Medievalists.net » Kent http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 BOOK REVIEWS: “The Chalice” by Nancy Bilyeau http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/book-reviews-chalice-nancy-bilyeau/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/book-reviews-chalice-nancy-bilyeau/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:29:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48872 My book review of Nancy Bilyeau's, "The Chalice".

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/book-reviews-chalice-nancy-bilyeau/feed/ 0 Basan and Bata: The Occupational Surnames of Two Pre-Conquest Monks of Canterbury http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/basan-and-bata-the-occupational-surnames-of-two-pre-conquest-monks-of-canterbury/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/basan-and-bata-the-occupational-surnames-of-two-pre-conquest-monks-of-canterbury/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:42:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46894 As hereditary surnames were not common in Anglo-Saxon England, men of the same name were differentiated by sobriquets based on their place of origin, a physical characteristic or occupation. This article argues that Eadui Basan and Aelfric Bata, two eleventh-century monks of Christ Church, had sobriquets, in Latin of fashionable obscurity, that reflected their occupations within the monastic community.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/basan-and-bata-the-occupational-surnames-of-two-pre-conquest-monks-of-canterbury/feed/ 0 The Mind’s Eye: Reconstructing the Historian’s Semantic Matrix Through Henry Knighton’s Account of the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-minds-eye-reconstructing-the-historians-semantic-matrix-through-henry-knightons-account-of-the-peasants-revolt-1381/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-minds-eye-reconstructing-the-historians-semantic-matrix-through-henry-knightons-account-of-the-peasants-revolt-1381/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:35:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39198 The Mind’s Eye: Reconstructing the Historian’s Semantic Matrix Through Henry Knighton’s Account of the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381 Sarah Marilyn Steeves Keeshan Master of Arts, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia December (2011) Abstract The medieval historian engaged with the systems of power and authority that surrounded him. In his account of the Peasants’ Revolt in late medieval […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-minds-eye-reconstructing-the-historians-semantic-matrix-through-henry-knightons-account-of-the-peasants-revolt-1381/feed/ 0 The Frankish Annals of Lindisfarne and Kent http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/30/the-frankish-annals-of-lindisfarne-and-kent/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/30/the-frankish-annals-of-lindisfarne-and-kent/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:26:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38967 Scholars interested in the processes by which the history of Early Anglo Saxon England came to be recorded have long known of the existence of the annals that are referred to here as 'The Frankish Annals of Linidisfarne and Kent'.

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