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The Floating State: Trade Embargoes and the Rise of a New Venetian State

October 1, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This paper was given by Georg Christ and examined embargoes and state formation in the late medieval and early modern period in Venice.

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: Crime, Crusades, Early Modern, Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Trade, Fourteenth Century, Frederick Barbarossa, Investiture Controversy, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Military History, Nationalism, Papacy, Peace of Venice, Pope Alexander III, Pope Sixtus IV, The Myth of Venice, Twelfth Century, Venice, Violence, War of Ferrara

Irish Hagiographical Lives in the Twelfth Century: Church Reform before the Anglo-Norman Invasion

September 7, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Saint Brendan and the whale from a 15th century manuscript

In order to further disentangle the reality and fiction of this view of culture versus barbarity and of reform versus wickedness, I shall analyse twelfth-century Irish vitae.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Angevin, Anglo-Norman, Christianity, Early Modern, Gerald of Wales, Gregorian Reform, Hagiography, Ireland, King Henry II, Knights, Monasticism, Papacy, Pope Adrian IV, Pope Alexander III, Pope Gregory VII, Seventeenth Century, Twelfth Century, Vikings, William of Malmesbury

“The Eucharist and the Negotiation of Orthodoxy in the High Middle Ages”

November 15, 2012 By Medievalists.net

Waldensians depicted as witches

This paper is part of Adam Hoose’s dissertation. It examined the differences between Waldensians and Franciscans in their treatment of the Eucharist. It also explored why the Waldensians were unsuccessful in their bid to become a legitimate religious order and were eventually marginalized as heretics.

Filed Under: Conferences, Features Tagged With: Cathars, Christianity, Conferences, Franciscan, Hagiography, Heresy, Late Middle Ages, Liturgy, Mendicant Orders, Monasticism, Orthodox, Papacy, Pope Alexander III, Pope Innocent III, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Social History, St. Francis of Assisi, Waldensians