Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in
Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in Pre-Reformation Scotland Fitch, Audrey-Beth Women in Scotland : C.1100 – c.1750, edited by…
Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle
Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle Culver, Jennifer (University of North Texas) M.A. Thesis, University of North Texas, May (2007)…
Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform
Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform Green, Robert Published Online in, “My Life As A Cat” (2009) Abstract The Christianity of…
Daughters, Wives, and Widows: A Study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Noble Women
Daughters, Wives, and Widows: A Study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Noble Women Bailey, Paula J. Academic Forum, No.19 (2001/2) Abstract Traditional medieval histories have tended…
Lincolnshire and the Danes
Lincolnshire and the Danes Criddle, Peter LINCOLNSHIRE LIFE • October (2008) English historians of Victorian times were often very interested in the emergence…
The beast within? Breaching human-animal boundaries in Anglo-Saxon paganism
Animals feature widely in early Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian culture; both domestic and wild species are recovered in varying proportions from archaeological contexts, they appear in later literature, in personal names, and dominate indigenous art in the latter half of the the first millennium AD.
Dogs: God’s Worst Enemies?
In a broad survey of negative and hostile attitudes toward canines in pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, the author posits that warm ties between humans and canines have been seen as a threat to the authority of the clergy and indeed, of God.
Look to the East: The Cult of the Pagan Past in Hungarian Literature
While the survival of the young country under the reign of chief Géza and his son, King Stephen I, undoubtedly depended on the conversion of the Hungarians, in the sphere of unrealistic speculations, dreams and wishes – that is, a sphere that literature knows well – now and again we have to face the question: what if?
Marriage across frontiers: sexual mixing, power and identity in medieval Iberia
Marriage across frontiers: sexual mixing, power and identity in medieval Iberia Barton, Simon Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March (2011)…
Prester John: Fiction and History
Prester John: Fiction and History Bar-Ilan, Meir History of European Ideas, 20/1-3 (1995) Abstract A Hebrew book of Ben-Sira was published in 1519 in…
When did the Dominicans Arrive in Tallinn?
When did the Dominicans Arrive in Tallinn? Tamm, Marek Tuna, No.4 (2009) Abstract It is difficult to overestimate the significance of the Order…
Pagans by Comparisons: Medieval Christian and Muslim Constructions of the Pagan “Other”
Pagans by Comparisons: Medieval Christian and Muslim Constructions of the Pagan “Other” Busalacchi, Philip Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry, Vol.37 (2010) Introduction: During…
A Swedish Crusader King as Russian Orthodox Saint on the Valamo Archipelago?
A Swedish Crusader King as Russian Orthodox Saint on the Valamo Archipelago? Lind, John H. (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) University of Paris,…
Etiology of the Dancing Plague
Etiology of the Dancing Plague O’Neill, Daniel InterCulture: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall (2005) Abstract The phenomenon of dancing mania (also…
W PRZEŹROCZU SYMBOLU GRUNWALDZKIEGO
W PRZEŹROCZU SYMBOLU GRUNWALDZKIEGO Lisowska, Kinga , Marchlewski, Szymon Pracownia Wydawnicza „ElSet”, Olsztyn (2010) Abstract „W przeźroczu symbolu grunwaldzkiego” to polsko-litewski projekt, który został zrealizowany w ramach…
Na znak świetnego zwycięstwa
Na znak świetnego zwycięstwa Ostrowski, Jan Wawel: Grunwald 1410-2010,Dodatek Specjalny, 29 Kwietnia (2010) Abstract 8 maja roku 1410 Władysław Jagiełło wyruszył z Wawelu na…
The Charge of Polish Knights and Infantry at the Battle of Grunwald
Known as the Battle of Grunwald in Poland, the Battle of Tannenberg in Germany and as the Battle of Zalgirio in Lithuania, the military clash was one of the largest and longest battle fought during the medieval period.
Man and nature in the Middle Ages
Man and nature in the Middle Ages By Christian Rohr Lecture given at Novosibirsk State University (2002) Introduction: If we try to define…
The Byzantine church at Labraunda
The Byzantine church at Labraunda By Jesper Blid Master’s Thesis, Uppsala University, 2006 Abstract: This thesis examines the Christian context of the former…
Whom did al-Ghazal meet? An Exchange of Embassies Between the Arabs From al-Andalus and the Vikings
Whom did al-Ghazal meet? An Exchange of Embassies Between the Arabs From al-Andalus and the Vikings Pons-Sanchez, Sara M. Saga Book, Vol.28 (2004) Abstract…
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages Johansson, Warren & Percy, William A. Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (2009) Abstract Homosexuality in the Middle Ages…
Sharing Meals with Non-Christians in Canon Law Commentaries, Circa 1160-1260: A Case Study in Legal Development
Sharing Meals with Non-Christians in Canon Law Commentaries, Circa 1160-1260: A Case Study in Legal Development By David M. Freidenreich Medieval Encounters, Vol.…
Uses of Wodan: The development of his cult and of medieval literary responses to it
Scholars working on Germanic pre-christian religion have generally considered Wodan to have been a deity of considerable importance to most if not all Germanic tribes.
Constantine’s Policy of Religious Tolerance: Was It Tolerant Or Not?
After exploring Constantine‘s sincerity of faith, influences upon him and questions concerning his policy, we will conclude whether or not he maintained a policy of tolerance.
The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe
The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe Ledit, Joseph S.J., Theological Studies, Vol.12:4 (1951) Abstract Now that Europe has been cut in…