मध्य युग

With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been credited with spearheading a govern …

Documents a long-running dispute between the archbishops and monks of Canterbury throughout the 1180s and 1190s. For fifteen years the monks of Christ Church Canterbury waged a war against their arch …

How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist Asia Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture o …

By 1300, a region often referred to as the March of Wales had been created between England and the Principality of Wales. This March consisted of some forty castle-centred lordships extending along t …

The Year’s Work in Medievalism includes vetted essays from the Studies in Medievalism–now International Society for the Study of Medievalism–annual conference and from submissions to the editor thr …

The division of history into periods may be very misleading if its true purport be not understood. One age can no more be isolated from the universal course of history than one generation f …

Step into the world of Freemasonry with ‘The Freemasons, ‘ a fascinating journey through the history, rituals, and symbolism of one of the world’s most renowned secret societies. Uncover the secrets, …

Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the Euro …

Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England. The cults of the saints were central to the medieval Church. These holy me …

In Forged in the Shadow of Mars , Peter W. Sposato traces chivalry’s powerful influence on the mentalitè and behavior of a sizeable segment of the elite in late medieval Florence. He finds that the s …