Civilized Slavs: Social bonds in early medieval Poland
Civilized Slavs: Social bonds in early medieval Poland Samsonowicz, Henryk (Polish Academy of Sciences) Focus on History, No. 4 (2004) Abstract In the…
Pope Joan: a recognizable syndrome
The story of the female pope first appeared in a manuscript by friar Jean de Mailly in about 1250 A.D. During the late Middle Ages and Reformation dozens of people wrote about this scandal, many of them Franciscan and Dominican friars or Protestants, and their stories were widely believed.
The Uncovering And Conservation Of The Medieval Wall Paintings At St James The Less’ Church, Little Tey
The Uncovering And Conservation Of The Medieval Wall Paintings At St James The Less’ Church, Little Tey By Tobit Curteis Essex Archaeology and…
KALAMAZOO 2011: Session 185 – Friday, May 13:The Papacy and Thirteenth-Century Women
The Papacy and Thirteenth-Century Women Sponsor:Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University and Women in the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition (WIFIT) Organizer: Maria Pia Alberzoni, University…
Reform and the Lower Consistory in Prague, 1437–1497
Reform and the Lower Consistory in Prague, 1437–1497 By Thomas A. Fudge Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, Vol.2 (1996) Introduction: Not until 9…
Harnessing the Potential in Historiography and Popular Culture When Teaching the Crusades
Harnessing the Potential in Historiography and Popular Culture When Teaching the Crusades By Dawn Marie Hayes The History Teacher, Vol. 40:3 (2007) Introduction:…
The Origins of Amazigh Women’s Power in North Africa: An Historical Overview
The Origins of Amazigh Women’s Power in North Africa: An Historical Overview By Ulbani Aït Frawsen and L’Hocine Ukerdi Al-Raida, Vol.20 (2003) Introduction:…
The Secret History of the Mongols and Western Literature
Of all the peoples of the world, the Mongols of Chinggis Qan are among the strangest to Western civilization – a warlike Asian people without agriculture, cities, or writing. However, three episodes in the Secret History of the Mongols can be matched with comparable episodes in western literature.
Book Explores Students’ Journey on Medieval Pilgrimage Route
Allison Gray walked with a fractured foot. Megan Drohan overcame distaste for the outdoors. Jessica Hickam Roffe found meaning and confidence. These former…
Same-Sex Relations in the Middle Ages
The study of homosexual, lesbian and bisexual relations during the Middle Ages is a new area of research, with some of the first important books on the topics being published in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF LESBIANISM IN A GENERAL COURSE ON WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF LESBIANISM IN A GENERAL COURSE ON WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES Huot, Sylvia Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue…
The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Homosexual sex was widespread in the Middle Ages and there is abundant information on what church writers and secular legislators thought about it. Shoddy or partisan scholarship and a distinctly modern disdain of homosexuals by scholars until recently marked much of the discussion of the history of this medieval homosexuality.
Homoerotic Liasons among the Mamluk Elite in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
Homoerotic Liasons among the Mamluk Elite in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria By Everett K. Rowson Islamicate sexualities: translations across temporal geographies of…
Book of Lismore goes on display at University College Cork
University College Cork (UCC) will be hosting an exhibit featuring a major medieval Irish manuscripts, the Book of Lismore. The fifteenth-century manuscript will…
Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic Environment
The aim is to document and discuss Norse knowledge of oceanographic phenomena including tides, non-tidal ocean currents, surface water properties, and sea ice.
Contact between the Norse Vikings and the Dorset culture in Arctic Canada
Contact between the Norse Vikings and the Dorset culture in Arctic Canada By Robert Park Antiquity, Vol.82 (2008) Introduction: One the most dramatic…
Queer Vikings? Transgression of gender and same-sex encounters in the Late Iron Age and early medieval Scandinavia
Queer Vikings? Transgression of gender and same-sex encounters in the Late Iron Age and early medieval Scandinavia By Sami Raninen SQS, Vol.2 (2008)…
THE HETEROSEXUAL SUBJECT OF CHAUCERIAN NARRATIVE
THE HETEROSEXUAL SUBJECT OF CHAUCERIAN NARRATIVE Dinshaw, Carolyn Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue 1 (1992) Spring 1992 Abstract “I’m not sure what…
GAY STUDIES AND FEMINISM: A MEDIEVALIST’S PERSPECTIVE
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Brotherhood of Vice: Sodomy, Islam, and the Knights Templar
The charge of sodomy was unique because it was a crime of personal moral failure, rather than an organizational heresy which could threaten state authority.
Viking silver coin hoard discovered in northern England
A Viking treasure hoard of silver coins has been discovered in the northern English country of Cumbria. The find is being billed as…
Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)
Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477) By Helmet Puff Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2000)…
Scholars examine life and writings of Jocelin of Furness
Jocelin of Furness was one of the most significant writers to emerge from England’s north-west during the Middle Ages, but historians have tended…
The myth of lesbian impunity: capital laws from 1270 to 1791
The myth of lesbian impunity: capital laws from 1270 to 1791 By Louis Crompton Journal of Homosexuality, Vol.6 No.1-2 (1980-81) Abstract: The standard…
On Lesbian and Gay/Queer Medieval Studies
On Lesbian and Gay/Queer Medieval Studies By David Lorenzo Boyd Medieval Feminist Forum, Vol.15 No. 1 (1993) Introduction: A graduate student sitting next…