Bonds of loyalty in the 1095 war between Robert, earl of Northumbria and King William II are examined. It argues that the morality of loyalty depends on the context and on the point of view of thos...

The article investigates how bonds of loyalty linking rulers and subjects were depicted in Vincentius of Cracow’s Chronica Polonorum. Vincentius tried to bolster the claims of his patron Kazimierz ...

The Occitan troubadours exploit the image of the devoted courtly lover as vassal to the object of his aspirational desires: the lady as feudal overlord. This frequent trope is often seen as a centr...

Medieval historians frequently write about loyalty, usually in the context of lords and kings, but there has been little sustained engagement with the wider role of loyalty in society. This introdu...

Medieval historians frequently write about loyalty, usually in the context of lords and kings, but there has been little sustained engagement with the wider role of loyalty in society. This introdu...

This article explores the dilemmas of loyalty faced by archbishops – both at Canterbury in the English kingdom and at Salzburg in the Empire – who sought to argue that their defiance of kings did n...

Explores the destruction, mutilation, and erasure of images, artefacts, and monuments during the European Middle Ages.

Das menschliche Gedächtnis ist schlecht und schriftliche Aufzeichnung daher unerlässlich – dieses Motiv wurde in mittelalterlichen Urkunden vielfa...

You are invited to a talk with Professor Benjamin Pohl, current Visiting Fellow at Magdalen, and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bristol. The talk will take place from 5pm-6pm in th...

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