Gregorian Chant and Power Politics in Medieval Tuscany
Gregorian Chant and Power Politics in Medieval Tuscany Lecture by James Maiello Given at Vanderbilt University (2011) James Maiello, senior lecturer in music…
Alcohol Consumption by Children in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Alcohol Consumption by Children in Late Medieval and Early Modern England By Virginia L. Allen Honours Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1994 Introduction: Alcohol…
Anglo Saxon Music: 500-1066
Anglo Saxon Music: 500-1066 By Jessica Lovett Published Online (2000) Introduction: Unlike its current trivial place in today’s society, in the early middle…
Common Medieval Pigments
Common Medieval Pigments By Amy Baker Published Online (2004) Introduction: Within the period of time formerly known as the “Dark Ages” there existed…
Ruins of 13th-century castle discovered in northern England
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of Westgate Castle in the northern English area of Weardale in the North Pennies region. The lost castle…
British medieval records award special status by UNESCO
Twenty items have been selected from the UK’s libraries, archives and museums to represent the outstanding heritage of the United Kingdom, including several…
Remains of Medieval Village found in Cheshire
Construction work on a new housing development in Runcorn, Cheshire, has unearthed what are thought to be the final remains of the medieval…
Turnabout is Fair Play: Cross-Dressing and Female Tricksters in Medieval French Texts
I will be examining a very particular version of this woman. In each case she appears, at least for a time, in disguise, in male garb.
Spiritual Economy and Spiritual Craft: Monastic Pottery Production and Trade
Spiritual Economy and Spiritual Craft: Monastic Pottery Production and Trade By Ivančica Dvoržak Schrunk Paper given at Living for Eternity: The White Monastery…
The Setting of the Tournament in Chrétien de Troyes and its Historical Actuality
But in Chrétien’s time there were already tournaments. From c.1160 to c.1190, when he would have written the five romances we know today, he was also witnessing the flourishing of a tournament circuit that was bringing the lords from the Anglo-French world together into a premier league of knightly teams.
The nobiliary concept of play as a mechanism for ethical-political distinction in the Late Middle Ages
The nobiliary concept of play as a mechanism for ethical-political distinction in the Late Middle Ages By Miguel Vicente Pedraz and Juan Rodríguez…
Fiore Dei Liberi: 14th century Master of Defence
Fiore Dei Liberi: 14th century Master of Defence By John Clements Published Online (2006) Introduction: Unarguably the most important Medieval Italian fighting treatise,…
The Politics of Wet System Building: Balancing Interests in Dutch Water Management from the Middle Ages to the Present
The Politics of Wet System Building: Balancing Interests in Dutch Water Management from the Middle Ages to the Present By Cornelis Disco and…
Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance
Almost nine hundred years ago, between 1130 and 1139, the legend of King Arthur erupted for the first time in full literary form in England, elaborated out of obscure hints and sketchy entries in written history and Celtic legendary tradition by Geoffrey of Monmouth…
The Folk-Tale Element in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Folk-Tale Element in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight By Claude Luttrell Studies in Philology, Vol.77:2 (1980) Introduction: Ever since Kittredge published…
Isaac of Stella, the Cistercians and the Thomas Becket Controversy: A Bibliographical and Contextual Study
Isaac of Stella, the Cistercians and the Thomas Becket Controversy: A Bibliographical and Contextual Study By Travis D. Stolz PhD Dissertation, Marquette University,…
The Rapture in Twenty Centuries of Biblical Interpretation
The Rapture in Twenty Centuries of Biblical Interpretation By James F. Stitzinger The Master’s Seminary Journal, Vol.13:2 (2002) Abstract: The coming of God’s…
A Rapture Citation in the Fourteenth Century
A Rapture Citation in the Fourteenth Century By Francis Gumerlock Bibliotheca Sacra, No.159 (2002) Introduction: Is the doctrine of the pretribulation rapture a…
Abelard the Scholar
Abelard the Scholar By Helen Steele Published Online Introduction: The twelfth century was a time of great intellectual ferment: at the forefront of…
The burning at Mont-Aime: Thibaut of Champagne’s preparations for the Barons’ Crusade of 1239
A little more than a month before he planned to go on crusade to the Holy Land, Thibaut IV of Champagne (1201–1253) presided over one of the largest burnings of heretics ever to take place in northern France, in which some 180 people were executed.
Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands – new exhibition at The Morgan Library and Museum
Medieval fashion, as seen in the manuscripts and early printed books from the Later Middle Ages, is the subject of a new exhibition…
The Emergence of the Cult of the Virgin Mary as the Patron Saint of Seafarers
Through the ages, Christian seafarers have had recourse to a number of saints in search of protection against the many perils of the sea.
The merchant of Genoa : the Crusades, the Genoese and the Latin East, 1187-1220s
The merchant of Genoa : the Crusades, the Genoese and the Latin East, 1187-1220s By Merav Mack PhD Dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2003…
Name Change as a Consequence of Monastic Ownership
Name Change as a Consequence of Monastic Ownership By Jan Agertz Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (2009) Abstract: The…
Dr. Tomás Ó Carragáin wins award for Irish Medieval Studies
Dr. Tomás Ó Carragáin, a lecturer at University College Cork, has been awarded the inaugural Four Courts Press Michael Adams Prize in Irish…