Mediaeval History Theses: Recent submissions
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The Cellites and their death charity in the later Middle Ages
(2023-06-15) - ThesisAnalysing archival material from their major late medieval urban centres, including Cologne, Frankfurt-am-Main, and Hildesheim, this thesis provides a fresh examination of communities of lay voluntary poor called Cellites. ... -
Lordship in the eastern Campania, c. 1053-1127
(2022-11-30) - ThesisBased principally on the examination of surviving diplomatic material, this thesis argues that lordship determined societal organisation in the eastern Campania between c. 1053 and 1127. This provides the first systematic ... -
Folcuin and the politics of writing institutional history after the end of the Carolingian Empire
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis examines the relationship between politics and the writing of institutional history (cartularies and gesta) after the end of the Carolingian Empire (888) from the perspective of Folcuin of St-Bertin and Lobbes ... -
Conflict management on the streets in the fourteenth century : a case study of Bologna in context
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis examines conflict management on the streets in early fourteenth century Bologna with brief comparative reference to other Italian communes, Pistoia in particular. It asks how small-scale conflicts were managed ... -
Patterns of commemoration in central Italy : manuscript calendars and social time in Perugia, Assisi and Gubbio, c. 1100–1500
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis examines the use of medieval calendars as commemorative devices. Medieval calendars were practical and open-ended texts that could remain in use for several generations, accumulating layers of modification ...