The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281
We review the book The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281, by Stephen Turnbull, which is being released this month by Osprey…
An Early Reference to the Welsh Cattle Trade
An Early Reference to the Welsh Cattle Trade Finberg, H. P. R. Agricultural History Review, Volume 2 (1954) Abstract How old is the…
Between Guinevere and Galehot: Homo/eroticism in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Between Guinevere and Galehot: Homo/eroticism in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle Kim, Hyonjin Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 2 (2007) Abstract…
Commentary: Troubling “Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials and Joys of Marriage”
Commentary: Troubling “Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials and Joys of Marriage” Lee, Jongsook Medieval English Studies, vol. 11 (2003) No. 1…
Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials & Joys of Marriage
Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials & Joys of Marriage Salisbury, Eve Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, vol. 11 (2003) No.…
‘Mount the War-Horses, Take your Lance in your Grip . . .’ Logistics Preparations for the Gascon Campaign of 1294
Mount the War-Horses, Take your Lance in your Grip . . .: Logistics Preparations for the Gascon Campaign of 1294 By Mark Kennedy Vaughn…
William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux
William Marshal, King Henry II and the Honour of Chateauroux By Nicholas Vincent Archives: The Journal of the British Record Association, Vol.25:102 (2000) Introduction:…
The Implications of Exclusion: The Regulation of Churching in Medieval Northern France
The Implications of Exclusion: The Regulation of Churching in Medieval Northern France Rieder, Paula M. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 15 (1998) Abstract…
The acquisition of the landed estates of the Hospitallers in the Latin East, 1099-1291
The acquisition of the landed estates of the Hospitallers in the Latin East, 1099-1291 By Paul Sideklo PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1998…
Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Sucess or Mongol Failure?
Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Sucess or Mongol Failure? By John Masson Smith, Jr. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 44:2 (1984) Introduction: The battle of…
Manorial organisation in early thirteenth-century Tipperary
Manorial organisation in early thirteenth-century Tipperary By Mark Hennessy Irish Geography, Vo.l 29:2 (1996) Abstract: Research in Ireland on medieval manors has tended to focus…
Dover Castle and the Great Siege of 1216
Commanding the shortest sea crossing between England and the Continent, Dover Castle was a vital strategic and communication lynch-pin in the empire of the Angevin kings of England.
James I and his Era: Brief Analysis of a Major Political and Cultural Inheritance
James I, like his contemporaries Emperor Frederick II and Fernando III of Castile, was a major figure of the Mediterranean and Iberian Middle Ages.
Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch. The case of the Mamluk sultan Baybars and the Ilkhans in the 13th century
Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch. The case of the Mamluk sultan Baybars and the Ilkhans in the 13th century By Denise Aigle Representing…
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.
Medieval Welsh Noblewomen: The Case of Margaret of Bromfield
Medieval Welsh Noblewomen: The Case of Margaret of Bromfield By Gwenyth Richards Eras, Vol. 3 (2002) Abstract: This paper presents the case of Margaret of…
Interview with Donald S. Richards – The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir
Donald S. Richards is retired as lecturer in Arabic at the Oriental Institute, and is emeritus fellow of St Cross College, University of…
The Mongols as non-believing apocalyptic friends around the year 1260
Around 1200 far in Eastern Central Asia the rising power of the Mongolian tribes started to conquer large parts of Asia and finally to reach the European sphere.
The Garden of St. Francis: Plants, Landscape, and Economy in Thirteenth-Century Italy
Popularly associated with the environmental movement, St. Francis (ca. 1182–1226) has long been figured as having an intense devotion to nature
The Mongols in the West
The invasion of Hungary is a classic example of long-range strategic planning executed with meticulous care on a unprecedented scale.
The Role of the Mendicant Orders on Political Life of Castile and León in the Later 13th Century
The Role of the Mendicant Orders on Political Life of Castile and León in the Later 13th Century By Rita Ríos Religion and Political…
Theological and Polemical Uses of Hagiography: A Consideration of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major of St. Francis
Theological and Polemical Uses of Hagiography: A Consideration of Bonaventure’s Legenda Major of St. Francis Hubert, Susan J. Comitatus Vol.29 (1998) Introduction Bonaventure’s…
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.
Sports and Recreations in Thirteenth-Century England: The evidence of the Eyre and Coroners’ Rolls
This article presents what has been gleaned about sports, pastimes, and recreations of thirteenth-century people from a representative sample of the public records of medieval England.
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.