Archiv für November 2012

Samtiden | 4/2012

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Florentine alum mining in the Hospitaller islands: the appalto of 1442

Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 2Christopher Wright This article publishes a document from the archives of the Order of Saint John recording the Hospitallers’ concession of an alum exploration a…

The mead-hall community

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1Stephen Pollington The paper provides background context to the Anglo-Saxon concept of the ‘mead-hall’, the role of conspicuous consumption in early medieval s…

Uxores, ancillae and dominae: women in thirteenth-century Hungary in the Register of Várad

Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 2Cameron Sutt Women’s history for Árpád-era Hungary (1000–1301) has generally been restricted to legal issues and the royal court. This study addresses these …

Gifts of food in late medieval England

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1C.M. Woolgar Gifts of food were an integral part of late medieval culture. Small items, such as fruit, might be given by anyone. As part of commensality, sociabili…

Henry I’s dream in John of Worcester’s Chronicle (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 157) and the illustration of twelfth-century English chronicles

Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 2Judith Collard Henry I’s four-part dream sequence in John of Worcester’s Chronicle is well known to both historians and art historians as a rare but striking h…

Feasts and gifts: sharing food in the middle ages

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1Lars Kjær, A.J. Watson This essay introduces a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History on feasting and gifts of food from the early middle ages through…

The defence of the Holy Land and the memory of the Maccabees

Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 3Nicholas Morton This article explores the evolving use of Maccabaean ideas in sources concerning the conduct of Christian holy warfare between the eleventh and thi…

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Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1

Lords, settlers and shifting frontiers in medieval Catalonia

Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 3Thomas W. Barton This article examines how settler conditions on formerly Muslim-ruled land in the area known as New Catalonia (in north-eastern Iberia) changed as…