Marco Polo and His ‘Travels’
What is the book we associate with Polo’s name? With what purpose was it written? What claims does it make for itself? To what extent does it purport to represent Polo’s own experiences? Just where did Polo go?
Facts and fictions: Chronicle, Romance and Arthurian narrative in England, 1300-1470
This dissertation examines the relationship between chronicle and romance traditions of Arthurian narrative in England and Scotland in the late Middle Ages.
A translation and historical commentary on book one and book two of the Historia of Georgios Pachymeres
Pachymerēs’ Historia is an important source for a pivotal period in Byzantine Imperial history, and many scholars have not used it as efficiently as they could due to the denseness of his prose and his ‘tortuous syntax’.
The Chronology of Leonardo Bruni’s Later Works (1437-1443)
The Chronology of Leonardo Bruni’s Later Works (1437-1443) By James Haskins Studi medievali e umanistici, Vol. 6 (2007) Introduction: In the preface to Leonardo…
Reputations in Scottish History: King Robert the Bruce (1274-1329)
Have peculiarly Scottish circumstances and processes of change over time coalesced to leave this hero king with a reputation which would, in another country, have taken a more vibrant form far sooner?
Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea: The Eastern Campaigns of Julian and Justinian, 4th and 6th centuries A.D
By using both of these historians it is hoped that the Persian campaigns of Julian and Justinian will be made clearer in the context of the emperors and their goals and flaws.
Bulgarian Landscapes in Medieval Studies
Bulgarian Landscapes in Medieval Studies By Rossina Kostova Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, Vol. 15 (2009) Introduction: It is not by chance that…
The Study of the Middle Ages in Poland
Looking back over the whole twentieth century, there were three important turning points: 1918, when Polish independence was restored; 1939-1945, the period of Nazi-German and Soviet aggression when social life in Poland, including education and science, was demolished, and 1956, when Polish social sciences postponed the vulgar Marxism-Leninism in Stalin’s interpretation and returned to pre-war research streams.
Krakow’s Foundation Myth: An Indo-European theme through the eyes of medieval erudition
Krakow’s Foundation Myth: An Indo-European theme through the eyes of medieval erudition By Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Volume 37,…
The Regicide of the Caliph al-Amīn and the Challenge of Representation in Medieval Islamic Historiography
Fifty years after its founding in A.D.762 as the ideal political center of the Abbasid caliphate, Baghdad underwent its first destructive siege during the civil war between the two sons of Haruin al-Rasid, al-Amin and al-Ma’mun.
Interview with Jerome de Groot
In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular…
The date of the military compendium of Syrianus Magister (Formerly the sixth-century anonymus Byzantinus)
The date of the military compendium of Syrianus Magister (Formerly the sixth-century anonymus Byzantinus) By Philip Rance Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Volume 100, Issue 2…
Historical writing in Visigothic Spain from c. 468 to the Arab invasion of 711
Historical writing in Visigothic Spain from c. 468 to the Arab invasion of 711 By Elizabeth A. Jordan Thesis (Ph.D.)–University of Toronto, 1996…
Linguistic Theories and Intellectual History in Michael Baxandall’s Giotto and the Orators
Linguistic Theories and Intellectual History in Michael Baxandall’s Giotto and the Orators By Allan Langdale Journal of Art Historiography, Number 1 (2009) Introduction:…
The Black Death: A Personal History
John Hatcher shares the challenges of writing and researching his book The Black Death: A Personal History.
What shall we do with the Middle Ages?
What shall we do with the Middle Ages? Sonjae, An Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Vol. 15 No.1 (2007) Abstract If we…
History vs. Fiction in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
History vs. Fiction in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms By Steven A. Vaughn-Lewis Sino-Platonic Papers, No.193 (2009) Introduction: “History is written by…
Linking Lives: Autobiographical Criticism and Medieval Studies
Linking Lives: Autobiographical Criticism and Medieval Studies Bartlett, Anne Clark Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 15 (1998) Abstract I first encountered autobiographical criticism…
Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples
Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples By Korać Dušan and Radić Radivoj Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, Issue 44 (2007) Abstract: This article analyzes…
The Middleness of the Middle Ages: Periodizing European History
The Middleness of the Middle Ages: Periodizing European History Wagner, David L. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 5 (1988) Abstract Periodization is an…
Medieval Portuguese Royal Chronicles: Topics in a Discourse of Identity and Power
Medieval Portuguese Royal Chronicles: Topics in a Discourse of Identity and Power By Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa e-Journal of Portuguese History, Vol.5:2 (2007) Abstract: It…
Nikolai Gogol and the medieval orthodox Slavic world-view
Nikolai Gogol and the medieval orthodox Slavic world-view By Philip Harttrup PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1998 Abstract: This thesis examines Nikolai Gogol’ s creative and…
The Byzantine historiography on the state of Serbian despots
The Fifteenth Century Byzantine sources narrating, among the other things, of the Serbian history of the first half of the century, also testify that the contemporaries regarded Serbia as a state.
Mehmed II, ‘The Conqueror’, in Byzantine short chronicles and old Serbian annals, inscriptions, and genealogies
This article analyzes how Byzantine Short Chronicles and Old Serbian Annals , Inscriptions, and Genealogies depicted sultan Mehmed II, ‘The Conqueror’.
E. A. Freeman (1823-1892), a Neglected Commentator on Byzantium and Modern Greece
E. A. Freeman (1823-1892), a Neglected Commentator on Byzantium and Modern Greece By Paul Stephenson The Historical Review/La Revue Historique, Vol. 4 (2007)…