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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 ...
Saint-Denis
Robert F. Berkhofer
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Saint-Denis Introduction The monastery of Saint-Denis, just north of Paris along the Seine River, was dedicated to Denis (Dionysius), the 3rd...
Scandinavian Migration Period Gold Bracteates
Nancy L. Wicker
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Scandinavian Migration Period Gold Bracteates Introduction Scandinavian bracteates of the Migration Period (5th and 6th centuries ce) are small...
Scogan, Henry
Andrew Galloway
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Henry Scogan Introduction Henry Scogan (b. c. 1361–d. 1407) emerged into view accurately only with Kittredge 1892 (cited under Biography), as a...
Sermons
Thomas N. Nall
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Sermons Introduction Sermons go back to the very beginning of the Christian tradition, or even further if one recalls their use in ancient Jew...
Ships and Seafaring
Ian Friel
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Ships and Seafaring Introduction This bibliography is intended as an introduction to the study of medieval European ships in the period between...
Songs, Medieval
Vincent Corrigan
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Medieval Songs Introduction “Medieval song” is a very broad topic. It embraces the disciplines of philology and musicology; texts in Latin, the...
Southampton, Archaeology of
David A. Hinton
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Archaeology of Southampton Introduction Because of its location in the middle of the south coast of England, Southampton illustrates not on...
Spain
Olivia Remie Constable
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Spain Introduction What is meant by “medieval Spain”? Usually, “medieval” is understood as roughly the millennium between 500 ce and 1500 ce, a...
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