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		<title>Loving Friends: Surviving Widowhood in Late Medieval Westminster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Loving Friends: Surviving Widowhood in Late Medieval Westminster
By Katherine L. French
Gender and History, Vol.22:1 (2010)
Abstract: Although medieval moralists routinely warned against women socialising with either men or women, this article argues that friendships were instrumental in helping women survive widowhood. In medieval Europe, widowhood was frequently a time of vulnerability and poverty. Unscrupulous businessmen and [...]


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		<title>The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424–1529</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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The Law as a Weapon in Marital Disputes: Evidence from the Late Medieval Court of Chancery, 1424–1529
By Sara Butler
Journal of British Studies, Vol. 43 (2004)
Introduction: When Isabelle, widow of Richard Vergeons, commissioned the writing of a bill of complaint to Chancery at the end of the fifteenth century, she was clearly at the end of [...]


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		<title>The Problem of Revenge in Medieval Literature: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Ljósvetninga Saga</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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The Problem of Revenge in Medieval Literature: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Ljósvetninga Saga
By Ann Park Lanpher
PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2010
Abstract: This dissertation considers the literary treatment of revenge in medieval England and Iceland. Vengeance and feud were an essential part of these cultures; far from the reckless, impulsive action that the word conjures [...]


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		<title>Mishandled vessels: heaving drinks and hurling insults in medieval Welsh literature and law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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Mishandled vessels: heaving drinks and hurling insults in medieval Welsh literature and law
By Michael Cichon
Canadian Journal of History, Vol.43:2 (2008)
Abstract: The mid-thirteenth-century Welsh legal codex   NLW  Latin ms Peniarth 28  is famous as much for its illustrations as its content, especially the picture of two men locked in a hair-pulling tussle.  Not [...]


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		<title>Broken cups, men&#8217;s wrath, and the neighbours&#8217; revenge: the case of Thomas and Alice Dey of Alverthorpe (1383)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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Broken cups, men&#8217;s wrath, and the neighbours&#8217; revenge: the case of Thomas and Alice Dey of Alverthorpe (1383)
By Sharon Wright
Canadian Journal of History, Vol.43:2 (2008)
Abstract: Literature and sermons about wrath were attractive to medieval people because they mirrored and amplified life in satisfactory ways: villains were punished, insults were avenged, and honour was restored. Tales [...]


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		<title>I Serve</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Sadowski</dc:creator>
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I Serve 
By Rosanne E. Lortz
Publisher: Anno Domini, January 1, 2009
ISBN: 9780979214547
This novel details the events of one knight, Sir John Potenhale, serving under the Black Prince, Edward, son of Edward III, during his campaigns in France in the mid-14th century.
The story begins with Sir John Potenhale seeking out the widow of another knight. He [...]


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		<title>Written Culture and the Late Medieval Manor Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Sadowski</dc:creator>
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Written Culture and the Late Medieval Manor Court
By Charlotte Harrison, University of Liverpool
Session: Rural Experience in Late Medieval England: Manorial Records and Law
This paper discussed the court roll as a seigneural device that challenged the verbal culture that was used before and examined whether this change was organic or forced.
During the 14th and 15th century [...]


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		<title>Reflections of Reality in the Manor Court: Sutton-in-the-Isle, 1308–1391</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Sadowski</dc:creator>
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Reflections of Reality in the Manor Court: Sutton-in-the-Isle, 1308–1391
Session: Rural Experience in Late Medieval England: Manorial Records and Law
 By Erin McGibbon Smith, Independent Scholar
This paper dealt with manorial court records in 14th century England.
What can manorial court records tell us? How accurate are they? How should historians treat this area of study? This paper [...]


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		<title>Detective Fiction in the Archives: Court Records and the Uses of Law in Late Medieval England</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalists.net/2010/06/27/detective-fiction-in-the-archives-court-records-and-the-uses-of-law-in-late-medieval-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Konieczny</dc:creator>
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Detective Fiction in the Archives: Court Records and the Uses of Law in Late Medieval England
By Shannon McSheffrey
History Workshop Journal, Vol.65:1 (2008)
Introduction: Historians are often compared to detectives, searching for clues and uncovering connections until at last the truth is found and the mystery is solved. The fictional detective works the streets and the historian [...]


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		<title>The King&#8217;s Mistress</title>
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The King&#8217;s Mistress
By Emma Campion
Crown Publishing, 2010
ISBN: 978-0307589255
The King&#8217;s Mistress is a story based on the life of King Edward III&#8217;s mistress, Alice Perrers. It follows her life from childhood to her first marriage, to her life at the court of King Edward and then life after Edward&#8217;s death at the mercy of a vengeful [...]


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