Archiv für Dezember 2012

ZURÜCKGEZOGENE REZENSION: Katharina Knüttel, Martin Seeliger (Hg.): Intersektionalität und Kulturindustrie. Zum Verhältnis sozialer Kategorien und kultureller Repräsentationen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2011.

Diese Rezension wurde am 14. Dezember 2012 zurückgezogen. Der interdisziplinär ausgerichtete und fächerübergreifend aufgestellte Sammelband von Katharina Knüttel und Martin Seeliger stellt den innovativen Versuch dar, ein hochaktuelles Thema der …

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

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

The mead-hall community

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

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

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

Gifts of food in late medieval England

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

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

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

Feasts and gifts: sharing food in the middle ages

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

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

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

Editorial board/Publication information

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

Lords, settlers and shifting frontiers in medieval Catalonia

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