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Machaut, Guillaume de
Alice V. Clark
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Guillaume de Machaut Introduction Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377) is recognized by most scholars as the most important French poet and comp...
Magic in the Medieval Theater
Philip Butterworth
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Magic in the Medieval Theater Introduction The concept and practice of magic in the Middle Ages was most popularly associated with witchcraft,...
Malmesbury, Aldhelm of
Rosalind C. Love
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Aldhelm of Malmesbury Introduction Aldhelm, abbot of Malmesbury (Wiltshire) and then bishop of Sherborne from about 705, was described by Bed...
Medicine
Peter Murray Jones
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Medicine Introduction Medieval medicine in Europe from 500 to 1500 was not an enclosed world; intellectual influences—as well as diseases—cam...
Medieval Archaeology in Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Centuries
David A. Hinton
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Medieval Archaeology in Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Centuries Introduction The extent and effects of population movements dominate the study o...
Medieval Archaeology in Britain, Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries
David A. Hinton
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Medieval Archaeology in Britain, Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries Introduction By the start of the 12th century, large-scale migrations had e...
Metalwork, Anglo-Saxon
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Anglo-Saxon Metalwork Introduction Interest in the design and structure of objects of metalwork of the pre-Conquest period can already be seen...
Musical Instruments
Timothy J. McGee
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2011-12-15
Musical Instruments Introduction Musical instruments had a constant presence during the Middle Ages. They were a part of many activities and oc...
Old English Language
Thomas Cable
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Old English Language Introduction As the English language changed after the Norman Conquest, documents and literary texts written in Old English (fr...
Papacy, The Medieval
Thomas F.X. Noble
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
The Medieval Papacy Introduction The papacy is the world’s oldest continuously functioning institution. A full history of the papacy would have four...
Peasants
Philip Slavin
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Peasants Introduction Medieval peasantry has been a subject of much scholarly work since the mid-19th century. To a large extent, the pre–W...
Petrarch
Chris Kleinhenz
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Petrarch Introduction Through his Canzoniere, Francesco Petrarca (b. 1304–d. 1374) shaped in indelible ways the development of the love lyric ...
Pizan, Christine de
Tracy Adams Rechtschaffen
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Christine de Pizan Introduction The prolific writer Christine de Pizan (b. c. 1364–d. c. 1431) was an innovative lyric poet, early champi...
Plowman, Piers
Lawrence Clopper
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Piers Plowman Introduction William Langland or William of Cleobury Mortimer (fl. 1360s–1380s) is the author of Piers Plowman, an allegorical p...
Poetry, Old English Religious
Frederick M. Biggs
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Old English Religious Poetry Introduction The surviving vernacular poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period is mostly religious, much of it overtly ...
Poland
Pawel Kras
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Poland Introduction Scholars usually date the medieval history of Poland as starting in the mid-10th century, when the first written informat...
Poland, Ethnic and Religious Groups in Medieval
Pawel Kras
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Ethnic and Religious Groups in Medieval Poland Introduction Starting from its historical emergence in the 10th century, Poland formed the eas...
Pope Innocent III
John Doran
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Pope Innocent III Introduction Pope Innocent III (b. 1160 or 1161––d. 1216) is widely regarded as the most powerful pope of the Middle Ages. S...
Prosody, English
Thomas Cable
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
English Prosody Introduction Medieval English poetry was composed over a period of eight centuries that split roughly into two periods:...
Saint Plays and Miracles
Clifford Davidson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Saint Plays and Miracles Introduction Shows based on the lives and martyrdoms of saints appear perhaps to have been the most widespread type ...
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