Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom?
Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom? Langston, Douglas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996) Abstract In his “Duns Scotus…
The Secret Eleanor
The Secret Eleanor Cecelia Holland Publisher: Berkley Trade, August 3, 2010 ISBN: 9780425234501 Summary Eleanor of Aquitaine seized hold of life in the…
Medieval Supposition Theory in Its Theological Context
Medieval Supposition Theory in Its Theological Context Brown, Stephen F. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993) Abstract In his Historia calamitatum Abelard…
Rewriting the Narrative of Scripture: 12th-Century Debates over Reason and Theological Form
Rewriting the Narrative of Scripture: 12th-Century Debates over Reason and Theological Form Sweeney, Eileen Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993) Abstract While…
The relations of King Sancho VII of Navarre with the Almohads
The relations of King Sancho VII of Navarre with the Almohads By Nevill Barbour Revue de l’Occident musulman, Vol. 4 (1967) Introduction: The…
Odo of Tournai’s De peccato originali and the Problem of Original Sin
Odo of Tournai’s De peccato originali and the Problem of Original Sin Resnick, Irven M. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 1 (1991) Abstract…
Multi-Use Management of the Medieval Anglo-Norman Forest
Multi-Use Management of the Medieval Anglo-Norman Forest Wilson, Dolores Journal of the Oxford University History Society, Issue 2 (Trinity 2004) Abstract Modern public…
The Relationship between the Papacy and the Jews in Twelfth-Century Rome: Papal Attitudes toward Biblical Judaism and Contemporary European Jewry
During the twelfth century, the papacy apparently encouraged commonly-held Christian and Jewish perceptions that the legendary Treasures of the Temple of Herod were in Rome, and used them to promote publicly the Church’s identification with the heritage of the biblical Jews, and to buttress papal power and authority.
Castle Warfare in the Gesta Stephani
The reign of the English king Stephen (1135-1154), popularly known as `the Anarchy’, is a fruitful source of study for historians and castellologists, providing evidence for the deployment of `adulterine’ castles and the conduct of siege warfare.
Forging Links with the Past: the twelfth-century reconstruction of Anglo-Saxon Peterborough
This thesis is a study of four early twelfth-century forgeries, comprising a house-history, two charters and a papal bull and how they were used by the monks of Peterborough to reconstruct their monastery’s pre-Conquest past.
The Pillars of the Earth mini-series
The Pillars of the Earth, an eight-hour mini-series based on the novel of the same name by Ken Follett, begins airing this month…
The campaigns of the Norman dukes of southern Italy against Byzantium, in the years between 1071 and 1108 AD
I intend to examine all the main campaigns conducted by the Normans in the Byzantine Empire’s western Balkan provinces, in the period from the fall of Bari, the capital of Byzantine Longobardia (Italy) and the seat of the Byzantine governor of Italy in 1071, to the Treaty of Devol that marked the end of Bohemond of Taranto’s Illyrian campaign in 1108.
Bridging Europe and Africa: Norman Sicily’s Other Kingdom
The Norman conquest of Sicily detached the island from its North African framework, and a century of Latin Christian rule effectively transformed its society. But the island was not completely disconnected from the southern Mediterranean, as long term trade contacts, political links and military ambitions intervened to cast relations between the two sides.