Sex Differentials in Frailty in Medieval England
The sample used for this study comes from the East Smithfield Black Death cemetery in London. The benefit of using this cemetery is that most, if not all, individuals interred in East Smithfield died from the same cause within a very short period of time.
Nations and National Identities in the Medieval World: An Apologia
Let us start with the concept and term ‘nation’ itself. In much modern discourse ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ have been given period-specific and pre- eminently political forms.
Feuding in Viking Age Iceland’s Great Village
My premise is that we come closest to understanding early Icelanders through a two-pronged approach: on the one hand, by focusing on their well-documented perception of themselves as a community and, on theother hand, through anthropological and historical analyses of the forces that shaped this perception.
The Culture of Death in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy
An attempt will be made to show that it is precisely during this period that certain fundamental changes in the conception of and attitudes towards death took place, changes that can be seen as the starting points of a long process that would eventually lead to the medical and utterly despiritualized view of death prevalent in the contemporary Western world.
The Paleodemography of the Black Death 1347-1351
The Black Death of 1347-50 has fascinated both researchers and lay people for over six hundred years1. The medieval epidemic had profound consequences both culturally and demographically and it did much to shape human history.
Sacred, secular, or sacrilegious? prehistoric sites, pagans and the Sacred Sites project in Britain
This paper introduces our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights Project (www.sacredsites.or.uk), now in its fifth year, and explores issues and tensions developing within today’s Britain around prehistoric
‘sacred sites’ and ‘heritage’, and their appropriation by a wide range of interested or concerned
groups.
Slavery and the slave trade in pre-colonial Africa
Slavery and the Slave Trade have been age old institutions and practices in almost every continent in the world.
Evidence and Intuition: Making Medieval Instruments
Evidence and Intuition: Making Medieval Instruments Adelman, Beth Early Music America (Fall 2005) Abstract The Atlakvida (The Lay of Attila), an 8th-or early 9th-century…
Medieval Dreams: A Sample of Historical and Psychological Criticism
Deep into the Middle Ages, in Western Europe a small group of clergymen, mainly monks, had a monopoly on recording dreams in writing
THE WILL AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL CATALONIA AND LANGUEDOC, 800-1200
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The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: a paleopathological and paleodietary perspective
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Anglo-Saxon Magico-Medicine
A mass of folly and credulity?
The Destruction of the Fox Preacher: A Reading of the Borders of the York Minster Pilgrimage Window
The Destruction of the Fox Preacher: A Reading of the Borders of the York Minster Pilgrimage Window Pfau, Aleksandra York Medieval Yearbook, ISSUE No.…
Documents and interpretation: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ECONOMY: THE EXAMPLE OF CAROLINGIAN FOOD RATIONS
Documents and interpretation: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ECONOMY: THE EXAMPLE OF CAROLINGIAN FOOD RATIONS DEVROEY, JEAN-PIERRE History, Vol.1 (1987) Abstract It…
Sandpipers as grave gifts in the Early Middle Ages
The early medieval pre-Christian inhabitants of the northern coastal area of the Netherlands may have perceived a similar link between the human soul and waders.
Dietary Decadence and Dynastic Decline in the Mongol Empire
Dietary Decadence and Dynastic Decline in the Mongol Empire Smith, Jr., John Masson Journal of Asian History, vol. 34, no. 1, (2000) Abstract Most…
Knights in Love: Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc
Knights in Love: Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc Mira, Joan Francesc Paper given at Readings in Catalan fiction Conference (2006) Abstract The discussion…
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Campbell, Mary Ann (Washington University) Mid-American Review of Sociology, V ol. III, No.2 Abstract The attempt here…
The Meanings of Magic
The Meanings of Magic Bailey, Michael D. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer (2006) Abstract The establishment of a new…
Feasting with “Kings” in an Ancient Democracy: On the Slavic Society of the Early Middle Ages (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D.)
Feasting with “Kings” in an Ancient Democracy:On the Slavic Society of the Early Middle Ages (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D.) Curta, Florin Essays…
A Response to Kathleen Biddick
A Response to Kathleen Biddick Aers, David Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 11 (1994) Abstract Kathleen Biddick’s paper is characteristically inventive. Ranging across…
Becoming Ethnographic: Reading Inquisitorial Authority in The Hammer of Witches
Becoming Ethnographic: Reading Inquisitorial Authority in The Hammer of Witches Biddick, Kathleen Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 11 (1994) Abstract What kind of…
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.