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

Medievalists.net — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:32:45 +0000

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.

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The Anglo-Saxon War-Culture and The Lord of the Rings: Legacy and Reappraisal

Medievalists.net — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:56:08 +0000

The literature of war in English claims its origin from the Homeric epics, and the medieval accounts of chivalry and the crusades.

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Besteiros Do Conto (Crossbowmen): Organization, abuses of power and irregularities during the reign of Dom João I (1385-1433)

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:04:45 +0000

The aim of this paper is to examine an aspect of social life linked to one of the most important and original forms of military organization in the whole of Portuguese history—the besteiros do conto (crossbowmen).

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Characteristics of Medieval Artillery in the Light of Written Sources from Bohemia and Poland

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:16:07 +0000

Artillery appears in Central Europe at the end of the 14th c. and it starts playing a more significant role only in the next century.

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‘Protecting the non-combatant’: Chivalry, Codes and the Just War Theory

Medievalists.net — Fri, 23 May 2014 09:48:03 +0000

The concept of chivalry, a traditional code of conduct idealised by the knightly class relating to times of both peace and war, dominated the medieval period and many of the scholars who contributed to the principle of jus in bello were in fact writing about chivalry.

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BOOK REVIEW: “Defending the City of God” : A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem, by Sharan Newman

Medievalists.net — Fri, 09 May 2014 22:42:39 +0000

This is my review of Sharan Newman's latest book, Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem.

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The soldier’s life: martial virtues and hegemonic masculinity in the early Byzantine Empire

Medievalists.net — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:42:34 +0000

This dissertation argues that martial virtues and images of the soldier’s life represented an essential aspect of early Byzantine masculine ideology. It contends that in many of the visual and literary sources from the fourth to the seventh centuries CE, conceptualisations of the soldier’s life and the ideal manly life were often the same.

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Christian Iberia: A Society Religiously Organized for War

Medievalists.net — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:32:57 +0000

Reconquista society in medieval Christian Spain is all too often considered through only economic and martial eyes. In this study of the prevelant cult of Santiago de Compostela (or St. James the Greater) I will demonstrate how medieval society meshed both war and religion.

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Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers’ locomotor performance

Medievalists.net — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:51:42 +0000

Our findings can predict age-associated decline in Medieval soldiers’ physical performance, and have potential implications in understanding the outcomes of past European military battles.

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Warfare and propaganda: the portrayal of Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282 – 1328) as an incompetent military leader in the Histories of John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-1354)

Medievalists.net — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 11:18:56 +0000

The Histories of Kantakouzenos is the main source for the civil war between Andronikos II and Andronikos III which was fought intermittently from 1321 until 1328.

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