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…
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…
Complexio / Complexion. Categorizing Individual Natures 1250-1600
Complexio / Complexion. Categorizing Individual Natures 1250-1600 Groebner, Valentin The Moral Authority of Nature, The University of Chicago Press (2003) Abstract In an anecdote…
In Pursuit of Honor: The Balance between Widowhood and Motherhood in the Letters of Alessandra Strozzi
In Pursuit of Honor: The Balance between Widowhood and Motherhood in the Letters of Alessandra Strozzi Brewer, Cassandra Wagner College Forum for Undergraduate Research, Volume…
Trial by Battle
Trial by Battle By Peter T. Leeson Published Online (2010) Abstract: For over a century England’s judicial system decided land disputes by ordering…
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.
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY
WHY THE MEDIEVAL TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TODAY Hobbins, Daniel THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC, Harvard University…
Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach Dinzelbacher, Peter Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xxxii:3 (Winter, 2002) Abstract This contribution discusses a phenomenon that is ignored…
Torquemada, the Inquisition, And the Expulsion of the Jews
Torquemada, the Inquisition, And the Expulsion of the Jews Rush, Timothy EIR Strategic Studies, April 1 (2005) Abstract The essential conflict between Europe and…
Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law: A Student Edition of Five Old English Lawsuits
Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law: A Student Edition of Five Old English Lawsuits By Andrew Rabin Old English Newsletter, Vol. 41:3 (2008) Introduction:…
The Secret of Venetian Success: Public-order yet Reputation-based Institutions
The Secret of Venetian Success: Public-order yet Reputation-based Institutions de Lara, Yadira González XIV International Economic History Congress, Session 84, Helsinki, July 21 (2006)…
The Legal Character of Natural Law According to St. Thomas Aquinas
The Legal Character of Natural Law According to St. Thomas Aquinas By Stephen L. Brock PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1988 Abstract: The…
Wisdom Literature in Early Ireland
Wisdom Literature in Early Ireland Yocum, Christopher Guy Studia Celtica (2011) Abstract This article explores connections between early Irish law and wisdom literature and…
Orgeluse and the Trial for Rape at the Court of King Arthur: Parzival 521, 19 to 529, 16
Orgeluse and the Trial for Rape at the Court of King Arthur: Parzival 521, 19 to 529, 16 Westphal-Wihl, Sarah Arthuriana 20.3 (2010) Abstract…
Fingers, Compensation and King Canute
The search for the origin of ideas is a fascinating exercise; but it can lead one far into the forests of history. We started with digital nomenclature and modern schedules of compensation for injury; we rapidly got to King Canute, but that was by no means the end of the story.
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History
One thousand, one hundred and four years ago, a criminal trial took place in Italy, a trial so macabre, so gruesome, so frightful, that it easily qualifies as the strangest and most terrible trial in human in human history.
Personal Memory, Collective Testimony and Masculinity in the Late Medieval Church Court of York
Personal Memory, Collective Testimony and Masculinity in the Late Medieval Church Court of York Kane, Bronach Marginalia, Vol. 5 (2007) Abstract For churchmen…
Perfumes and perfume-making in the Celestina
In these pages I will endeavour to set Celestina’s skills in the context of making perfume and uses of it in the early 16th century.
Footnotes on Life : Marginalia in Three Medieval Icelandic Manuscripts
This project investigates what paratextual material—specifically marginalia— can tell us about the way medieval Icelandic readers felt about their books, and how they participated in the creation of the reading experience for future readers through the marks they left on the page.
Women’s Rights in Early England
Women’s Rights in Early England By Christine G. Clark Brigham Young University Law Review (1995) Introduction: Throughout much of history, women have had…
“Let her be taken”: Sexual Violence in Medieval England
Violence was a part of everyday life for most Europeans throughout the Middle Ages. It affected everyone, but the exact nature of the violence was often gender specific; victims of sexual violence are, and were, most often women.
The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi
The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi Tourage, Mahdi VARIORUM, Duke University Press Vol. 25, No. 3, (2005) Abstract Michel Foucault writes that…
Negotiating Marriage: Artisan Women in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Society
Negotiating Marriage: Artisan Women in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Society Bender, Tovah Leigh PhD Dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (2009) Abstract: Social ties determined status, community membership, and even…
Sex, the State and the Church in the Middle Ages: An Overview
Sex, the State and the Church in the Middle Ages: An Overview Hopkins, Amanda Published Online (2005) Introduction: An individual’s sexual behaviour in the…
Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries)
Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries) Abreu, Laurinda Hygiea Internationalis : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History…