Noble and Urban Family-Structures in the Late Middle Ages in the Hungarian Kingdom
The everyday life of the clan people was filled with disputes over small plots, since it was the main duty of each generation to preserve and enlarge the lands of the clan. It was also the basic interest of the members of the clans to secure the survival of the clan by marriages that were fertile in every sense. It was a sign of the strength of the clan that the members had to consult before taking decisions in questions of marriage, inheritance.
Liber Confortatorius: The Book of Encouragement and Consolation, by Goscelin of St. Bertin
Goscelin’s Liber Confortatorius is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual practice and as a record of a personal relationship.
“The Eucharist and the Negotiation of Orthodoxy in the High Middle Ages”
This paper is part of Adam Hoose’s dissertation. It examined the differences between Waldensians and Franciscans in their treatment of the Eucharist. It also explored why the Waldensians were unsuccessful in their bid to become a legitimate religious order and were eventually marginalized as heretics.
Medieval Nunnery excavated in Oxford
Hundreds of volunteers worked with archaeologists from the University of Oxford to excavate the site of a medieval nunnery, and have even uncovered a small group of prehistoric worked flints, including a beautiful Bronze Age arrowhead which is about 4000 years old.
New research on how the Bayeux Tapestry was made
A University of Manchester researcher has thrown new light on how the world famous Bayeux Tapestry was made over 900 years ago.
The Life of the Mind in the Christian West around the Year 1200
Though my subject is primarily the life of the mind, I shall for the purpose of preliminary orientation in time and space begin with a brief sketch of some of the principal personalities and events during he years from 1180 to approximately 1230.
Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: a Viking Murder Mystery
Angela Boyle recounts the extraordinary archaeological discovery made in the summer of 2009 in Dorset in southwest England.
Risk, Asset Markets and Inequality: Evidence from Medieval England
During the 12th and 13th centuries the English peasantry experienced large increases in poverty and inequality.
Hugh Kennedy of Ardstinchar: Joan of Arc’s Scottish Captain
Priest, soldier, pillager, diplomat, counsellor to kings, Archdeacon of St Andrews… and mentioned in the birth of Scottish golf. You couldn’t make this man up.
Two dozen Viking and medieval swords up for auction
If you want to get your Christmas shopping done early, and have a medievalist on your list, perhaps you can put in a bid for one of two dozen medieval and Viking-era swords that will be sold at auction later this month.
Beyond chicken: avian biodiversity in a Portuguese late medieval urban site
Between 2003 and 2004, prior to the construction of an underground parking in the Avenue Miguel Fernandes, an archaeological rescue excavation was carried out by a team of archaeologists from the company Crivarque…The excavations uncovered 137 silos, of which 109 were fully excavated. The high concentration of silos turned out to be the most striking find of the archaeological works.
Flemings in the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381
While the Peasants’ Revolt has been studied in depth by generations of medieval historians, the same cannot be said of England’s foreign-born inhabitants, and the largest group among these, the so-called Flemings (a term which was also applied to those from other principalities in the Low Countries besides Flanders).
Britain’s Medieval identity Crisis
Clare Downham considers how a set of saints’ lives written by a13th century monk in Cumbria help us understand how national allegiances were understood in medieval Britain.
Gargano Comes to Rome: A Revision of Castel Sant’Angelo’s Historical Origins
This article explores the early medieval transformation of a pagan Roman monument, Hadrian’s tomb, into a Christian fortress consecrated to St Michael.
A nuns’ priests’ tale: the foundation of Easebourne Priory (1216-1240)
A charter recently brought to light in the British Library sheds light upon the foundation of Easebourne Priory, established first, c. 1216, as a college of priests rather than as a nunnery, only later, c. 1230, transformed into a community of nuns, as a dependency of Benedictine Rusper.
Who was the mysterious Ælfgyva in the Bayeux Tapestry?
Joanna Laynesmith, a medieval historian from the University of Reading offers two possibilities in a new article that appears in the October issue of History Today.
Horse Armor in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: An Overview
The history of the development of horse armor generally paralleled that of armor for man, both employing the same materals (principally metal, leather, and textile) and decorative techniques.
‘In the Beginning’: The London Medieval Graduate Network Inaugural Conference
This is a summary of the The London Medieval Graduate Network Inaugural Conference by Rachel Scott. The conference was held on November 2nd at King’s College London.
Medieval Book History Week Lecture: “Practical Latin and Formal English in the 14th-15th Centuries”
This lecture is part of Medieval Book History Week. Renown Professor Jeremy Catto spoke about literacy and language in England during the later Middle Ages at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto.
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Discover what the Isle of Lewis chessmen can tell us about the development of chess as both a game and an art form.
Medieval Food – Come Dine with St. Patrick
Ireland in the 5th century: No restaurants, no take-aways, no street vendors or pre-prepared meals.
University of Exeter to create app showcasing Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
The world’s largest collection of Anglo-Saxon poetry may soon be available on a smart device App, as part of a project initiated by the University of Exeter.
How to be a Man, Though Female: Changing Sex in Medieval Romance
Gender participates in a series of taxonomies that structure the social order, and it therefore participates in processes beyond itself, such as Christianity and knighthood, which are equally about identity within the world of chivalric romance. Therefore, the inscription of one often helps to define the other.
Lords Ask, Peasants Answer: Making Traditions in Late Medieval German Village Assemblies
The lord summoned the assembly on traditional dates, often three times a year. On the evening prior to the assembly the lord arrived at the village and received food and lodging from the peasants.
Shifting Experiences: The Changing Roles of Women in the Italian, Lowland, and German Regions of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
Specifically, the thesis compares and analyzes the changing roles that women could employ economically, politically, socially, and religiously.