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The events that took place in medieval English birthing chambers were witnessed and assisted by a company of women. Although these events may have been isolated, they did not exist in isolation. Rather, they interacted in complex ways with the lives and activities of the men in the manor hall. This article examines those interactions as they are evidenced in proof-of-age inquests, legal documents that record the recollections of husbands, fathers, and male relatives and neighbors regarding the events surrounding the birth of an heir to crown land. It concludes that even though men rarely entered the birthing chamber, their dynastic interests and social politics routinely penetrated its walls, blurring the boundary between private and public spheres, female and male space.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Warfare in Carolingian Europe -- 2. Military Feudalism and the Early Capetians -- 3. Warfare in Norman Italy -- 4. The Norman Occupation of England -- 5. Crusader Syria: A Feudal Military Frontier -- 6. Warfare in Southern France and Christian Spain -- 7. Town versus Country: Feudal Wars in Central and Northern Italy -- 8. Military Feudalism in Germany -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic Note -- Index

Royal power and minorities. -- Christian love, Jewish "privacy," and medieval kingship / David Nirenberg -- The Castilian monarchy and the Jews (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) / Maya Soifer Irish -- Royal power and ritual murder: notes on the expulsion of the Jews from the royal domain of France, 1182 / E.M. Rose -- The intimacy of exception: the diagnosis of Samuel Abenmenasse / Hussein Fancy -- The politics of peacemaking. -- Can the church be desperate, warriors be pacifist, and commoners ridiculously optimistic? On the historian's imagination and the peace of God / Richard Landes -- Peacemaking, performance, and power in thirteenth-century San Gimignano / Katherine L. Jansen -- Captivity and diplomacy in the late medieval crown of Aragon / Jarbel Rodriguez -- Religious institutions and society. -- The economic power of a hospital in thirteenth-century Provins / Adam J. Davis -- "In some way even more than before": approaches to understanding St. Louis of Anjou, Franciscan bishop of Toulouse / Holly J. Grieco -- "In order to keep the memory": miracle cults as sources of authority in the crown of Aragon / Michelle Garceau -- Patrolling normative borders after the black death: the Bishop of Lucca's criminal court / G. Geltner -- Crusading, memory, and identity. -- Warrior or saint? Joinville, Louis IX's character, and the challenge of the crusade / Jonathan Elukin -- Confessor king, martyr saint: praying to Saint Maurice at Senlis / Anne E. Lester -- Men of France? boundary crossing in Constantinople in the 1240s / Erica Gilles -- Victory by desire: crusade and martyrdom in the fourteenth century / Christopher MacEvitt -- Rethinking issues of medieval law and history. -- Custom's two bodies / Emily Kadens -- A cautionary note / Mark Gregory Pegg

Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world. The main characteristic of an island is, of course, that of being isolated from the rest of the world; in geography by waters, in more abstract and symbolic meanings by other kinds of separating borders. Islands were the place 'on the other side', of difference, otherness and remoteness. As one of the articles in this volume puts it, islands are often depicted "as sites for extraordinary events and happenings"

The idea of improvisation, broadly defined, has been integral to our imagination of the medieval musical past. It can be related to many elements of production: to the act of un-notated creation; to the manipulation and amplification of notated materials; to our observance of rigid rules and formulae; or to spontaneous freedom. Likely a product of the Carolingian Renaissance, this is the first medieval music treatise to address an aspect of chant performance that does not only relate to a memorized repertoire, but includes an unwritten practice of extemporizing an accompanying voice to a pre-given melody. The art of "coloration" or the ornamentation of a line, whether polyphonic or monophonic, had been an integral part of extemporization since at least the time of the Ad organum faciendum treatises. When planning author's ontological inquiries, the author's would do well to remember the possible existence of creativity that is not inspired, or ephemerality that is not performer- or expression-centered.

This short text presents reflections drawn from the essays collected in this special issue as well as from the debates of the Salamanca symposium where they originated. It does not purport to represent the authors' ideas beyond what is strictly necessary for my argument. Firstly, I make a critical review of how political collapse is addressed in the different contributions, within a comparative perspective. Secondly, I suggest some theoretical approaches than can contribute to develop a comparative perspective on the endings of the early medieval kingdoms, based upon the notions of complexity, scale and agency ; Peer reviewed

This book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Library of Damascus.