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Latin Grammar in the Cathedral School: Fulbert of Chartres, Bonipert of Pécs, and the Way of a Lost Priscian Manuscript

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 03:24:38 +0000

The starting point of the classical tradition in medieval Hungary is marked by a letter written by Bishop Fulbert of Chartres in Northern France to Bishop Bonipert of Pécs in Southern Hungary.

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‘Falseness Reigns in Every Flock’: Literacy and Eschatological Discourse in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:27:15 +0000

The literature of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, a miscellany of fourteenth-century poetry and prose penned before, during, and after the insurrection, often stresses the importance of literacy to the nonaristocratic population of England.

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Women do not sit as Judges, or do they? The office of Judge in Vincentius Bellovacensis’ Speculum

Medievalists.net — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:11:23 +0000

It was Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1936) who coined the expression “Renaissance of the twelfth century”. Before him this expression referred more specifically to the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth century as nineteenth century Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt put it.

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The influence of conflicting medieval church and social discourses on individual consciousness : dissociation in the visions of Hadewijch of Brabant

Medievalists.net — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:43:36 +0000

This article examines the influence of the conflicting dis- courses in the medieval church and its social context on the subconscious experiences of Hadewijch of Brabant, a 13th century Flemish visionary, mystical author, vernacular theologian and Beguine leader

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Latin Patrons, Greek Fathers: St Bartholomew of Simeri and Byzantine Monastic Reform in Norman Italy, 11th-12th Centuries

Medievalists.net — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:56:16 +0000

St Bartholomew of Simeri (ca. 1050-1130), a Greek monastic founder and reformer from Calabria, saw the effective end of Byzantine imperial power in southern Italy in 1071, the conquest of Muslim Palermo by Robert Guiscard the following year, and the rise of the Norman kingdom of Roger II at the end of his life.

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Religious Education as the Basis of Medieval Literature

Medievalists.net — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:59:16 +0000

The medieval literature was written with a purpose to teach Christian dogmas to the masses. The prose and poetry of the time meant to show men the ugliness of sin and the beauty of goodness.

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Medicine and surgery in the Livre des Assises de la Cour des Bourgeois de Jérusalem

Medievalists.net — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:50:40 +0000

The Livre des Assises, written in the thirteenth century in Acre, not only provides insights into the practice of medicine and surgery in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, but also suggests that the licensing and regulation of doctors reflected contemporary Islamic practice.

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Banditry and the Clash of Powers in 14th-Century Thrace: Momcilo and his Fragmented Memory

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:54:59 +0000

In the 14th century, a time of civil wars, religious and dynastic strifes, epidemics, natural disasters and miserable living conditions for the wider strata in the cities and the countryside that increased migratory movements, banditry, an indigenous phenomenon in the Balkan mountainous regions, intermingled with the intensified political struggles.

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The Friars Preachers: The First Hundred Years of the Dominican Order

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:40:55 +0000

When Dominic of Caleruega began preaching in southern France in the early 1200s, he would have had no idea of the far reaching influence that the band of men he would attract would leave such a broad and enduring influence on medieval history.

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Christianity and the Latin tradition in early Medieval Ireland

Medievalists.net — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:47:11 +0000

The Christianity which arrived in Ireland with the fifth-century missionaries was more than just a literate religion; it was very much a religion of the book.

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