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Papers on Medieval Prosopography: Session #47 at KZOO 2015

May 29, 2015 By Medievalists.net

Pieter Brueghel - Kermesse (The Feast of Saint George)

Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.

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Greek in Marriage, Latin in Giving: The Greek Community of Fourteenth-century Palermo and the Deceptive Will of Bonannus de Geronimo

April 12, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This article discusses the pitfalls that can occur in the study of ethnicity in the me- dieval period in the context of the potential existence of two separate Greek minori- ties—one indigenous and one immigrant—in fourteenth-century Latin-dominated Palermo, Italy.

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Identifying Women Proprietors in Wills from Fifteenth-Century London

April 21, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Most Londoners lodged their post obit requests with the Husting Court, the county court of London. The testators were primarily wealthy artisans and merchants, since one needed to possess a substantial amount of property in order to register the details of the division of that property.

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Personal Piety or Priestly Persuasion: Evidence of Pilgrimage Bequests in the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474

April 23, 2012 By Medievalists.net

However, when we consider the number of individuals, particularly from the lower orders, who actually undertook a pilgrimage at some point in their lives, we find that we actually know remarkably little about them.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, Christianity, Cult of Saints, Daily Life, Early Modern, Ecclesiastical History, England, Late Middle Ages, Literature, Pilgrimage, Religious Life, Social History, Wills

HASKINS CONFERENCE: Public and Private Audiences: Reflections on the Anglo-Saxon Archive of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey in Suffolk

November 6, 2011 By Medievalists.net

This paper focused on the Anglo-Saxon writs, and charters of Bury St. Edmunds.

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Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics

August 5, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics Jarrett, Jonathan Numismatic Chronicle, No.169 (2009) Abstract Barcelona in the late tenth century was on the verge of becoming a commercial as well as a political capital. The wealth of the four counties that its ruler, Count-Marquis Borrell II (945–93), controlled had been growing throughout his reign. […]

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THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200

July 31, 2011 By Medievalists.net

THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200 Taylor, Nathaniel Lane PhD Philosopy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April (1995) Abstract Some three thousand men and women of Languedoc and Catalonia (southwestern France and northeastern Spain) from before the year 1200 speak to us through their testaments. This volume of testamentary evidence is unmatched in […]