[ ... ] have two early medieval societies where the public display of quite complex texts is normal, in a way that I don't think is comparable to more ... more
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Viking terrorists
@ 2009-03-17 – 08:24:52
I don’t know how the conference Between the Islands: Interaction with Vikings in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval Period , which took place … more -
History Matters 1: Patriarchy and intentionality
@ 2009-03-15 – 08:45:10
[ ... ] common in medieval feminist scholarship): Wemple p 141: Although the [Merovingian] Frankish bishops were effective in excluding women from ... more -
Archbishop of Canterbury killed by Muslims
@ 2009-03-12 – 22:53:12
Although this is a wonderful headline, it is unfortunately somewhat out of date, since a) the Archbishop concerned is Baldwin of Exeter, who died in … more -
Carolingian authorityness
@ 2009-03-08 – 23:20:21
[ ... ] most prolific medieval forgers (or group of forgers) around specialised in canon law. So what did all the Carolingian churchmen who cited such ... more -
The Norman Leviathan and Good Old Law
@ 2009-02-26 – 23:39:45
[ ... ] of 'Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald' (Ashgate, 2008). Alongside the launch we also got a paper by George Garnett on ‘The ... more -
Gender versus class in women’s history
@ 2009-02-19 – 08:13:07
[ ... ] in early medieval Europe, 400-1100’(CUP, 2002), I’m fairly sure that there are some wrong answers. Bitel seems to me to set up a framework ... more -
Journal of Agrarian Change special issue alert
@ 2009-02-09 – 21:20:29
The Journal of Agrarian Change has a special issue(Volume 9 no 1 Jan 2009) on 'Aristocrats, Peasants and the Transformation of Rural Society, c.400-800', … more -
Patriarchy, monogamy and divorce
@ 2009-02-05 – 22:18:42
[ ... ] to Rome and to medieval Europe via Christianity. He then explores possible reasons for its development. He argues that an economics approach that ... more -
The early medieval jam tart
@ 2009-01-31 – 08:37:22
[ ... ] from the later medieval period, when we start having recipe books, there are references to pastry (although few recipes for it). I also found a ... more
