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Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 3
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Byzantine-Muslim conspiracies against the crusades: history and myth
Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 3Savvas Neocleous This article examines Latin allegations of Byzantine-Muslim conspiracies against the crusades in the course of the twelfth century, the charges su…
Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 4Gwilym Dodd Thomas Favent’s Historia has long been recognised as an important source for the turbulent middle years of Richard II’s reign, in particular for it…
The value of empire: tenth-century Bulgaria between Magyars, Pechenegs and Byzantium
Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 4Boris Todorov The article seeks to explain the connection between the migration of the Magyars and Pechenegs in central and south-east Europe, in the late ninth an…
Emblems and enigmas: Revisiting the ‘sword’ belt of Fernando de la Cerda
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 4Benjamin L. Wild The belt of Fernando de la Cerda is on permanent display in the Museo de Telas Ricas, Burgos. Presently, scholars believe the belt dates from 1252…
The dregs of trembling, the draught of salvation: the dual symbolism of the cup in medieval literature
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1Joanna Bellis This article examines the symbolism of the cup in Old English poetry and Old French romance. It argues that the dual symbolism of the cup in the Bibl…
The Pepys Apocalypse (Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 1803) and the readership of religious women
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 4Renana Bartal The place of the women’s convent as a centre for biblical study has been widely recognised in recent years as scholars have begun evaluating altern…
‘Our land is only founded on trade and industry.’ Economic discourses in fifteenth-century Bruges
Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 4Jan Dumolyn Economic historians study production, consumption, market phenomena, and economic policies, while what is referred to as ‘the history of medieval eco…
Reconciliation and record keeping: Heresy, secular dissent and the exercise of episcopal authority in eleventh-century Cambrai
Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 4Steven Vanderputten, Diane J. Reilly This paper argues that the Acta synodi Atrebatensis, a putative description of a synod held in 1025 by Bishop Gerard of Cambr…
Mendicants as victims: scale, scope and the idiom of violence
Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 2G. Geltner This article establishes the scale of violence perpetrated against mendicant friars in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, and provides a list of…