The Great Caliphs: the Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire
The Great Caliphs: the Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire By Amira K. Bennison IB Tauris, 2009 ISBN: 9781845117375 The flowering of the…
The conversion and destruction of the infidels’ in the works of Roger Bacon
The conversion and destruction of the infidels’ in the works of Roger Bacon By Aleksey Klemeshov Religion and power in Europe: conflict and convergence, edited by…
The Letters of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln
The Letters of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln Translated by F.A.C. Mantello and Joseph Goering University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8020-9813-9 Robert…
Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition By Dieter Bitterli University of Toronto,…
The Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
The Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England Edited by Karen Jolly, Catherine Karkov, and Sarah Larratt West Virginia University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-933202-23-5…
The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291
The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, 1190-1291 By Nicholas Morton Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834779 The Teutonic Order was founded in 1190 to provide…
The Cult of St George in Medieval England
The Cult of St George in Medieval England By Jonathan Good Boydell, 2009 ISBN: 9781843834694 Recently, St George has enjoyed a modest revival…
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government By Thomas N. Bisson Princeton University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-691-13708-7 Medieval…
Interview with Thomas Bisson
Thomas N. Bisson is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History (emeritus) at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval France and Catalonia,…
An Irish Legacy: The Privatization of Penance
The Christian conversion of the Irish, unparalleled in its peacefulness and lack of martyrs, began with the return to Ireland of the once enslaved Patrick.
Burning Down the House: Scorched Earth Tactics Suggested by Wace and Bayeux Tapestry
Burning Down the House: Scorched Earth Tactics Suggested by Wace and Bayeux Tapestry By Collin Davey and Monica L. Wright McNair Research Review, Vol.4…
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vitae of Edward the Confessor in Dialogue
One of the mysteries of The Bayeux Tapestry is its bias: was this depiction of the events of 1066 meant to be from the point of view of the conqueror or the conquered?
Sacred Threads: The Bayeux Tapestry as a Religious Object
There is a duality to the Bayeux Tapestry. The first half is seemingly sympathetic towards Harold Godwin (c.1022-1066), with the second part strikingly pro-Norman. There is a double narrative, one running through the frieze itself and another among the animals and creatures in the borders. We see clerics and knights, churches and palaces, with the sacred blending in with the secular.
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation
Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Bayeux Tapestry: A Study of Remediation By John Micheal Crafton Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art,…
Articles and Theses posted in May 2009
Here is the list of articles and theses posted to Medievalists.net in May 2009: The Great yasa of Chingiz Khan and Mongol Law in…
Interview with Walter Goffart
We speak with Walter Goffart, Professor of History at Yale University, about his article “Rome’s Final Conquest: The Barbarians” and about the Early…
Interview with John France
We interviewed John France, Professor of History at University of Wales – Swansea, during the International Congress on Medieval Studies, which was held…
Interview with Donald Kagay
We spoke with Donald Kagay of Albany State University at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, where he gave the Annual Journal of…
Stylistic Variation and Roman Influence in the Bayeux Tapestry
There are a number of places in the Tapestry where the graphics of the main register are different in both subject matter and style. The men pictured at these points are workers, engaged in practical, mundane (distinctly non-heroic) tasks.
The Bayeux Tapestry and the Vikings
How did the Bayeux Tapestry, with its images of Normans and Englishmen, come to be so strongly equated with the legendary Vikings in the popular imagination?
Art and reform in tenth-century Rome – the paintings of S. Maria in Pallara
The medieval wall paintings of the church of S. Maria in Pallara, situated on the Palatine Hill, Rome, provide insight into the intellectual use of images in the Middle Ages. The fragmentary apse programme survives, supplemented by antiquarian drawings that include copies of lost nave cycles and a lost donor portrait of their patron, Petrus Medicus.
Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c.1280-1413
Although the donor portrait was extremely popular throughout Europe and mainland Italy during the late Middle Ages, the few art historians who have addressed the subject have concluded that the motif was not popular in fourteenth-century Venice.
The chalice and the cup : the changing role of wine in the High Middle Ages
In an interdisciplinary approach, this study integrates the historiographies of viticulture as well as of the Christian liturgy to answer the question: why did wine disappear from the Eucharist in the high Middle Ages?
The journal of Roberto da Sanseverino (1417-1487) : a study on navigation and seafaring in the fifteenth century
Roberto da Sanseverino went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1458. He travelled from Venice to Jaffa on a galley and made his return, from Acre to Ancona, on a three-masted sailing ship.
The eight monophonic political planctus of the Florence manuscript
The eight monophonic political planctus of the Florence manuscript By Leslie Anne Taylor Master’s Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1994 Abstract: The medieval planctus is…