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Magna Carta Conference Offers New Insights Into The 800-year-old Document

Medievalists.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:32:45 +0000

Magna Carta just celebrated its 800th birthday this past Monday. In honour of this incredible milestone, King’s College London, and the Magna Carta Project, hosted a 3 day conference dedicated to this historic document.

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Henry II and Arthurian Legend

Medievalists.net — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:08:59 +0000

For several decades now, a number of medievalists have directly linked this new fashion in Arthurian literature to the patronage of Henry II.

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Halt! Who Comes There?: Locking Up Tower of London – The Ceremony of the Keys

Medievalists.net — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:49:06 +0000

A review of the Tower of London's medieval Ceremony of the Keys!

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The Lion’s Roar: Anger in the Dispute between Henry II and Thomas Becket

Medievalists.net — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:38:50 +0000

The purpose of this paper will be to analyze representations of anger in the sources on Becket’s life and the place of anger in the dispute, and to assess what that suggests about understandings and uses of anger in twelfth-century English politics.

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Mirrors for Princes: Henry II and the Succession to the Angevin Empire

Medievalists.net — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:55:18 +0000

Understandably, with so many 'devilish' offspring, Henry II faced many difficulties when it came to bringing up his sons, including the problem of how to successfully integrate them into the rule of the Angevin Empire.

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Irish Hagiographical Lives in the Twelfth Century: Church Reform before the Anglo-Norman Invasion

Medievalists.net — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:37:08 +0000

In order to further disentangle the reality and fiction of this view of culture versus barbarity and of reform versus wickedness, I shall analyse twelfth-century Irish vitae.

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Ritual, Behaviour and Symbolic Communication in the dispute between Thomas Becket and King Henry II

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:44:54 +0000

From the dispute between Becket and Henry II we see the continuation of many traditional forms of political communication, including the use of symbolic rhetoric and items in the conduct of rituals, and also the deliberate staging of emotions.

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The Uses Made of History by the Kings of Medieval England

Medievalists.net — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:15:35 +0000

The kings of medieval England, besides using history for the entertainment of themselves and their courts, turned it to practical purposes. They plundered history-books for precedents and other evidences to justify their claims and acts. They also recognised its value as propaganda, to bolster up their positions at home and strengthen their hands abroad.

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THINGS TO SEE: Murder in the Cathedral

Medievalists.net — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:12:24 +0000

This is my review of the T.S. Eliot's play, "Murder in the Cathedral", on at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London.

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Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 May 2014 11:51:53 +0000

With a population of almost 10,000, Bristol was later medieval England’s second or third biggest urban place, and the realm’s second port after London. While not particularly large or wealthy in comparison with the great cities of northern Italy, Flanders or the Rhineland, it was a metropolis in the context of the British Isles.

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