Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2Tania M. Colwell In 1400 Guillaume l’Archevêque, the lord of Parthenay, commissioned the Roman de Parthenay (RP), a poetic ancestral romance affirming his famil…
Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 3
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2Michelle E. Garceau Bells were an inescapable part of fourteenth-century urban life. They signalled the hours of the day and times for prayers; they warned of temp…
Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 4Catherine Lawless This article will examine an unusual legend contained in Florentine fifteenth-century manuscripts concerning St Ismeria, the ‘grandmother’ of…
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2T. Casini This article examines relations in thirteenth-century Tuscany between the minor rural aristocracy and great rural lords, that is, those based outside cit…
Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 4Catherine Rider This paper examines the extent of lay religious knowledge and observance in thirteenth century England, using a series of short manuscript treatise…
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2Paul Brown In the last 150 years of scholarship, opinions have always differed as to just who William of Apulia was, and for which audience his epic poem the Gesta…
Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 4C.M.A. West In the early 840s, Archbishop Amolo of Lyons wrote to one of his suffragan bishops about extraordinary miracles reportedly taking place at Dijon in the…
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2D.J. Tyler Offa’s Dyke is one of the largest and best known, if rather less well understood, field monuments in Britain. Despite this, there have been very few p…
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1Poul Grinder-Hansen The concept of an ancient system of gift exchange gradually being replaced by a market economy during the middle ages and early modern period h…
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