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Machiavelli and Botticelli Movies to Hit the Screen in 2016

Medievalists.net — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:55:00 +0000

Machiavelli and Botticelli are set to hit screens in 2016. We sat down to chat with Italian director, Lorenzo Raveggi about his two ambitious projects.

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Roman identity in Byzantium: a critical approach

Medievalists.net — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:43:51 +0000

The main lines of thinking in the research on medieval Eastern Roman identity could be roughly summarized as follows: The first, extensively influenced by the retrospective Modern Greek national discourse, approaches this identity as the medieval form of the perennial Greek national identity.

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Vice, Tyranny, Violence, and the Usurpation of Flanders (1071) in Flemish Historiography from 1093 to 1294

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:46:15 +0000

The earliest sources of the history of medieval Flanders do not agree on the origins of the counts. The earliest source, the so-called “Genealogy of Arnold [I],” credibly traces the counts’ origin to Baldwin I “Iron Arm,”...

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The Great Parliament of 1265: Medieval origins of modern democracy

Medievalists.net — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:51:06 +0000

On the eve of the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta – the charter recognised as laying the foundations of England's modern democracy – new research by a medieval historian from the University of Lincoln, reminds us that 2015 also marks 750 years since the earliest forerunner of a modern parliament was held.

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Bringing the State Back in: Toward a New Constructivist Account of the Medieval World Order

Medievalists.net — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:53:00 +0000

The crux of my argument, here as elsewhere, is not that fully evolved sovereign states populated Latin Christendom from 1300 on, but that a constitutive script of corporate-‐sovereign statehood had come to define the political imagination of the era, and that the enactment of this script was the defining dynamic of late medieval political life.

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Prophetic Statebuilding: Machiavelli and the Passion of the Duke

Medievalists.net — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 21:29:12 +0000

My interpretation of Machiavelli’s use of Borgia highlights the biblical resonances of Machiavelli’s account of the rise and fall of this exemplary new prince—a prince whom both his subjects and the Florentine himself call by the exalted title “Duke Valentino.”

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BOOKS: The Feuding Families of Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Medievalists.net — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:36:35 +0000

Put down the Godfather, turn off the Sorpanos, and check out the real Italian families of Medieval and Renaissance Italy!

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Queer times: Richard II in the poems and chronicles of late

Medievalists.net — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:14:27 +0000

The article focuses on the representation of deviant sexual behavior in 14th-century English poetry and other chronicles. The portrayal of King of England Richard II as a rebellious youth, which is interpreted as perverse and lacking manliness, and the propaganda needed to offset this perception are discussed. Historical information is given about the political culture and power of the church. The murder of Edward II after being accused of sodomy by the Bishop of Hereford is mentioned.

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Emotions and Power in Orderic Vitalis

Medievalists.net — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:39:55 +0000

This essay explores some of the complexities and paradoxes encountered when one thinks about power, particularly as power was expressed by a single author, Orderic Vitalis.

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Medieval Geopolitics: An interview with Andrew Latham

Medievalists.net — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 20:11:17 +0000

Was there such a thing as International Relations in the Middle Ages?

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