Strictly Medieval

Medieval Bosnian state is one of the oldest in Europe and dating from the 8th century. During a period of 700 years, the state had its own dynasty, the kings and queens, princes and princesses. Mission Medieval Bosnian state is one of the oldest in Europe and dating from the 8th century. During a period of 700 years, the state had its own dynasty, the kings and queens, princes and princesses. Medieval Bosnian state was autonomous until 1463. when it was conquered by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the invasion led by the great historical figure, Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror.

with the documentary evidence in order to take note of individuals and their activities in the past. Canterbury is of course especially fortunate in this regard because of the quality of surviving records, but it would be highly informative to apply such methods (where the sources allow) to other towns and more rural situations and compare what the different types of evidence are telling us. A number of site-focussed historical studies will have been carried out as part of PPG15, PPG16 and PPS5 related work elsewhere, particularly as part of desk-based assessments. This type of work would contribute much to broader synthesis if it can be extracted from the large (and growing) corpus of grey literature. Such evidence can be complemented by comparison of aerial photographs, cartographic evidence (regression analyses of post-medieval maps on a local scale, as well as more stylised maps of the period: see Brandon and Short 1990, Plate 2.6 for example) and place-name evidence (including field and wood names etc. that potentially refer to local medieval topography). In the latter case it would appear significant, for example, that '-den' names have a Kent focus, with numbers generally decreasing quite sharply at what is still the Wealden county boundary with East Sussex (Everitt 1986: 35; Brandon and Short 1990: 25; cf. East Sussex '-field' names). Such differences may even represent ethnic boundaries in the more distant past. Evidence of medieval life and culture derived from literature and art, such as Psalters, or the Canterbury abbey and Chertsey Cartulary maps (c. 1165 and 1432 respectively), should also be admissible, but such information needs to be interpreted carefully. As well as original biases, literary tropes and artistic conventions must be taken into account. Chaucer's evocation of socially stratified pilgrims travelling through Kent, for example, is best seen within the context of 'estates' literature, presenting highly stylised social portraits (see Rigby 1996: Chapter 1). Archaeological, environmental and finds evidence Archaeological evidence is vital if we are to have any hope of reconstructing those many aspects of medieval society in the region that were simply not recorded in contemporary documents: much should be considered 'prehistoric', even at this period (a wooden harpoon found near Chichester is especially eloquent of this: see Allen and Pettit 1997). Turner's general comment applied to Surrey is relevant to the region as a whole: '(T)here are many pre-or proto-literate aspects…that can only be illuminated by archaeological methods. There are many gaps in the documentary record, particularly at the local level, and many parts of society did not participate in the record-making process at all.' (1987: 223).

East of England Regional Research Framework , 2018

The medieval period forms an important bridge between the study of the remote past, where archaeological data dominates, and the more recent past, where the written record dominates. There are, however, very distinct archaeological and historical streams of medieval research and it is still rare to find syntheses that span both streams with confidence and ability. The medieval period is also the period where the archaeological approach to buildings strongly meets the architectural approach, with again a tendency for the two streams to run in parallel rather than in combination.

The Contemporary Medieval in Practice

And so, finally, we thank all our students-always the best sounding-board for how ideas can translate-and each other, for the long journey and continuing conversation.

This course is devoted to some key sources and topics of English history from the end of Roman rule in Britain (c. 410) to the fifteenth century. Readings and discussions will focus on the formation of a distinctive Anglo-Saxon culture, the continuity and discontinuity of identities and institutions before and after the Norman Conquest, the ongoing tensions resulting from internal and external colonization, and significant cultural and social developments. Recurrent themes include the development of the English legal tradition, the changing roles of women, intellectual trends, and the dissemination of ideas (via writing, performance). Students will be expected to read secondary scholarship and primary sources in English, as well as some texts in Middle English; to participate actively in class discussions and exercises; and to write several papers. Graduate students will complete additional readings and a research paper or critical review essay.

The London Medieval Society is delighted to host its 70th Anniversary International Conference: MEDIEVAL LONDON & THE WORLD 1-4 May 2015, London Keynote Speakers: Prof. Julia Boffey (Queen Mary Univ. of London) Prof. David Carpenter (King’s College London) Prof. Matthew Davies (Institute of Historical Research) Prof. Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London) Prof. Sheila Lindenbaum (Indiana Univ. Bloomington) For the full programme and registration details, please visit our website: http://londonmedievalsociety.com/medieval-london/ For any questions, please email: [email protected]

This article reports on part of a qualitative study conducted on popular perceptions of the medieval past. It touches on the divergent understandings of the similar terms "medieval" and "middle ages" amongst its research participants. Generally speaking, "medieval" was linked to a more optimistic, light vision of the period, whereas "middle ages" was linked to a darker, more historical vision of the past.

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies, 2024

Arthuriana, 2015

In his 2015 study, Medievalism: A Critical History, David Matthews proposes that, after a period of modernity during which medievalism appeared in some of the central cultural practices in the western world, much of the medievalist energy and excitement visible in canonical texts, architecture, and the arts gradually diminished from the this general domain and concentrated around the various institutionalized forms of inquiry of medievalia at the modern university. As a result, medievalism was displaced from the central cultural position it held during Britain's Victorian or America's pre-and post-Civil War periods to an increasingly marginal one. Matthews declares that this move to the margin ironically rendered medievalism almost omnipresent, albeit in smaller doses and with lesser consequence. Matthews terms this kind of medievalism "residual," remarking how medievalism now left its mark no longer with the lead genres, authors, and texts of its time as in the works of Tennyson, Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, but as mere substrates, implications, and references as in Joyce, Eliot, or Pound, or as mere tropes in twentieth-century genre fiction by Eco, Fuller, or Unsworth. Similarly, Matthews expounds, there are no English-language medievalist movies that have achieved both popularity and won sufficient cultural capital to be thought of as canonical.