Here is the list of articles and theses added to Medievalists.net in December 2009:
Early Crusade Songs
Holy War and the Medieval Lawyers
Evil Twins? The Role of the Monsters in Beowulf
Semantic Social Games and the Game of Life in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Arrow-Odd’s Saga
The Dream of the Rood: Apotheosis of Anglo-Saxon Paradox
The Ambiguous Greek in Old French and Middle English Literature
The Sexualized and Gendered Tortures of Virgin Martyrs in Medieval English Literature
Feeding the Brethren: Grain Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1280-1370
Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript
Daughter of Sion, Daughter of Babylon: Images of Woman in the Old English Psalms
Recent Books on Beowulf
The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence
Cataracts and hernias: aspects of surgical practice in the fourteenth century
Cooking up Fine Remedies: On the Culinary Aesthetic in a Sixteenth-Century Chinese Materia Medica
The Philosophical Uses of Medieval Philosophy
A Catalan Astronomical Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century: Newberry Library Ayer MS 746
Prophecy, Dragons and Meaning in Malory
I Herd an Harping on a Hille: Its Text and Context
The Canterbury Tales as Compilatio
Thomas’s Doctrine of Woman and Thirteenth-Century Thought
Pseudo-Dionysius’ Metaphysics of Darkness and Chartres
Philip of Harveng on Silence
Woman as Termagant in The Towneley Cycle
Typology as Contrast in the Middle English Abraham and Isaac Plays
The Eremitic Ideal and the Dreamer’s Quest in Piers Plowman
Gawain’s Departure from the Peregrinatio
A Re-Hearing of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale”: Exemplum of caritas
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: The Idea!
A Short Catalogue of the Slavic Manuscripts in Vatopedi
The Social Structure of the Byzantine Countryside in the First Half of the Xth Century
The Decline of the Opsikian Domesticates and the Rise of the Domesticate of the Scholae
Courtly Patronage of Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic
Formal and informal Patronage among Jews in the Islamic East: evidence from the Cairo Geniza
Mītham b. Yaḥyā al-Tammār: an Important Figure in Early Shī‘ism
Nikolai Gogol and the medieval orthodox Slavic world-view
Talons and Fangs of the Eastern Han Warlords
Frontier Warfare in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: The Campaign of Jacob’s Ford, 1178-79
Christian Europe and Mongol Asia: First Medieval Intercultural Contact Between East and West
Killing or Clemency? Ransom, Chivalry and Changing Attitudes to Defeated Opponents in Britain and Northern France, 7-12th centuries
Richard I and the Science of Warfare
Gower’s Confessio Amantis IV, 1963-2013: The Education of Achilles
The Passive Poet: Amans as Narrator in Book 4 of theConfessio Amantis
Humor and Humor and Humor and Chaucer
Chaucer’s Inversion of Augustinian Rhetoric in the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
The Yeoman Transmuted: An Evaluation of Penitence and Poetry
The Three Worlds of Love in Troilus and Criseyde
European Chancelleries and the Rise of Standard Written Languages
The Myths of Medieval Warfare
Settlement shift at Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire , and the chronology of Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy pins
Iran under Mongol domination: The effectiveness and failings of a dual administrative system
The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies
Combs, Contact and Chronology: Reconsidering Hair Combs in Early-Historic and Viking-Age Atlantic Scotland
Medieval Portuguese Royal Chronicles: Topics in a Discourse of Identity and Power
Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Sucess or Mongol Failure?
Constructing a Vantage Point from which to regard Women and History: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de Femmes
The Development of Battle Tactics in the Hundred Years War
Medieval Siege Warfare: A Reconnaissance
The Military Revolution from a Medieval Perspective
The Order of the Texts in the Bodley 34 Manuscript: The Function of Repetition and Recall in a Manuscript Addressed to Nuns
Wishing Upon A Star: King John, the Order of the Star, and Politics
The Natural Rhetoric of Ramon Llull
The Power of Words and the Power of Narratives:Cleanness
Patterns of Coherence: A Study of the Narrative Technique in King Horn
Pagans and Christians at the frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw
Warriors, heroes and companions: negotiating masculinity in Viking-Age England
The role of agriculture in Mamluk-Jordanian power relations
Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture
Perceiving different images at different scales of research: the case of early Netherlandish painting
Franciscan Books of Hours from Italy in the Newberry Library
Sounds and Sweet Airs: City Waits of Medieval and Renaissance England
Identity and Disguise in a Late French Epic: Hervis de Mes
The Use of Courtly Language in Le Mirouer des simples ames anienties
Socializing the Sorceress: The Fairy Mistress in Lanval, Le Bel Inconnu, and Partonopeu de Blois
Lancelot and the Demoiselle Guérisseuse: Spiritual vs. Physical Love in the French Prose Lancelot
Arnald of Vilanova: Physician and Prophet
Advancing in the Knowledge of God: A Comparison of the Thought of Anselm of Bec and Symeon the New Theologian
Looking for Manuscripts … and Then?
A Pilgrim and his Journey: Illuminating Interpretations of Dante’s Commedia
Teaching Anchoritic Texts: The Shock of the Old
The Palaeography of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 197
The Anticlaudianus and the “Proper” Language of Theology
Courts of Love: Challenge to Feudalism
John Trevisa and the English and Continental Traditions of De proprietatibus rerum
The Nakid Text: Glosynge as Distortion
Franciscan Chant as a Late Medieval Expression in the Liturgy
The Middleness of the Middle Ages: Periodizing European History
Scotus’ Ethics
Piers Plowman: In Search of an Author
Franciscan Books of Hours from Italy in the Newberry Library
Sounds and Sweet Airs: City Waits of Medieval and Renaissance England
Identity and Disguise in a Late French Epic: Hervis de Mes
Penile Puns: Personal Names and Phallic Symbols in Skaldic Poetry
Techne in the Kentish Hymn
Sacred Image and Illusion in Late Flemish Manuscripts
The bioarchaeology of Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire: present and future perspectives
Marking Time? A fifteenth-century liturgical calendar in the wall paintings of Pickering parish church, North Yorkshire
Anglo-Saxon settlements and archaeological visibility in the Yorkshire Wolds
Animal bones from Anglo-Scandinavian York
Teaching Anchoritic Texts: The Shock of the Old
The Palaeography of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 197
The Anticlaudianus and the “Proper” Language of Theology
Scholastic Imagery in The Florence Manuscript
The evolution of the Lyric Insertion in Thirteenth-Century Narrative
The Commemoration of Jeanne d’Evreux’s Coronation in the Ordo ad Consecrandum at the University of Illinois
The French Woman Writer in the Middle Ages: Staying Up Late
Diego de Valera’s Crónica Abreviada
Ascension Sundays in Tropers: The Innovative Scenes in the Prüm and Canterbury Tropers and Their Relationship to the Accompanying Texts
Elites in the reign of Charlemagne
Security and insecurity of identity and status in the Frankish elite
The acquisition of the landed estates of the Hospitallers in the Latin East, 1099-1291
The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings
The Riddle of the Runes: the Runic Passage in Cynewulf’s Fates of the Apostles
Delicious Matyr: Feminine Courtesy in Middle English Devotional Literature for Women
Christ as a Worker in the Towneley Conspiracy
Glossing as a Mode of Literary Production: Post-Modernism in the Middle Ages
Interpolating the Musical Text of the Lyric Interpolations: Guillaume de Dole the Trouvere Manuscript Tradition
Organizing The Bibliothèque Nationale The First Time, c. 1530
An Architecture of the Self: New Metaphors for Monastic Enclosure
At The Tomb of King Arthur
To Nurture or Neglect: The Body in Early Christian Art and Cappadocian Thought
Christ Church, Canterbury: The Spiritual Landscape of Pilgrimage
Medieval Traditions about the Site of Judgment
Images of the Here-and-Now in Gonzalo de Bercero’s De los signos que aparecerán ante del juicio
The Peasants’ Revolt: Cock-crow in Gower and Chaucer
O, why ne had y lerned for to die?: Lerne for to Dye and the Author’s Death in Thomas Hoccleve’s Series
The End of Knowledge: The Argus Legend and Chaucer
Famous Last Words: Ælfric’s Saints Facing Death
Source Readings on the Practice and Spirituality of Chant: New Texts, New Approaches
The Purpose of Domesday Book: a Quandary
King David in Germany: Royal Traditions at Prüm
Imaginary History and Burgundian State-building: The Translation of the Annals of Hainault
Productive Destruction: Torture, Text, and the Body in the Old English Andreas
Bodies, Buildings, and Boundaries: Metaphors of Liminality in Old English and Old Norse Literature
Becoming Ethnographic: Reading Inquisitorial Authority inThe Hammer of Witches
Figuring Forth the Body of Christ: Devotion and Politics
Harrowing Hell’s Halfacre: Langland’s Mediation of the “Descensus” from the Gospel of Nicodemus
Separating the Living from the Dead: Wessel Gansfort and the Death of Purgatory
The Gate of Heaven and the Fountain of Life: Speech-Act Theory and Portal Inscriptions
Tower and Tabernacle: The Architecture of Heaven and the Language of Dwelling with/in God in the B-Text of Piers Plowman
Fearful Villainy
Reading the Body in Le Livre de Seyntz Medecines
The Virgin Above the Writing in the First Vita of Douce 114
Confining the Daughter: Gower’s “Tale of Canace and Machaire” and the Politics of the Body
Disrupting the Norm: Sodomy, Culture, and the Male Body in Peter Damian’s Liber Gomorrhianus
Classical elements in the Serbian painting of the fourteenth century
Dividing the indivisible: The monastery space – secular and sacred
A generation gap or political enmity?: Emperor Manuel Komnenos, Byzantine intellectuals and the struggle for domination in twelfth century Byzantium
Prophets carrying texts by other authors in Byzantine painting: Mistakes or intentional substitutions?
Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples
Coronation as Legible Practice
The Good Upbringing of Ramon Llull’s Blanquerna: Appropriation and Misrecognition as Social Reproduction
A la guise de Gales l’atorna: Maternal Influence in Chrétien’s Conte du Graal
Family Strategies in Medieval London: Financial Planning and the Urban Widow, 1123-1473
Mysticism, Meditation, and Identification in The Book of Margery Kempe
My Family First: Draft-dodging Parents in the Confessio Amantis
Chaucer’s Missing Children
Textuality, Subjectivity, and Violence: Theorizing the Figure of the Child in Middle English Literature
Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England
Dirty Magic: Seiðr, Science, and the Parturating Man in Medieval Norse and Welsh Literature
The Walpurgis Fechtbuch: An Inheritance of Constantinople?
The Social Uses of Religious Literature: Challenging A uthority in the Thirteenth-Century Marian Miracle Tale
English and Irish Medieval Fortified Ecclesiastical Structures and the Bishop’s Manor in Kilteasheen, Ireland
Piers’s Good Will: Langland’s Politics of Reform and Inheritance in the C-Text
Taxation Mechanisms and Growth in Medieval Paris
Coinage and Monetary Policies in Burgundian Flanders during the late-medieval ‘Bullion Famines’, 1384 – 1482
The Word Made Flesh: The Perception of Holiness in the Texts of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women in England
Aquinas on the Practice of Prostitution
Beating the Bounds Between Church and State: Official Do cuments in the Literary Imagination
Attempree diete was al hir phisik: The Medieval Application of Medical Theory to Feasting
St Gertrude’s Synecdoche: The Problem of Writing the Sacred Heart
The Lives of Umiliana de’ Cerchi: Representations of Female Sainthood in Thirteenth-Century Florence
How Popular Was Early Medieval Devotion?
A Beastly Origin: Journeys from the Oxes Stalle’ in Chaucer’s Poetry
Ælfric’s Sources and His Gendered Audiences
Bede, Social Practice, and the Problem with Foreigners
The Politics of Body Parts: Contested Topographies in Late-Medieval Avignon
Flytes of Fancy: Boasting and Boasters from Beowulf to Gangsta Rap
‘Fit for the task’: equipment sizes and the transmission of military lore, sixth to tenth centuries
The Social Position of the Surgeon in London, 1350-1450
A Military Revolution Reconsidered: The Case of the Burgundian State Under the Valois Dukes
A Fifteenth-Century Florentine Community of Readers and the Romances of Chivalry
The dialectics of expansion and retraction: recent scholarship on the Palaiologan aristocracy
Martín y muchos pobres: Grotesque Versions of the Charity of St Martin in the Bosch and Bruegel Schools
Motives for Donations to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, 1392-1605: Gender Matters
Crucifye hem, Crucifye hem: The Subject and Affective Response in Middle English Passion Narratives
Swete May, Soulis Leche: The Winifred Carol of John Audelay
Dangerous Beauty, Beautiful Speech: Gendered Eloquence in Medieval Preaching
The muthes wit: Reading, Speaking, and Eating in Ancrene
Spirituality and Self-Representation in The Life of Christina Mirabilis
Rude Strength
Linking Lives: Autobiographical Criticism and Medieval Studies
The Hanging of Judas: Medieval Iconography and the German Peasants’ War
The Implications of Exclusion: The Regulation of Churching in Medieval Northern France
The Sweet Song of Satan: Music and Resistance in the Vercelli Book
The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances: Heretical Outsider or Political Insider
Herbs, Birds, and Cryptic Words for English Devotional Readers
Feasting with “Kings” in an Ancient Democracy: On the Slavic Society of the Early Middle Ages (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D.)
Places to Play: Topographies of Gender in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan
The Paternal Function in Sir Gowther
Adultery and Kingship in Marie de France’s Equitan
Gaimar’s Rebels: Outlaw Heroes and the Creation of Authority in Twelfth-Century England
The Eccentric Hermit-Bishop: Bede, Cuthbert, and Farne Island
Warriors, Wyrms, and Wyrd: The Paradoxical Fate of the Germanic Hero/King in Beowulf
The Kingdom of Heaven: teaching the Crusades
Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven
Pseudo-Autobiography and the Role of the Poet in Jean Froissart’s Joli Buisson de Jonece
The Pearl, a Crayon, and a Lego
William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux
Profit and Loss in the Hundred Years War: the Subcontracts of Sir John Strother, 1374
The Battle of Tours-Poitiers Revisited
Roosters, Wolves and the Limits of Allegory
Bertilak Reads Brut: History and the Complications of Sexuality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Literary Representations of History in Fourteenth Century England: Shared Technique and Divergent Practice in Chaucer and Langland
Guilty as Charged? Subjectivity and the Law in La Chanson de Roland and “Lanval”
Rebirth of a Nation? Historical Mythmaking in Layamon’s Brut
Among These Authors are the Men of Bec: Historical Writing among the Monks of Bec
Queer Relations
The Experience of Civilian Populations during the Hundred Years War in France 1330-1440
Medieval Krakow and its Churches: Structure and Meanings
Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change: A Petrographic Study of Byzantine and Frankish Cooking Wares from Corinth
THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF CURSE TABLETS [DEFIXIONES] IN BRITAIN AND ON THE CONTINENT
Secondary responses to fear and grief in Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum
Justinian and the International Silk Trade
History vs. Fiction in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Man from the Margin: Cao Cao and the Three Kingdoms
‘Mount the War-Horses, Take your Lance in your Grip . . .’ Logistics Preparations for the Gascon Campaign of 1294
Men and Women in Early Medieval Serfdom: The Ninth-Century North Frankish Evidence
Bertulf or Galbert? Considerations Regarding a Sample of Historical and Psychoanalytical Criticism of Medieval Dreams
The Alexandrian Crusade (1365) and the Mamluk Sources: Reassessment of the kitab al-ilmam of an-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani
Toward a Medieval Architectonics: Reading Wells Cathedral
Grendel’s Mere: Freudian and Metapoetical Implications
The Medium of Middle English Lyrics
Holding the Center: Chaucer’s Book of Troilus and Dante’s Commedia
Faith and Loyalty: Sir Gawain as a Medieval Man
The Theme of Mutability in Old English Poetry
The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe
Here is the list of articles and theses added to Medievalists.net in December 2009:
Early Crusade Songs
Holy War and the Medieval Lawyers
Evil Twins? The Role of the Monsters in Beowulf
Semantic Social Games and the Game of Life in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Arrow-Odd’s Saga
The Dream of the Rood: Apotheosis of Anglo-Saxon Paradox
The Ambiguous Greek in Old French and Middle English Literature
The Sexualized and Gendered Tortures of Virgin Martyrs in Medieval English Literature
Feeding the Brethren: Grain Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1280-1370
Codicological Consideration in the Beowulf Manuscript
Daughter of Sion, Daughter of Babylon: Images of Woman in the Old English Psalms
Recent Books on Beowulf
The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence
Cataracts and hernias: aspects of surgical practice in the fourteenth century
Cooking up Fine Remedies: On the Culinary Aesthetic in a Sixteenth-Century Chinese Materia Medica
The Philosophical Uses of Medieval Philosophy
A Catalan Astronomical Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century: Newberry Library Ayer MS 746
Prophecy, Dragons and Meaning in Malory
I Herd an Harping on a Hille: Its Text and Context
The Canterbury Tales as Compilatio
Thomas’s Doctrine of Woman and Thirteenth-Century Thought
Pseudo-Dionysius’ Metaphysics of Darkness and Chartres
Philip of Harveng on Silence
Woman as Termagant in The Towneley Cycle
Typology as Contrast in the Middle English Abraham and Isaac Plays
The Eremitic Ideal and the Dreamer’s Quest in Piers Plowman
Gawain’s Departure from the Peregrinatio
A Re-Hearing of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale”: Exemplum of caritas
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: The Idea!
A Short Catalogue of the Slavic Manuscripts in Vatopedi
The Social Structure of the Byzantine Countryside in the First Half of the Xth Century
The Decline of the Opsikian Domesticates and the Rise of the Domesticate of the Scholae
Courtly Patronage of Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic
Formal and informal Patronage among Jews in the Islamic East: evidence from the Cairo Geniza
Mītham b. Yaḥyā al-Tammār: an Important Figure in Early Shī‘ism
Nikolai Gogol and the medieval orthodox Slavic world-view
Talons and Fangs of the Eastern Han Warlords
Frontier Warfare in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: The Campaign of Jacob’s Ford, 1178-79
Christian Europe and Mongol Asia: First Medieval Intercultural Contact Between East and West
Killing or Clemency? Ransom, Chivalry and Changing Attitudes to Defeated Opponents in Britain and Northern France, 7-12th centuries
Richard I and the Science of Warfare
Gower’s Confessio Amantis IV, 1963-2013: The Education of Achilles
The Passive Poet: Amans as Narrator in Book 4 of theConfessio Amantis
Humor and Humor and Humor and Chaucer
Chaucer’s Inversion of Augustinian Rhetoric in the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
The Yeoman Transmuted: An Evaluation of Penitence and Poetry
The Three Worlds of Love in Troilus and Criseyde
European Chancelleries and the Rise of Standard Written Languages
The Myths of Medieval Warfare
Settlement shift at Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire , and the chronology of Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy pins
Iran under Mongol domination: The effectiveness and failings of a dual administrative system
The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies
Combs, Contact and Chronology: Reconsidering Hair Combs in Early-Historic and Viking-Age Atlantic Scotland
Medieval Portuguese Royal Chronicles: Topics in a Discourse of Identity and Power
Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Sucess or Mongol Failure?
Constructing a Vantage Point from which to regard Women and History: Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de Femmes
The Development of Battle Tactics in the Hundred Years War
Medieval Siege Warfare: A Reconnaissance
The Military Revolution from a Medieval Perspective
The Order of the Texts in the Bodley 34 Manuscript: The Function of Repetition and Recall in a Manuscript Addressed to Nuns
Wishing Upon A Star: King John, the Order of the Star, and Politics
The Natural Rhetoric of Ramon Llull
The Power of Words and the Power of Narratives:Cleanness
Patterns of Coherence: A Study of the Narrative Technique in King Horn
Pagans and Christians at the frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw
Warriors, heroes and companions: negotiating masculinity in Viking-Age England
The role of agriculture in Mamluk-Jordanian power relations
Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture
Perceiving different images at different scales of research: the case of early Netherlandish painting
Franciscan Books of Hours from Italy in the Newberry Library
Sounds and Sweet Airs: City Waits of Medieval and Renaissance England
Identity and Disguise in a Late French Epic: Hervis de Mes
The Use of Courtly Language in Le Mirouer des simples ames anienties
Socializing the Sorceress: The Fairy Mistress in Lanval, Le Bel Inconnu, and Partonopeu de Blois
Lancelot and the Demoiselle Guérisseuse: Spiritual vs. Physical Love in the French Prose Lancelot
Arnald of Vilanova: Physician and Prophet
Advancing in the Knowledge of God: A Comparison of the Thought of Anselm of Bec and Symeon the New Theologian
Looking for Manuscripts … and Then?
A Pilgrim and his Journey: Illuminating Interpretations of Dante’s Commedia
Teaching Anchoritic Texts: The Shock of the Old
The Palaeography of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 197
The Anticlaudianus and the “Proper” Language of Theology
Courts of Love: Challenge to Feudalism
John Trevisa and the English and Continental Traditions of De proprietatibus rerum
The Nakid Text: Glosynge as Distortion
Franciscan Chant as a Late Medieval Expression in the Liturgy
The Middleness of the Middle Ages: Periodizing European History
Scotus’ Ethics
Piers Plowman: In Search of an Author
Franciscan Books of Hours from Italy in the Newberry Library
Sounds and Sweet Airs: City Waits of Medieval and Renaissance England
Identity and Disguise in a Late French Epic: Hervis de Mes
Penile Puns: Personal Names and Phallic Symbols in Skaldic Poetry
Techne in the Kentish Hymn
Sacred Image and Illusion in Late Flemish Manuscripts
The bioarchaeology of Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire: present and future perspectives
Marking Time? A fifteenth-century liturgical calendar in the wall paintings of Pickering parish church, North Yorkshire
Anglo-Saxon settlements and archaeological visibility in the Yorkshire Wolds
Animal bones from Anglo-Scandinavian York
Teaching Anchoritic Texts: The Shock of the Old
The Palaeography of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 197
The Anticlaudianus and the “Proper” Language of Theology
Scholastic Imagery in The Florence Manuscript
The evolution of the Lyric Insertion in Thirteenth-Century Narrative
The Commemoration of Jeanne d’Evreux’s Coronation in the Ordo ad Consecrandum at the University of Illinois
The French Woman Writer in the Middle Ages: Staying Up Late
Diego de Valera’s Crónica Abreviada
Ascension Sundays in Tropers: The Innovative Scenes in the Prüm and Canterbury Tropers and Their Relationship to the Accompanying Texts
Elites in the reign of Charlemagne
Security and insecurity of identity and status in the Frankish elite
The acquisition of the landed estates of the Hospitallers in the Latin East, 1099-1291
The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings
The Riddle of the Runes: the Runic Passage in Cynewulf’s Fates of the Apostles
Delicious Matyr: Feminine Courtesy in Middle English Devotional Literature for Women
Christ as a Worker in the Towneley Conspiracy
Glossing as a Mode of Literary Production: Post-Modernism in the Middle Ages
Interpolating the Musical Text of the Lyric Interpolations: Guillaume de Dole the Trouvere Manuscript Tradition
Organizing The Bibliothèque Nationale The First Time, c. 1530
An Architecture of the Self: New Metaphors for Monastic Enclosure
At The Tomb of King Arthur
To Nurture or Neglect: The Body in Early Christian Art and Cappadocian Thought
Christ Church, Canterbury: The Spiritual Landscape of Pilgrimage
Medieval Traditions about the Site of Judgment
Images of the Here-and-Now in Gonzalo de Bercero’s De los signos que aparecerán ante del juicio
The Peasants’ Revolt: Cock-crow in Gower and Chaucer
O, why ne had y lerned for to die?: Lerne for to Dye and the Author’s Death in Thomas Hoccleve’s Series
The End of Knowledge: The Argus Legend and Chaucer
Famous Last Words: Ælfric’s Saints Facing Death
Source Readings on the Practice and Spirituality of Chant: New Texts, New Approaches
The Purpose of Domesday Book: a Quandary
King David in Germany: Royal Traditions at Prüm
Imaginary History and Burgundian State-building: The Translation of the Annals of Hainault
Productive Destruction: Torture, Text, and the Body in the Old English Andreas
Bodies, Buildings, and Boundaries: Metaphors of Liminality in Old English and Old Norse Literature
Becoming Ethnographic: Reading Inquisitorial Authority inThe Hammer of Witches
Figuring Forth the Body of Christ: Devotion and Politics
Harrowing Hell’s Halfacre: Langland’s Mediation of the “Descensus” from the Gospel of Nicodemus
Separating the Living from the Dead: Wessel Gansfort and the Death of Purgatory
The Gate of Heaven and the Fountain of Life: Speech-Act Theory and Portal Inscriptions
Tower and Tabernacle: The Architecture of Heaven and the Language of Dwelling with/in God in the B-Text of Piers Plowman
Fearful Villainy
Reading the Body in Le Livre de Seyntz Medecines
The Virgin Above the Writing in the First Vita of Douce 114
Confining the Daughter: Gower’s “Tale of Canace and Machaire” and the Politics of the Body
Disrupting the Norm: Sodomy, Culture, and the Male Body in Peter Damian’s Liber Gomorrhianus
Classical elements in the Serbian painting of the fourteenth century
Dividing the indivisible: The monastery space – secular and sacred
A generation gap or political enmity?: Emperor Manuel Komnenos, Byzantine intellectuals and the struggle for domination in twelfth century Byzantium
Prophets carrying texts by other authors in Byzantine painting: Mistakes or intentional substitutions?
Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples
Coronation as Legible Practice
The Good Upbringing of Ramon Llull’s Blanquerna: Appropriation and Misrecognition as Social Reproduction
A la guise de Gales l’atorna: Maternal Influence in Chrétien’s Conte du Graal
Family Strategies in Medieval London: Financial Planning and the Urban Widow, 1123-1473
Mysticism, Meditation, and Identification in The Book of Margery Kempe
My Family First: Draft-dodging Parents in the Confessio Amantis
Chaucer’s Missing Children
Textuality, Subjectivity, and Violence: Theorizing the Figure of the Child in Middle English Literature
Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England
Dirty Magic: Seiðr, Science, and the Parturating Man in Medieval Norse and Welsh Literature
The Walpurgis Fechtbuch: An Inheritance of Constantinople?
The Social Uses of Religious Literature: Challenging A uthority in the Thirteenth-Century Marian Miracle Tale
English and Irish Medieval Fortified Ecclesiastical Structures and the Bishop’s Manor in Kilteasheen, Ireland
Piers’s Good Will: Langland’s Politics of Reform and Inheritance in the C-Text
Taxation Mechanisms and Growth in Medieval Paris
Coinage and Monetary Policies in Burgundian Flanders during the late-medieval ‘Bullion Famines’, 1384 – 1482
The Word Made Flesh: The Perception of Holiness in the Texts of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women in England
Aquinas on the Practice of Prostitution
Beating the Bounds Between Church and State: Official Do cuments in the Literary Imagination
Attempree diete was al hir phisik: The Medieval Application of Medical Theory to Feasting
St Gertrude’s Synecdoche: The Problem of Writing the Sacred Heart
The Lives of Umiliana de’ Cerchi: Representations of Female Sainthood in Thirteenth-Century Florence
How Popular Was Early Medieval Devotion?
A Beastly Origin: Journeys from the Oxes Stalle’ in Chaucer’s Poetry
Ælfric’s Sources and His Gendered Audiences
Bede, Social Practice, and the Problem with Foreigners
The Politics of Body Parts: Contested Topographies in Late-Medieval Avignon
Flytes of Fancy: Boasting and Boasters from Beowulf to Gangsta Rap
‘Fit for the task’: equipment sizes and the transmission of military lore, sixth to tenth centuries
The Social Position of the Surgeon in London, 1350-1450
A Military Revolution Reconsidered: The Case of the Burgundian State Under the Valois Dukes
A Fifteenth-Century Florentine Community of Readers and the Romances of Chivalry
The dialectics of expansion and retraction: recent scholarship on the Palaiologan aristocracy
Martín y muchos pobres: Grotesque Versions of the Charity of St Martin in the Bosch and Bruegel Schools
Motives for Donations to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, 1392-1605: Gender Matters
Crucifye hem, Crucifye hem: The Subject and Affective Response in Middle English Passion Narratives
Swete May, Soulis Leche: The Winifred Carol of John Audelay
Dangerous Beauty, Beautiful Speech: Gendered Eloquence in Medieval Preaching
The muthes wit: Reading, Speaking, and Eating in Ancrene
Spirituality and Self-Representation in The Life of Christina Mirabilis
Rude Strength
Linking Lives: Autobiographical Criticism and Medieval Studies
The Hanging of Judas: Medieval Iconography and the German Peasants’ War
The Implications of Exclusion: The Regulation of Churching in Medieval Northern France
The Sweet Song of Satan: Music and Resistance in the Vercelli Book
The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances: Heretical Outsider or Political Insider
Herbs, Birds, and Cryptic Words for English Devotional Readers
Feasting with “Kings” in an Ancient Democracy: On the Slavic Society of the Early Middle Ages (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D.)
Places to Play: Topographies of Gender in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan
The Paternal Function in Sir Gowther
Adultery and Kingship in Marie de France’s Equitan
Gaimar’s Rebels: Outlaw Heroes and the Creation of Authority in Twelfth-Century England
The Eccentric Hermit-Bishop: Bede, Cuthbert, and Farne Island
Warriors, Wyrms, and Wyrd: The Paradoxical Fate of the Germanic Hero/King in Beowulf
The Kingdom of Heaven: teaching the Crusades
Warrior Geopolitics: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and the Kingdom of Heaven
Pseudo-Autobiography and the Role of the Poet in Jean Froissart’s Joli Buisson de Jonece
The Pearl, a Crayon, and a Lego
William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux
Profit and Loss in the Hundred Years War: the Subcontracts of Sir John Strother, 1374
The Battle of Tours-Poitiers Revisited
Roosters, Wolves and the Limits of Allegory
Bertilak Reads Brut: History and the Complications of Sexuality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Literary Representations of History in Fourteenth Century England: Shared Technique and Divergent Practice in Chaucer and Langland
Guilty as Charged? Subjectivity and the Law in La Chanson de Roland and “Lanval”
Rebirth of a Nation? Historical Mythmaking in Layamon’s Brut
Among These Authors are the Men of Bec: Historical Writing among the Monks of Bec
Queer Relations
The Experience of Civilian Populations during the Hundred Years War in France 1330-1440
Medieval Krakow and its Churches: Structure and Meanings
Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change: A Petrographic Study of Byzantine and Frankish Cooking Wares from Corinth
THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF CURSE TABLETS [DEFIXIONES] IN BRITAIN AND ON THE CONTINENT
Secondary responses to fear and grief in Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum
Justinian and the International Silk Trade
History vs. Fiction in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Man from the Margin: Cao Cao and the Three Kingdoms
‘Mount the War-Horses, Take your Lance in your Grip . . .’ Logistics Preparations for the Gascon Campaign of 1294
Men and Women in Early Medieval Serfdom: The Ninth-Century North Frankish Evidence
Bertulf or Galbert? Considerations Regarding a Sample of Historical and Psychoanalytical Criticism of Medieval Dreams
The Alexandrian Crusade (1365) and the Mamluk Sources: Reassessment of the kitab al-ilmam of an-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani
Toward a Medieval Architectonics: Reading Wells Cathedral
Grendel’s Mere: Freudian and Metapoetical Implications
The Medium of Middle English Lyrics
Holding the Center: Chaucer’s Book of Troilus and Dante’s Commedia
Faith and Loyalty: Sir Gawain as a Medieval Man
The Theme of Mutability in Old English Poetry
The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe
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