Medievalists.net » Stuarts http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 (Re)casting the Past: The Cloisters and Medievalism http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:35:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51257 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/feed/ 0 Mapping the Medieval Countryside http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/18/mapping-medieval-countryside/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/18/mapping-medieval-countryside/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:59:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50516 My summary of a Institute of Historical Research session on the digitization of records in Late Medieval England.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/18/mapping-medieval-countryside/feed/ 0 Children and Literature in Medieval England http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/10/children-and-literature-in-medieval-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/10/children-and-literature-in-medieval-england/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:38:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46534 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/10/children-and-literature-in-medieval-england/feed/ 0 The Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture: Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700 http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/25/the-ghost-in-early-modern-protestant-cultureshifting-perceptions-of-the-afterlife-1450-1700/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/25/the-ghost-in-early-modern-protestant-cultureshifting-perceptions-of-the-afterlife-1450-1700/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:30:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26653 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 […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/25/the-ghost-in-early-modern-protestant-cultureshifting-perceptions-of-the-afterlife-1450-1700/feed/ 0 Sir Francis Drake in the New World: 1577-1580 http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/06/sir-francis-drake-in-the-new-world-1577-1580/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/06/sir-francis-drake-in-the-new-world-1577-1580/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:46:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26201 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, […]

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