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In 1279 ‘The Form of the New Money’ (Forma nove monete) and the indenture of William de Turnmire both described the weight standards of Edward I’s new coinage. 243 pennies were to be struck from a tower pound of silver (5,400 troy grains) and the new round farthing was to be made in slightly debased ...

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A fine example of the belief in the existence of early portraits is the well-known gilt bronze Barbarossakopf in Cappenberg, Westphalia.

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26 days ago by Medievalists.net

The reign of Alfonso VI was also to be the setting within which León-Castilla joined in the emergence of a new western Europe and itself also assimilated the new norms and structures that were being erected everywhere there.

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28 days ago by Medievalists.net

After an extremely perilous early career during which he survived the plots of several adventurers, politicians, and churchmen who took advantage of the fact that he had lost both parents by the age of four, this child turned into one of the most admired and hated of all the powerful rulers in thirt ...

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33 days ago by Medievalists.net

I begin with a number of fascinating and difficult questions. Why did man originally create, and why does he continue to create, works on the "science of love"?

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40 days ago by Medievalists.net

Three major problems faced the Western church during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Simony, lay investiture, and clerical marriage and celibacy all affected the church. They placed unnecessary power in the hands of lay rulers. They corrupted the office of the papacy to a degree. They also cause ...

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45 days ago by Medievalists.net

The legend of Prester John and his magnificent kingdom has captivated scholarly and lay audiences from the twelfth-century through the twenty-first.

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47 days ago by Medievalists.net

Lyric poetry of the Middle Ages may seem far removed from subgroups of the symmetric group or primitive roots of finite fields. However, one piece of medieval poetry has led to work in these mathematical disciplines, namely a sestina written in the Romance language of Old Occitan by a troubadour nam ...

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55 days ago by Medievalists.net

By her own account Anna Comnena began to write the Alexiad shortly after the death of her husband, Nicephorus Bryennios, in 1137.

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60 days ago by Medievalists.net

This study offers a number of fresh insights into twelfth/century texts and the phenomena of the individual, self, and subjectivity.

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