In view of the Russian ban on gay “propaganda” we post a short guide to the basic resource on medieval homosexuality…
Author: Medieval Histories
Memento Mori: The Macabre Genres in Europe from the Middle Ages until today
16.10.2014 - 18.10.2014 Memento Mori: The Macabre Genres in Europe from the Middle Ages until today
Normandy 911
BOOK REVIEW: In 2011 Normandy celebrated the treatise brokered between the French King and Rollo, in 911..
Jewish Museum in Cologne
During the last decade archaeologists in Cologne have re-excavated the 700-year old synagogue with its adjacent Mikveh...
Clothing Sacred Scripture
09.10.2014 - 11.10.2014 Clothing sacred scripture. International Conference in Zurich
Rouen 911 – 1300
BOOK REVIEW: New book sheds light on the geography, society and culture in Medieval Rouen 911 -1300...
Military History of the Mediterranean Sea
2606.2015 - 28.06.2015 The Military History of the Mediterranean Sea is being organized at the Fatih University in Istanbul in June 2015
Sven Forkbeard and his Grave
Sweyn Forkbeard was buried in Lund in Scania, where what is left of his church can be seen beneath the floor of a local café...
Voynich Manuscript
RESEARCH: The Voynich Manuscript may actually be written in a dialect of the Aztec language, Nahuatl...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Medieval Europe
Before 28.04.2014 - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Medieval Europe at the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga, Department of History
Journal of Medieval History
Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 40, No. 1, 02 Jan 2014 is now available on Taylor & Francis Online.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Jocelin of Brakelond and the power of Abbot Samson
By Daniel Gerrard
pp. 1-23
DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2013.871326
Robert Grosseteste and the simple benefice: a novel solution to the complexities of lay presentation
By Philippa Hoskin
pp. 24-43
DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2013.856031
Papal pronouncements on legitimate lordship and the formulation of nationhood in early fourteenth-century Scottish writings
By Sarah Tebbit
pp. 44-62
DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2013.871327
The authority and charter usage of female rulers in medieval Silesia, c.1200–c.1330
Sébastien Rossignol
pp. 63-84
DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2013.869246
My sister for abbess: fifteenth-century disputes over the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, Poitiers
By Jennifer C. Edwards
pp. 85-107
DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2013.850582
The ‘Injunction of Jeremiah’: papal politicking and power in the Middle Ages
By Kriston R. Rennie
pp. 108-122
DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2013.838907
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Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 40, No. 1, 02 Jan 2014
Winchester – archaeology and memory
26.04.2014 - 27.04.2014 Winchester: archaeology and memory
Invention and Imagination in Medieval British Art and Architecture, 600—1500
30.10.2014 - 01.11.2014 Invention and Imagination in British Art and Architecture, 600—1500
History and Stories of Love and Conversion in Fourteenth-Century Burgos
RESEARCH: The article invites us to take part in a medieval walk-through of the chapel of Santa Catalina in the Cathedral of Burgos
Getting Closer to the Emperor
The exhibition of an original door of Charlemagne's from 766 - 850 is one way of getting closer to the man himself...
Bones of Charlemagne
Recent scientific examinations of Charlemagne's bones have brought us a bit closer to the man, who was both lean and graceful...