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Rollo, Viking Count of Normandy

Medievalists.net — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:11:33 +0000

n recounting what is known of Viking history and the sagas which were written about in the Middle Ages, Clements tells the story of Hrolf the Walker, otherwise known as Rollo or Rolf.

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Medieval Books for Christmas

Medievalists.net — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:16:54 +0000

It's that time of year again - the mad scramble for the perfect Christmas gift for the historian, nerd, avid reader on your list. Here are a few suggestions for you - new releases for December and January!

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‘De civitatis utriusque, terrenae scilicet et caelestis’: Foundation Narratives and the Epic Portrayal of the First Crusade

Medievalists.net — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:12:59 +0000

My summary of a paper given at the Institute of Historical research on the accounts of Antioch and Jerusalem during the First Crusade.

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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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Herleva of Falaise, Mother of William the Conqueror

Medievalists.net — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:41:12 +0000

Legends states the young Duke Robert I of Normandy was on the walkway of his castle at Falaise looking down at the river and discovered a beautiful young girl washing clothes. He asked to see her and she became his mistress. She would become the mother of William the Conqueror.

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(Re)casting the Past: The Cloisters and Medievalism

Medievalists.net — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:35:22 +0000

In this essay, I focus on a variety of texts printed using Anglo-Saxon type between 1566 and 1623 in an effort to explore the use of Anglo-Saxon typeface in the early modern period as the use of the Old English language progressed from polemical truncheon to historiographical instrument.

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A Feast for the Eyes: Representing Odo at the Banquet in the Bayeux Embroidery

Medievalists.net — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 17:17:58 +0000

This paper will therefore investigate Odo’s role in the banquet as a way to ask larger questions about how patronage has been portrayed in the literature on the Bayeux Embroidery as a whole.

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Greek in Marriage, Latin in Giving: The Greek Community of Fourteenth-century Palermo and the Deceptive Will of Bonannus de Geronimo

Medievalists.net — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:26:26 +0000

This article discusses the pitfalls that can occur in the study of ethnicity in the me- dieval period in the context of the potential existence of two separate Greek minori- ties—one indigenous and one immigrant—in fourteenth-century Latin-dominated Palermo, Italy.

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Unpleasant Affairs That Please Us: Admonition and Rebuke in the Letter Collections of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 11th and 12th Centuries

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:36:52 +0000

From the Norman Conquest in 1066 up to the famous “murder in the cathedral”2 in 1170, six archbishops of Canterbury ruled over the English church...

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How cutting off a horse’s tail was a big insult in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:33:36 +0000

Want to humiliate your adversary? Attacking his horse and cutting off its tail was the preferred method, according to a recent article.

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