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Papacy, The Medieval
Thomas F.X. Noble, Atria Larson
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
The Medieval PapacyIntroductionThe papacy is the world’s oldest continuously functioning institution. A full history of the papacy would have four asp...
Paris
Sarah-Grace Heller
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
ParisIntroductionWhile Paris has been continuously inhabited since Celtic tribes settled on its islands in the Seine, developing into the Roman market...
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...
Peter Abelard
Constant J. Mews
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Peter AbelardIntroductionPeter Abelard (b. 1079–d. 1142) initially established his reputation in dialectic, as he describes in his Historia calamitatu...
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 ...
Pictish Art
Jane Geddes
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Pictish Art Introduction Pictish art was created by people living predominantly in north and eastern Scotland between about the 4th and 10th c...
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...
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...
Post-Conquest England
Joel Rosenthal
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Post-Conquest EnglandIntroductionThe customary periodization of English history refers to the period before the Norman Conquest as the Anglo-Saxon or ...
Pre-Carolingian Western European Kingdoms
Gregory I. Halfond
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Pre-Carolingian Western European KingdomsIntroductionBetween c. 500 and 750 ce western Europe experienced significant political transformation. In the...
Prick of Conscience, The
James H. Morey
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
The Prick of Conscience Introduction The Prick of Conscience (PC) is a mid-14th-century poem of over 9,000 lines in octosyllabic couplets that...
Pucci, Antonio
Maria Bendinelli Predelli
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Antonio PucciIntroductionLeaving aside Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio—the three exceptional figures of the Italian Trecento—Antonio Pucci (b. c. 1310–...
Queens
Elena Woodacre, Miriam Shadis
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
QueensIntroductionAs the wives, mothers, and daughters of kings, medieval queens acquired their status in one of two ways, either through marriage or,...
Rate Manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 61)
Wendy Matlock
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Rate Manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 61)IntroductionOxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 61 is often referred to as the Rate manuscri...
Regions of Medieval France
Robert F. Berkhofer
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-15
Regions of Medieval France Introduction While there were kings who claimed to rule the western Frankish kingdom after the division of the C...
Regular Canons
Martin Heale
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Regular CanonsIntroductionThe regular canons—clerics living in common and following a monastic rule—are not easy to categorize. In theory, the vocatio...
Religious Lyrics
John C. Hirsh
Subject: Medieval Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Religious LyricsIntroductionAlthough dimly anticipated by certain Old English poetic texts, the Middle English religious lyric appears in the manuscri...
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