Politics Archive
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Edward I and the Ritualization of English Royal Round Table Festivals
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn the Annales Angliae et Scotiae, a chronicle written around the year 1312 by a monk from the abbey of St Albans, there is a description of the wedding ceremonies between King Edward I and Margaret of France, that took place on 10 September 1299. -
Edward I, Arthurian Enthusiast
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsThe association of the kings of England with the legends of Arthur may be assumed to start with the dedication of one of the manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae to... -
The burh of Wallingford and its context in Wessex
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThere are many reasons for holding that the 31 burhs listed in the Burghal Hidage constituted a system in its fullest sense. One of the most telling of these is that the burghal territories of these burhs – the areas assigned to them for their upkeep – form a spatial jigsaw whose individual elements interlock with each other within the shires or their precursors. -
Canute and his Empire
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe first mention of Canute in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is in the entry for 1013, where it is recorded that his father Sweyn, after taking hostages from the conquered territories of Northumbria, Lindsey, and the Five Borough Towns, -
The Uses of Pragmatic Literacy in the Medieval Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (from the State Foundation to the End of the Sixteenth Century)
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe aim of my thesis is to reveal and understand processes behind the appearance and dissemination of literacy in the medieval principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. I will focus on the social and cultural factors that contributed to the adoption and use of writing from the appearance of the state until the end of the sixteenth century. -
Byzantine Intelligence Service
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe basis on which the successful administration of the Roman Empire at its zenith was built was the cursus publicus, or the state post. This organization also made the service of intelligence more effective. -
How did medieval Europeans deal with Greek debt? They sacked their capital city
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe real reason for the diversion to Constantinople in 1203 by the Venetians and the crusaders, and for their subsequent attack on the imperial capital in 1204, was a simpler and, in their minds, increasingly pressing concern: the payment of outstanding debts -
Interview with Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsThe Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England, is being released in May 2012. -
Ending an era : the Huang Chao Rebellion of the late Tang, 874-884
Posted on May 7, 2012 | No CommentsHuang Chao was a rebel leader during the late Tang dynasty; he and his followers successfully marauded through China from 875 until his death in 884 C.E. During that time, he conquered and sacked many important cities of the empire, such as Guangzhou and the capital city, Chang'an. -
Æthelstan, “King of all Britain” : royal and imperial ideology in tenth-century England
Posted on May 7, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis examines how King Æthelstan legitimized and systematized his claims of power and status through a royal ideology, how that ideology emerged, what it consisted of, and how it manifested itself in his kingship and diplomacy. -
Justinian’s reconquest of the West : ideology, warfare, religion, and politics in sixth-century Byzantium
Posted on May 5, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis will examine the guiding ideology of Justinian's emperorship and how that ideology especially manifested itself in terms of Justinian's diplomacy and his relationship with the former provinces of the Western Roman Empire. -
‘He contents the people wherever he goes’ Richard III: His Parliament and Government
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsIn recent years new biographies of great figures such as Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy have shed great light on key issues of English-European relations, while studies of Margaret Beaufort have redefined the political role of the women of this era. -
The Vikings and a Turbulent Anglo-Scandinavian World
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsThis talk will track the Vikings' impact on medieval England, an impact with effects that are still evident today. -
Friar Benedict the Pole of Vratislava his mission to Mongolia and his narrative (1245-1247)
Posted on April 26, 2012 | No CommentsThis is a study of the life and achievements of the Franciscan, Benedict the Pole of Vratislavia, who was sent with an Apostolic mission by Pope Innocent 17 in 1245 to the Great Khan of the Mongols. -
The legacy of the 13th Apostle: origins of the East Christian conceptions of church and state relation
Posted on April 26, 2012 | No CommentsIn this article I wish to query the notion that there is a single Eastern Christian religious political theory, such a one that could be stood in opposition to Catholic medieval or early modern Protestant theories of church-state relations...
