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Shadow of the Sword (The Headsman)

Medievalists.net — Thu, 21 May 2015 16:38:17 +0000

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau gives us a sympathetic Headsman in Reformation Austria, in the 'Shadow of the Sword (The Headsman)'.

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Love and Marriage on the Medieval English Stage: Using the English Cycle Plays as Sources for Social History

Medievalists.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:53:04 +0000

Much scholarship concerning the concept of “companionate” marriage traces its origins to the early modern period as clergymen, especially Protestant ones, began to publish “guides” to the relationships and respective duties of husbands and wives in the 1500s and 1600s.

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King’s sister, queen of dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her evangelical network

Medievalists.net — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:10:26 +0000

This study reconstructs the previously unknown history of the most important dissident group within France before the French Reformed Church formed during the 1550s.

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Does a Reformation End?: Rethinking Religious Simulation in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Medievalists.net — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:08:10 +0000

A paper examining the Italian Reformation.

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10 Things to See at Southwark Cathedral

Medievalists.net — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:23:39 +0000

My 10 favourite things about Southwark Cathedral.

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ARTICLES: The Deflation of the Medieval in Joyce’s Ulysses

Medievalists.net — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:47:34 +0000

For James Joyce, Irish nationalism, with its appeal to patriotic emotionality and promotion of interest in the archaic and medieval Irish past, was suspect.

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Boundaries in the making – Historiography and the isolation of late medieval Bohemia

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 15:38:49 +0000

This paper deals with an episode of early 15th century Bohemian history. During the so-called Hussite wars, a coalition of Catholic powers tried to establish a far-reaching blockade on trade and commerce against the kingdom of Bohemia, which then was considered to be a hotbed of heresy, and to be rebellious against its legitimate ruler and the papal church.

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John of Gaunt and John Wyclif

Medievalists.net — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:50:44 +0000

Historians have always been somewhat puzzled at the alliance of two such men as John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster and third son of Edward III, and John Wyclif, controversialist and reformer.

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BOOK REVIEWS: “The Chalice” by Nancy Bilyeau

Medievalists.net — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:29:57 +0000

My book review of Nancy Bilyeau's, "The Chalice".

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Bernard of Clairvaux’s Writings on Violence and the Sacred

Medievalists.net — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:26:20 +0000

Monk, exegete, political actor and reformer, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was not just a man of his times; he was a man who shaped his times.

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