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Machaut, Guillaume de
Alice V. Clark
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Guillaume de MachautIntroductionGuillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377) is recognized by most scholars as the most important French poet and composer of t...
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,...
Maidstone, Richard
Arthur Russell
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Richard MaidstoneIntroductionRichard Maidstone (d. 1396) was a Carmelite friar, theologian, and poet whose career flourished during the reign of Richa...
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...
Malory, Sir Thomas
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Sir Thomas Malory Introduction Most members of British and US cultures know the broad outlines of the Arthur story—the story of the Round Tabl...
Manuscript Illumination, Ottonian
Joshua O'Driscoll
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Ottonian Manuscript IlluminationIntroductionAfter the collapse of the Carolingian empire in the 880s, the east Frankish kingdom (roughly equivalent to...
Marie de France
Glyn Burgess
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Marie De FranceIntroductionOne of the first recorded female authors in European literature, Marie owes her name to a statement in the Epilogue to her
Markets and Fairs
James Davis
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Markets and FairsIntroductionInterest in the role of markets and fairs within the medieval economy has undergone a resurgence since the 1990s. The ear...
Masculinity and Male Sexuality in the Middle Ages
Jacqueline Murray
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Masculinity and Male Sexuality in the Middle AgesIntroductionThe history of men in the Middle Ages is a recent field of study. Although men have tradi...
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...
Medieval Chant for the Mass Ordinary
Hana Vlhová-Wörner
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Medieval Chant for the Mass OrdinaryIntroductionThe Ordinary of the Mass (Lat.: ordinarium missae) is part of the Roman mass and comprises six chants ...
Medieval English Universities
Hannah Skoda
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Medieval English UniversitiesIntroductionMedieval English universities include, of course, only Oxford and Cambridge. These universities emerged in a ...
Medieval Ivories
Sarah Guérin
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Medieval IvoriesIntroductionMammalian ivory—from the enlarged incisors of a number of different types of land and sea animals—has been a prized materi...
Medieval Latin Commentaries on Classical Myth
Amanda Gerber
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Medieval Latin Commentaries on Classical MythIntroductionAs the abundance of extant medieval commentaries attests, classical mythology presented sever...
Medieval Music Theory
Jan Herlinger
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Medieval Music TheoryIntroductionMedieval music theory encompasses technical writing on music from roughly 500 to 1450 ce—from the transmission to the...
Medieval Naples
Alexander Harper
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Medieval NaplesIntroductionMedieval Naples, here defined as the period covering Late Antiquity (beginning 325 ce) through the end of Angevin rule (144...
Medieval Optics
Dallas G. Denery
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Medieval OpticsIntroductionMedieval optics, also known as perspectivist optics from the mid-13th century on, offered a complete theory of human cognit...
Melusine
Olivia Colquitt
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
MelusineIntroductionThe Middle English Melusine is a prose romance produced by an anonymous author in the late 15th century. It is a reasonably faithf...
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