Tradition for educating Italian girls above and beyond the customary in Medieval Italian commercial centres continued to set its mark 500 years later.
Author: Medieval Histories
Medieval Galician-Portuguese Songs
More than 1200 Galician-Portuguese medieval lyrics are preserved in two renaissance manuscripts. New research explores the special genre: the tenson (the debate)
Medieval Political Theology
Amongst Medievalists, Kantorowicz is known for his book on 'The King's Two Bodies. A Study in Medieval Political Theology'. But what is medieval political theology? And how and why should we take note of this in the 21st century.
Rethinking Ancient Woodland
The distinctive ecological characteristics of ancient woodland only emerged after it had had been enclosed from the surrounding 'wastes' in early Middle Ages
Political Conflict in Medieval Cities
This book offers a new approach to the study of urban political conflict and revolt in six cities in Italy and the Southern Low Countries
The Origins of Corporations – The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages
The first business corporations were French and from the Middle Ages. This a was already documented in 1954. Now the book has been translated
The Strait Gate
'The Strait Gate' reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion—and, by extension, as metaphors for salvation—in the course of Western history.
Celts – Art and Identity
Celts, art and identity is a major exhibition at the British Museum 2015. Trying very hard to deconstruct the Celtic myth, it is nevertheless a fest for the eyes.
Tenure and Property in Medieval England
This article by Susan Reynolds argues that the use of the word ‘tenure’ instead of ‘property’ in discussions of medieval English property law impedes the understanding of that law and makes it harder to compare it either with modern law or with the law of other parts of medieval Europe.
Early Medieval Europeans were Migrants
Europe is inhabited by descendants of migrants, who moved around in the first millennium AC. Later people stopped mingling so much.
Giotto and his artistic legacy in Padua
Padua is known for the Scrovegni Chapel painted by Giotto. Less known is the rich artistic legacy, which his chapel fostered in Padua and which may be enjoyed in the Cathedral and elsewhere.
Ecclesiastical Knights in Castille
Ecclesiastical Knights provides a detailed study of the military-religious vocation as it was lived out by the Orders of Santiago, Calatrava and Alcantara in Leon-Castile 1150 - 1330
Conference on Food History and Cultures
Second International Conference on Food History and Cultures will take place in May in Tours (France)
Historical Fiction of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Bagwyn Books publishes well-researched historical fiction by academics. Symposium opens if for debate of whether it has its merits.
Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance
The 22 ACMRS Conference in Arizona 2016 focus on Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance
Vatican Besieged by Potential Terrorists
Recently Pope Francis commented on the heightened threats to security in the Vatican following the influx of unregistered immigrants to Europe.