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Medieval Studies

Iran/Persian

Persian Prison Poetry

A review of The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200, by Rebecca Gould. Rebecca Gould’s dissertation traces the Persian ...
Medieval

Organization and Social Function of Templar Communities in France

A review of Templar Communities in Medieval Champagne: Local Perspectives on a Global Organization, by Michael Joseph Peixoto. The history of the inte...
Fresh from the Archives

The West Ward Excavation, Bamburgh Castle

A review of The West Ward Excavation, Bamburgh Castle (Bamburgh, Northumberland, United Kingdom). The subject of the present article is a little diffe...
Medieval

Devotion in the Medieval Monastery

A review of Affective Devotion and Emotional Reform in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp, by Lauren Elisabeth Mancia. At first blush, J...
Eastern Central Europe

A Review of the State Archives in Milan (ASM)

A review of the State Archives in Milan | Archivio di Stato di Milano. Via Senato, 10 – 20122 Milan, Italy Phone: +39 02 7742161 –...
Eastern Central Europe

Medieval Transylvania Cemetery Excavations

The Jucu de Sus medieval cemetery excavations, Cluj, Transylvania Transylvania Bioarchaeology is a registered non-profit organisation dedicated to inv...
Medieval

Recovering the Jewish Past in Modern Spain

A review of Recovering Jewish Spain: Politics, Historiography and Institutionalization of the Jewish Past in Spain (1845–1935), by Michal Rose Friedma...
Medieval

Researching Medieval Landscapes of Power in Cheshire

Seeing the bigger picture: Researching medieval landscapes of power in Cheshire Man’s power, and how it is used – and abused – has always fascinated.....
Eastern Central Europe

Paleography and European Languages

This spring’s paleography identification contest at the University of Chicago Library confirmed what I have long hoped—my years of paleographic traini...
Media Studies

Diversity & Equality in Interactive Historical Fiction

Diversity & Equality in Interactive Historical Fiction When your Regency heroine flings herself into a chair, what should that chair look like? La...
Medieval

Christian Conversion & Popular Religion in Early Medieval Ireland

Review of Taboos and penitence: Christian conversion and popular religion in early medieval Ireland, by Elaine Cristine dos Santos Pereira Farrell.  T...
Fresh from the Archives

Stadsarchief Gent, Belgium

A review of the Stadsarchief Gent (Ghent, Belgium). This brief assessment of the civic archive in Ghent is based on several trips of varying durations...
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