Medievalists.net » Patronage http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Heraldic Casket of Saint Louis in the Louvre http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/heraldic-casket-saint-louis-louvre/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/heraldic-casket-saint-louis-louvre/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:28:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54225 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/heraldic-casket-saint-louis-louvre/feed/ 0 Women’s Devotional Bequests of Textiles in the Late Medieval English Parish Church, c.1350-1550 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/18/womens-devotional-bequests-textiles-late-medieval-english-parish-church-c-1350-1550/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/18/womens-devotional-bequests-textiles-late-medieval-english-parish-church-c-1350-1550/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:59:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51936 My investigation is set within the context of the current high level of interest in the workings of the late medieval parish.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/18/womens-devotional-bequests-textiles-late-medieval-english-parish-church-c-1350-1550/feed/ 0 Friendship Networks in Medieval Europe: New models of a political relationship http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/friendship-networks-medieval-europe-new-models-political-relationship/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/friendship-networks-medieval-europe-new-models-political-relationship/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:51:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51367 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...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/friendship-networks-medieval-europe-new-models-political-relationship/feed/ 0 The Portraiture of Women During the Italian Renaissance http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/13/the-portraiture-of-women-during-the-italian-renaissance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/13/the-portraiture-of-women-during-the-italian-renaissance/#comments Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:15:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42793 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/13/the-portraiture-of-women-during-the-italian-renaissance/feed/ 0 A King on the Move: The Place of an Itinerant Court in Charlemagne’s Government http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/07/a-king-on-the-move-the-place-of-an-itinerant-court-in-charlemagnes-government/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/07/a-king-on-the-move-the-place-of-an-itinerant-court-in-charlemagnes-government/#comments Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:12:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42682 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/07/a-king-on-the-move-the-place-of-an-itinerant-court-in-charlemagnes-government/feed/ 0 The Family Consciousness in Medieval Genoa: The Case of the Lomellini http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/the-family-consciousness-in-medieval-genoa-the-case-of-the-lomellini/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/the-family-consciousness-in-medieval-genoa-the-case-of-the-lomellini/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:18:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39699 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’

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/the-family-consciousness-in-medieval-genoa-the-case-of-the-lomellini/feed/ 0 Musical Characteristics of the Songs Attributed to Peter of Blois (c. 1135-1211) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/15/musical-characteristics-of-the-songs-attributed-to-peter-of-blois-c-1135-1211/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/15/musical-characteristics-of-the-songs-attributed-to-peter-of-blois-c-1135-1211/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:53:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38743 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/15/musical-characteristics-of-the-songs-attributed-to-peter-of-blois-c-1135-1211/feed/ 0 The patronage of the Templars and of the Order of St. Lazarus in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/15/the-patronage-of-the-templars-and-of-the-order-of-st-lazarus-in-england-in-the-twelfth-and-thirteenth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/15/the-patronage-of-the-templars-and-of-the-order-of-st-lazarus-in-england-in-the-twelfth-and-thirteenth-centuries/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:24:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38740 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/15/the-patronage-of-the-templars-and-of-the-order-of-st-lazarus-in-england-in-the-twelfth-and-thirteenth-centuries/feed/ 0 The Troublesome bequest of Dame Joan: the establishment of the chapel of St Anne at Walsingham Priory http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-troublesome-bequest-of-dame-joan-the-establishment-of-the-chapel-of-st-anne-at-walsingham-priory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-troublesome-bequest-of-dame-joan-the-establishment-of-the-chapel-of-st-anne-at-walsingham-priory/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:59:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37701 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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