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INTERVIEW: A Conversation with SD Sykes about Plague Land

October 3, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Burial of plague victims - The Black Death

My interview with fiction author, SD Sykes about her fantastic medieval crime novel, Plague Land.

Filed Under: Fiction, Interviews Tagged With: 2014 Books, Black Death, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, Christianity, Crime, Disease, English Peasants Revolt of 1381, Europe, Fiction, Fourteenth Century, Interviews, John Mandeville, Late Middle Ages, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Margery Kempe, Monasticism, Mysticism, Peasants, Piers Plowman, Plague, Plagueland, Religious Life, SD Sykes, Superstition, Violence, William Langland

Worldly Unease in Late Medieval European Travel Reports

January 11, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville. Created 1459.

Comparing the Book of John Mandeville with Jean de Jeanville’s Vie Saint Louis and William of Rubruck’s Journey, this chapter argues that cosmopolitan perspectives in these texts seem to emerge in spite of rather than because of their contacts with other cultures.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Christianity, Europe, Jean de Joinville, John Mandeville, Late Middle Ages, Latin, Middle English, Mongols, Old French, Scandinavia, Seventh Crusade, Social History, Travel, Vie de Saint Louis, William of Rubruck

Mandeville’s Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

October 3, 2012 By Medievalists.net

While Chaucer‟s knight has traveled to and fought in Spain, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia Minor, Sir John claims to have visited the entire known world from Constantinople and the Holy Land to the farthest reaches of Asia.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Africa, Asia, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, Chivalry, Christianity, Constantinople, Crusades, Eastern Europe, Egypt, England, Fourteenth Century, Islam, John Mandeville, Knights, Late Middle Ages, Literature, Muslims, Paganism, Pilgrimage, Travel, Turkey

Indecent bodies: gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature

September 25, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Indecent bodies: gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature Oswald, Dana Morgan Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English, (2005) Abstract While Old English literature rarely represents sexualized bodies, and just as rarely represents monsters, Middle English literature teems with bodies that are both sexualized and monstrous. In Old English, sexualized bodies appear in […]