A New Reason For Chivalry: A look at domestic violence in King Arthur’s family
A New Reason For Chivalry: A look at domestic violence in King Arthur’s family By Rachel Campbell Published Online (2004) Introduction: When most…
The Borgias: SE01 EP03 – “The Moor”
“The Moor”- SE01 EP03 “My father had many adversaries, Cardinal. One of them came to sing his praises. When they could sing no…
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…
The Borgias: SE01 EP01/EP01 – “The Poisoned Chalice/The Assassin”
The House of Borgias The Borgias were a Spanish papal family who rose to prominence through their involvement in ecclesiastical and political affairs…
Marriage, Inheritance, and the Balance of Power in Twelfth-Century England and France
Marriage, Inheritance, and the Balance of Power in Twelfth-Century England and France By Lindsay Mark Diggelmann PhD Dissertation, University of Auckland, 2004 Abstract:…
Drunken Brawls in Brothels: Cheap wine, court records, and other disreputable aspects of the economic history of Constance and its region
In 1456, the records of the City Council of Constance memorialized a fight in a brothel. A certain Burk Brüd had drawn a knife (in itself a punishable offense within city limits) and wounded one Heinrich Appenzeller, for which he was fined four silver marks and sentenced to two months in jail.
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.
Kissing Kabbalists: Hierarchy, Reciprocity, and Equality
Kissing Kabbalists: Hierarchy, Reciprocity, and Equality By Joel Hecker Studies in Jewish Civilization, Vol.15: “Love – Ideal and Real – in Jewish Civilization”,…
The Bruce Dynasty, Becket and Scottish Pilgrimage to Canterbury, c.1178-c.1404
This paper seeks to question the assumption that the outbreak of prolonged Anglo-Scottish war in 1296 brought an abrupt decline in Scottish interest in St Thomas, his shrine at Canterbury and the great abbey dedicated to him in Scotland at Arbroath
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…
Insights Into the O’Neills of Ireland from DNA Testing
Insights Into the O’Neills of Ireland from DNA Testing O’Neill, Edwin B., & McLaughlin, John D. Journal of Genetic Genealogy 2:18-26, 2006 Abstract The O’Neills…
No-Woman’s Land? On Female Crime and Incarceration, Past, Present, and Future
No-Woman’s Land? On Female Crime and Incarceration, Past, Present, and Future By Guy Geltner Justice Policy Journal, Volume 7, No. 2 (2010) Abstract:…
How the West ’Invented’ Fertility Restriction
How the West ’Invented’ Fertility Restriction By Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth Published Online (2010) Abstract: Europeans restricted their fertility long before other…
Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Avoidance: Family Relationships in the House of Andechs, ca. 1100-1204
Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Avoidance: Family Relationships in the House of Andechs, ca. 1100-1204 By Jonathan Reed Lyon PhD Dissertation, University of Notre…
Visitors from North-Western Europe to Byzantium. Vernacular Sources: Problems and Perspectives
Visitors from North-Western Europe to Byzantium. Vernacular Sources: Problems and Perspectives By Krijnie Ciggaar Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 132 (2007) Introduction:…
LETTING THE GENIE OUT OF THE BOTTLE: EVOLUTION OF AROMATHERAPY THROUGH THE AGES
LETTING THE GENIE OUT OF THE BOTTLE: EVOLUTION OF AROMATHERAPY THROUGH THE AGES Lyubetska, Valeria (University of Manitoba) The Proceedings of the 11th Annual…
JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY: THE WALLS OF CONWY
JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY: THE WALLS OF CONWY Creighton, O.H, & Higham, R.A BBC History Magazine, June (2005) Abstract One of the best-preserved medieval walled…
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…
Old age, height and nutrition: Common misconceptions about medieval England
Old age, height and nutrition: Common misconceptions about medieval England By Felinah Memo Hazara Khan-ad-Din Published Online (2003) Introduction: Just as introspection enriches…
Regression to Mediocrity? Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1200-2009
Regression to Mediocrity? Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1200-2009 By Gregory Clark Published Online (2010) Abstract: This paper reports on a preliminary…
Unto Philadelphia: The Multiple Genealogies of the Rosenbach Erasmus Novum Testamentum (1519)
The Third Annual Medievalists @ Penn Graduate Student Conference Unto Philadelphia: The Multiple Genealogies of the Rosenbach Erasmus Novum Testamentum (1519) Alexander Devine (University of…
“Family Life and the Garment of Love: St. Francis and Nicholas Bozon’s ‘Lives of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St. Agnes’
The Third Annual Medievalists@Penn Graduate Student Conference – Family Matters Panel I: Sisters In Spirit “Family Life and the Garment of Love: St.…
Personifications of Old Age in medieval poetry: Charles d’Orléans
Can we really expect to learn anything about ageing from later medieval allegories?
The Bishop in the Bedroom: Witnessing Episcopal Sexuality in an Age of Reform
A significant number of bishops continued to marry during the eleventh century.
Family, economy and consumption in the medieval English village, c. 1300
Family, economy and consumption in the medieval English village, c. 1300 Schofield, Phillipp (Aberystwyth University) Patterns of Consumption and Standards of Living in the…