Medieval Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Andrew Galloway
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Geoffrey Chaucer Introduction Since shortly after his death, Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340–d. 1400) has often been praised as the write...
Childhood
Nicholas Orme
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Childhood Introduction Childhood was for long a neglected aspect of social history, although there have been notable exceptions in England, suc...
Christian Mysticism
Constant J. Mews
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Christian Mysticism Introduction This introductory survey offers an initial overview of some of the main branches of Christian mysticism in th...
Christianity and the Church in Post-Conquest England
Joel Rosenthal
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Christianity and the Church in Post-Conquest England Introduction The history of Christianity and of the church (and its flock) has been a ri...
Christianity and the Church in Pre-Conquest England
Joel Rosenthal
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Christianity and the Church in Pre-Conquest England Introduction The history of the pre-Conquest Church can be roughly divided into three per...
Chronicles of England and the British Isles
Lister M. Matheson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Chronicles of England and the British Isles Introduction Chronicles were the major source of historical knowledge and interpretation available...
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...
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