This article examines the posthumous travels and textual traditions surrounding the seventh-century Mercian saint Wærburh. Through close reading of sources such as the Kentish Royal Legend, Gosceli...

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 181, a manuscript compiled in Normandy in the late thirteenth century, contains diverse important works spanning from Normandy to East Asia. This study analyses...

In the second half of the fourteenth century, English labour legislation gave rise to a mass of litigation in the court of Common Pleas. This paper draws on a database of nearly 2000 pleas enrolled...

The University of Victoria invites applications for a Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a prestigious academic ...

The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 Februa...

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Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about the shifting role of the Church and the Papacy, a…

Newly uncovered medieval evidence is the latest to cast doubt on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth many believe was used to wrap the crucified body of Jesus. Following analysis,...