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Magna Carta Conference Offers New Insights Into The 800-year-old Document

June 22, 2015 By Medievalists.net

British Library's Magna Carta, photo credit Joseph Turp

Magna Carta just celebrated its 800th birthday this past Monday. In honour of this incredible milestone, King’s College London, and the Magna Carta Project, hosted a 3 day conference dedicated to this historic document.

Filed Under: Conferences, Features Tagged With: Administration, Arthurian Legend, British Library, Canon Law, Castles, Charlemagne, Charters and Diplomatics, Conferences, Courtly Romances, Early Middle Ages, Ecclesiastical History, Edward I, Edward II, Eighth Century, Fourteenth Century, Germany, Government, Henry III, High Middle Ages, Hugh Capet, King Henry II, King John, King Louis IX of France, King Louis VIII (the Lion) of France, King's College London, Knights, Late Middle Ages, Law, Literature, Magna Carta, Magna Carta Project, Ninth Century, Philip II of France, Rebellion, Second Barons War, Simon de Montfort, Stephen Langton, Taxation, Thirteenth century, War

KZOO 2015: Session #42 – Magna Carta in Context

May 18, 2015 By Medievalists.net

This coming week I’ll be featuring summaries on some of my favourites sessions and papers from #KZOO2015. I kicked off my first session on Thursday with the Magna Carta.

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: British Library, Canon Law, Charters and Diplomatics, Christianity, Ecclesiastical History, Henry I, Henry III, High Middle Ages, Ireland, King John, KZOO, Law, Magna Carta, Papacy, Politics, Pope Innocent III, Rebellion, Stephen Langton, The Charter of Liberties/Coronation Charter, Thirteenth century, William de Brus 3rd Lord of Annandale

The Montfortian bishops and the justification of conciliar government in 1264

December 23, 2013 By Medievalists.net

In 1266, five English bishops were suspended from office for supporting Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, in rebellion against King Henry III.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Administration, Christianity, England, Europe, Government, Henry III, Leicester, Papacy, Politics, Provisions of Oxford, Rebellion, Simon de Montfort, Social History, Thirteenth century

The Fortune of War: Henry I and Normandy, 1116 – 1120

August 8, 2013 By Medievalists.net

The Fortune of War: Henry I and Normandy, 1116 – 1120 Dillon Byrd Oklahoma Christian University, Tau Sigma, Journal of Historical Studies, Vol.21 (2013) Abstract Henry I had great success in keeping the peace in England and Normandy, aside from the first two years of his reign. There were only two Norman uprisings against Henry, the first […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Baldwin VII, England, France, Fulk V Count of Anjou King of Jerusalem, Henry I, Louis VI The Fat, Normandy, Normans, Plantagenet, Politics, Rebellion, William Adelin Aetheling

Flemings in the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381

November 14, 2012 By Medievalists.net

While the Peasants’ Revolt has been studied in depth by generations of medieval historians, the same cannot be said of England’s foreign-born inhabitants, and the largest group among these, the so-called Flemings (a term which was also applied to those from other principalities in the Low Countries besides Flanders).

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Agriculture, Economics - Rural, England, English Peasants Revolt of 1381, Flanders, Flemish, London, Low Countries, Politics, Rebellion, Social History, Violence

Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime

October 24, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime Holstun, Jim (State University of New York, Buffalo) Historical Materialism, 16 (2008) Abstract In 1549, on Mousehold Heath, outside Norwich, the campmen of Kett’s Rebellion created the greatest practical utopian project of Tudor England. Using a commoning rhetoric and practice, they tried to restore the moral […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Christianity, Early Modern, Edward VI, England, Law, Peasants, Protestant, Rebellion, Reformation, Religious Life, Sixteenth Century, Social History, Tudor Period

Robbing Churches and Pulling Beards: The Rebellious Sons of Henry II

October 3, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Robbing Churches and Pulling Beards: The Rebellious Sons of Henry II Anderson, Elizabeth J. (University of Huddersfield) Skepsi: Bad Behaviour in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Volume III, Issue 1, Summer (2010) Abstract: The unruly sons of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Henry the Young King, Richard I, Geoffrey of Brittany and King John, […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Eleanor of Aquitaine, England, Gender, Geoffrey of Brittany, King Henry II, King John, King Richard the Lionheart, Politics, Rebellion, Social History, Thirteenth century, Twelfth Century

The Eclipsed Scourge: The Pestilence of 1361 and the Origins of the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

May 18, 2011 By Medievalists.net

The Eclipsed Scourge: The Pestilence of 1361 and the Origins of the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 By Benjamin Harry Farr Bachelor of Arts Thesis, Middlebury College, 2009 Introduction: King Richard II rode out to Mile End accompanied by all of the members of his Council – with the exception of Robert Hales and Simon […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: England, Fourteenth Century, Politics, Rebellion

Was the ‘anarchy’ of King Stephen’s reign a reaction to Anglo-Norman government?

February 20, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Was the ‘anarchy’ of King Stephen’s reign a reaction to Anglo-Norman government? Stark, Donald Published Online Abstract The first thing to note regarding the turbulent period of 1139-53 is that the ‘anarchy’ described by many people never took the form of a general uprising against the principle of monarchy or royal government. Instead the ‘disturbance […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Anglo-Saxon, England, Military History, Normans, Politics, Rebellion, Social History, Twelfth Century