Native American came to Iceland over a thousand years ago, research finds
New genetic research has uncovered evidence that suggests a Native North American woman came to Iceland in the year 1000, most probably as…
Complex historical dynamics of crisis: the case of Byzantium
Complex historical dynamics of crisis: the case of Byzantium By Johannes Preiser-Kapeller Working Paper “Historical Dynamics of Byzantium” 4 (October 2010) Excerpt: …The same…
Hierarchies and fractals: Ecclesiastical revenues as indicator for the distribution of relative demographic and economic potential within the cities and regions of the Late Byzantine Empire in the early 14th century
Hierarchies and fractals: Ecclesiastical revenues as indicator for the distribution of relative demographic and economic potential within the cities and regions of the…
Dancing with Death: Warfare, Wounds and Disease in the Middle Ages
Dancing with Death: Warfare, Wounds and Disease in the Middle Ages was a three day event held at California University of Pennsylvania in…
Two Conceptions of Experience
Two Conceptions of Experience King, Peter (University of Toronto) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract The canonical text relating experience to knowledge…
Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity
Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity Cross, Richard (Oriel College, Oxford) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract Charting a course…
Power Made Perfect in Weakness: Aquinas’s Transformation of the Virtue of CouragePower Made Perfect in Weakness: Aquinas’s Transformation of the Virtue of Courage
Power Made Perfect in Weakness: Aquinas’s Transformation of the Virtue of Courage Konyndyk De Young, Rebecca (Calvin College) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11…
Maimonides and the Convert: A Juridical and Philosophical Embrace of the Outsider
Maimonides and the Convert: A Juridical and Philosophical Embrace of the Outsider Diamond, James A. (University of Waterloo) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11…
Aquinas’s Impediment Argument for the Spirituality of the Human Intellect
Aquinas’s Impediment Argument for the Spirituality of the Human Intellect Lang, David P. (Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11…
The Angelic Doctor and Angelic Speech: The Development of Thomas Aquinas’s Thought on How Angels Communicate
The Angelic Doctor and Angelic Speech: The Development of Thomas Aquinas’s Thought on How Angels Communicate Goris, Harm (Catholic Theological University Utrecht) Medieval…
The Economics of Medieval English Brewing
I would like to consider Margery Kempe as a typical commercial brewer at the beginning of the fifteenth century and place the hints she gives us into a wider context of how medieval English breweries functioned.
Women and Men in the Brewer’s Gild of London
Women and Men in the Brewer’s Gild of London By Judith M. Bennett The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the…
The Village Ale-Wife: Women and Brewing in Fourteenth-Century England
The medieval peasant diet was plain and basic; most peasant meals consisted only of bread, ale, and soup with some variation provided by seasoned fruits, legumes, and vegetables.
Religious Women in Medieval East Anglia: Not isolated, but marginalized
Religious Women in Medieval East Anglia: Not isolated, but marginalized By Sono Morishita Deviations and Alienations of Marginalized People in Medieval European Communities: The…
Ockham on the Concept
Ockham on the Concept Boler, John (University of Washington) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract It is a commonplace of Ockham commentary…
Medieval walls of Kilmallock continue to be restored
Conservation work on one of Ireland’s most historic town walls is almost complete, Limerick County Council announced today. The local authority, through a…
Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature
Divisibility, Communicability, and Predicability in Duns Scotus’s Theories of the Common Nature Cross, Richard (Oriel College Oxford University) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11…
Aquinas on Attributes
Aquinas on Attributes Leftow, Brian (Oriel College, Oxford) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract Aquinas’ theory of attributes is one of the…
Session 1: Ideals of the Holy Man: Bishops & Abbots in France & England – Gerald of Wales and the Episcopal Ideal
Gerald of Wales and the Episcopal Ideal Matthew M. Mesley (University of Exeter) Summary This paper focuses on Gerald of Wales, a twelfth…
Ambivalent Attitudes toward Women in Late Medieval Europe: Misogyny and the Cult of Women
How and why did misogyny and the cult of women ambivalently exist between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries?
History Professor Publishes Groundbreaking Book on Monasticism and Gender
In Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West professor Lynda L. Coon, chair of the University of Arkansas’ department…
Witchcraft and Women in Medieval Christianity
Witches and vampires draw much attention on Halloween day, in the Harry Potter novels, and in vampire movies. Whether or not they believe in them in a religious sense, many people nowadays simply assume that sort of world and witchcraft might exist somewhere
Ammianus Marcellinus And The Anger Of Julian
Ammianus Marcellinus And The Anger Of Julian By Barbara Sidwell Iris: Journal of the Classical Association of Victoria, Vol.21 (2008) Introduction: The Res Gestae…
What Was Cross Dressing in the Middle Ages?
In the medieval period many jousts or tournaments, including helmets, armors, chest protections, etc were held and we have some reports about the tournaments where participants dressed in female garments. And this cross dressing seems to have carried no penalties at all.
Montague Heritage Services
With a resume that ranges from Hollywood films to national museums, Montague Heritage Services has proven itself as a successful medieval re-enactment business.…