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Early Italian Humanists
Brian Maxson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Early Italian HumanistsIntroductionEarly Italian humanists already were pursuing many of the innovations and themes characteristic of their better-kno...
Economic History
James Davis
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Economic HistoryIntroductionThe study of medieval economic history has a rich pedigree and has led to major, wide-ranging debates about the nature and...
Eddic Poetry
Terry Gunnell
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2022-11-29
Eddic PoetryIntroductionRather than being a genre in its own right, “Eddic poetry” is essentially a body of poetry dealing with Old Nordic mythology a...
El Cid
Alberto Montaner, Pablo Justel
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
El CidIntroductionThe Castilian warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, who lived in the second half of the 11th century, is better known as El Cid, a title of...
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 EnglandIntroductionEngland was famously lacking in urbanization in the medieval era, at least in comparison with much of ...
English Prosody
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:...
Exeter Book, The
Patrick W. Conner
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
The Exeter Book Introduction “The Exeter Book” is the current vernacular designation for Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS 3501, sometimes known a...
Falconry
Baudouin Van den Abeele, An Smets
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Falconry Introduction Still practiced today, falconry is the technique of taming and training birds of prey in order to take wild game during ...
Family Letters in 15th Century England
Joel Rosenthal
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Family Letters in 15th Century EnglandIntroductionIn the 15th century a number of English families began to write (and preserve) letters about family ...
Family Life in the Middle Ages
Jacqueline Murray
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Family Life in the Middle AgesIntroductionThe family is fundamental to human societies, although its shape can vary widely according to culture, relig...
Feast of Fools
Max Harris
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Feast of Fools Introduction The Feast of Fools developed in the late 12th and early 13th centuries as an elaborate and orderly liturgy for the...
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...
Findern Manuscript (CUL Ff.i.6), The
Cynthia Rogers
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
The Findern Manuscript (CUL Ff.i.6)IntroductionCUL MS Ff.i.6, commonly called the Findern Manuscript, is a scrapbook of secular Middle English literat...
Florence
George Dameron
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
FlorenceIntroductionThe history of medieval Florence (c. 600–c. 1400) is full of paradoxes. In 1300 the city was one of the most populated and economi...
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...
French Drama
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...
French Monarchy, The
Neil Murphy
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
The French MonarchyIntroductionThe study of the ebb and flow of monarchial power lies at the center of the historiography of medieval France. The Cape...
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