10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in November, which tell us about topics including rental disputes in Paris and Chaucer’s use of food.
10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in October, which tell us about topics including looking at manuscripts to the denizens of hell.
10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in September, which tell us about topics including the dietary habits of Florentines and the rediscovery of an African empire.
10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in August, which tell us about topics including weddings in manuscripts and how the Middle Ages is reflected in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Andrew of Fleury and the Peace League of Bourges
One of the most extraordinary episodes in the development of the Peace movement was the formation by Archbishop Aimo of Bourges of a militia, composed of both clergy and “unarmed” (that is under-class) lay people, to enforce the knights’ compliance with the oaths taken in that diocese.
Religious Responses to Social Violence in Eleventh-Century Aquitaine
The late tenth and early eleventh centuries were a time of political anarchy and social disorder in southern France.
Japan’s Early Female Emperors
According to conventional Japanese chronology, the time between Suiko’s accession in 592 and Shotoku’s death in 770 is divided into sixteen reigns, half of which featured female emperors.
The Baltic and the Black Sea in Medieval Trade
The object of this paper is to give a short outline of the history of Black Sea and Baltic trade during the Middle Ages, and to examine the reciprocal action of these two important historical phenomena.
10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in July, which tell us about topics including heretical purse-makers and drowned villages.
10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in June, which tell us about topics including which Vikings were the most violent and how much did people like the Prayer Book of Mary of Guelders in the 19th century.
From Wikipedia to The Great: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in May, which tell us about topics including Christine de Pizan, William of Poitiers and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
From Beowulf to the First Crusade: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten articles published in April, which tell us about topics including dealing with guests in Sweden to trade in Ethiopia.
From Flails to Scandals: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten articles published in March, which tell us about topics including the Bayeux Tapestry and Louis the Stammerer.
From Modified Skulls to Schools of Knights: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten articles published in February, which tell us about topics including Viking filed teeth, Japanese ghosts and Gothic church towers.
Medieval Ireland: Ten Articles
Are you interested in Ireland in the Middle Ages? Here are ten recent articles that examine Ireland’s medieval history, all of which can be read for free.
From a Giant to a Wrecked Ship: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What is new in medieval studies? Here are ten articles published in January, which tell us about topics including Bestiaries, Bridget and Baḥrīyah.
From Robin Hood to Mongols: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
Here are ten articles published in December, which tell us about topics including the First Crusade and animating small objects.
From Slavery to Students: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What is new in medieval studies? Here are ten articles published in November, which tell us about topics including Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt,…
From Crusades to Insurance Contracts: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What is new in medieval studies? Here are ten articles published in October, which tell us about topics including art history, economics, saints and restoring a heritage site damaged by an earthquake.
From Bread to Mechanical Women: 10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
What is new in medieval studies? Here are ten articles published in September, which tell us about topics including riddles, droughts, gunshot wounds and more.
Rome and Byzantium in Heavy Metal music, with Jeremy Swist
A conversation with Jeremy Swist on why some heavy metal bands write music about Roman and Byzantine history. Expect “good” and “bad” emperors to be reversed here!
Ibn Khaldun, medieval medicine and Islam – four articles
Here are four recent articles focusing on Ibn Khaldun, the fourteenth-century century social scientist and historian. Written by Mohammadreza Shahidipak, they focus on his views on medicine and the role of Islam in this science.
The grain supply of the Byzantine empire revisited: history, archaeology, palynology
We’re going to talk about in this paper the way the production of cereal, such as wheat, barley, millet and so forth, developed and was managed across the Byzantine period.
The construction and destruction of a saint: Thomas Becket
Diarmaid MacCulloch and Nicholas Vincent explore the meteoric rise to canonisation of Thomas Becket, his subsequent veneration and the destruction of his reputation during the Reformation, in the Tudor period