Function and Representation of Women in Fourteenth-Century English Arthuriana
This thesis investigates the function and representation of female characters through Arthurian tropes in three fourteenth-century English Arthurian texts: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale,’ and Sir Launfal.
Game of Thrones – Review of Season 3 Episode 10: Mhysa
After last week’s The Rains of Castamere – which left many viewer saddened and despondent – this episode brings some hope back.
Glenveagh Mystery: The Life, Work and Disappearance of Arthur Kingsley Porter
Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883-1933?) was an American multi-millionaire, an eminent Harvard Professor of fine arts, an international traveller and researcher of medieval architecture, an award-winning author, and owner of Glenveagh Castle, Co. Donegal, Ireland. While spending a night at the fisherman’s hut that he built on Inishbofin Island, off Co. Donegal, Porter disappeared without trace, on July 8th 1933?
The Chronicle and Historical Notes of Bernard Itier
This book offers an edition and translation of an interesting chronicle written in France at the end of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.
Orientalism: An Overview
After Said’s book, however, Orientalism became a pejorative term connoting false, prejudiced and totalising European representations of the Oriental world produced by Orientalist scholars specifically to justify and secure European colonial domination over this region, especially from the late eighteenth century onwards.
How to be a medieval party-crasher
I’m the one who saved you the trouble of sending an invitation!
Rubus Pharmacology: Antiquity to the Present
This short article presents only a sample of the wealth of historical reports of medicinal uses for Rubus.
The Hospitallers’ and Templars’ involvement in warfare on the frontiers of the British Isles in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries
Although in theory they were independent religious orders answerable only to the pope, in the British Isles the Templars, and particularly the Hospitallers, were increasingly secularised institutions, serving the king of England and playing important roles in royal government
Strategies of War in Westeros
George R.R. Martin’s Westeros seems to have an unreasonably large number of battles compared to the real Middle Ages. In A Clash of Kings there are no less than five field actions during the course of Robb Stark’s one-year campaign in the South
Constructed Authorship in Television and the Case of ‘Game of Thrones’
I turn to a selection of paratexts – critical reviews, producers’ commentaries and special features of the show’s DVD box set – to show how the team of Benioff, Weiss and Martin help manufacture and promote the presence of a showrunner-auteur collective in order to help foster a perception of this text as a quality television narrative.
“A model of wisdom and exemplar of modesty without parallel in our time”: how Matilda of Flanders was represented in two twelfth-century histories
My thesis investigates the different ways in which two twelfth-century historians, William of Malmesbury and Orderic Vitalis, represented Matilda.
Queen-making and Queenship in early medieval England and Francia
The present work is not simply a discussion of early medieval queen-making rites, for this would only have necessitated a study of the ninth to the eleventh centuries, but queen-making reciprocated with ideas of queenship just as king-making was inextricably bound up with ideas of kingship.
The Battle of La Forbie (1244) and its Aftermath
How did the kingdom’s leaders cope with the battlefield defeat? How did the settlements survive? Above all, what was the Military Orders’ contribution to the kingdom’s stability after the chaos following the battle?
How Did the Queen Go Mad? Examining changes in chess moves in the Middle Ages
Players of chess will know that the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board – it can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, and is often used to capture the opponent’s pieces. In the Middle Ages this was not the case.
Medieval Irish chronicles reveal persistent volcanic forcing of severe winter cold events, 431–1649 CE
We present a uniquely long historical record of severe short-term cold events from Irish chronicles, 431–1649 CE, and test the association between cold event occurrence and explosive volcanism.
Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings
Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo da Vinci’s lost fresco ‘The Battle of Anghiari,’ and in the process discovered that many paintings have layers of history hidden underneath.
Project uses GIS to map Jewish communities of the Byzantine Empire
Geographic information systems – once limited to the domain of physical geographers – are emerging as a promising tool to study the past, as researchers are discovering for medieval history.
Politics, Hidden Agendas and a Game of Thrones
The novel is analyzed from an intersectional perspective, and focuses on women’s positions in the power hierarchy, and in what ways they use their sexuality to access power.
The Author and the Hierosolimitanus: Reading the Gesta Francorum as a Pilgrim Narrative
Often cited as the only crusade which succeeded in its purpose, this groundswell of fervor throughout all ranks of Christendom’s population, and the subsequent military campaign which placed the holy city in Christian hands and established the Latin Crusader States in the Levant, has raised quite a few historiographical and even ethical questions for historians.
Interview with Tamas Kiss of CEU Medieval Radio
CEU Medieval Radio is currently the only medieval themed radio on the internet which plays only authentic medieval and renaissance music from the Iberian Peninsula to the Ottoman Empire.
Letter from Robert the Bruce to Edward II discovered – attempt at peace before Bannockburn
New research has revealed a letter written in 1310 by Robert Bruce to King Edward II, presenting historians with fresh information about a pivotal time in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
The Historical Inspiration for the Red Wedding of ‘Game of Thrones’
To find the inspiration for the Red Wedding, undoubtedly one of the most shocking events of the series to date, Martin looked to medieval Scotland and the infamous ‘Black Dinner’ of 1440.
Game of Thrones – Review of Season 3 Episode 9: The Rains of Castamere
Game of Thrones is a show that does not shy away from shocking the viewer and thus episode was perhaps the most shocking yet.
Funding cuts could cripple archaeological work in German state
The German state of North-Rhine Westphalia is set to completely cut funding for archaeological research, threatening many projects that look at the history of the area.