Wars and Warriors in Gregory of Tours’ Histories I-IV
Although wars do not dominate the Histories, enough are described to cause surprise at the relatively scant attention given to Gregory’s ideology of war in the scholarly literature, an unfortunate lacuna given the resulting insights into both ideological and institutional realities of late sixth-century Gaul.
Knightly Arms – Plebian Arms
Knightly Arms – Plebian Arms By Zdzislaw Zygulski Jr Quaestiones medii aevi novae, v. 4 (1999) Introduction: The science dealing with the arms…
Bawds, Pimps and Procurers: Images of the prostitute in medieval England
Bawds, Pimps and Procurers: Images of the prostitute in medieval England By Tom Clegg Medieval History Magazine, Issue 5 (2004) Introduction: The history…
A Family Conflict Set in Stone: The story of Henry, eldest son of Henry II of England
A Family Conflict Set in Stone: The story of Henry, eldest son of Henry II of England By Janet Gillepsie Medieval History Magazine,…
Appropriation of Pagan Roman Motifs in Christian Byzantine Coinage
Appropriation of Pagan Roman Motifs in Christian Byzantine Coinage Lecture by Kelly Hughes, given at the University of Richmond February 2, 2009 Art…
The Road to Jerusalem
The Road to Jerusalem By Jan Guillou Harper, 2009 ISBN: 9780061869877 Born in 1150 to a noble family in the Kingdom of Western Götaland,…
Hangman blind
Hangman blind By Cassandra Clark Minotaur Books, 2009 ISBN: 9780312537302 In November 1382, the month of the dead, Abbess Hildegard rides out for York from…
The Joys of My Life
The Joys of My Life By Alys Clare Severn House Publishers, 2008 ISBN: 9780727866950 The 12th novel in the Hawkenlye series – May 1199.…
The construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium : the rhetoric of empire
The construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium : the rhetoric of empire By Sarolta A. Takács Cambridge University Press, 2009 ISBN:…
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England By Nathaniel L. Taylor Haskins Society Journal, Vol. 15 (2005) Synopsis: In…
Women and Wills in Catalonia: Sterility and Testacy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Women and Wills in Catalonia: Sterility and Testacy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries By Nathaniel L. Taylor Mediaeval Encounters, Vol. 12:1 (2006)…
Runaway Wives: Husband Desertion in Medieval England
Scholars of the medieval family would agree that the lot of the medieval wife was not an easy one.
Gupta artistic tradition in the reign of Kumaragupta I Mahendraditya, 414-456 A.D.
Gupta artistic tradition in the reign of Kumaragupta I Mahendraditya, 414-456 A.D. By Trudy Jacobsen Access History, Vol. 2:1 (1999) Introduction: The freshness…
Joachim of Fiore
The twelfth century monastic theologian Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202) holds an important place in the progression of the linear Christian theory of time, through his reinvention of a numeric plan for history, and the widespread diffusion of his interpretations of the Apocalypse with their extreme consequences for the medieval Church.
The Understanding of Papal Supremacy as revealed in the Letters of Pope Gregory the Great
By the end of the sixth century, the city of Rome had been without the emperor in residence for over 250 years and itself outside the empire for a period of nearly seventy years before the disastrously liberating twenty years of war under the policies of the Emperor Justinian.
The Lollards and social and religious reform
The Lollards and social and religious reform By Doris Haddock Access: History Vol. 1:2 (1998) Introduction: Lollardy, the indigenous Proto-Protestant movement that evolved…
Friendship through fourteenth-century fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao and Ding Henian
Friendship through fourteenth-century fissures: Dai Liang, Wu Sidao and Ding Henian By Anne Gerritsen Nan Nu, Vol. 9:1 (2007) Abstract: This essay analyzes…
From demon to deity: Kang Wang in Thirteenth-Century Jizhou and beyond
From demon to deity: Kang Wang in Thirteenth-Century Jizhou and beyond By Anne Gerritsen T’oung Pao, Vol. 90:1-3 (2004) Abstract: This essay discusses…
Late medieval churchwardens’ accounts and parish government: looking beyond London and Bristol
Late medieval churchwardens’ accounts and parish government: looking beyond London and Bristol By Beat Kümin English Historical Review, Vol. 119:480 (2004) Abstract: This…
Parties and factions in the late middle ages: the case of the Hoeken and Kabeljauwen in The Hague (1483–1515)
Parties and factions in the late middle ages: the case of the Hoeken and Kabeljauwen in The Hague (1483–1515) By Serge ter Braake…
Intentional ethics and hermeneutics in the Libellus de symoniacis: Bruno of Segni as a papal polemicist
Intentional ethics and hermeneutics in the Libellus de symoniacis: Bruno of Segni as a papal polemicist By Leidulf Melve Journal of Medieval History,…
Magnificent entrances and undignified exits: chronicling the symbolism of castle space in Normandy
Magnificent entrances and undignified exits: chronicling the symbolism of castle space in Normandy By Leonie V. Hicks Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 35:1…
Masculinity and medicine: Thomas Walsingham and the death of the Black Prince
Masculinity and medicine: Thomas Walsingham and the death of the Black Prince By David Green Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 35:1 (2009) Abstract:…
Constructing a diocese in a post-conquest landscape: a comparative approach to the lay possession of tithes
Constructing a diocese in a post-conquest landscape: a comparative approach to the lay possession of tithes By Thomas W. Barton Journal of Medieval…
The evolution of hospitals from antiquity to the Renaissance
The evolution of hospitals from antiquity to the Renaissance By François P. Retief and Louise Cilliers Acta Theologica Supplementum, Vol. 7 (2005) Abstract:…