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Dance of Death
Sophie Oosterwijk
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Dance of Death Introduction The Dance of Death (or Danse Macabre) is an allegorical confrontation of the living with death. It is both a litera...
Drama, French
Lofton Durham
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
French Drama Introduction The earliest extant example of drama in French is Le jeu d’Adam, dating from the mid- to late 12th century. Indeed, L...
Drama, German
Glenn Ehrstine
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
German Drama Introduction Long the domain of highly specialized scholars, the religious and secular plays of the German Middle Ages now attrac...
Drama, Italian
Nerida Newbigin
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Italian Drama Introduction Drama—performances in which actors impersonate fictional, historical, or religious figures using dialogue, music, an...
Drama, Liturgical
Nils Holger Petersen
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Liturgical Drama Introduction The term liturgical drama was first used in the mid-19th century to denote religious dramas that were part of, o...
East Anglia, Art of
Nicholas Rogers
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Art in East Anglia Introduction East Anglia derives its name and one of the definitions of its extent from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was ef...
England, Post-Conquest
Joel Rosenthal
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Post-Conquest England Introduction The customary periodization of English history refers to the period before the Norman Conquest as the Angl...
England, Pre-Conquest
Robin Fleming
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Pre-Conquest England Introduction Before 1990, historians of Anglo-Saxon England generally concerned themselves with the descendants of German...
England, Towns and Cities Medieval
Benjamin McRee
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Towns and Cities in Medieval England Introduction England was famously unurbanized in the medieval era, at least in comparison with much of the Eur...
Feudalism
Constance B. Bouchard
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Feudalism Introduction “Feudalism” is a term that has confused more than clarified the nature of medieval society. Until quite recently scholar...
Folk Custom and Entertainment
Thomas Pettitt
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Folk Custom and Entertainment Introduction Custom is the segment of performance culture that comprises activities closely associated with recu...
Food, Drink, and Diet
Constance B. Hieatt, Johnna Holloway
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Food, Drink, and Diet Introduction Most of our information about this subject comes from the very end of the medieval period, the 14th and 15...
France
Robert F. Berkhofer
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
France Introduction The subject category of “medieval France” bespeaks an Anglo-American approach to periods of French history, rather th...
France, Regions of Medieval
Robert F. Berkhofer
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Regions of Medieval France Introduction While there were kings who claimed to rule the western Frankish kingdom after the division of the C...
French of England, The
Thelma Fenster
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
The French of England Introduction French of England studies is a field that recognizes the claim of medieval England’s French culture, as rep...
Friars
Jens Röhrkasten
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Friars Introduction The friars (mendicants, mendicant orders) represented a form of religious life that clearly differed from earlier forms of...
Games and Recreations
Nicholas Orme
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Games and Recreations Introduction The history of games and recreations found an early exponent in Joseph Strutt in 1801 but attracted little a...
Gerson, Jean
Daniel Hobbins
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Jean Gerson Introduction Jean Gerson (b. 1363–d. 1429; also Jean de Gerson, or, originally, Jean Charlier) was the most popular and influential...
Gower, John
Andrew Galloway
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
John Gower Introduction As emphatically shown by the sculpture on John Gower’s elaborate tomb in Southwark Cathedral, London—three massiv...
Gregory VII
John Doran
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Gregory VII Introduction Pope Gregory VII (1073–1085) was one of the most important and controversial popes of the Middle Ages. His elevation ...
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