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2 days ago · Warner’s concluding chapter identifies four main themes: the ‘fears and disadvantages of children after parent’s remarriage’ that includes exploring the stereotype of the ‘wicked step-parent’, how marriage and stepfamilies were shaped by notions of vertical and horizontal kinship, regulation of inheritance and care of children, and living arrang...
3 days ago · From this structural hermeneutic of kinship, Worby provides a close reading of 13th- and 14th-century sources on kinship, from treatises and visual representations of the marital prohibitions of consanguinity and affinity, to scattered court records on marriage, divorce, and inheritance.
3 days ago · These are the students of medieval Oxford University. But who were they really underneath those scholarly trappings? What was it like to be an Oxford undergrad over 600 years ago, in the 14th century? Let‘s take a closer look at the life and times of the typical medieval Oxonian. Origins of Oxford
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4 days ago · Married Life in the Middle Ages offers a refreshing approach to medieval marriage. Elisabeth van Houts focuses on the social and emotional sides of marriage rather than viewing marriage through a legal or institutional lens. Two aspects of van Houts’ book set it apart from others.
3 days ago · The medieval period, also known as the Middle Ages, is one of the most fascinating and impactful eras in European and world history. Spanning approximately 1000 years from the 5th to the 15th century, the medieval period saw the formation of European kingdoms, the rise of the Catholic Church, the ravages of the Black Death, and the beginnings of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
Here's the types of questions I'm looking to answer: How did Jewish people's lives look in the late 14th - early 15th century? Did the expulsion of Jews from England impact the culture of Jews elsewhere in Europe? What types of differences existed between, for example, a Bohemian Jewish community and a Venetian one?
4 days ago · This contention is explored in four main sections: ‘On the edge’, which deals with Europe between 1450 and 1517, ‘Protestants’, which studies the rise of Protestantism, ‘Catholics’, which follows how the Catholic church responded to Protestantism, and finally ‘Consequences’, which retraces the impact of the Reformation on later 16th- and 17th-ce...
