Author Archives: RMBLF

En 1002, Emma, jeune princesse normande, arrive en Angleterre pour épouser le roi anglo-saxon Æthelred II. Le pays est alors en proie à des incursions répétées des Vikings et, quand Æthelred meurt en 1016, le Danois Cnut devient roi d’Angleterre … Lire la suite →

Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance’s life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles, charters, seal … Lire la suite →

Nei primi secoli del medioevo Roma, dopo aver perduto il ruolo di capitale dell’antico impero mediterraneo, si trasforma nel cuore morale di una nuova realtà – l’Europa continentale uscita dalle invasioni barbariche – e recupera in forme inedite la centralità … Lire la suite →

« À partir du XIIe siècle principalement, un acteur majeur, sinon politique et administratif comme lieu de pouvoir, du moins social et économique et fréquemment enjeu de pouvoir, intervient dans la transformation du paysage médiéval : c’est l’hôpital, qui accueille pauvres, malades … Lire la suite →

Bruno, a cleric who served the archbishop of Magdeburg and subsequently the bishop of Merseburg during the course of the 1060s to the 1080s, composed one of the most important historical works treating the tumultuous period in the history of … Lire la suite →

The reader of Boccaccio’s voluminous writings, from the early Filocolo through the Decameron and to the later Epistles, cannot help but marvel at the pervasive engagement with the power and reach of consolation. Time and again, his protagonists suffer heartache and tribulation and seek comfort … Lire la suite →

The Methams were once a leading gentry family of Yorkshire, whose origins can be traced to a member of the twelfth-century minster community of Howden. By 1405 the family had reached a peak of its influence, with great estates spread … Lire la suite →