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Clanvowe, John

Andrew Galloway

Subject: Medieval Studies »

Date Added: 2012-05-23

John Clanvowe Introduction Interest in John Clanvowe’s works and life (b. c. 1341–d. c. 1391) initially developed because a 290-line poem—ofte...

Coins

Alan M. Stahl

Subject: Medieval Studies »

Date Added: 2010-12-15

Coins Introduction Medieval numismatic scholarship is characterized by a significant local focus, owing in part to the decentralized minting ...

Crusades, The

Andrew Holt

Subject: Medieval Studies »

Date Added: 2010-12-15

The Crusades Introduction The crusading movement involved peoples of varying religious and cultural backgrounds engaged in a violent struggle...

Crusading Warfare

John France

Subject: Medieval Studies »

Date Added: 2010-12-15

Crusading Warfare Introduction The Crusades are one of the spectaculars of historical study—a series of events so startling that they deman...

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...

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