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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Late medieval period"”.
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Life in Medieval Cambridge: an isotopic analysis of diet and mobility
… and an important trade centre in the High and Late Medieval period (11th-16th century). Historical accounts and archaeological evidence indicate that the Late Medieval period was a tumultuous chapter in English history, with episodes of war, climate change, famine and plague. It is argued that …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
… to and commemoration of death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration in …
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"She should have more if she were ruled and guided by them" : Elizabeth Woodville and Margery Kempe, female agency in Late Medieval England.
… was certainly present in England during the late medieval period, women of the middle and upper classes were able to exercise agency to a certain degree through using both the patriarchal bargain and an economy of makeshifts. While the methods used by women differed due to the resources …
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From the Body of the Faithful to the Invention of Religion: The Long Reformation for International Relations
… how traditions associated with canon law of late medieval international society granted authority to myriad polities in fifteenth and sixteenth century questions of societal governance. In international relations, the late medieval period has rarely been given much attention; scholars have …
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Convents Clausura and Cloisters Female Religious Patronage in Late Medieval Rome and Latium
… patronage in the city and region during the late medieval period is conspicuous, their neglect possibly a consequence of the perceived dominance of both the papacy and the noble families in this scenario. While single case studies on Roman convents do exist, there has been no attempt to …
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Cofradías y oficios. Entre la acción confraternal y la organización corporativa en la Valencia medieval (1238-1516)
… development of Valencian assotiationism in the late medieval period, enquiring into the relevance of confraternities and coorporative organisation for the structure of urban society. Its chronology encompasses from the 13th century Christian conquest until the first decades of the 16th. The …
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
… Analyzing the Latin tradition from the patristic period through the late medieval period, I argue for the vibrant presence of the sublime by documenting its centrality to medieval rhetoric, literary theory, and hermeneutics. For Longinus, the sublime produces transport out of language through …
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Talking Some Sense into Chaucer: Bodies in “The Miller’s Prologue” and “The Miller’s Tale”
… Under this lens, perhaps no historical period becomes more desirable to feel than the Middle Ages; it is here, after all, that readers’ responsibilities with texts are pluralized: readers move from listeners born from oral traditions to participants of all kinds. Feeling, then, may be …
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Medieval landscapes and lordship in South Uist
… and settlement patterns. In this thesis, the medieval period has been defined as that between c. 1000 and c. 1650. The historical evidence is considered along with archaeological evidence to create a holistic understanding of medieval social developments in South Uist. The results have …
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Modes of Manuscript Book Production in Late Medieval England with special reference to British Library, Harley MS 3810/I and Related Manuscripts
… and this study examines the wider landscape of late medieval English manuscript culture to situate Harley 3810/I within a more specific production context. This study explores three broad modes of book production during this period and provides evidence that the scribe of Harley 3810/I was …
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Skin and bone: the face in the archaeological imagination
… structure. The ‘starting point’ is the Neolithic period which has been associated with the notion of visuality with a reconstruction from the early Neolithic site of Annagh, Co. Limerick. The following layer of analysis appears with attention to intersubjectivity in the early medieval period with …
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Pilgrimage through the pages: pilgrim's badges in late medieval devotional manuscripts
In the late Middle Ages, pilgrims travelling to popular holy shrines often purchased small, inexpensive metal badges to commemorate their visit. While these souvenirs were frequently worn on one’s clothing, hat, or bag, pilgrims began sewing the badges into the pages of their private prayer …
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Cambridge and its economic region, 1450-1560
… between a town and its region in the late medieval period. The population, wealth, trade, and markets of Cambridge and its region are studied, as are the nature and extent of changes which occurred between 1450 and 1560, a period traditionally viewed as one of economic and social …
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The persistence of penance : evangelical alternatives for the sacrament of penance.
… makes use of normative documents that guided the medieval practice of penance, the theological writings of Protestant reformers, and legislation that governed church–state institutions of discipline. It follows the evolution of penance through the Middle Ages from its inception in Celtic …
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Alexander Hegius (ca. 1433-98) : His life, Philosophy, and Pedagogy
… What had been a fairly typical school of the late medieval period in that area soon became one of the main centers for the study of the "humanities." It must consequently be acknowledged that Hegius' efforts had a considerable influence on the emergence of the Renaissance in the Netherlands. …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
<p>This project examines the medieval practice of the sacrament of penance and the innovative ways in which medieval literature engaged with the pastoral project of the Catholic church to provide the penitent with a way to deal with sin. Drawing from medieval literature, religious writing and …
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Luoghi e identità: ricostruzione storica dello spazio agrario, sociale e politico della baronia di Monreale nella Sardegna dell’età moderna
… of the use of rural, agricultural space from the late Medieval period up to early contemporary times. The research has focused in particular on the creation and development of the estates of large landowners: records and maps in the Land Registry Office have been essential and fundamental research …
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A multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the lived-experience of people with ‘leprosy’ and Hansen’s Disease in medieval England
… to explore the variation in lived-experience of medieval HD/’leprosy’ sufferers by using a multidisciplinary life-course approach to holistically interpret a myriad of osteologically and biomolecularly reconstructable proxies of health and social status/treatment. Osteobiographies (n=559), …
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The Use of Coal for Ferrous Metallurgy in Roman Britain
… by its precocious adoption by smiths in the late medieval period and corroborated by contemporary craftspeople. The results of this thesis highlight the importance of fuel in the chaîne opératoire of metallurgy and the need for further research combining materials analysis with the study of …
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The contextualisation of Crusader mass graves from Sidon, Lebanon.
… battles, sieges and smaller conflicts during the Late Medieval period (AD1000-1500) is hotly debated due to the relative lack of physical evidence for these events and processes. The Crusades in the Levant have been extensively studied from the perspective of the rich archive of historical records …
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