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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.
5 days ago · During the medieval period, furthermore, the incoherencies around what constituted a marriage, who could marry and other related questions became more pressing precisely because marriage was gaining cultural and, especially, religious value.
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2 days ago · The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500. The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period (and in much of Europe, the Renaissance). Around 1350, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt.
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 · Teaching began there in some form around 1096, according to legend, and by 1167 Oxford was a full-fledged center of learning, complete with student housing. Its development continued throughout the 13th century, with the establishment of now-famous colleges like Merton (1264), Balliol (1263), and University College (1249).
5 days ago · Gender history developed in the 1980s out of women’s history, when historians familiar with studying women increasingly began to discuss the ways in which systems of sexual differentiation affected both women and men. Historians interested in this new perspective asserted that gender was an appropriate category of analysis when looking at all ...
