Viking and medieval amulets in Scandinavia
Viking and medieval amulets in Scandinavia By Signe Horn Fuglesang Fornvännen, Vol. 84 (1989) Abstract: Identification of Viking period and medieval amulets entails…
LITERACY IN CONTEXT: THE ROLE OF LITERACY IN DUNBRODY ABBEY, CO. WEXFORD, IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
LITERACY IN CONTEXT: THE ROLE OF LITERACY IN DUNBRODY ABBEY, CO. WEXFORD, IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD Price, Jean (Headland Archaeology Ltd., Cork, Ireland)…
Lessons from History: Historia Regum Britanniae and Twelfth Century Turmoil
Lessons from History: Historia Regum Britanniae and Twelfth Century Turmoil Raza, Ali CHIVALRY AND HISTORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES (UNDERGRADUATE PAPER), University of…
Clothes Make the Monk: The Rhetoric of Clothing in Late Antique Monasticism
Clothes Make the Monk: The Rhetoric of Clothing in Late Antique Monasticism By Rebecca Krawiec Paper given at the Minnesota in Egypt: 8th…
Le Menagier de Paris: A Parisian Bourgeoisie Household in 1400
Le Menagier de Paris: A Parisian Bourgeoisie Household in 1400 Luckhardt, Courtney Quaestio: UCLA Undergraduate History Journal (2002) Abstract In about the year 1400,…
The Origins of Knitted Fabrics
Subsequent research has found a slightly earlier reference, dating between 1452 and 1456, to ‘one knytt gyrdll.’
Dressing the Dead: Gender, Identity, and Adornment in Viking-Age Iceland
Dressing the Dead: Gender, Identity, and Adornment in Viking-Age Iceland By Michèle Hayeur-Smith Vinland Revisited, the Norse World at the Turn of the…
Culture and Gender In the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches
Culture and Gender In the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches By Jane F. Kershaw Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, Vol. 5 (2009) Abstract: Recent metal-detecting…
From Chaperones to Chaplets: Aspects of Men’s Headdress, 1400-1519
From Chaperones to Chaplets: Aspects of Men’s Headdress, 1400-1519 By Susan Downs Reed Master’s Thesis, University of Maryland, 1992 Introduction: The period from…
The codpiece: social fashion or medical need?
The codpiece had proportions that were at times grotesque, and so extreme that the question of the purpose of its use arises.
History of the Nuremberg Toy Trade and Industry
History of the Nuremberg Toy Trade and Industry By Helmut Schwarz Published Online (2003) Introduction: Nuremberg has more than 600 years of tradition…
Adolescence in Jewish medieval society under Islam
Adolescence in Jewish medieval society under Islam Frenkel, Miriam Continuity and Change 16 (2), 2001 Abstract Adolescent experience has been the subject of…
‘Real Eating:’ A Medieval Spanish Jewish View of Gastronomic Authenticity
‘Real Eating:’ A Medieval Spanish Jewish View of Gastronomic Authenticity Brumberg-Kraus, Jonathan (Wheaton College, Massachusetts) 2005 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery Abstract In…
Antisemitic Feelings and Activities in Medieval England: The Ritual Murder Charges
Antisemitic Feelings and Activities in Medieval England: The Ritual Murder Charges Voss, Viola (University of Exeter – 1997) Rutgers, School of Communication and…
Setting Boundaries: Early Medieval Reflections on Religious Toleration and their Jewish Sources
Setting Boundaries: Early Medieval Reflections on Religious Toleration and their Jewish Sources Olsen, Glenn W. (University of Utah) Hebraic Political Studies, Vol. 2,…
Break a Leg: Animal Health and Welfare in Medieval, Emden, Germany
The presented study investigates the pathologically changed animal bones from medieval Emden, Germany.
Catṡlechta and other medieval legal material relating to cats
The purpose of this article is to edit and translate the short passages in their entirety so as to make the primary material readily available.
Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw
Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw Turner, Sam Assemblage, Issue 5 (2000) Abstract The aim of this essay is…
What Was Cross Dressing in the Middle Ages?
In the medieval period many jousts or tournaments, including helmets, armors, chest protections, etc were held and we have some reports about the tournaments where participants dressed in female garments. And this cross dressing seems to have carried no penalties at all.
East and west: textiles and fashion in Eurasia in the early modern period
East and west: textiles and fashion in Eurasia in the early modern period By Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello Journal of Social History,…
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution By Claudio Da Soller PhD Dissertation, University of Missouri, 2005 Abstract: Literary portraits…
Life in the Middle Ages
Life in the Middle Ages lists the articles about how medieval people lived from day to day. This includes what people ate, wore,…
Dietary Recommendations in the Medieval Medical School of Salerno
Dietary Recommendations in the Medieval Medical School of Salerno By Maurizio Bifulco, Magda Marasco and Simona Pisanti American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol.35:6…
Fast or feast: reconstructing diet in later medieval England by stable isotope analysis
Fast or feast: reconstructing diet in later medieval England by stable isotope analysis By Gundula Muldner and Michael P. Richards Journal of Archaeological…
Changes in Diet in the Late Middle Ages: the Case of Harvest Workers
Changes in Diet in the Late Middle Ages: the Case of Harvest Workers By Christopher Dyer Agricultural Historical Review, Vol.36:1 (1988) Abstract: The…