We’ve had other projects that have taken higher priority over the last year, so work on the dictionary has mostly been bits and bobs in the backend of things. Most of our attention has been concentrated on creating place-holder entries for all the as-yet-unidentified variant name forms tha...
By the end of the 7th century and the beginning of the 8th, Merovingian authority throughout the Frankish world had been seriously diminished by internal divisions among rival noble factions. Although the dynasty would retain possession of the crown until 751, it was effectively replaced by a ris...
It might seem as if the later legend of Godiva has very little to do with the real evidence we have about the eleventh-century noblewoman and landowner Godgifu. However, some links can be made between the two figures. Godiva’s lack of adornment in her nudity would have seemed shocking ...
Also during the last years, the names of the nuns where they too can be traced, confirm the assumption; Margery Paston was the daughter of Sir William Paston of Norfolk, Gabrielle Shelton daughter of Sir John and Lady Anne Shelton, the latter aunt of Anne Boleyn, to mention but two exampl...
Mead, William Edward. THE ENGLISH MEDIEVAL FEAST. Barnes and Noble. 1967. Despite the publishing date, this was written over 80 years ago. Nevertheless there is a surprising amount of useful information in this book. While some of his conclusions are suspect, the data is not. RECOMMENDED but...
This crime was punished viciously, especially if the kidnapped victim was part of royalty or a noble family. In this case, the criminal would be tortured heavily and executed in public. The majority of kingdoms imposed heavy penalties on kidnappers. ...
Provides eleven indexes to Neil Ker’s four-volume reference work, allowing searches focused on texts (by author, subject, title, first line) or named individuals (scribes, illuminators, owners, annotators). Addenda record changes in the locations of manuscripts or in the names of institutions,...
So, hunting wolf is not considered a noble hunt, but more a hunt out of necessity. Therefor there was no rules to the hunt, they could be hunted with nets, traps, poison, dogs, spikes in meat, or, if you liked, par force. According to the Book of St. Albans,the wolf was hunted...
Unknown! No names are attached to these stories. However, Andrew Breeze has argued (controversially!) that Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd (c.1100-1136) may be the author of the four stories that compose the Four Branches. She is a famous noblewoman who led a revolt and was executed after being...
William I(born c. 1028, Falaise, Normandy [France]—died September 9, 1087, Rouen) was a noble who made himself the mightiest inFranceand then changed the course ofEngland’s history through hisconquestof that country in 1066. One of the greatest soldiers and rulers of theMiddle Ages, he...