“Washing Off the Dust”: Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval Japan
“Washing Off the Dust”: Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval Japan By Lee A. Butler Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 60:1 (2005) Summary: This article analyzes…
The Agrarian Problem in the Early Fourteenth Century
Until recently it was widely believed that feudal tenurial relationships sanctioned and facilitated the extra-economic exploitation of tenants by their lords. Together, the heaviness of rent charges and the arbitrariness of lordship discouraged and depressed tenant investment in agriculture.
Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History
Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History By Matthew H. Hammond The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 85:1 (2006) Abstract: Historians have long tended…
Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe
Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe By Adam Robert…
Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien
The article presents an edition of Sir Orfeo, first published by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1944. Sir Orfeo was a Middle English poem, first written in the late-thirteenth or early-fourteenth century.
The Horse, the Clerk and the Lyric: The Musicography of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
The Horse, the Clerk and the Lyric: The Musicography of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries By Mark Everist Journal of the Royal Musical Association,…
Performing Medieval Music
Performing Medieval Music By Sam Barrett Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 130:1 (2005) Synopsis: Review article that examines the recent books: Performer’s…
Notes on the Presence of Boccaccio in Cristoforo Landino’s Comento sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri
Notes on the Presence of Boccaccio in Cristoforo Landino’s Comento sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri By Simon A. Gilson Italian Culture, Vol. 23…
Where were Middle Gaelic Glenn na Leóman and Inis Salutóiris?
Where were Middle Gaelic Glenn na Leóman and Inis Salutóiris? By Andrew Breeze The Innes Review, Vol. 58:1 (2007) Synopsis: Examines two pieces…