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A peasant is a peasant, is a peasant? : Medieval Maritime Peasant Lives

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:08:25 +0000

A peasant is a peasant, is a peasant...or is s/he? Was the life of a peasant who lived in the coastal regions of England the same as that of the peasant who made his livelihood toiling on the land for his local lord?

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Witchcraft Trials In Sweden: With Neighbours Like These, Who Needs Enemies?!

Medievalists.net — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:02:27 +0000

Everyone has “that” neighbour on their floor, or street who they’d secretly love to move to Mars and never see again. Well, the Early Modern Swedes had a way of dealing with those kinds of nasty neighbours…

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Trolls in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:03:26 +0000

Where did trolls come from? What did medieval and early modern people think of trolls? How did the concept of the modern day troll evolve?

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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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Peasant Anger and Violence in the Writings of Orderic Vitalis

Medievalists.net — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:12:57 +0000

This paper examines the representation of peasant anger in the writings of Orderic Vitalis. In his texts, Orderic often associates peasant anger with divine vengeance and just violence.

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INTERVIEW: A Conversation with SD Sykes about Plague Land

Medievalists.net — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:20:52 +0000

My interview with fiction author, SD Sykes about her fantastic medieval crime novel, Plague Land.

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‘Shame on him who allows them to live’: The Jacquerie of 1358

Medievalists.net — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 04:02:35 +0000

In the eyes of the chroniclers, the Jacquerie of 1358 was the most important peasant revolt in late medieval France.

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BOOK REVIEW: Plague Land by SD Sykes

Medievalists.net — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:47:12 +0000

My review of SD Sykes brilliant medieval thriller, Plague Land.

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Manor Village and Individual in Medieval England

Medievalists.net — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:44:40 +0000

This thesis explores peasant life of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in England from information found in the manorial court rolls-the village court records--of Ramsey Hepman grove and Bury.

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Signs of Power. Manorial Demesnes in Medieval Iceland

Medievalists.net — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:41:51 +0000

An important aspect of medieval Icelandic social organization, namely the manor, has been neglected in previous research, and very little research has been undertaken comparing Icelandic manorial organization with other regions. This article focuses on one aspect of manorial organization, namely the manorial demesne or central farm of the manor.

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