Anglo-Saxon Churches in Yorkshire
Anglo-Saxon Churches in Yorkshire By H.M. Taylor The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961) Click here to read/download this article (PDF…
The York Viking Kingdom; Relations between Old English and Norse Culture
The York Viking Kingdom; Relations between Old English and Norse Culture By Alan Burns The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961)…
The Medieval Peasant House
The excavations have exposed a very interesting series of building techniques and revealed that the medieval peasant houses at Wharram Percy were rebuilt about every generation suggesting that they were very flimsy structures.
Late Saxon Pottery
Late Saxon Pottery By J.G. Hurst The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961) Click here to read/download this article (PDF…
An Eleventh-Century Farmhouse in the Norse Colonies in Greenland
An Eleventh-Century Farmhouse in the Norse Colonies in Greenland By C.L. Vebaek The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961) Click…
Eysteinn Haraldsson in the West, c.1151
Eysteinn Haraldsson in the West, c.1151: Oral Traditions and Written Record By A.B. Taylor The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961)…
The Revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn, 1294-5
In many quarters, no doubt, a smouldering resentment and a sense of shame helped to spread the leaven of unrest and dissatisfaction among the native population.
Brus versus Balliol, 1291-1292: The Model for Edward I’s Tribunal
Brus versus Balliol, 1291-1292: The Model for Edward I’s Tribunal By G. Neilson Scottish Historical Review, vol. 16 (1918) Click here to read/download…
The Cantar de Mio Cid: A Morphological-Syntagmatic Analysis of the Exile of the Cid
The Cantar de Mio Cid: A Morphological-Syntagmatic Analysis of the Exile of the Cid By Jack J. Himelblau eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, vol.6…
Rethinking the Arthurian Legend Transmission in the Iberian Peninsula
Rethinking the Arthurian Legend Transmission in the Iberian Peninsula By J. Conde de Lindquist eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies vol.7 (2006) Click here to…
Legal Fictions: Literature and Law in Grisel y Mirabella
The plot of Grisel y Mirabella is relatively simple. A Scottish king has but one child, a daughter, Mirabella. Although she has many noble suitors, her father refuses to allow her to marry. Because her beauty causes conflicts between knights and nobles, the king imprisons her in a tower to prevent her suitors from killing each other.
Portuguese Crypto-Jewish Ballads: A Passagem do Mar Vermelho and A Pedra Mara
Some New Christians managed to escape abroad, founding Jewish communities in Bordeaux, London, Amsterdam, and other cities (Azevedo 359-430). With the union of the Portuguese and Spanish crowns (1580-1640), the number of those who moved to Spain and its American colonies was so great that the word “Portuguese” became practically synonymous with “Jew.”
In Search of Paradise: Time and Eternity in Alfonso X’s Cantiga 103
The story told in Alfonso’s cantiga 103 is not original to his court writers. In fact, as has been made abundantly clear in several studies to date (Hans-Jörg [Aarne-Thomson] 471A (“The Monk and the Bird”),4 Wagner, and Röhrich 124-45), the cantiga story is a variation of a legend that had already existed for at least one hundred years before its inclusion in the Cantigas collection (the compilation of which took place during the years spanning from 1257 to 1283).
Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England
Were medieval jurors more inclined to condemn female self‐killers to a suicide’s death because of the familiar figure of the mad, possessed woman?
Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children’s Literature
The way in which children’s authors have translated medieval history into their own “historicity” has changed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as popular and scholarly attitudes toward the Middle Ages have changed. Looking at these changes, my purpose in this thesis will be to answer two questions: why would children’s authors draw upon Anglo-Saxon England for their subject matter? And, what relevance does children’s literature have for an audience of medievalists?
“Alien” Encounters in the Maritime World of Medieval England
This essay explores these encounters, whether on English shores, on board ship, or abroad in foreign ports.
Roger of Powys, Henry II’s Anglo-Welsh Middleman, and His Lineage
Roger of Powys, Henry II’s Anglo-Welsh Middleman, and His Lineage By Frederick Suppe The Welsh History Review, vol.21:1 (2002) Introduction: In his play…
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An Interview with Christopher Dinsdale, author of Stolen Away
An Interview with Christopher Dinsdale, author of Stolen Away Stolen Away is the second book written by Christopher Dinsdale. Aimed at younger readers,…
Interview with Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis is a Professor of History (Emeritus) at Princeton University and currently teaches at the University of Toronto.
Interview with Florin Curta
Florin Curta is the Associate Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. After working as an archaeologist in Romania,…
Interview with János Bak, Central European Medieval Texts Series
János Bak is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University (CEU), in Budapest. He is also one of the…
Sources on the First Crusade: Insights from Three Editors
In the last few months we have seen three important accounts of the First Crusade. Each text offers new perspectives on the pilgrimage/campaign/movement…
Enamel Defects, Well-being and Mortality in a Medieval Danish Village
Biological anthropologists are in the unique position of being able to analyze human skeletal remains in order to reconstruct health, nutrition, environmental stress, disease and mortality experiences, in past populations. Skeletal assemblages have the potential to tell us about many types of individuals – rich, poor, male, female, young, old, healthy and sick.
