Medievalists.net » King Philip VI of Valois 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 Real and imaginary journeys in the later Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/real-imaginary-journeys-later-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/real-imaginary-journeys-later-middle-ages/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:18:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52266 For a proper understanding of the actions of men in the past it is necessary to have some idea of how they conceived the world and their place in it, yet for the medieval period there is a serious inbalance in the sources.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/real-imaginary-journeys-later-middle-ages/feed/ 0 BOOK REVIEW: A Triple Knot by Emma Campion http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:06:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51448 BOOK REVIEW: A Triple Knot by Emma Campion I had the pleasure of reading another Emma Campion (Candace Robb) novel recently. Campion, who has written extensively about Alice Perrers, the royal mistress of King Edward III, in her hit, The King’s Mistress, is back on the shelves with a new book released this month entitled: A Triple Knot. This […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/25/strategic-insights-the-battle-of-crecy/feed/ 0 Romantic Geography and the Crusades: British Library Royal ms. 19 D I http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/19/romantic-geography-and-the-crusades-british-library-royal-ms-19-d-i/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/19/romantic-geography-and-the-crusades-british-library-royal-ms-19-d-i/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:58:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22991 Romantic Geography and the Crusades: British Library Royal ms. 19 D I Quigley, Maureen (Saint Louis University) Peregrinations, Vol.2:3 (2009) Abstract It is not unusual in the shorthand of manuscript illumination of the first half of the fourteenth century to simplify place and emphasize action when presenting a scene of historical interest. Miniatures in chronicles and […]

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