The Casket of Saint Louis invokes political and social networks and events relating to the Capetian dynasty in the years before Louis IX reached his majority.
Women’s Devotional Bequests of Textiles in the Late Medieval English Parish Church, c.1350-1550
August 18, 2014 By
My investigation is set within the context of the current high level of interest in the workings of the late medieval parish.
Friendship Networks in Medieval Europe: New models of a political relationship
July 27, 2014 By
The relationship between friendship and politics in medieval Europe can appear to be fundamentally different from that experienced in modern societies. Friendship has, for some time, been recognised by medievalists as having an integral place in the formation of social bonds and political groupings and as contributing to the creation and maintenance of political order…
The Portraiture of Women During the Italian Renaissance
August 13, 2013 By
Further study of female portraiture of the Italian Renaissance is needed because most existing portraits from the Italian Renaissance depict men. Due to the small pool of female portraits from the time period to study, the specific topic of women in Italian Renaissance portraiture has been overlooked or quickly dismissed by many scholars.
A King on the Move: The Place of an Itinerant Court in Charlemagne’s Government
August 7, 2013 By
I shall suggest here that we should abandon this assumed correlation, and that once we have done so, a very different picture of Charlemagne’s itinerary between 768 and 814, and consequently of his government, emerges.
The Family Consciousness in Medieval Genoa: The Case of the Lomellini
March 10, 2013 By
The most famous figure of the family in this century was Napoleone Lomellini. He was a member of the ‘anziani’ and was known as ‘multum dives et magnus mercator a very rich and important merchant’
Musical Characteristics of the Songs Attributed to Peter of Blois (c. 1135-1211)
January 15, 2013 By
Toward the end of the twelfth century, moral conflict was rampant in the Catholic Church regarding the conduct (and misconduct) of all levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, though especially at the two extremes on the scale of power. Music and literature from the period have immortalized the mischievous and impious escapades of certain members of the lower orders of clergy, termed satirically the ordo vagorum.
The patronage of the Templars and of the Order of St. Lazarus in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
January 15, 2013 By
The religious revival of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries saw the rise of a host of new orders ranging from the Cistercians and Carthusians to the Augustinian and Premonstratensian canons. In addition, it also saw the development of the Military Orders which originated in the Holy Land after the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, and fulfilled a mixture of military, hospitaller, religious and political functions.
The Troublesome bequest of Dame Joan: the establishment of the chapel of St Anne at Walsingham Priory
December 2, 2012 By
In an act of both piety and remembrance, his widow, Dame Joan, ordered that his body should be buried within the great Priory church at nearby Walsingham and, above the tomb, there should be a chapel created in dedication to the mother of the Blessed Virgin, Saint Anne.
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