Keeper Of The Grail
Keeper Of The Grail By Michael P. Spradlin Publisher: Penguin Young Reader Group, September 18, 2009 ISBN: 9780399247637 1191 A.D. The orphan Tristan…
Trail of Fate
Trail of Fate By Michael P. Spradlin Publisher: Penguin Young Reader Group, November 3, 2009 ISBN: 9780399247644 In the Middle Ages, young squire…
In the gardens of Norman Palermo, Sicily (twelfth century A.D.)
In the gardens of Norman Palermo, Sicily (twelfth century A.D.) By Marco Massetti Anthropozoologica, Vol.44:2 (2009) Abstract: This paper is aimed at verifying…
Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood
Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood By Tony Lee Publisher: Candlewick Press, September 22, 2009 ISBN:9780763644000 How did Robin of Loxley become Robin…
Mistress Of The Art Of Death
Mistress Of The Art Of Death By Ariana Franklin Publisher: Penguin Group Canada, March 4, 2008 ISBN: 9780143053101 In medieval Cambridge, four children…
Grave Goods
Grave Goods By Ariana Franklin Publisher: Penguin Group Canada, January 26, 2010 ISBN: 9780143170020 England, 1176. Beautiful, tranquil Glastonbury Abbey-according to legend the…
The Joys of My Life
The Joys of My Life By Alys Clare Publisher: Severn House, January 1, 2010 ISBN: 9780727866950 May 1199. Abbess Helewise has been summoned…
The Sons of Hagar in Archbishop Eustathios᾽ The Capture of Thessaloniki: Some Evidence Concerning Late Twelfth Century Byzantine-Turkish Relations
The Sons of Hagar in Archbishop Eustathios᾽ The Capture of Thessaloniki: Some Evidence Concerning Late Twelfth Century Byzantine-Turkish Relations By Gerasimos A. Merianos…
The western suburb of medieval Dublin: its first century
The western suburb of medieval Dublin: its first century By Cathal Duddy Irish Geography, Vol. 34:2 (2001) Abstract: Situated to the west of…
John Marshal
John Marshal By Elizabeth Chadwick Published Online Introduction: The great William Marshal had an equally great father, but his reputation does not have…
“A Nature Interlude in the Vita Merlini”
“A Nature Interlude in the Vita Merlini” Skupin, Michael Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 15 No. 1 (2007) Abstract The author…
The Murder of Charles the Good
…I was in the midst of a great welter of events and many burning houses (set on fire by flaming arrows shot at night onto the roofs of the town both by those besieged within the castle and by freebooters outside who hoped to have a chance for looting)…
Guilty as Charged? Subjectivity and the Law in La Chanson de Roland and “Lanval”
Guilty as Charged? Subjectivity and the Law in La Chanson de Roland and “Lanval” Kong, Katherine Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 17 (2000)…
Places to Play: Topographies of Gender in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan
Places to Play:Topographies of Gender in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan Sterling-Hellenbrand, Alexandra Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 16 (1999) Abstract In the latter…
Adultery and Kingship in Marie de France’s Equitan
In medieval French literature, the conventional plot of courtly love focuses on the figure of the queen.
Gaimar’s Rebels: Outlaw Heroes and the Creation of Authority in Twelfth-Century England
Gaimar’s Rebels:Outlaw Heroes and the Creation of Authority in Twelfth-Century England Zatta, Jane Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 16 (1999) Abstract Located at…
Spirituality and Self-Representation in The Life of Christina Mirabilis
Spirituality and Self-Representation in The Life of Christina Mirabilis Giglio, Katheryn M. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 15 (1998) Abstract In her introduction…
A generation gap or political enmity?: Emperor Manuel Komnenos, Byzantine intellectuals and the struggle for domination in twelfth century Byzantium
More than decade and a half into the reign of Manuel Komnenos a mysterious conspiracy came to light, master-minded by a person from the emperor’s closest circle and one of the Empire’s most senior bureaucrats…
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…
Richard I and the Science of Warfare
My own strategy will be twofold. First, to take Richard I’s military carer as a model of medieval generalship. Second, to use vernacular sources wherever possible, in the belief that the vernacular brings us close than Latin to the thoughts and actions of soldiers.
Frontier Warfare in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: The Campaign of Jacob’s Ford, 1178-79
Frontier Warfare in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: The Campaign of Jacob’s Ford, 1178-79 By Malcolm Barber The Crusades and their Sources: Essays…
The Transformation of Middle Eastern Cities in the 12th Century: Financing Urban Renewal
The Transformation of Middle Eastern Cities in the 12th Century: Financing Urban Renewal By Stefan Heidemann AKPIA@MIT FORUM: Studies In Architecture, History and Culture (2008)…
FROM AL-GHAZALI TO AL-RAZI: 6TH/12TH CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS IN MUSLIM PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY
FROM AL-GHAZALI TO AL-RAZI: 6TH/12TH CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS IN MUSLIM PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY By Ayman Shihadeh Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Vol. 15:1 (2005) Abstract: According to…
The Other Saint Bernard: The ‘Troubled and Varied Career’ of Bernard of Abbeville, Abbot of Tiron
His abbey was the source for more than a hundred communities throughout France and, perhaps surprisingly, in Scotland, Wales and England.
The Importance of the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade, 1189-1192
Analyzing the causes of the Third Crusades helps to explain how and why the Siege of Acre occurred and why it’s significant to understand.