medieval

Louis the Pious’ parenting problems from magistra 47 days old

Mayke de Jong’s The Penitential State: Authority and Atonement in the Age of Louis the Pious, 814-840, which I am gradually working my way through, is ...

Can we believe Gregory of Tours about Obama? from magistra 59 days old

[ ... ] many other medieval historians, is that his history reflects his own prejudices or that he is writing propaganda. Nevertheless, even though his ...

Carolingian lordly women from magistra 73 days old

I came across the research of Kim LoPrete in the spring, when she spoke at the Pauline Stafford conference, and she also subsequently sent me some of ...

PhD studentship in British genetics and early migration from magistra 102 days old

I don't normally post job vacancies on the blog, but this is an unusual one. For anyone who has not been scared off interdisciplinary study by Guy Halsall, ...

IMC 4: my partial conversion to social physics from magistra 104 days old

I’m just back from a week in Orkney, where the Middle Ages seems like a recent blip in a 5000 year history, so my next account of the International Medieval ...

IMC 3: things to do with charters before you're dead from magistra 115 days old

Blogging the International Medieval Congress is itself increasingly historical in one sense: nowadays, you can get a range of reports on several of the ...

IMC 2: gender and the purposes of history from magistra 122 days old

The paper I heard at the International Medieval Congress that got the most varied reactions was probably Jeff Rider from Wesleyan University on 'The ...

IMC 1: what are the unorthodox saying? from magistra 124 days old

Although the special theme for this year's International Medieval Congress was 'Heresy and Orthodoxy', I didn't actually go to many sessions on the topic. ...

The late Anglo-Saxon state: a maximum propaganda view from magistra 149 days old

[ ... ] very interesting in Anglo-Saxon studies; but I think it's potentially also very useful for those of us working on other early medieval societies.

Pauline Fest 3: Constraints, violence and gender from magistra 154 days old

[ ... ] just whether medieval women were substantially more vulnerable to violence than men. It's also whether women were significantly less able than men ...