Medievalists.net » The Black Prince 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 Medieval Misogyny and Gawain’s Outburst against Women in “‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/medieval-misogyny-gawains-outburst-women-sir-gawain-green-knight/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/medieval-misogyny-gawains-outburst-women-sir-gawain-green-knight/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:08:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51806 The view has been gaining ground of late that the Gawain of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a knight renowned as 'Pat fyne fader of nurture' (1. 919) and as 'so cortays and coynt' of his 'hetes' (1. I525), degenerates at the moment of leave-taking from the Green Knight, his erstwhile host, to the level of a churl capable of abusing the ladies of that knight's household (11.2411 -28).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/medieval-misogyny-gawains-outburst-women-sir-gawain-green-knight/feed/ 0 BOOK REVIEW: A Triple Knot by Emma Campion http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:06:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51448 BOOK REVIEW: A Triple Knot by Emma Campion I had the pleasure of reading another Emma Campion (Candace Robb) novel recently. Campion, who has written extensively about Alice Perrers, the royal mistress of King Edward III, in her hit, The King’s Mistress, is back on the shelves with a new book released this month entitled: A Triple Knot. This […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/29/book-review-triple-knot-emma-campion/feed/ 0 The “Discrete Occupational Identity” of Chaucer’s Knyght http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/discrete-occupational-identity-chaucers-knyght/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/discrete-occupational-identity-chaucers-knyght/#comments Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:47:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47804 Popular critical opinion favors reading the pilgrim Knyght of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as the representative of the idealized chivalric knight; however, the pilgrim Knyght bears the hallmark of the early professional soldier that began to evolve as early as the eleventh century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/22/discrete-occupational-identity-chaucers-knyght/feed/ 0 The Last Week of the Life of Edward the Black Prince http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/23/the-last-week-of-the-life-of-edward-the-black-prince/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/23/the-last-week-of-the-life-of-edward-the-black-prince/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2013 23:07:28 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45994 Edward the Black Prince died in the palace of Westminster, after years of debilitating illness, on Trinity Sunday, 8 June 1376. There has been little or no discussion by historians of why the prince should have chosen Canterbury for burial, when Westminster abbey was already well-established as the royal mausoleum, or any discussion at all of another matter to which the prince gave attention in his very last days, namely the grant of a charter of disaffor- estation to the community of Wirral in his earldom and county of Chester.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/23/the-last-week-of-the-life-of-edward-the-black-prince/feed/ 0 Joan of Kent : life and legends http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/10/joan-of-kent-life-and-legends/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/10/joan-of-kent-life-and-legends/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:02:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30958 There is no biography of Joan, contemporary or modern. All that we know about her life has been pieced together from chronicles and legal records.

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