The Colour Green in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Natural, Supernatural, Symbolic?
The Colour Green in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Natural, Supernatural, Symbolic? By Anna Zanchi Paper given at the Thirteenth International Saga Conference (2006) Introduction: According…
Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform
Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform By R.I. Moore Historien, Vol.6 (2006) Introduction: In the district of Toulouse a damnable…
Cultural Hybridity in the Medieval Mediterranean: A Concept in Search of Evidence?
Cultural Hybridity in the Medieval Mediterranean: A Concept in Search of Evidence? Lecture by Peregrine Horden, professor of medieval history, University of London…
The Turk as a Tool of God: Augustinism and the Battle of Nicopolis
Morand-Métivier examines the Battle of Nicopolis (1396) where the Ottomans under Sultan Bayazid defeated a Crusader army of mostly French and Burgundian troops.
Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England: An Analysis of Selected Hagiography from Northumbria Written in the Years after the Council of Whitby
Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England: An Analysis of Selected Hagiography from Northumbria Written in the Years after the Council of Whitby By Carrie Couvillon…
The Symbolic Nature of Gold in Magical and Religious Contexts
The Symbolic Nature of Gold in Magical and Religious Contexts By Charlotte Behr Paper given at the Staffordshire Hoard Symposium, held at the…
Sims: Medieval released
Sims: Medieval, a new video game that allows people to recreate the Middle Ages in SIMS fashion, was launched earlier this week. The…
Between Mars and Venus: balance and excess in the chivalry of the late-medieval English romance
Between Mars and Venus: balance and excess in the chivalry of the late-medieval English romance By Ilan Mitchell-Smith PhD Dissertation, Texas A&M University,…
Child Guardian Spirits (Gohō Dōji) in the Medieval Japanese Imaginaire
Child Guardian Spirits (Gohō Dōji) in the Medieval Japanese Imaginaire By Irene H. Lin Pacific World Journal, Third Series No.6 (2004) Introduction: The…
The Bishop in the Bedroom: Witnessing Episcopal Sexuality in an Age of Reform
A significant number of bishops continued to marry during the eleventh century.
Family, economy and consumption in the medieval English village, c. 1300
Family, economy and consumption in the medieval English village, c. 1300 Schofield, Phillipp (Aberystwyth University) Patterns of Consumption and Standards of Living in the…
Medievalists and the 2012 rankings for Best Graduate Schools in the US
U.S. News and World Report has released its 2012 rankings for Best Graduate Schools, with Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the University…
Venetian Art and the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-17)
Venetian Art and the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-17) By Krystina Stermole PhD Dissertation, Queen’s University, 2007 Abstract: This dissertation explores…
The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188-1789
The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188-1789 By Jan Luiten van Zanden, Eltjo Buringhn and Maarten Bosker Centre for Economic Policy Research…
How accurate were medieval chroniclers in describing warfare?
The Battle of Margate is one of the lesser-known episodes of the Hundred Years’ War, but a historian has recently analyzed this naval…
Carolingian Buildings at Aachen: Their Dating and Meaning
Throughout the twentieth-century, a thorough critical analysis of Aachen’s fundamental Carolingian buildings that would take account of a wide range of pertinent viewpoints has remained a siren-like challenge for architectural historians and archaeologists of Medieval Europe’s beginnings.
A musical instrument fit for a queen: the metamorphosis of a Medieval citole
The British Museum’s citole is one of Britain’s earliest extant stringed instruments.
Dendrochronology for medieval studies
Dendrochronology, or Tree-ring dating, has emerged in recent decades of the 20th century as one of the most important dating tools for a number of disciplines such as archaeology, climatology, botany, and the history of art and material culture.
Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de la Rose: Combating Misogyny with Morality
Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de la Rose: Combating Misogyny with Morality By Margaret E. Loebe Honors Journal (2006) Introduction: Christine de…
Urban networks and emerging states in the North Sea and Baltic Areas: a maritime culture?
If we pretend to have reached a higher level of sophistication in our thinking, by what methods can we avoid causalities as those which nowadays would generally be refuted äs simplistic?
Rare Medieval Jewish Manuscript to be displayed at The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be displaying a rare medieval Jewish manuscript known as the Washington Haggadah. It is on loan from the…
The implications of the Staffordshire Hoard for the understanding of the origins and development of the Insular art style as it appears in manuscripts and sculpture
The implications of the Staffordshire Hoard for the understanding of the origins and development of the Insular art style as it appears in…
Fate in Early Irish Texts
Fate in Early Irish Texts By Jacqueline Borsje Peritia, Vol.16 (2002) Abstract: When writing about the concept of Fate in early Irish texts…
Using the TL single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol for the verification of the chronology of the Teutonic Order Castle in Malbork
Using the TL single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol for the verification of the chronology of the Teutonic Order Castle in Malbork By ALICJA CHRUŚCIŃSKA, BERNARD…
Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law: A Student Edition of Five Old English Lawsuits
Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law: A Student Edition of Five Old English Lawsuits By Andrew Rabin Old English Newsletter, Vol. 41:3 (2008) Introduction:…