Conflicting accounts on the fear of strangers: Muslim and Arab perceptions of Europeans in medieval geographical literature
Conflicting accounts on the fear of strangers: Muslim and Arab perceptions of Europeans in medieval geographical literature By Samar Attar Arab Studies Quartely…
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.
Magic in the House Functions of Images on Medieval Stoves Tiles from Transylvania, Moldavia and Walachia
Magic in the House Functions of Images on Medieval Stoves Tiles from Transylvania, Moldavia and Walachia Gruia, Ana Maria Studia Patzinaka, 5, 2007,…
An Early XIVth Century Depiction of the Transylvanian Saxon Hospites in the Heidelberger and Dresdener Sachsenspiegel ?
An Early XIVth Century Depiction of the Transylvanian Saxon Hospites in the Heidelberger and Dresdener Sachsenspiegel ? Agrigoroaei, Vladimir and Gruia, Ana-Maria Studia…
The ‘Rurikid sign’ from the B3 church at Basarabi-Murfatlar
The ‘Rurikid sign’ from the B3 church at Basarabi-Murfatlar Fetisov, Alexsander Studia Patzinaka, 4.1, 2007, pp. 29-44 Abstract The complex of cave churches…
Articles and Theses posted in April 2009
Here is the list of articles and theses posted to Medievalists.net in April 2009 A Fresh Look at Bulgaria under Tsar Peter (927-69)…
Bloodline, by Katy Moran
Bloodline By Katy Moran Candlewick Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780763640835 For Young Adult Readers: In the wilds of Dark Age Britain, a bard abandons…
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…
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…
A Fresh Look at Bulgaria under Tsar Peter (927-69)
Scholars have all agreed that following Symeon’s death in 927 Bulgaria underwent a major decline under his son and successor, Peter, who is generally depicted as being weak and incapable.
Articles and Theses Posted in January 2009
Here is the list of articles posted on the Medievalists.net website in January 2009: The Ideology and Technology Of Creating Online Full-Text Digital…
Headless Men and Hungry Monsters: the Anglo-Saxons and their “Others”
Anglo-Saxons focused on a host of monsters believed to inhabit distant Africa and Asia: The dog-headed, fire-breathing cynocephali, one-footed sciopods, wonderful headless, mindless, possibly soulless blemmyes, and many others.
Dogs, cats and horses in the Scottish medieval town
This paper is concerned with three domesticated species — the dog, cat and horse — and reviews the nature of their relationships with town dwellers.
Interview with Vicki Ellen Szabo
Vicki Szabo is an Associate Professor at Western Carolina University. After receiving her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University, Dr. Szabo continued her…
Selective Manuring in the Medieval Open Fields
Selective Manuring in the Medieval Open Fields By Richard Jones XIV International Economic History Congress (2006) Introduction: For those in medieval Europe who sought to make…
Reading the Literature – The Materia Medica and Tacuinum Sanitatis as Early Herbal and Health Handbooks
Reading the Literature – The Materia Medica and Tacuinum Sanitatis as Early Herbal and Health Handbooks By Kali Barrett The Proceedings of the…
The Garden of St. Francis: Plants, Landscape, and Economy in Thirteenth-Century Italy
Popularly associated with the environmental movement, St. Francis (ca. 1182–1226) has long been figured as having an intense devotion to nature
Women in the Military: Scholastic Arguments and Medieval Images of Female Warriors
In their political treatises, the scholastic writers Ptolemy of Lucca (c.1236–1327) and Giles of Rome (1243–1316) discussed the question of whether women should serve in the military.
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.
The iconography of the devil: St Vigean’s, Eassie and the Book of Kells
Examines the depiction of the devil in artwork found in the Book of Kells, as well as on early medieval stone crosses found in Scotland.
‘Lyouns Full Lothely’: Dream Interpretation and Boethian Denaturing in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
‘Lyouns Full Lothely’: Dream Interpretation and Boethian Denaturing in the Alliterative Morte Arthure By Brent Miles Arthuriana, Vol. 18:1 (2008) Abstract: The Boethian use of animals…
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