The Purpose of Domesday Book: a Quandary
The Purpose of Domesday Book: a Quandary Kapelle, William Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 9 (1992) Abstract In 1086 the Normans made a…
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…
Sounds and Sweet Airs: City Waits of Medieval and Renaissance England
Sounds and Sweet Airs: City Waits of Medieval and Renaissance England Seitz, Cheryl Glenn Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 4 (1987) Abstract At…
Christian Europe and Mongol Asia: First Medieval Intercultural Contact Between East and West
Christian Europe and Mongol Asia: First Medieval Intercultural Contact Between East and West Guzman, Gregory Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 2 (1985) Abstract…
Isola non isolata. Le Stinche in the Middle Ages
Isola non isolata. Le Stinche in the Middle Ages By Guy Geltner Annali di Storia di Firenze, Vol.3 (2008) Introduction: The Italian government’s Department of…
Domestic Peace and Public Order in Anglo-Saxon Law
Domestic Peace and Public Order in Anglo-Saxon Law By Rebecca Colman The Anglo-Saxons, synthesis and achievement, edited by J. Douglas Woods, David Anthony…
Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity
Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity By Mary Olson Constructing the Past, Vol.9:1 (2008) Abstract: One of the few things that prisons were not…
Courtesy Books, Comedy, and the Merchant Masculinity of Oxford Balliol College MS 354
Courtesy Books, Comedy, and the Merchant Masculinity of Oxford Balliol College MS 354 Rogers, Janine Medieval Forum, vol. 1 (2002) Abstract This article…
Immigration and Identity in the Middle Ages : French Immigrants to Constantinople and Greece in the Thirteenth Century
After capturing Constantinople in 1204, the Fourth Crusaders established several states in former Byzantine territory.
Crime, Justice and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Times : Thirty Years of Crime and Criminal Justice History
This article, prepared as a tribute to H.A. Diederiks, sketches a panorama of the research and writing of the history of crime in Europe since the 1960s. I
The First Venetian Love Letter? The Testament of Zorzi Cernovich
This paper explores the more personal side of the Cernovich drama, but it was a drama played our against their personal background of constant political haggling, private messages, deals and betrayals, within a larger context of more important rulers and a major war.
“On Account of Scandal …”: Priests, Their Children, and the Ecclesiastical Demand for Celibacy
By the late Middle Ages canon law demanded that the higher orders of clerics lead a celibate life. In reality, however, throughout the medieval period and into the early modern era a significant minority fell far from this ideal.
The Purification of Women after Childbirth: A Window onto Medieval Perceptions of Women
In the second quarter of the thirteenth century Bishop Roger Niger found it necessary to issue a statute in the archdeaconry of London regarding the rite known as the Purification of Women after Childbirth, more commonly spoken of today as churching.
Romans, Barbarians and Provincials: Social Boundaries and Class Conflict in Late Roman Gaul
Romans, Barbarians and Provincials: Social Boundaries and Class Conflict in Late Roman Gaul By Leslie Dodd ESharp, Issue 3 (2004) Introduction The Romans traditionally…
Clustering a medieval social network by SOM using a kernel based distance measure
Clustering a medieval social network by SOM using a kernel based distance measure By Nathalie Villa and Romain Boulet Proceedings of ESANN 2007 (Bruges,…
The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in the Medieval Islamic City
The Muhtasib as Guardian of Public Morality in the Medieval Islamic City By Abbas Hamdani Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol.17:1 (2008) Introduction: the ancient…
Domestic violence in late-medieval Bologna
The aim of this paper is to suggest that married life in Renaissance Italy was much more violent than the current historiography allows.
The Exogamous Marriages of Oswiu of Northumbria
The Exogamous Marriages of Oswiu of Northumbria Grimmer, Martin The Heroic Age, Issue 9 (Oct 2006) Abstract This paper explores the exogamous Celtic…
What’s in a name? Britons, Angles, ethnicity and material culture from the fourth to seventh centuries
The emergence of various ‘ethnically’ based polities in early medieval Britain has long been a source of debate and confusion. I explore how ethnic self-identity is constructed and how the identities of the former Roman citizens of Britain changed.
Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c.1280-1413
Although the donor portrait was extremely popular throughout Europe and mainland Italy during the late Middle Ages, the few art historians who have addressed the subject have concluded that the motif was not popular in fourteenth-century Venice.
The ‘Convivencia’ of Jews and Muslims in the High Middle Ages
The ‘Convivencia’ of Jews and Muslims in the High Middle Ages By Mark R. Cohen Paper given at Children of Abraham: Trialogue of Civilizations (2007)…
The Church Sex Scandal: Medieval Blueprint for Disaster
Christian doctrine has always been divided between intolerance for the hidden sin and apprehension over scandalizing the faithful through its publication.
Bawds, Pimps and Procurers: Images of the prostitute in medieval England
Bawds, Pimps and Procurers: Images of the prostitute in medieval England By Tom Clegg Medieval History Magazine, Issue 5 (2004) Introduction: The history…
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England By Nathaniel L. Taylor Haskins Society Journal, Vol. 15 (2005) Synopsis: In…
Women and Wills in Catalonia: Sterility and Testacy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Women and Wills in Catalonia: Sterility and Testacy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries By Nathaniel L. Taylor Mediaeval Encounters, Vol. 12:1 (2006)…