Archiv für November 2012

Gregory the Great, the Rule of Benedict and Roman liturgy: the evolution of a legend

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2Constant J. Mews This paper relates the evolution of Gregory the Great’s reputation as creator of the Roman liturgy to the slow process by which the Rule of Bene…

Mongol inhospitality, or how to do more with less? Gift giving in William of Rubruck’s Itinerarium

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1A.J. Watson This article examines the journey to the Mongol court by the Franciscan William of Rubruck and his unsuccessful attempts to negotiate his way through t…

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Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2

Arthur’s refusal to eat: ritual and control in the romance feast

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1Aisling Byrne Arthur’s refusal to begin feasting before he has seen a marvel or heard a tale of adventure is a recurring motif in medieval romance. Previous commen…

The development of the longbow in late medieval England and ‘technological determinism’

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 3Clifford J. Rogers Traditional understandings of the development of the medieval English longbow and its role in the fourteenth-century ‘infantry revolution’ h…

Hosting the king: hospitality and the royal iter in tenth-century England

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1Levi Roach Traditional studies of royal itinerancy have depended on locating the king’s progress through his kingdom(s) as precisely as possible and it should th…

Armour in England, 1325–99

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 3Thom Richardson A dramatic change in the personal armour of the knightly classes occurred across the whole of Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century: the a…

Avorio d’ogni ragione: the supply of elephant ivory to northern Europe in the Gothic era

Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 2Sarah M. Guérin This article accounts for the hitherto unexplained increase in the availability of ivory in mid-thirteenth-century France through an alteration in…

Faith in war: the religious experience of Scottish soldiery, c.1100–c.1500

Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 3Michael A. Penman This paper examines the comparatively patchy evidence for the pastoral provision and personal faith of late medieval Scottish combatants below th…

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Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 2