Women in the Military: Scholastic Arguments and Medieval Images of Female Warriors
In their political treatises, the scholastic writers Ptolemy of Lucca (c.1236–1327) and Giles of Rome (1243–1316) discussed the question of whether women should serve in the military.
Sixth Century Alania: between Byzantium, Sasanian Iran and the Turkic World
Sixth Century Alania: between Byzantium, Sasanian Iran and the Turkic World By Agustí Alemany Ēran ud Anērān: Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak on the…
Chormaqan Noyan, the first Mongol Military Governor in the Middle East
Chormaqan Noyan, the first Mongol Military Governor in the Middle East By Timothy May MA Thesis, Indiana University (1996) Abstract: In the year…
The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13-14th Centuries
The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13-14th Centuries By Robert Bedrosian Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University (1979) Abstract: The 13-14th centuries was…
The Little Grey Horse: Henry V’s Speech at Agincourt and the Battle Exhortation in Ancient Historiography
Speeches by generals to their army are of different kinds. One type is the speech—deliberative or exhortative—delivered at what is often called a syllogos, i.e. a meeting of the army held in some convenient place resembling an assembly place where, for example, the men can stand or sit in a horseshoe facing the speaker.
Guido’s Texaurus, 1335
Guido’s Texaurus, 1335 By A. Rupert Hall On pre-modern technology and science: a volume of studies in honor of Lynn White Jr. (Malibu, 1976)…
Religious Responses to Social Violence in Eleventh-Century Aquitaine
Religious Responses to Social Violence in Eleventh-Century Aquitaine By Steven D. Sargent Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 12:2 (1985) Introduction: The late tenth and…
The Sea as European Diplomatic, Political and Economical Battlefield in the Times of the Hundred Years War
The Sea as European Diplomatic, Political and Economical Battlefield in the Times of the Hundred Years War By Raphaela Averkorn The Sea in European…
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe Lecture by Victoria Tin-bor Hui Given at Ohio State University, February 2007…
In the Company of Wolves: Samurai and the Social Order in Early Medieval Japan
In the Company of Wolves: Samurai and the Social Order in Early Medieval Japan Lecture by Karl F. Friday Given at Ohio State…
Ayyubids, Mamluks, and the Latin East in the Thirteenth Century
Examines the relations between Muslim states in Syria and Egypt with the Crusader States after death of Saladin in 1192, and how did this relationship with the decline of the Ayyubid dynasty and the rise of the Mamluks.
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi’l-Ta’rikh Translated by D.S. Richards Ashgate Publishing, 2006-8 The Chronicle of Ibn…
Sport and Social Hierarchy in Medieval England
This paper will analyze military sports, hunting sports, and ball play within one society, England, from 1100-1500.
The Medieval Tournament: A Functional Sport of the Upper Class
Sport has often both mirrored and conditioned many aspects of particular social classes; change in one has often effected change in the other. The tournament and the medieval upper class appear to have been related in this way.
Observations upon a Scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, the Battle of Hastings and the Military System of the Late Anglo-Saxon State
Observations upon a Scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, the Battle of Hastings and the Military System of the Late Anglo-Saxon State By M.K.…
The Windmill: A Medieval ‘Steam Engine’?
Examines the invention and development of the Windmill in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, including how these machines worked. Further discussion is given on the use of windmills in England during the early fourteenth century.
The Background to Mantzikert
The Background to Mantzikert By Cyril Toumanoff The Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Byzantine Studies (London, 1967) Click here to read/download…
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.
Eysteinn Haraldsson in the West, c.1151
Eysteinn Haraldsson in the West, c.1151: Oral Traditions and Written Record By A.B. Taylor The Fourth Viking Congress, ed. Alan Small (Edinburgh, 1961)…
The Revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn, 1294-5
In many quarters, no doubt, a smouldering resentment and a sense of shame helped to spread the leaven of unrest and dissatisfaction among the native population.
The Birka Warrior: the material culture of a martial society
The warriors from Birka’s Garrison had a share in the martial development of contemporary Europe but with their own particular traits.
Norman and Anglo-Norman Participation in the Iberian Reconquista c.1018 – c.1248
Norman and Anglo-Norman Participation in the Iberian Reconquista c.1018 – c.1248 By Lucas Villegas-Aristizabal PhD thesis, University of Nottingham (2007) Abstract: This thesis covers the…