Religious views of Procopius and Agathias
Religious views of Procopius and Agathias By Michael Whitby Paper given at 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies (2006) Introduction: A generation ago…
Syrian sources and resources for Byzantinists
Syrian sources and resources for Byzantinists By Sebastian Brock Paper given at 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies (2006) Introduction: All the Oriental…
New developments in hagiography: the rediscovery of Byzantine hagiography
New developments in hagiography: the rediscovery of Byzantine hagiography By Stephanos Efthymiadis Paper given at 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies (2006) Introduction:…
The British past and the Welsh future: Gerald of Wales, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Arthur of Britain
The British past and the Welsh future: Gerald of Wales, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Arthur of Britain By J. C. Crick Celtica, Vol.…
Prester John: A Reexamination and Compendium of the Mythical Figure Who Helped Spark European Expansion
Prester John: A Reexamination and Compendium of the Mythical Figure Who Helped Spark European Expansion By Michael E. Brooks PhD Dissertation, University of Toledo,…
“Alasse, Whatte Truste ys in this Worlde?” Lancastrian and Yorkist History Writing in an English Chronicle
“Alasse, Whatte Truste ys in this Worlde?” Lancastrian and Yorkist History Writing in an English Chronicle By Ilknur Güzel Master’s Thesis, Bilkent University,…
The Scandinavians in Poland: a re-evaluation of perceptions of the Vikings
The Scandinavians in Poland: a re-evaluation of perceptions of the Vikings By Gregory Cattaneo Brathair, Vol.9:2 (2009) Abstract: The present essay intends to…
The re-making of a mythic hero: Scottish nationalism in “Braveheart”
The re-making of a mythic hero: Scottish nationalism in “Braveheart” By Kenneth Carr Hawley Master’s Thesis, Texas Tech University, 1998 Introduction: Nationalistic sentiment looks…
Constructing the past in eleventh-century Flanders: Hagiography at Saint-Winnoc
Constructing the past in eleventh-century Flanders: Hagiography at Saint-Winnoc By David J. Defries PhD Dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004 Abstract: At the heart…
The Barbarian Past in Early Medieval Historical Narrative
The Barbarian Past in Early Medieval Historical Narrative By Shami Ghosh PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2009 Abstract: This thesis presents a series…
A Tale of Two Chroniclers: Ptolemy of Lucca and Giovanni Sercambi
A Tale of Two Chroniclers: Ptolemy of Lucca and Giovanni Sercambi By Fabrizio Mari Masters thesis, Durham University, 2008 Abstract: The following pages…
The perception of difference and the differences of perception: The image of the Norman invaders in southern Italy in contemporary western medieval and Byzantine sources
The subject of the present study is the image of the Norman invaders of southern Italy as it emerges from Western and Byzantine contemporary sources.
Getting al-Maqrizi’s Khitat on the Web
Getting al-Maqrizi’s Khitat on the Web By Martyn Smith Paper given at the Middle East Studies Association 2010 Annual Meeting (2010) Introduction: No…
Erchempert’s “History of the Lombards of Benevento”: A translation and study of its place in the chronicle tradition
Erchempert’s “History of the Lombards of Benevento”: A translation and study of its place in the chronicle tradition By Joan Rowe Ferry PhD…
Ideas and narrative in Otto of Freising’s Gesta Frederici
Ideas and narrative in Otto of Freising’s Gesta Frederici By Sverre Bagge Journal of Medieval History, Vol.22:4 (1996) Abstract: This article discusses the…
Forgetting Osama bin Munqidh, Remembering Osama bin Laden: The Crusades in Modern Muslim Memory
Forgetting Osama bin Munqidh, Remembering Osama bin Laden: The Crusades in Modern Muslim Memory By Umej Bhatia RSIS Monograph No. 12, Nanyang Technological…
Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest
Kipling’s treatment of the Norman Conquest, a subject to which he returns throughout his career, reveals the hidden depths of anxiety and irony in his attitude to empire.
Crusade Image in Eighteenth-century British Histories
Crusade Image in Eighteenth-century British Histories By Zeynep K. Çecen Master’s Thesis, Bilkent University, 2005 Abstract: This thesis attempts to investigate how eighteenth-century…
Of device as device: the narrative functioning of armorial displays in Froissart’s Chronicles
Of device as device: the narrative functioning of armorial displays in Froissart’s Chronicles By M. J. Huxtable Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for…
What’s “Middle” About the Middle Ages?
From a modern perspective, the term ‘medieval’ frequently connotes either religion carried to the point of superstition or religious and intellectual intolerance
The Late Birth of a Flat Earth
In his chronologies, Bede sought to order the events of Christian history, but the primary motive and purpose of his calculations centered on a different, and persistently vexatious, problem in ecclesiastical timing—the reckoning of Easter.
Malalas, The Secret History, and Justinian’s Propaganda
The hostile description of the Emperor Justinian I in Procopius’ Secret History is well known. The bland but generally favorable account of the same Emperor in the eighteenth and final book of Malalas’ Chronographia has received rather less attention.
Alfred and his Biographers: Images and Imagination
Alfred and his Biographers: Images and Imagination By Richard Abels Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow. eds. David Bates,…
Bangor University commemorates medieval historian J. E. Lloyd
A historian who changed the face of modern Welsh history is to be commemorated with a biennial Public Lecture in his name at…
Juan de Soria: the Chancellor as Chronicler
Juan de Soria: the Chancellor as Chronicler By Peter Linehan eSpania, Vol.2 (2006) Abstract: Ever since its first (and exemplary) publication by Georges…