Medievalists.net » Wills http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Papers on Medieval Prosopography: Session #47 at KZOO 2015 http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/#comments Sat, 30 May 2015 00:49:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58508 Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/29/session-47-medieval-prosopography-ii/feed/ 0 Greek in Marriage, Latin in Giving: The Greek Community of Fourteenth-century Palermo and the Deceptive Will of Bonannus de Geronimo http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/greek-marriage-latin-giving-greek-community-fourteenth-century-palermo-deceptive-will-bonannus-de-geronimo/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/greek-marriage-latin-giving-greek-community-fourteenth-century-palermo-deceptive-will-bonannus-de-geronimo/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:26:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48912 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/greek-marriage-latin-giving-greek-community-fourteenth-century-palermo-deceptive-will-bonannus-de-geronimo/feed/ 0 Identifying Women Proprietors in Wills from Fifteenth-Century London http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/21/identifying-women-proprietors-in-wills-from-fifteenth-century-london/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/21/identifying-women-proprietors-in-wills-from-fifteenth-century-london/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:29:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40684 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/21/identifying-women-proprietors-in-wills-from-fifteenth-century-london/feed/ 0 Wills and inheritance in late Anglo-Saxon England, 871-1066 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/wills-and-inheritance-in-late-anglo-saxon-england-871-1066/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/wills-and-inheritance-in-late-anglo-saxon-england-871-1066/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:30:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34725 In this thesis, the sources considered suitable for the study of inheritance were reviewed, and a theoretical model for a system of customary inheritance was developed.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/wills-and-inheritance-in-late-anglo-saxon-england-871-1066/feed/ 0 Personal Piety or Priestly Persuasion: Evidence of Pilgrimage Bequests in the Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1474 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/personal-piety-or-priestly-persuasion-evidence-of-pilgrimage-bequests-in-the-wills-of-the-archdeaconry-of-sudbury-1439-1474/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/personal-piety-or-priestly-persuasion-evidence-of-pilgrimage-bequests-in-the-wills-of-the-archdeaconry-of-sudbury-1439-1474/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:15:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31263 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/23/personal-piety-or-priestly-persuasion-evidence-of-pilgrimage-bequests-in-the-wills-of-the-archdeaconry-of-sudbury-1439-1474/feed/ 0 HASKINS CONFERENCE: Public and Private Audiences: Reflections on the Anglo-Saxon Archive of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey in Suffolk http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/06/haskins-conference-public-and-private-audiences-reflections-on-the-anglo-saxon-archive-of-bury-st-edmunds-abbey-in-suffolk/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/06/haskins-conference-public-and-private-audiences-reflections-on-the-anglo-saxon-archive-of-bury-st-edmunds-abbey-in-suffolk/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:34:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26946 This paper focused on the Anglo-Saxon writs, and charters of Bury St. Edmunds.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/06/haskins-conference-public-and-private-audiences-reflections-on-the-anglo-saxon-archive-of-bury-st-edmunds-abbey-in-suffolk/feed/ 0 Fixing Movables: gifts by testament in late medieval Douai http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/11/fixing-movables-gifts-by-testament-in-late-medieval-douai/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/11/fixing-movables-gifts-by-testament-in-late-medieval-douai/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:28:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25295 Fixing Movables: gifts by testament in late medieval Douai By Martha C. Howell Past and Present, No.150 (1996) Introduction: Let it be known . . . that Marie Narrette Dite De Sandemont, of her own free will and of her own purpose and intention, knowing that death is certain and the hour of death is […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/11/fixing-movables-gifts-by-testament-in-late-medieval-douai/feed/ 0 Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/05/currency-change-in-pre-millennial-catalonia-coinage-counts-and-economics/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/05/currency-change-in-pre-millennial-catalonia-coinage-counts-and-economics/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:09:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23925 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/05/currency-change-in-pre-millennial-catalonia-coinage-counts-and-economics/feed/ 0 THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200 http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/the-will-and-society-in-medieval-catalonia-and-languedoc-800-1200/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/31/the-will-and-society-in-medieval-catalonia-and-languedoc-800-1200/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:03:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23579 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 […]

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