Urban Space and Political Conflict in Late Medieval Flanders
This essay investigates political claims over space in Ghent, urban Flanders’ largest city during the late Middle Ages. The post Urban Space and Political Conflict in Late Medieval Flanders appeared...
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Charles the Good, count of Flanders, was surrounded by assassins and killed by a sword blow to the forehead while praying in an upper chapel of his castral church of Saint Donation in Bruges on March...
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The Anna Selbdritt in late medieval Germany : meaning and function of religious image Virginia Nixon Doctor of Philosophy, Concordia University, School of Graduate Studies, Montreal, Canada (1997)...
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Thomas Fitzanthony’s Borough: Medieval Thomastown in Irish History, 1171-1555 Marilyn Silverman In the Shadow of the Steeple VI, Duchas-Tullaherin Parish Heritage Society (1998) Abstract In the year...
View ArticleLearning by doing or expert knowledge? Technological innovations in...
Dike construction apparently uses simple technology, with slow and gradual change; not the kind of technology that reshaped the material conditions of living, comparable to the spread of electricity or...
View ArticleLords Of The North Sea: A Comparative Study Of Aristocratic Territory In The...
The paper is a comparative study on the aristocrats of eastern England, eastern Normandy, western Flanders and central Norway. The post Lords Of The North Sea: A Comparative Study Of Aristocratic...
View ArticleTime, space and power in later medieval Bristol
With a population of almost 10,000, Bristol was later medieval England’s second or third biggest urban place, and the realm’s second port after London. While not particularly large or wealthy in...
View ArticleDid Purchasing Power Parity Hold in Medieval Europe?
This paper employs a unique, hand-collected dataset of exchange rates for five major currencies (the lira of Barcelona, the pound sterling of England, the pond groot of Flanders, the florin of Florence...
View ArticleFlandria Illustrata: Flemish Identities in the Late Middle Ages and the Early...
This chapter discusses identity formation in early modern Flanders. It argues that policy makers and their intellectual agents transformed the perception of a province that had been divided by urban...
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The family or the farm: a Sophie’s choice? The late medieval crisis in the...
The county of Flanders provides an interesting test case with which to verify the neo-Malthusian Duby-Postan thesis about the so-called late medieval crisis.
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