The Black Death and its Effect on Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Art
The Black Death and its Effect on Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Art By Anna L. DesOrmeaux Master’s Thesis, Louisiana State University, 2004 Abstract: In early…
Disaster and Recovery: The Black Death in Western Europe
Disaster and Recovery: The Black Death in Western Europe By Jack Hirschleifer (Rand Corporation, 1966) Summary: The Black Death – the great plague…
Microbes and Markets: Was the Black Death an Economic Revolution?
Microbes and Markets: Was the Black Death an Economic Revolution? By Gregory Clark Published Online (2001) Abstract: Did the Black Death have any effects…
Urth Noe e Tat: The Question of Fosterage in High Medieval Wales
Urth Noe e Tat: The Question of Fosterage in High Medieval Wales By Katharine Anderson North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol.4:1 (Winter…
‘What Manner of Salutation This Should Be’: The Disquieted Gaze in Fra Angelico’s San Marco Annunciation
‘What Manner of Salutation This Should Be’: The Disquieted Gaze in Fra Angelico’s San Marco Annunciation By Grace Johnstone WRECK: graduate journal of…
Perspectives of Power: Byzantine Imperial Women
Byzantine imperial women have been situated in a vague and shadowy private sphere, which has resulted in the assumption that they were absent within the realm of politics.
The Image of the Crusade Woman through Islamic Writings Contemporary with the Crusades
The Crusades were a real opportunity for Muslims and Christians to co-habit, deepen their knowledge of each other, and discover each others customs and traditions.
Instrumental Music in Medieval Wales
Instrumental Music in Medieval Wales By Sally Harper North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 4:1 (2004) Introduction: A late medieval manor house…
The Crusades and Islam
The Crusades and Islam By Norman Housley Medieval Encounters, Vol. 13 (2007) Abstract: Although crusading was not solely responsible for the deterioration of…
St. Thomas Aquinas on Satisfaction, Indulgences, and Crusades
St. Thomas Aquinas on Satisfaction, Indulgences, and Crusades Cessario, Romanus Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992) Abstract In order properly to elucidate…
Towards a Narrative Understanding of Thomistic Natural Law
Towards a Narrative Understanding of Thomistic Natural Law Hall, Pamela M. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992) Abstract I wish to discuss…
St. Albert on the Subject of Metaphysics and Demonstrating the Existence of God
St. Albert on the Subject of Metaphysics and Demonstrating the Existence of God Noone, Timothy B. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992)…
From Custom to Rule: The Mechanisms of Authority in the Medieval English Church
From Custom to Rule: The Mechanisms of Authority in the Medieval English Church By Ryon Lancaster Paper given at the Conference on the…
Ibn al-Lihyani: sultan of Tunis and would-be Christian convert (1311–18)
Ibn al-Lihyani: sultan of Tunis and would-be Christian convert (1311–18) By Michael Lower Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 24:1 (2009) Abstract: The fifteenth century is…
Richard Rufus of Cornwall on Creation: The Reception of Aristotelian Physics in the West
Richard Rufus of Cornwall on Creation: The Reception of Aristotelian Physics in the West Wood, Rega Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2 (1992)…
The relations of King Sancho VII of Navarre with the Almohads
The relations of King Sancho VII of Navarre with the Almohads By Nevill Barbour Revue de l’Occident musulman, Vol. 4 (1967) Introduction: The…
Peter of Candia’s Hundred-Year “History” of the Theologian’s Role
Peter of Candia’s Hundred-Year “History” of the Theologian’s Role F. Brown, Stephen F. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract Pitros Philargis…
The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire
The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire By Allen J. Fromherz IB Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 9781845116514 How did an obscure Islamic visionary…
Aquinas’s Parasitic Cosmological Argument
Aquinas’s Parasitic Cosmological Argument MacDonald, Scott Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract In Summa theobgiae (ST) 1.2.3 Aquinas says that his…
Artificial Intelligence used to study Gothic Cathedrals
Simply standing before a Gothic cathedral—say Notre-Dame in Paris—can be an overwhelming experience. Understanding how all its parts artfully and structurally work together…
Special issue of Reading Medieval Studies to focus on the crusades
A new publication focusing on the crusades has been issued by the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Reading. This…
On the Making of Local Paper: A Thirteenth Century Yemeni Recipe
On the Making of Local Paper: A Thirteenth Century Yemeni Recipe By Adam Gacek Remmm: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Meiterranee,…
Ovens in the early Medieval settlements of South-Western Slovakia
Ovens in the early Medieval settlements of South-Western Slovakia By Matej Ruttkay Civilisations, Vol. 49 (2002) Abstract: Among the frequent findings in the…
Medieval Movie Review: Timeline
A group of medieval archaeologists get the opportunity to go back in time to the year 1357 when a high-tech company accidentally finds a way of traveling back through time.
Negotiating Trade: Commercial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval and Early Modern World
The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CEMERS) at Binghampton University will host an international conference called “Negotiating Trade: Commercial Institutions and…