Ralph de Limésy: Conqueror’s Nephew? The Origins of a Discounted Claim
Ralph de Limésy: Conqueror’s Nephew? The Origins of a Discounted Claim Jackson, Peter (University of Oxford) Prosopon Newsletter (1997) Abstract The name of…
Was Cnut a True Christian, or Just a Shrewd Politician?
Was Cnut a True Christian, or Just a Shrewd Politician? By David R. Hathaway Colloquia, Vol.25 (2004) Introduction: The Christian church, which had…
The Bretons and Normans of England 1066-1154: the family, the fief and the feudal monarchy
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The Building of a Great Church: the Abbey of St Peter’s, Gloucester, and its early Norman Benefactors
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More about Magnus, Count of Wroclaw
More about Magnus, Count of Wroclaw Skarbek-Kozietulski, Marek Genealogia Mediaevalis Genetica, August 4, (2011) Abstract Twentieth-century German medieval researchers saw Piotr Wlostowic, the…
How English is the Bayeux Tapestry?
How English is the Bayeux Tapestry? Musgrove, David BBC History Magazine (2010) Abstract With a major conference about the Bayeux Tapestry at the British…
Odo of Bayeux At War: Linking The Bayeux Tapestry And “The Song Of Roland”
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The Mercian Connection, Harold Godwineson’s Ambitions, Diplomacy and Channel-crossing, 1056-1066
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Possible narratives: re-telling the Norman Conquest
William of Malmesbury (1125) casts the Norman Conquest as an ‘ancipitous narrative’ – equally possible courses of events leading to the same outcome.
The Battle of Hastings according to Gaimar, Wace and Benoit: rhetoric and politics
Unlike Wace and Benoit, Gaimar did not base his Estoire des Engleis principally on Latin chronicles composed by Norman apologists intent on glorifying William of Normandy and justifying the invasion of England in 1066
Was there a Gregorian Reform Movement in the Eleventh Century?
Was there a Gregorian Reform Movement in the Eleventh Century? Gilchrist, John CCHA Study Sessions, 37(1970) Abstract If movements were simply a matter…
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
Early state formation in native medieval Wales
Early state formation in native medieval Wales Jones, Rhys(Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales,Aberystwytb, Ceredigion) Political Geography, Vol. 17.No.6, (1998)…
Adelard of Bath and Roger Bacon: early English natural philosophers and scientists
Adelard of Bath and Roger Bacon: early English natural philosophers and scientists Hackett, Jeremiah M. Endeavour, Vol. 26(2) 2002 Abstract The image of Roger Bacon…
Perpetuus Rex Norvegiae and Pyratarum Dux: Olaf Haraldsson’s Conversion of Norway and The Presence of Norman Power in Northern Europe
Perpetuus Rex Norvegiae and Pyratarum Dux: Olaf Haraldsson’s Conversion of Norway and The Presence of Norman Power in Northern Europe By Rachael Kerrigan…
Fama et Memoria: Portraits of Female Patrons in Mosaic Pavements of Churches in Byzantine Palestine and Arabia
Fama et Memoria: Portraits of Female Patrons in Mosaic Pavements of Churches in ByzantinePalestine and Arabia Britt, Karen C. Medieval Feminist Forum, 44, no.…
Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Changes in East Suffolk, 1066-1166
Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Changes in East Suffolk, 1066-1166 By Cagdas Lara Celebi Master’s Thesis, Bilkent University, 2002 Abstract: In the period between…
Look to the East: The Cult of the Pagan Past in Hungarian Literature
While the survival of the young country under the reign of chief Géza and his son, King Stephen I, undoubtedly depended on the conversion of the Hungarians, in the sphere of unrealistic speculations, dreams and wishes – that is, a sphere that literature knows well – now and again we have to face the question: what if?
Wulfstan’s Eschatology and its Sources
Wulfstan’s Eschatology and its Sources By Hans Bork Published Online (2010) Introduction: There is no shortage of scholarly works that study the eschatology…
