was pretty bad, but it wasn’t the worst 2 hours of my life. So what went wrong?

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Intersex in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:25:46 +0000

A brief look at how the medieval world viewed the Intersex individual.

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Charlemagne’s Denarius, Constantine’s Edicule, and the Vera Crux

Medievalists.net — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:46:53 +0000

In 806 a much-discussed silver denarius bearing the likeness of Charlemagne was issued. This is called the “temple-type” coin due to the (as yet unidentified) architectural structure illustrated on the reverse side, and which is explicitly labeled as representing the epitome of “Christian Religion.”

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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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Reflection of the Wars of the Roses in Thomas Malory`s Le Morte D`Arthur: Literary-cultural analysis

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:12:11 +0000

The aim of this research paper is to analyse the Morte D’Arthur and find certain historical moments incorporated in the book. Firstly, as the goal of work follows a hypothesis that Thomas Malory reflected manifold incidents from the Wars of the Roses in the Morte D’Arthur, it was inevitable to understand author’s position in this civil war, which meant investigating in the authorship.

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Kissing Cousins: Incest and Sex Change in Tristan de Nanteuil

Medievalists.net — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:52:06 +0000

In this paper I re-examine Blanchandine‘s sex change in light of its relation to the issue of incest; as I will show, incest is directly related to the sex change and also punctuates the narrative at other points. Tristan de Nanteuil depicts two sexual and/or romantic relationships between cousins...

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Avignon vs. Rome: Dante, Petrarch, Catherine of Siena

Medievalists.net — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:22:12 +0000

In the fourteenth century the image of ancient Rome as Babylon was transformed into the positive idea of Rome as both a Christian and a classical ideal.

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Apocalypse et Moyen Âge : un cocktail détonnant

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:28:55 +0000

Dans l’imaginaire contemporain, Apocalypse et Moyen âge semblent aller de pair. Rares sont les films médiévalistes où il n’est pas question de fin du monde, où qui ne représente pas une société en plein déclin, au bord de sa propre destruction.

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