Grain Prices in Cairo and Europe in the Middle Ages
How did price levels and trends in Cairo compare to those in Europe?
Occlusion issues in early Renaissance art
Early Renaissance painters innovatively attempted to depict realistic three-dimensional scenes. A major problem was to produce the impression of overlap for surfaces that occlude one another in the scene but are adjoined in the picture plane.
Judging Female Judges: Sir John Fortescue’s Vision of Women as Judges in De Natura Legis Naturae
Judging Female Judges: Sir John Fortescue’s Vision of Women as Judges in De Natura Legis Naturae Emma Hawkes Limina, Volume 8, (2002) Abstract The…
Viking Women: Not as Different as You Might Think
My novel, God’s Daughter, tells the story of Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir.
Love and Marriage: Medieval Style
What may be even more surprising about medieval marriage is that it was (at least officially) very much based on mutual consent.
Eleanor, Queen of France and England and Duchess of Aquitaine
There never has been another Queen like her.
Gower’s “Confessio” and the “Nova statuta Angliae”: royal lessons in English law
In the following discussion, I will explore some hitherto unexamined links between the Confessio Amantis and one of these legal texts, the Nova Statuta Angliae or New Statutes of England, which circulated among professional and non-professional readers in the 1380s and 1390s and which Richard II received in a manuscript now in Cambridge: St. John’s College MS A.7.
Fifth-century massacre discovered by Swedish archaeologists
Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered the site where hundreds of people may have been killed in a brutal massacre.
Vínland and Wishful Thinking: Medieval and Modern Fantasies
Reevaluating the wishful reality of the Vinland islands requires that the stories of the Vinland journeys be squarely situated in the context of the world geographic system adopted by those who told those stories.
Medieval Proverbs from The Well-Laden Ship
Here is a list of some of our favourite medieval proverbs from The Well-Laden Ship, including a few that are very similar to modern ones.
Scientists reveal ancient texts in medieval manuscripts
Using cutting-edge technology, European scientists have uncovered new fragments by Euripides and an unknown ancient commentary on Aristotle.
Newest Irish coin features medieval landmark
The coin features the Rock of Cashel, the traditional seat of the kings of Munster.
Was Theoderic a Great Builder?
Or was he a great recycler?
The Earliest Little Red Riding Hood Tale
Looking at an early 11th century version of tale of Little Red Riding Hood
How Old Is Little Red Riding Hood?: Tales Over Time
I will discuss some of the ways in which folk tales change using Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Pigs and The Three Bears as examples.
The Romanian Countries in the Middle Ages: between Byzantium and the West
The 14th century represents an exceptional period for the Romanian Principalities. This time witnessed the creation of the medieval Romanian state with its two representatives: Walachia (situated to the south of the Carpathians) and, to the east, Moldavia.
Hunting in Medieval literature: Satisfaction of Conquest or Thrill of Pursuit?
In this study, I propose that just as hunting moved away from its utilitarian function and became a method of self-expression, so too the hunt for erotic love became, in the medieval period, less about gaining a marriage partner and more about satisfying forbidden passions.
Seasonal Setting and the Human Domain in Early English and Early Scandinavian Literature
Seasonal Setting and the Human Domain in Early English and Early Scandinavian Literature Paul Sander Langeslag University of Toronto: Doctor of Philosophy, Centre for…
Getting Schmedieval: Of Manuscript and Film Prologues, Paratexts, and Parodies
Getting Schmedieval: Of Manuscript and Film Prologues, Paratexts, and Parodies Richard Burt (Guest Co-Editor, University of Florida) EXEMPLARIA: VOL. 19, NO. 2, SUMMER 2007, 217…
The Origins of Local Society in late Anglo-Saxon England
The Origins of Local Society in late Anglo-Saxon England Hirokazu Tsurushima Paper given at: The Third Japanese-Korean Conference of British History (2008) Abstract…
Beowulf: a regime of enforcement
I approach the Beowulf text as a discourse valuable in the process of constituting early Germanic kingdoms, specifically, Denmark and those which would give name to England. I will talk about the possible relationship between the poem and events in Denmark, then suggest how similar connections may have obtained in early Britain.
By God’s Bones: Medieval Swear Words
What were bad words in the Middle Ages?
Boning Richard III
I want to use this space to think about what Richard’s bones tell us about evidence, affect, and history, both in our own scholarly practice and the culture in which this practice circulates.
I Wol Yow Nat Deceyve: The Pardoner’s Virtuous Path in The Canterbury Tales
The Pardoner of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is usually perceived as terrible and morally bankrupt. As a result, he is often categorized as an evil and one-dimensional character.