The Circulation of Military Technology in the Mongolian Empire
The Circulation of Military Technology in the Mongolian Empire By Thomas T. Allsen Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800), edited by Nicola Di…
Gottschalk of Orbais: A Medieval Predestinarian
Gottschalk of Orbais: A Medieval Predestinarian By Francis X. Gumerlock Kerux, Vol. 22:3 (2007) Introduction: Seven hundred years before Calvin wrote his Institutes,…
The Rouen Riot and Conan’s Leap
In the course of the eleventh century, and more commonly in the twelfth, many of the growing towns of Western Europe were disrupted by communal riots.
The Foundation and Patronage of Nunneries by Native Elites in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Scotland
The Foundation and Patronage of Nunneries by Native Elites in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Scotland By R. Andrew McDonald Women in Scotland: c.1100…
The festival of Brigit the Holy Woman
The festival of Brigit the Holy Woman By Séamas Ó Catháin Celtica Vol. 23 (1999) Introduction: In her monumental The Festival of Lughnasa,…
Imitatio basilei? The ideological and political construction of the norman Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century
Imitatio basilei? The ideological and political construction of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century By Stergios Laitsos The Eastern Roman…
Anglo-Saxon Wills and the Inheritance of Tradition
Anglo-Saxon Wills and the Inheritance of Tradition By Michael Drout Selim Vol. 10 (2000) Introduction: In his will, which dates from between 931 and…
Far from Barbaric: Re-assessing the Sophistication of Merovingian Metalworking
Far from Barbaric: Re-assessing the Sophistication of Merovingian Metalworking By Robert M. Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Samuel K. Nash JOM, Vol. 57:8 (2005)…
Werewolves and Courtesy in Medieval Literature
What does it mean to be part man, part beast? In the Middle Ages, writers were struggling with the same questions.
Tens of thousands of Song Dynasty coins discovered in China
Over 4400 pounds of copper coins dating back to the Song Dynasty were uncovered earlier this week by construction workers digging in a…
Hygelac’s only daughter: a present, a potentate and a peaceweaver in Beowulf
Hygelac’s only daughter: a present, a potentate and a peaceweaver in Beowulf By Alaric Hall Studia Neophilologica, Vol.78:1 (2006) Introduction: The women of…
Ideology, Prosody, and Eponymy: Towards a Public Poetics of Obama and Beowulf
Ideology, Prosody, and Eponymy: Towards a Public Poetics of Obama and Beowulf By Tom Clark Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship, Vol.7:1-2 (2010)…
Beowulf and the Teaching of Leadership
Although it depicts a Germanic warrior culture of nearly 1,500 years ago, the Old English epic poem Beowulf contains timely insights into leadership and motivation, trust, respect, loyalty, and sacrifice that could inform current leadership practice and teaching
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Retrospective of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empire
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Retrospective of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empire By Zenonas Norkus World Political Science Review, Vol.3 No.4 (2007)…
Did the Scots visit Iceland? New research reveals island inhabited 70 years before Vikings thought to have arrived
By Owen Jarus It is now thirty years since clerics, who live on the island [Thule] from the first of February to the…
Mystical Theology: The Glosses by Thomas Gallus and the Commentary of Robert Grosseteste on “De Mystica Theologia”
Mystical Theology: The Glosses by Thomas Gallus and the Commentary of Robert Grosseteste on “De Mystica Theologia” Edited and translated by James McEvoy…
Dante and Medicine: The Circle of Malpractice
Dante and Medicine: The Circle of Malpractice By Pasquale Accardo Southern Medical Journal, Vol. 82:5 (1989) Introduction: Dante’s Commedia is a literary epic…
Attitudes Toward Nutrition and Health in the Ancient North
Attitudes Toward Nutrition and Health in the Ancient North By David Robertson Southern Medical Journal, Vol.71:12 (1978) Introduction: Medieval Scandinavia was a culture…
Seventh-Century Ireland as a Study Abroad Destination
Did you know that the Emerald Isle attracted swarms of eager foreign students, principally from England, to its monastic schools as early as the seventh century?
Pilgrims and Crusaders in Western Latin Sources
Pilgrims and Crusaders in Western Latin Sources By Jonathan Riley-Smith Byzantines and Crusaders in Non-Greek Sources, 1025-1204: Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume…
BIBLICAL JUDITH IN THE IDEOLOGY OF QUEENSHIP OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
BIBLICAL JUDITH IN THE IDEOLOGY OF QUEENSHIP OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES Pac, Grzegorz (University of Warsaw, Poland) Quest, Issue 6, Spring (2009)…
THE LIFE OF ST RUADÁN AND THE CURSING OF TARA
THE LIFE OF ST RUADÁN AND THE CURSING OF TARA Szacillo, Judyta (Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland) Quest, Issue 6, Spring (2009)…
The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries By Malcolm Godden Proceedings of the British…
Saint-Making in Early Iceland
Saint-Making in Early Iceland By Bernadine McCreesh Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, Vol.17 (2006-7) Abstract: This article examines briefly the lives of Iceland’s earliest candidates for…
Orality and the Satiric Tradition in “The Pardoner’s Tale”
Orality and the Satiric Tradition in “The Pardoner’s Tale” By Luis Alberto Lázaro Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society…