Archiv für September 2013

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

Publication date: June 2010 Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 2 Author(s): Christopher Wright This article publishes a document from the archives of the Order of Saint John recording the Hospitallers’ concession of…

The mead-hall community

Publication date: March 2011 Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1 Author(s): Stephen Pollington The paper provides background context to the Anglo-Saxon concept of the ‘mead-hall’, the role of conspicuous consumptio…

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

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

Gifts of food in late medieval England

Publication date: March 2011 Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1 Author(s): C.M. Woolgar Gifts of food were an integral part of late medieval culture. Small items, such as fruit, might be given by anyone. As part o…

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

Publication date: June 2010 Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 2 Author(s): Judith Collard Henry I’s four-part dream sequence in John of Worcester’s Chronicle is well known to both historians and art historians as a…

Feasts and gifts: sharing food in the middle ages

Publication date: March 2011 Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1 Author(s): Lars Kjær, A.J. Watson This essay introduces a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History on feasting and gifts of food from the e…

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

Publication date: September 2010 Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 3 Author(s): Nicholas Morton This article explores the evolving use of Maccabaean ideas in sources concerning the conduct of Christian holy warfare…

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

Lords, settlers and shifting frontiers in medieval Catalonia

Publication date: September 2010 Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 36, Issue 3 Author(s): Thomas W. Barton This article examines how settler conditions on formerly Muslim-ruled land in the area known as New Catalonia (in nor…

Patronage of the poetic Mélusine romance: Guillaume l’Archevêque’s confrontation with dynastic crisis

Publication date: June 2011 Source:Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 2 Author(s): Tania M. Colwell In 1400 Guillaume l’Archevêque, the lord of Parthenay, commissioned the Roman de Parthenay (RP), a poetic ancestral romanc…