Muslims as property: slavery episodes in the realms of Aragon 1244-1291
Muslims as property: slavery episodes in the realms of Aragon 1244-1291 By Robert I. Burns Sharq Al-Andalus, No. 14-15 (1997-1998) Introduction: Muslim slaves…
Recasting the Concept of the ‘Pilgrimage Church’: The Case of San Isidoro de León
Recasting the Concept of the ‘Pilgrimage Church’: The Case of San Isidoro de León By Therese Martin La Corónica, A Journal of Medieval…
Medieval Archaeology in Spain
Medieval Archaeology in Spain By Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 30, edited…
Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia
Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia By Justin Stearns Medieval Encounters, Vol.…
Crusades and Crusading
The launching of the First Crusade at the end of the eleventh century, and its success in capturing Jerusalem in 1099, would mark…
The Albigensian Crusades
Articles about the Albigensian Crusades: CONFLICT AND CONSCIENCE: IDEOLOGICAL WAR AND THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE, by John W. Bauer On Cathars, Albigenses, and good…
Crusades in Europe
Articles about crusading in northern and eastern Europe, and in Italy: The Baltic – from European Sea of Troubles to Global Interface, by…
Islamic Perspectives on the Crusades
Articles about the Islamic perspective on the Crusade: Forgetting Osama bin Munqidh, Remembering Osama bin Laden: The Crusades in Modern Muslim Memory, by…
Articles about the Crusades
This list of articles deals with overall topics about the Crusades and Crusading: In the Syrian Taste: Crusader churches in the Latin East…
Two passages in Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s account of the kings of Christian Iberia
Two passages in Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s account of the kings of Christian Iberia By Justin Stearns Al-Qantara: Revista de Estudios Arabes, Vol.25:1 (2004) Introduction:…
Peter’s Medicine – lessons from the 13th century
Peter of Spain lived out a long and fruitful life as a scholar known for his works on logic, as a scholar-physician who wrote widely and was sought by his contemporaries as their doctor, and as a churchman so successful that he became Pope
The Turks with the Grand Catalan Company, 1305-1312
The campaigns of a band of Spanish mercenary soldiers, under the terrifying Roger de Flor, in the Byzantine lands of the early fourteenth century are fully documented by medieval and contemporary historians.
Ecclesiastical Politics as Reflected in the Mural Paintings of San Pietro al Monte at Civate
Ecclesiastical Politics as Reflected in the Mural Paintings of San Pietro al Monte at Civate By Naomi Meiri-Dann Assaph – Studies in Art…
The origin of the European “Medieval Warm Period”
The origin of the European “Medieval Warm Period” By H. Goosse, O. Arzel, J. Luterbacher, M. E. Mann, H. Renssen, N. Riedwyl, A.…
Bones of Contention: The Justifications for Relic Thefts in the Middle Ages
As the devotion to relics grew, so did the theft of these prized relics. The popularity of relic thefts peaked in Western Europe during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries.
Sex, Heresy and Academic Rivalry in Abelard’s Historia calamitatum
Historia calamitatum is closer to autobiography than to any other genre, despite its being structured as a letter. T
Dialectical Heroes: Robin Hood and King Arthur Across Time, Genre and Politics
Dialectical Heroes: Robin Hood and King Arthur Across Time, Genre and Politics By Stephen Knight Research Papers in the Humanities No.6 (2007) Introduction:…
Horses and Crossbows: Two Important Warfare Advantages of the Teutonic Order in Prussia
The combination of these two developments made it possible for the Order’s garrisons to withstand long sieges, provided they had sufficient supplies of food, weapons and crossbow bolts.
“Our father has won a great victory”: the authorship of Berenguela’s account of the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212
“Our father has won a great victory”: the authorship of Berenguela’s account of the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1212 By Theresa…
French Connections: The Significance of the Fleurs-de-Lis in the Mosaic of King Roger II of Sicily in the Church of Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio, Palermo
French Connections: The Significance of the Fleurs-de-Lis in the Mosaic of King Roger II of Sicily in the Church of Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio,…
Byzantium and the Crusades
Articles about the Byzantine empire and the Crusades: Expeditio persica of Heraclius: Holy War or Crusade?, by Nicola Bergamo The Treaty of Devol…
Crusading in the Later Middle Ages (14th – 16th centuries)
List of articles about crusading in the Later Middle Ages: Writing and Imagining the Crusade in Fifteenth-Century Burgundy: The Case of the Expedition…
Crusades and Crusading in the Thirteenth Century
Articles about the Crusades in the Middle East during the 13th century, and the fall of the Crusader States by 1291: Legitimizing a…
The Crusader States in the Twelfth Century
Alice of Antioch and the rebellion against Fulk of Anjou, by Adriana R. de Almeida Frontier Warfare in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem:…
Fourth Crusade
Articles about the Fourth Crusade: The Debate on the Fourth Crusade, by Jonathan Harris The merchant of Genoa : the Crusades, the Genoese…