Experiencing Space Through Women’s Convent Rules: the Rich Clares in Medieval Ghent (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries)
The order of the Clares is generally regarded as the Second Order of Saint Francis of Assisi and was founded by Francis of Assisi himself in 1212 CE at San Damiano near Assisi, and headed by Saint Clare of Assisi (1193/94-1253 CE)
Joachimite apocalypticism, Cistercian mysticism and the sense of disintegration in Perlesvaus and The queste del saint Graal
Joachimite apocalypticism, Cistercian mysticism and the sense of disintegration inPerlesvaus and The queste del saint Graal O’Hagan, Michael PhD Thesis, University of British…
Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings
Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings Steele, Helen Published Online (2006) Abstract On the 10th of November 1203, Silvester Giraldus Cambrensis attended…
The Secret Of Venetian Success: The Role Of The State In Financial Markets
The Secret Of Venetian Success: The Role Of The State In Financial Markets González de Lara, Yadira (Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Fundamentos…
The transformation of homosexual Liebestod in sagas translated from Latin
The transformation of homosexual Liebestod in sagas translated from Latin Ashurst, David Saga-Book (2002) Abstract The focus of this article will be on…
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages Johansson, Warren & Percy, William A. Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (2009) Abstract Homosexuality in the Middle Ages…
PAYMENTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCE IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
PAYMENTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCE IN PRE-INDUSTRIAL EUROPE Kohn, Meir Working Paper, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, November (2001) Abstract The principal driving force…
Manuel I Komnenos and Michael Glycas: A Twelfth-Century Defense and Refutation of Astrology
Manuel I Komnenos and Michael Glycas: A Twelfth-Century Defense and Refutation ofAstrology George, Demetra Culture and Cosmos, Vol. 5 no 1 (2001) Abstract Manuel Komnenos…
Changing Gender Relation in Medieval and Early Modern Iceland: The Role of Canon Law According to Court Case Narratives
In this paper I shall not primarily discuss this legal regulations rather give some ideas of how the law was used (and shaped on a textual level) at the local courts. Examples will be taken from several court case narrations.
The Black Death and the Burning of Jews
Curiously, far less attention has been devoted to the most monumental of medieval Jewish persecutions, one that eradicated almost entirely the principal Jewish communities of Europe — those of the Rhineland — along with many other areas.
The Gypsies and Their Impact on Fifteenth-Century Western European Iconography
Since Gypsies had no chroniclers of their own, their history is difficult to reconstruct. The origin of the Gypsies was a complete mystery until late in the eighteenth century, when their derivation from India was proved by means of early linguistic com- parison.
The Decline of the Aristocracy in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Sardinia
Beginning in the eleventh century, Pisa and Genoa — both as communes and in the persons of individual Pisans and Genovese, — followed by Catalans and Aragonese, exhibited an increasing, and increasingly covetous, interest in Sardinia and (especially) its resources; and, already during the twelfth century, the island had fallen largely under continental domination.
Making and Using the Law in the North, c. 900-1350
It is clear that medieval Nordic law was transmitted orally long before it was written down. The Icelandic Free State law-book known as the Grágás, for example, specifically addresses its audience, reminding them that “tomorrow we go to the law mountain” Various other stylistic traits indicate previous oral transmission.
The military orders and the conversion of Muslims in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Although the relevance to conversion of charters which allude to the propagationor expansion of Christianity may be questioned, a very few twelfth- and early thirteenth-century sources do explicitly seek to link military orders with the convertingof Muslims.
In Search of Paradise: Time and Eternity in Alfonso X’s Cantiga 103
The story told in Alfonso’s cantiga 103 is not original to his court writers. In fact, as has been made abundantly clear in several studies to date (Hans-Jörg [Aarne-Thomson] 471A (“The Monk and the Bird”),4 Wagner, and Röhrich 124-45), the cantiga story is a variation of a legend that had already existed for at least one hundred years before its inclusion in the Cantigas collection (the compilation of which took place during the years spanning from 1257 to 1283).
Expositiones sequentiarum: Medieval Sequence Commentaries and Prologues. Editions with Introductions
The sequence commentary, part of the vast commentary literature of the Middle Ages, emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a new field for writing expositions on liturgical poetry. It is, however, a genre that has been practically neglected by modern research.