Contested Identities: The Dissonant Heritage of European Town Walls and Walled Towns
Contested Identities: The Dissonant Heritage of European Town Walls and Walled Towns By David Bruce and Oliver Creighton International Journal of Heritage Studies,…
Middle Byzantine Thessaloniki: Art, Architecture and History of the Ninth through Twelfth Centuries
Middle Byzantine Thessaloniki: Art, Architecture and History of the Ninth through Twelfth Centuries By Amelia Robertson Brown BA Thesis, Princeton, 1999 Introduction: Few…
Urban Violence in Fifth Century Antioch: Riot Culture and Dynamics in Late Antique Mediterranean Cities
Antioch was a city attempting to transition from a Greco-Roman Pagan society to an orthodox Christian society in a recently Christian empire.
Tour the City Walls of Dublin on your iPhone
Dublin City Council has unveiled a new iPhone App which gives a virtual tour of the medieval city walls of the Irish capital.…
The Town In Service Of War In The Medieval Crown Of Aragon
The Town In Service Of War In The Medieval Crown Of Aragon By Donald Kagay Published Online (1997) Introduction: It is the purpose of…
The Black Death in Bristol
The Black Death in Bristol By C. E. Boucher Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol.60 (1938) Introduction: Plague, Pestilence and Famine, the…
From Byzantine Constantinople to Ottoman Konstantiniyye: Creation of a Cosmopolitan Capital and Visual Culture under Sultan Mehmed II
From Byzantine Constantinople to Ottoman Konstantiniyye: Creation of a Cosmopolitan Capital and Visual Culture under Sultan Mehmed II By Gulru Necipoglu From Byzantion…
Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities
Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities By Francesco Salvestrini The Medieval Chronicle II (Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the…
Medieval England to be featured in two BBC shows
Television viewers in the United Kingdom will have the chance to watch two new history programmes that feature medieval England. The BBC will…
‘Castles of Communities’: medieval town defences in England; Wales and Gascony
This paper introduces the findings of a research project exploring the phenomenon of town defences in the later medieval period.
Fact or folklore: the Viking attack on London Bridge
One of the most dramatic events in London’s history is the Viking attack, led by Óláfr (or Olaf) Haraldsson on London Bridge.
Sandwich – The ‘Completest Medieval Town in England’: A Study of the Town and Port from its Origins to 1600
Sandwich – The ‘Completest Medieval Town in England’: A Study of the Town and Port from its Origins to 1600 By Helen Clarke,…
Standards of Living, Order, and Prestige: Public Facilities in Early Fifteenth-Century Lviv (Lemberg)
Standards of Living, Order, and Prestige: Public Facilities in Early Fifteenth-Century Lviv (Lemberg) By Rostyslav Paranko Medium Aevum Quotidianum n.42 (2000) Introduction: This contribution is…
‘You cannot sell liberty for all the gold there is’: promoting good governance in early Renaissance Florence
You cannot sell liberty for all the gold there is: promoting good governance in early Renaissance Florence By Peter Howard Renaissance Studies, Vol.24:2…
Danzig and Poland in History
Danzig and Poland in History By Stanislaw Kutrzeba Baltic and Scandinavian Countries, Vol.4 (1938) Introduction: Danzig’s (Gdansk’s) relations with Poland have described a…
Palaces and the Street in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The late Middle Ages was a period of spectacular urban growth throughout Italy. The city of Florence, for example, began a circuit of walls in 1284 that expanded the area of the city five-fold.
The City of York and its ‘Play of Pageants’
The City of York and its ‘Play of Pageants’ By Peter Meredith Early Theatre, Vol 3 (2000) Abstract: This paper first presents a…
Sijilmassa: The Rise and Fall of a Walled Oasis in Medieval Morocco
Sjilmassa, once a great oasis city that organized caravans for gold across the Sahara, lies today in ruins along the Wadi Ziz in the Tafilalt oasis of southeastern Morocco. Sijilmassa flourished for nearly 650 years after its establishment in AD 757, and housed a population of perhaps 30,000 in the last two hundred years of its existence.
The Decline of the Aristocracy in Eleventh and Twelfth Century Sardinia
Beginning in the eleventh century, Pisa and Genoa — both as communes and in the persons of individual Pisans and Genovese, — followed by Catalans and Aragonese, exhibited an increasing, and increasingly covetous, interest in Sardinia and (especially) its resources; and, already during the twelfth century, the island had fallen largely under continental domination.
Confraternities, Memoria, and Law in Late Medieval Italy
To view medieval brotherhoods or confraternities as associations of laymen or clerics with predominantly religious functions almost automatically leads to the conclusion that fraternity and memoria have much in common.
The Black Death and Property Rights
The Black Death visited unprecedented mortality rates on Europe, realigning relative values of factors of production, and in consequence the costs and benefits of defining and enforcing property rights.
Women’s oldest profession? Evidence from twelfth century Bergen, Norway
I am going to present a micro level study; A close up on activities at town plots in Bergen in twelfth century western Norway providing substance to our insight in the everyday life of ordinary people – the first generations of townspeople in this newly established town.
Multicultural City: The Historic Centre of Cordoba
Cordoba lies in Andalusia, in southern Spain. It is a city rich in history, and dates back to Roman times. There is a…
The cultivated town – another perspective on urban life
The cultivated town – another perspective on urban life By Karin Lindeblad and Sofia Wennström Medieval Europe Paris 2007, 4th International Congress of…
Late medieval and 16th century urbanization – Stagnation, expansion or both?
Late medieval and 16th century urbanization – Stagnation, expansion or both? By Per Gunnar Sidén Paper given at the Eighth International Conference on Urban…