Medievalists.net » William Langland http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 INTERVIEW: A Conversation with SD Sykes about Plague Land http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:20:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53019 My interview with fiction author, SD Sykes about her fantastic medieval crime novel, Plague Land.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/interview-conversation-sd-sykes-plague-land/feed/ 0 The Impact of Climate Change on Late Medieval English Culture http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:48:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38344 This thesis challenges the extremes of both environmental determinism and the modernist perspective that humanity exists in social and/or cultural isolation from the natural environment.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-late-medieval-english-culture/feed/ 0 Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/draumkvedet-and-the-medieval-english-dream-vision-a-study-of-genre/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/draumkvedet-and-the-medieval-english-dream-vision-a-study-of-genre/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:51:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35903 The Medieval English dream vision evidence influences from a variety of earlier vision literature, notably the apocalyptic vision and narrative dream.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/draumkvedet-and-the-medieval-english-dream-vision-a-study-of-genre/feed/ 0 The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/14/the-virtuous-pagan-in-middle-english-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/14/the-virtuous-pagan-in-middle-english-literature/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:49:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35672 From the first through the fourteenth centuries, a succession of solutions to the problem of these virtuous pagans evolved. For the Early Church, an attractive solution was that Christ descended into Hell to convert the souls he found there.

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