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KZOO 2015: Session #42 – Magna Carta in Context

Medievalists.net — Mon, 18 May 2015 15:51:29 +0000

This coming week I’ll be featuring summaries on some of my favourites sessions and papers from #KZOO2015. I kicked off my first session on Thursday with the Magna Carta.

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Philippa Langley: The End of Richard III and the Beginning of Henry I

Medievalists.net — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:47:31 +0000

Amidst all the excitement, and the whirlwind that was Richard III's reburial in Leicester, I managed to catch up with one of the world's most famous Ricardians, 'the Kingfinder', Philippa Langley.

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The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach

Medievalists.net — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:16:40 +0000

USING AN OSTEOBIOGRAPHICAL approach, this contribution considers the identity of the woman found alongside the St Bees Man, one of the best-preserved archaeological bodies ever discovered. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, combined with the archaeo- logical context of the burial and documented social history, provide the basis for the identifica- tion of a late 14th-century heiress whose activities were at the heart of medieval northern English geopolitics.

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The Normans are an Unconquerable People: Orderic Vitalis’s Memory of the Anglo-Norman Regnum during the Reigns of William Rufus and Henry I, 1087-1106

Medievalists.net — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 01:20:16 +0000

This essay examines Orderic’s portrayal of the three sons of William the Conqueror, as well as one member of the Anglo-Norman high aristocracy, in an effort to understand how and why his Historia Ecclesiastica recreates the nineteen-year period between the death of William the Conqueror and the ascension of Henry I as an age of violence, poor lordship, and ambiguous gender roles.

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Analyzing History: Bertran de Born – Innocent Poet or Inciter of Revolt

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 01:18:57 +0000

While words are powerful tools that can invoke emotions ranging from jubilation to revulsion, could they be the cause of a rebellion against Henry II of England by his children and wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine? Could the words of a mere troubadour drive the revolt of a family against their king?

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Why Roman Law Did Not Succeed in England

Medievalists.net — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:08:43 +0000

England is the only European country whose legal system is not based on the Code of Emperor Justinian I

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The Fortune of War: Henry I and Normandy, 1116 – 1120

Medievalists.net — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:17:20 +0000

The Fortune of War: Henry I and Normandy, 1116 – 1120 Dillon Byrd Oklahoma Christian University, Tau Sigma, Journal of Historical Studies, Vol.21 (2013) Abstract Henry I had great success in keeping the peace in England and Normandy, aside from the first two years of his reign. There were only two Norman uprisings against Henry, the first […]

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Was the White Ship disaster mass murder?

Medievalists.net — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:02:10 +0000

It was perhaps the worst maritime disaster of the Middle Ages, not just because it cost 300 lives, but because one of them was the heir to the Anglo-Norman Empire. One scholar has a theory that the sinking of the White Ship on the night of November 25, 1120 was not a tragic accident, rather a case of mass murder.

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Stories of the Death of Kings: Retelling the Demise and Burial of William I, William II and Henry I

Medievalists.net — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:08:13 +0000

This paper examines the accounts that describe the death and burial of three successive kings: William the Conqueror, William Rufus, and Henry I.

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Matilda of Scotland, Queen of England

Medievalists.net — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:29:25 +0000

Matilda was to become adept at combining family connections, political alliances and patronization of the Church to her advantage.

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