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(Re)casting the Past: The Cloisters and Medievalism

July 22, 2014 By Medievalists.net

In this essay, I focus on a variety of texts printed using Anglo-Saxon type between 1566 and 1623 in an effort to explore the use of Anglo-Saxon typeface in the early modern period as the use of the Old English language progressed from polemical truncheon to historiographical instrument.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Anglo-Saxon, Art History, Europe, Fifteenth Century, Historiography, Language, Literature, Museums, Normans, Old English, Printing History, Reformation, Stuarts, The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Tudor Period

Mapping the Medieval Countryside

June 18, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Medieval Feudalism - Roland pledges his fealty to Charlemagne

My summary of a Institute of Historical Research session on the digitization of records in Late Medieval England.

Filed Under: Conferences, Features Tagged With: Court Records, Demography, Digitization Projects, Early Modern, England, Escheator, Exchequer, Feudalism, Fifteenth Century, Fourteenth Century, Genealogy and Prosopography, Henry III, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mapping the Medieval Countryside, Maps, Renaissance, Social History, Stuarts, Thirteenth century

Children and Literature in Medieval England

January 10, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Deals with childrens’ literature in medieval England. Kinds of literature heard by children in England; Examples of rhymes used by medieval children; Ways of linking rhymes with children.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Alfred the Great, Children, Children's Material, Early Middle Ages, England, Fiction, Fifteenth Century, French, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Latin, Literature, Ninth Century, Poetry, Sixteenth Century, Sixth Century, Stuarts, Wales

The Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture: Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700

October 25, 2011 By Medievalists.net

The Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture:Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700 McKeever, Amanda Jane PhD Thesis, Philosophy, University of Sussex, September 27, (2010) Abstract My thesis seeks to address the continuity, change and the syncreticism of ideas regarding post-mortem existence in the wake of the Reformation. Prior to reform, the late Medieval world view […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Ars moriendi, Early Modern, England, Fifteenth Century, Folklore, Late Middle Ages, Literature, Monasticism, Occult, Protestant, Reformation, Religious Life, Sixteenth Century, Social History, Stuarts, Tudor Period, Witchcraft, Witches

Sir Francis Drake in the New World: 1577-1580

October 6, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Sir Francis Drake in the New World: 1577-1580 C. Lankins, Katherine Senior Seminar Paper, Western Oregon University, June 3 (2009) Abstract Eighty six years after Spain had claimed the New World for themselves an English Privateer by the name of Francis Drake was becoming a thorn in their side. Called El Draque by the Spaniards, […]