June 2011 Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2 In 1400 Guillaume l’Archevêque, the lord of Parthenay, commissioned the Roman de Parthenay (RP), a poetic ancestral romance affirming his family’s …
September 2010 Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 3
June 2011 Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2 Bells were an inescapable part of fourteenth-century urban life. They signalled the hours of the day and times for prayers; they warned of tempests and …
December 2010 Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 4 This article will examine an unusual legend contained in Florentine fifteenth-century manuscripts concerning St Ismeria, the ‘grandmother’ of th…
June 2011 Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2 This article examines relations in thirteenth-century Tuscany between the minor rural aristocracy and great rural lords, that is, those based outside ci…
December 2010 Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 4 This paper examines the extent of lay religious knowledge and observance in thirteenth century England, using a series of short manuscript treatises…
June 2011 Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2 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…
December 2010 Publication year: 2010Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 4 In the early 840s, Archbishop Amolo of Lyons wrote to one of his suffragan bishops about extraordinary miracles reportedly taking place at Dijon in …
June 2011 Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2 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…
March 2011 Publication year: 2011Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1 The concept of an ancient system of gift exchange gradually being replaced by a market economy during the middle ages and early modern period has been …
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