Vintage Baby Names Origin: English variation of French Provencal Alienor, meaning unknown Description: Eleanor's straightforward feminine image combined with its royal medieval history is striking just the right note for parents in search of a girls' name that combines substance and style. ...
The short answer is that it is an artefact a lot of our name data coming from sources that focus on Wackenbücher. These are socage registers that not only record the obligations of peasants to their manors, but also details such as the names of the heads of the peasant households. So a...
Becky K. Lee, “Men’s Recollections of a Women’s Rite: Medieval English Men’s Recollections Regarding the Rite of the Purification of Women after Childbirth,” Gender and History 14 (2002): 229 [224–41]; Paula M. Rieder, “The Implications of Exclusion: The Regulation of Churching ...
Essays on the origins of romance in French and English courts are complemented by articles that trace the transmission and evolution of these stories throughout Europe. The volume provides a clear introduction for students and fresh perspectives for scholars on topics ranging from manuscripts to ...
Examines queens and queenship in premodern England, France and Spain, with special focus on María of Castile, to argue for new theoretical frameworks for understanding the gendered aspects of medieval monarchy and the functional and complementary relations of men and women within it. ...
again providing valuable insights into everyday medieval life. Most of the Paston women wouldn’t have been able to write and thus relied on scribes to pen their messages for them. An endearing example of these is the oldest surviving Valentine’s Day letter in the English language, sent by...
This useful bit of advice for young courtiers in the early 13th century appears in “The Book of the Civilised Man”, a poem by Daniel of Beccles. It is the first English guide to manners. Ian Mortimer, a historian, argues that this and other popular works of advice that began ...
payment for himself, noting that he rather liked the gold work. By 1295 the Vatican had more than 100 vestments described as Opus Anglicanum and the English royal family had found a new and well received gift for the Holy Father of the day and nothing about the robes and vestments were ...
Wool was sold at market to merchants who would send English woollen cloth to other European countries. Because sheep were so important for their wool, it was important to make sure that they were protected from predators such as wolves and dogs. ...
although the grammatical study of language is “an invention of man,” still it too “imitates nature, from which it derives its origin” (“naturam tamen imitatur, et pro parte ab ipsa originem ducit”).17Because of the emphasis on the roots of names or words in their sources, letters...