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The Exchequer in the later twelfth century
… in depth. My subject, the Exchequer in the later twelfth century, has been well worked over many times before. My own interest in it was aroused more than a quarter of a century ago, when I had occasion to consult and search printed Pipe Rolls for references to the minting and exchanging of money …
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
<p>In “Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature,” I analyze the appearance of the Eucharist as a sacred motif in secular lais, romances, and chronicles. The Eucharist became one of the most controversial intellectual topics of the High Middle Ages. While medieval historians …
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
This thesis suggests that four twelfth-century English historians – Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had identified a schema that could determine who and what was culpable for engendering …
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In the Wake of Abelard: Nominalisms in the Twelfth Century
… of nominalism, the scarcity of the literature on twelfth-century nominalism and Abelard’s influence may come as a surprise. This thesis contributes to filling this gap by examining twelfth-century nominalism in the wake of Abelard. It aims (1) to evaluate Abelard’s influence and (2) to explore the …
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Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
… the life of Marie of Blois-Boulogne, a twelfth-century abbess, countess, wife, and mother. Marie experienced change and tragedy, provoking the need to make choices with religious and political ramifications. As such, her story enables us to examine decision-making in the context of …
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Historical Distance and Difference in the Twelfth-Century Middle High German Kaiserchronik
The episode framework of the Kaiserchronik is as much a semanticising structure as the chronicle’s content. If treated analogous to Hayden White’s analysis of annals the conceptual continuity of the Roman Empire as the object of narration becomes all the more clearer. The episodes are used as pegs …
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Betha Cholmáin maic Luacháin: an ecclesiastical microcosm of the twelfth-century Irish midlands
… on a complex ecclesiastical microcosm in the twelfth-century Irish midlands. In keeping with recent methodological work in the field a variety of tools are used to aid investigation, and to show the Life within its genre and wider context. An interdisciplinary approach will bring together …
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Marriage, Inheritance, and the Balance of Power in Twelfth-Century England and France
… among European states during the eighteenth century. To support the argument several chapters are devoted to a close examination of the social practices and restrictions surrounding marriage and inheritance during the twelfth century. Issues such as the need for consent between marriage …
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Archbishop Rotrou of Rouen (1164-1183): A Career Churchman in the Twelfth-Century
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
… for schoolmen working in northern France in the twelfth century. It argues that while this category designated a set of everyday technologies, it also had a more covert, imaginative currency for certain authors – as an image or exemplum for the process of learning. Its procedures and activities …
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Transitional holiness in the twelfth century: the social and spiritual identity of Domina Christina of Markyate
… in sanctity and spirituality during the twelfth century. It highlights the lack of appropriate vocabulary and models available in the 1130s and 1140s to make sense of the new manifestations of holiness that Christina embodies. By using three distinct but overlapping discourses to …
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Servicium Debitum and Scutage in Twelfth Century England With Comparisons to the Regno of Southern Italy
… explanation. It is both an examination of the twelfth-century feudal structure and lordship arrangements as described by these documents, and how they came to be in their twelfth-century forms. This is supplemented by a similar, but briefer, evaluation of the Regno of southern Italy and of the …
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Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century
<p>The Twelfth Century in Western Europe was a remarkable time in history. Scholars have noted that Roman law was being revived, Aristotelian theory was being studied, Romanesque and Gothic art was being produced, scholasticism was being cultivated, and economic growth was being fostered by the …
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A territory of their own: poetic identity and the construction of literary communities in twelfth-century China
… the conception and practice of poetry in twelfth-century China. It argues that the poets, facing an identity crisis caused by social, political, and institutional changes of the time, engaged in the reconstruction of a collective discourse on what being a poet meant and how poetry should …
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