# medieval england (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover medieval england. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Regnum Francie of Suger of Saint-Denis: An Expansive Ile-de-France](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/regnum-francie-sugar/) _2026-08-23 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ A study of how Suger of Saint-Denis understood France, revealing changing ideas about the French kingdom, its people and political identity in the twelfth century. ## [Dear Dad, Send Money: Letters from Students in the Middle Ages](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/letters-students-middle-ages/) _2026-08-22 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Medieval students faced expensive books, housing and daily costs too. Their surviving letters reveal a familiar solution: writing home to ask for money. ## [The Medieval Queen Who Survived Childhood Polio](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/medieval-queen-childhood-polio/) _2026-08-22 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Meet Arégonde, a sixth-century medieval queen whose bones, teeth and even her shoes reveal the lasting effects of childhood polio. ## [Nicholas Cusanus as Prince-Bishop of Brixen (1450-64): Historians and a Conflict of Church and State](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/nicholas-cusanus-prince/) _2026-08-22 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ A study of Nicolaus Cusanus’s conflict with Duke Sigismund of Tyrol, revealing tensions between church reform and secular power in fifteenth-century Europe ## [World History Sacred and Profane: The Case of Medieval Christian and Islamic World Chronicles](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/world-history-chroniclers/) _2026-08-22 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ A comparison of medieval Christian and Muslim world chronicles, examining how historians used religion, chronology and changing political realities to create unified accounts of the past. ## [New Medieval Books: Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/new-medieval-books-cultures-of-the-medieval-kingdom-of-jerusalem/) _2026-08-21 · New Medieval Books · Medievalists.net_ In the aftermath of the First Crusade, a new state emerged in the eastern Mediterranean that was very different from the lands its conquerors had come from. This book examines the social and cultural landscape of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, revealing a remarkably diverse society shaped by peoples of different ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. ## [So, Your Child Has Decided to Become a Medievalist](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/child-become-medievalist/) _2026-08-21 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ What happens when a seemingly ordinary child decides to devote their life to the Middle Ages? Ken Mondschein offers parents a survival guide for life with a budding medievalist. ## [The Complicated Case of Medieval Crime Fiction](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/medieval-crime-fiction/) _2026-08-20 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Anne McKendry looks at medieval crime fiction and the challenges of solving murders in a world without modern policing or forensic science. ## [New Medieval Books: Craftland](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/new-medieval-books-craftland/) _2026-08-20 · New Medieval Books · Medievalists.net_ What was work like before industrialisation? This book looks back at Britain before the rise of modern industry, exploring the professions and occupations that once played an important role in people’s everyday lives. ## [Medieval Graves Weren’t Always Family Burials, DNA Study Finds](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/medieval-graves-werent-always-family-burials-dna-study-finds/) _2026-08-20 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Ancient DNA from medieval graves in Sweden reveals that adults and children buried together were often not close relatives, challenging assumptions about family burials. ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/L8O96ev3q8qg) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [From Arab Silver to Byzantine Gold: The Vikings in the East](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/vikings-east/) _2026-08-19 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Follow the Vikings eastward as they sought Arab silver and Byzantine gold, forging trade routes across Eastern Europe and helping shape the world of the Rus’. ## [What 20 Famous Medieval Names Really Mean](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/what-20-famous-medieval-names-really-mean/) _2026-08-18 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Discover the real names of 20 famous medieval figures and how translation, nicknames, titles and linguistic changes created the names we know today. ## [The Battle of Bosworth (1485)](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/the-battle-of-bosworth-1485/) _2026-08-17 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ King Richard III faces Henry Tudor in one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses. In this episode of Bow & Blade, Michael and Kelly discuss the Battle of Bosworth and how the identification of its battlefield has offered new insights into how the fighting unfolded. ## [Viking Ship Burial in Norway May Have Been Built Over Bronze Age Grave](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/viking-ship-burial-in-norway-may-have-been-built-over-bronze-age-grave/) _2026-08-17 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Archaeologists investigating a Viking ship burial in Norway have found evidence that it may have been built over a much older Bronze Age grave. ## [How One Battle Could Change the Medieval World](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/how-one-battle-could-change-the-medieval-world/) _2026-08-16 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Discover why medieval battles could have enormous consequences, toppling rulers, reshaping kingdoms and changing the course of European history. ## [Medieval Paintings Stolen in Sicilian Museum Heist](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/medieval-paintings-stolen-in-sicilian-museum-heist/) _2026-08-16 · Medievalists.net · Medievalists.net_ Four fifteenth-century paintings by Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Sicily, although two were abandoned during the thieves’ escape. ## [New Medieval Books: Chaucer and Trauma](https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/new-medieval-books-chaucer-and-trauma/) _2026-08-16 · New Medieval Books · Medievalists.net_ The 14th-century writer Geoffrey Chaucer included many episodes of “violence, victimhood, and overwhelming grief or loss” in his works. The nine papers in this collection explore how he presents these traumatic experiences and what they reveal about both the writer and his medieval world. ## [When Marriage goes Wrong: Breach of Promise in Fifteenth-Century England](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/08/06/when-marriage-goes-wrong-breach-of-promise-in-fifteenth-century-england/) _2026-08-06 · Sara M. Butler · Legal History Miscellany_ Posted by Sara M. Butler, 6 August 2026. Historians of marriage have done much to redeem the “institution” for medieval England in the past thirty years. Where once it was assumed that all marriages were loveless business arrangements, dominated by financial considerations, and imposed on daughters against their will, now, especially thanks to historians like \[ \] ## [Grand Juries and Star Chamber’s Haunting Spectre](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/07/17/grand-juries-and-star-chambers-haunting-spectre/) _2026-07-17 · Krista Kesselring · Legal History Miscellany_ With curbs on trial juries now proposed in the UK, this post looks back to the part played by their now defunct counterpart, the grand jury. ## [The ‘Ripper Template’ and Forensic Investigations of Serial Murder](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/06/19/the-ripper-template-and-forensic-investigations-of-serial-murder/) _2026-06-19 · Cassie Watson · Legal History Miscellany_ By Cassie Watson; posted 19 June 2026. Serial offenders are assumed to have at least two to four victims;\[1\] to kill for pleasure or gain; and to follow a pattern in victim selection. If, as Eric Hickey states, the most important tool for researchers — and by implication investigators — is the ability to link \[ \] ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2xyy0NwZTKTZ) _2026-06-19 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [Reading Records of Raptus from Thirteenth-Century England](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/05/08/reading-records-of-raptus-from-thirteenth-century-england/) _2026-05-08 · Sara M. Butler · Legal History Miscellany_ Posted by Sara M. Butler, 8 May 2026. Medieval England had no word that was equivalent to the modern term rape. Instead, lawmakers and the judiciary used the term raptus, which is often translated as “rape” but actually means “seizure.” In a blogpost from August of 2024, I wrote about the difficulties with raptus, how \[ \] ## [The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568)](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/the-most-excellent-things-are-the-kings-the-case-of-mines-1568/) _2026-04-22 · Krista Kesselring · Legal History Miscellany_ Who owns what lies within the ground beneath our feet? This post explores the answers offered in a 1568 case that has both analogues and legacies today. ## [Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/03/27/memorable-monikers-dick-the-devil/) _2026-03-27 · Cassie Watson · Legal History Miscellany_ By Cassie Watson; posted 27 March 2026. What did a cheese thief in Victorian Lancashire have in common with a pitman in County Durham, a bigamist in the Rhondda Valley, or an eighteenth-century Welsh labourer? They were all repeat offenders who earned themselves a memorable nickname: Dick the Devil. I came across the last-mentioned of \[ \] ## [Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women’s Citizenship](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/02/19/identifying-women-jurors-and-institutionalising-womens-citizenship/) _2026-02-19 · legalhistorymiscellany · Legal History Miscellany_ In this guest post, Kay Crosby uses the early history of women's jury service to explore the criteria by which the state recognized some women (but not others) as citizens. ## [Agnes de Frowyk: Widow, “Next Friend,” and Medieval Tiger Mom](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/02/05/agnes-de-frowyk-widow-next-friend-and-medieval-tiger-mom/) _2026-02-05 · Sara M. Butler · Legal History Miscellany_ Posted by Sara M. Butler, 5 February 2026. The church tried its best to vilify social mobility in late medieval England, encouraging good Christians to embrace their place in society (no matter how low!) as ordained by God, and not strive for more. Nonetheless, England’s nascent middle class fantasized of something better. They hoped that \[ \] ## [A New Year’s Gift: Fish, Flesh, and ‘Unlawful Diet’ in Early Modern England](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/01/06/a-new-years-gift-fish-flesh-and-unlawful-diet-in-early-modern-england/) _2026-01-06 · Krista Kesselring · Legal History Miscellany_ Tracing the phenomenon of Protestant ‘fish days’, this post explores why some people in early modern England believed that changing their diet could promote a public good--and how they brought the law to bear. ## [Murder, Medicine, Money: A Met Police—Home Office Dispute, 1889-90](https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/26/murder-medicine-money-a-met-police-home-office-dispute-1889-90/) _2025-12-26 · Cassie Watson · Legal History Miscellany_ By Cassie Watson; posted 26 December 2025. In the wake of the Thames Torso Murders (1887–89), the Jack the Ripper killings of autumn 1888, and several subsequent unsolved murders that were thought possibly to be the work of the Ripper,\[1\] the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, James Monro, tried to convince the Home Office to pay more \[ \] ## [Stop calling Shakespearean English “Old English!” It’s not.](https://thequestingfeast.com/stop-calling-shakespearean-english-old-english-its-not/) _2024-12-26 · yuenmediaservices · The Questing Feast_ It’s early Modern English. Like my mother, it annoys me when people add a “thee” or a “thou” and think they are speaking Old English. Nope. Not. The Old English period (450-1100s) is followed by Middle English (1150–1500), Early Modern English (1500–1650) and finally Modern English (after 1650), and in Scotland Early Scots (before 1450), … Continue reading "Stop calling Shakespearean English “Old… ## [Visit to Hainan](https://thequestingfeast.com/hainan-island/) _2024-12-17 · yuenmediaservices · The Questing Feast_ I recently returned from Wenchang, Hainan. The trip was to attend the Galaxy Forum to discuss Lunar development and space exploration. We stayed at the Wyndham Grand Wenchang, which is not where Google Maps says it is, but rather just seaward of Qinglan Harbor. I very much enjoyed watching the fishing board going in and … Continue reading "Visit to Hainan" ## [Butter Chicken](https://thequestingfeast.com/butter-chicken/) _2024-12-02 · yuenmediaservices · The Questing Feast_ by D. Leilehua Yuen Apparently, there is a Great Butter Chicken Controversy complete with lawsuits and everything! The grandsons of the two men who founded Moti Mahal, possibly the first restaurant where Indian butter chicken was served, are in a battle over which grandpa created the popular dish. The suit has been filed with a … Continue reading "Butter Chicken" ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NwE0b6HEVfZx) _2024-12-02 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [Advent – Preparing for Christmas](https://thequestingfeast.com/advent-preparing-for-christmas/) _2024-11-30 · yuenmediaservices · The Questing Feast_ The word “advent,” in modern English, means the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event. In the Christian liturgical calendar it is the four week season leading up to Christmas. Each of the four Sundays in Advent is celebrated. While we do not know when Advent first was celebrated, some scholars believe that when … Continue reading "Advent – Preparing for Christmas"