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How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent numbers; different number units could be shown by notches of different sizes. The two parties to a deal could get a fraud-proof record by splitting the tally into matching "foil" and "stock" (hence our "stock market"). Counting was done by moving counters onto and off a surface ruled like a chess-board. These devices were central to medieval finance, e.g., the English exchequer issued stocks like bills of exchange. The exchequer clung to tallies long after they had become obsolete; but in 1834 it decided to destroy its tallies by burning them, and the resulting blaze destroyed Parliament too.

Este trabajo es un intento de interpretación de una Orden militar medieval como institución interestructural, emplazable, en una visión de conjunto de su sociedad, entre las dos estructuras conflictivas, el Imperio y el Papado, que tradicionalmente han definido el mundo medieval europeo. Trato en él de analizar cómo la Orden de Santiago nació de la estructura religiosa y de la estructura política preexistentes y se constituyó en institución nueva, creada con el propósito específico de conquistar del Islam una parte de la Península y reinstaurar en ella el sistema cultural cristiano; cómo la nueva Orden acentuó, en circunstancias de amenaza militar exterior y acusado cambio social interior, los símbolos que le situaban aparte y entre esas dos estructuras, Papado e Imperio; y cómo, finalmente, fue reabsorbida por la estructura política una vez concluida la reconquista que le había dado razón de ser.

On some aspects of the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg The diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutnic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg was carried out according to the common practices of diplomacy in late medieval Europe. Nevertheless, this topic deserves further exploration due to Sigismund's efforts to impose suzerainty upon the Grand Master and the Teutonic Knights. This issue influenced their mutual relations after Sigismund's election as Roman-German King in 1410/1411. There are numerous surviving sources, especially in the archive of the Teutonic Order in Berlin (GStA PK), such as legation's instruction, dispatches and, last but not least, the political correspondence between the Grand Master and Emperor Sigismund. These sources can shed light not only on the complicated diplomatic relation between above-mentioned two entities, but also, due to richness of their content, on late medieval diplomacy in general. Based upon the research findings by Klaus Neitmann, who explored the Order's legation exclusively, this paper tries to expand the field of research by including the legations of Sigismund. From this perspective only several selected aspects of the topic are examined in the study: 1) defining a legation (foreign mission) and its characteristic features; 2) the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master and Sigismund of Luxembourg from a prosopographical perspective; and 3) the personal composition and communication at the court of Sigismund. The richness of sources makes new questions possible concerning not only this specific diplomatic traffic, but also late medieval diplomacy in general as well. However, the definite answers might be delivered after compiling a thorough list of all legations from both sides, which in light of the large number of primary sources must be reserved for another study. ; On some aspects of the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg The diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutnic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg was carried out according to the common practices of diplomacy in late medieval Europe. Nevertheless, this topic deserves further exploration due to Sigismund's efforts to impose suzerainty upon the Grand Master and the Teutonic Knights. This issue influenced their mutual relations after Sigismund's election as Roman-German King in 1410/1411. There are numerous surviving sources, especially in the archive of the Teutonic Order in Berlin (GStA PK), such as legation's instruction, dispatches and, last but not least, the political correspondence between the Grand Master and Emperor Sigismund. These sources can shed light not only on the complicated diplomatic relation between above-mentioned two entities, but also, due to richness of their content, on late medieval diplomacy in general. Based upon the research findings by Klaus Neitmann, who explored the Order's legation exclusively, this paper tries to expand the field of research by including the legations of Sigismund. From this perspective only several selected aspects of the topic are examined in the study: 1) defining a legation (foreign mission) and its characteristic features; 2) the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master and Sigismund of Luxembourg from a prosopographical perspective; and 3) the personal composition and communication at the court of Sigismund. The richness of sources makes new questions possible concerning not only this specific diplomatic traffic, but also late medieval diplomacy in general as well. However, the definite answers might be delivered after compiling a thorough list of all legations from both sides, which in light of the large number of primary sources must be reserved for another study. ; On some aspects of the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg The diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutnic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg was carried out according to the common practices of diplomacy in late medieval Europe. Nevertheless, this topic deserves further exploration due to Sigismund's efforts to impose suzerainty upon the Grand Master and the Teutonic Knights. This issue influenced their mutual relations after Sigismund's election as Roman-German King in 1410/1411. There are numerous surviving sources, especially in the archive of the Teutonic Order in Berlin (GStA PK), such as legation's instruction, dispatches and, last but not least, the political correspondence between the Grand Master and Emperor Sigismund. These sources can shed light not only on the complicated diplomatic relation between above-mentioned two entities, but also, due to richness of their content, on late medieval diplomacy in general. Based upon the research findings by Klaus Neitmann, who explored the Order's legation exclusively, this paper tries to expand the field of research by including the legations of Sigismund. From this perspective only several selected aspects of the topic are examined in the study: 1) defining a legation (foreign mission) and its characteristic features; 2) the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master and Sigismund of Luxembourg from a prosopographical perspective; and 3) the personal composition and communication at the court of Sigismund. The richness of sources makes new questions possible concerning not only this specific diplomatic traffic, but also late medieval diplomacy in general as well. However, the definite answers might be delivered after compiling a thorough list of all legations from both sides, which in light of the large number of primary sources must be reserved for another study.

On some aspects of the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg The diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutnic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg was carried out according to the common practices of diplomacy in late medieval Europe. Nevertheless, this topic deserves further exploration due to Sigismund's efforts to impose suzerainty upon the Grand Master and the Teutonic Knights. This issue influenced their mutual relations after Sigismund's election as Roman-German King in 1410/1411. There are numerous surviving sources, especially in the archive of the Teutonic Order in Berlin (GStA PK), such as legation's instruction, dispatches and, last but not least, the political correspondence between the Grand Master and Emperor Sigismund. These sources can shed light not only on the complicated diplomatic relation between above-mentioned two entities, but also, due to richness of their content, on late medieval diplomacy in general. Based upon the research findings by Klaus Neitmann, who explored the Order's legation exclusively, this paper tries to expand the field of research by including the legations of Sigismund. From this perspective only several selected aspects of the topic are examined in the study: 1) defining a legation (foreign mission) and its characteristic features; 2) the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master and Sigismund of Luxembourg from a prosopographical perspective; and 3) the personal composition and communication at the court of Sigismund. The richness of sources makes new questions possible concerning not only this specific diplomatic traffic, but also late medieval diplomacy in general as well. However, the definite answers might be delivered after compiling a thorough list of all legations from both sides, which in light of the large number of primary sources must be reserved for another study. ; On some aspects of the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg The diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutnic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg was carried out according to the common practices of diplomacy in late medieval Europe. Nevertheless, this topic deserves further exploration due to Sigismund's efforts to impose suzerainty upon the Grand Master and the Teutonic Knights. This issue influenced their mutual relations after Sigismund's election as Roman-German King in 1410/1411. There are numerous surviving sources, especially in the archive of the Teutonic Order in Berlin (GStA PK), such as legation's instruction, dispatches and, last but not least, the political correspondence between the Grand Master and Emperor Sigismund. These sources can shed light not only on the complicated diplomatic relation between above-mentioned two entities, but also, due to richness of their content, on late medieval diplomacy in general. Based upon the research findings by Klaus Neitmann, who explored the Order's legation exclusively, this paper tries to expand the field of research by including the legations of Sigismund. From this perspective only several selected aspects of the topic are examined in the study: 1) defining a legation (foreign mission) and its characteristic features; 2) the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master and Sigismund of Luxembourg from a prosopographical perspective; and 3) the personal composition and communication at the court of Sigismund. The richness of sources makes new questions possible concerning not only this specific diplomatic traffic, but also late medieval diplomacy in general as well. However, the definite answers might be delivered after compiling a thorough list of all legations from both sides, which in light of the large number of primary sources must be reserved for another study. ; On some aspects of the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg The diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master of the Teutnic Order and Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg was carried out according to the common practices of diplomacy in late medieval Europe. Nevertheless, this topic deserves further exploration due to Sigismund's efforts to impose suzerainty upon the Grand Master and the Teutonic Knights. This issue influenced their mutual relations after Sigismund's election as Roman-German King in 1410/1411. There are numerous surviving sources, especially in the archive of the Teutonic Order in Berlin (GStA PK), such as legation's instruction, dispatches and, last but not least, the political correspondence between the Grand Master and Emperor Sigismund. These sources can shed light not only on the complicated diplomatic relation between above-mentioned two entities, but also, due to richness of their content, on late medieval diplomacy in general. Based upon the research findings by Klaus Neitmann, who explored the Order's legation exclusively, this paper tries to expand the field of research by including the legations of Sigismund. From this perspective only several selected aspects of the topic are examined in the study: 1) defining a legation (foreign mission) and its characteristic features; 2) the diplomatic traffic between the Grand Master and Sigismund of Luxembourg from a prosopographical perspective; and 3) the personal composition and communication at the court of Sigismund. The richness of sources makes new questions possible concerning not only this specific diplomatic traffic, but also late medieval diplomacy in general as well. However, the definite answers might be delivered after compiling a thorough list of all legations from both sides, which in light of the large number of primary sources must be reserved for another study.

Intro -- Middle Ages A HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTION by Pierre Rousselot Translated and with an Introduction by Alan Vincelette The of in the Love Problem -- Marquette Studies in Philosophy No. 24 Volume II of the Collected Philosophical Works of Pierre Rousselot -- Author's Dedication -- Translator's Dedication -- Contents -- Author's abbreviations in Latin citations -- Series Editor's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Preface -- Part 1 The Physical or Greco- Thomist Conception of Love -- Chapter 1 Thomist Solution to the Problem of Love -- Chapter 2 Remarks on the Elements of the Thomist Solution in Greek and Medieval Thought -- Chapter 3 Two Medieval Sketches of the "Physical" Theory of Love: Hugh of St. Victor and St. Bernard -- Part Two The "Ecstatic" Conception of Love -- Chapter 1 First Characteristic of Love: Duality of the Lover and the Beloved -- Chapter 2 Second Characteristic: The Violence of Love -- Chapter 3 Third Characteristic: Irrational Love -- Chapter 4 Fourth Characteristic: Love As the Final End -- Appendix 1 The Formulation of the Problem of Love in the First Scholastics -- Appendix 2 The Formal Identification of Love and Understanding in William of St. Thierry123 -- Translator's Notes -- Supplement Church Declarations on Love -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Resumen: En el estudio de las obras que expresan el pensamiento filosófico-político de Tomás Moro destaca la que será su obra fundamental, La mejor República y la isla de Utopía, publicada en el año 1516. Esta obra aborda y plantea la existencia de una organización social, política y económica ideal bajo la forma de "relato de viaje", describiendo esa sociedad que imagina situada en la isla de Utopía —que pudiera llegar a ser real, o que se piensa como real o posible— para expresar cabalmente un pensamiento de orden filosófico político, verdadera intencionalidad de la obra de Moro. Moro y su "Utopía" encarnan "un viaje" entre el hombre Medieval apegado a una concepción del poder espiritual e incluso político, en crisis; y el hombre del Renacimiento, ávido de nuevas ideas y favorable a los horizontes que abría el estudio de la antigüedad clásica. En su obra Historia de los pueblos de habla inglesa, Winston Churchill escribe acerca de la obra de Moro: "Moro tomó la defensa de todo lo que había de bueno en la concepción medieval. Él encarna ante la historia la universalidad de la Edad Media, su creencia en los valores espirituales y su sentido instintivo de la trascendencia, y un sistema que durante mucho tiempo inspiró los sueños más radiantes de la humanidad". Finalmente, es también el objeto del presente trabajo analizar la "Utopía" de Moro e identificar los principales recursos literarios y aspectos propios del "relato de viajes" desde un abordaje analítico-interpretativo-crítico. ; Abstract: best Republic and the island of Utopia, published in 1516, is Thomas More's seminal work, where the author best expresses his philosophical and political thought. The book proposes the existence of an ideal economic, social and political organization shaped as a kind of "travel writing" story, describing an imaginary society located on the island of "Utopia" —that could become real or possible—, in order to convey More's philosophical ideas. More and his "Utopia" describe a "journey" from the Medieval man, attached to a conception of spiritual and political power in crisis, towards the Renaissance man, eager for new ideas and enthusiastic for new horizons opened through studying the ancient classics. Winston Churchill, writing about More's place in the History of the English-Speaking People, observed: "More stood as the defender of all that was finest in the medieval outlook. He represents to history its universality, its belief in spiritual values and its instinctive sense of other-worldliness, but a system, which had for long furnished mankind with its brightest dreams". Finally, it is also the objective of this study to analyze More's "Utopia" and identify the main literary devices and specific aspects of the "travel writing" genre, from a critical-interpretive-analytical approach.

Carola Goihl-Smuzcinski analysiert die soziale Mobilität in der Vormoderne am Beispiel der Kölner Gesellschaft des 14. Jahrhunderts. Zunächst werden anhand der Kapitaltheorie Pierre Bourdieus die Kriterien sozialer Mobilität strukturiert und auf die spätmittelalterliche Stadtgesellschaft übertragen. So wird herausgearbeitet, ob und in welchem Maße mittelalterliche Akteure ihre Kapitalien dazu nutzen konnten, um sozial aufzusteigen. Hieran schließt eine Analyse des Zusammenspiels, der Akkumulation und der Kompensation der diversen Kapitalien an, die zugleich eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Forschungskontroverse um die Stabilität von Standesgrenzen innerhalb der mittelalterlichen Stadtgesellschaft darstellt.Der exzellente Quellenbestand ermöglicht nicht nur, die einzelnen Aufstiegsmerkmale mit Beispielen zu illustrieren, sondern auch, den gesellschaftlichen Werdegang von vier bürgerlichen Familien über das gesamte Jahrhundert nachzuvollziehen. Die Studie zeigt auf, wie diese Akteure vor dem Hintergrund sich wandelnder wirtschaftlicher und politischer Rahmenbedingungen in höhere soziale Ränge aufrücken konnten bzw. welche Umstände zu ihrem Wiederabstieg führten

This paper presents the results of a research project in Digital Humanities. The project explores archival documents within the online system Engineering Historical Memory (EHM). EHM enables users to read primary historical sources according to different knowledge and expertise levels interactively. Here, as a showcase, the authors present the interdisciplinary research (Diplomatics, History, Animation) that empowered the online publication of the original privilege issued by pope Gregory X to the monastic community of Mount Sinai in 1274. The application embodies the following research tools: 1) Digital recomposition and restoration of the photographic survey of the original parchment split into two pieces and held in two different locations in Egypt (Holy Monastery of St Catherine at Mt Sinai, and the Archive of the same monastery in Cairo); 2) Force-directed graph to navigate the diplomatics structure of the papal privilege; 3) Interactive geospatial visualisations of the place names (satellite views and political maps); 4) Search engines for scholarly texts, images, and videos related to the individual diplomatics, historical, and geographical entities itemised in the application; 5) 3D modelling of the lost lead seal of the privilege; 6) Customary web-based visualisation tool for the 3D model of the seal. ; Questo articolo presenta i risultati di un progetto di ricerca in Umanistica Digitale che esplora documenti d'archivio all'interno del sistema online Engineering Historical Memory (EHM) consentendo agli utenti di leggere fonti storiche primarie secondo diversi livelli di conoscenza e competenza in modo interattivo. Qui, come caso di studio, gli autori presentano la ricerca interdisciplinare (diplomatica, storia, animazione) che ha consentito la pubblicazione online dell'originale del privilegio concesso da papa Gregorio X alla comunità monastica del Monte Sinai nel 1274. L'applicativo comprende i seguenti strumenti di ricerca: 1) ricomposizione digitale e restauro della campagna fotografico sulla pergamena originale che è conservata in due parti in due diverse località egiziane (Sacro Monastero di Santa Caterina al Monte Sinai e Archivio dello stesso monastero al Cairo); 2) force-directed graph per navigare la struttura diplomatica del privilegio papale; 3) visualizzazione geospaziale interattiva dei toponimi (viste satellitari e mappe politiche); 4) motori di ricerca accademici per testi, immagini e video relativi alle singole entità diplomatiche, storiche e geografiche identificate nell'applicativo; 5) modellazione 3D del perduto sigillo pendente in piombo del privilegio; 6) sistema sviluppato ad hoc per la visualizzazione sul web del modello 3D del sigillo.

I caratteri generali e particolari delle vicende 'istituzionali' che si svolsero tra alto e basso medioevo sono certamente ben ricostruibili e sono stati ricostruiti attraverso diplomi, documenti e cronache. Per quanto concerne l'Italia, vi è anche un'altra fonte, finora piuttosto trascurata, che può suggerire qualche riflessione sui loro aspetti più strettamente giuridici. Mi ri-ferisco alla giurisprudenza del regno italico dell'XI secolo sul reato politico. L'Expositio al Liber papiensis, il formulario giudiziario e alcune glosse presenti in manoscritti ancora in uso negli anni Trenta del XII secolo riportano gli orientamenti giurisprudenziali sulla repressione del dissenso, sulla giustificazione della resistenza all'autorità e sulla pacificazione tra soggetti 'privati'. Lo studio di tali fonti del Regno italico sulle forme di manifestazione e organizzazione – ribellione, contestazione e associazione – della lotta politica e della sua percezione da parte delle istituzioni legittime offre un collegamento tra la concezione e la cultura della giustizia e delle istituzioni alto medievali e quella che fece da sfondo alla progressiva affermazione del nuovo ordinamento comunale. ; The 'institutional' affairs that unfolded between the early and late Middle Ages can be (and have been) reconstructed in varying degrees of detail through diplomas, documents and chronicles. Regarding Italy, there is also another source that up to now has been rather ignored, and which might offer some insight into the more strictly legal aspects of these events. Specifically, I am referring to eleventh-century Italian jurisprudence on political crimes. Indeed, legal stances on the repression of dissent, on the justification of resistance to authority and on making peace between 'private' parties can be found in the Expositio to the Liber Papiensis, in the legal formulary and in some glosses appearing in manuscripts which were still in use in the 1130s. These sources shed light on the expression and organization of political struggle in the Kingdom of Italy – be it through rebellion, protest or association – and on how that was perceived by the legitimate authorities. By studying them, it is possible to analyze how the concept of justice and institutions evolved from the early Middle Ages to the communal period.

http://pubp.univ-bpclermont.fr/public/Histoire_Medievale.php ; International audience ; Les ordres militaires sont-ils les "fils" de la révolution urbaine du XIIe siècle ? Représentent-ils en cela un jalon qui aiderait à comprendre le passage de l'ordo monasticus traditionnel aux "Religiones novæ" du XIIIe siècle incarnées par l'expérience mendiante ? Pour tenter de mieux comprendre les modalités de l'inurbamento des ordres militaires, on s'efforce d'abord de situer brièvement ces derniers au sein des différents courants de la vie régulière attirés par la ville. L'intégration parfaitement assumée des commanderies à l'économie urbaine est ensuite évoquée. L'adoption de nouvelles formes d'écriture "pragmatique" - comptabilités, testament - traduit des logiques de gestion qui participent de certaines formes de culture urbaine. Pour faire écho aux récentes réflexions sur la "fabrique urbaine", on s'interroge ensuite sur la marque des commanderies dans le paysage. Fut-elle spécifique au regard des autres implantations monastiques dans la ville ? Est enfin abordée la position des frères dans l'encadrement des sociétés urbaines où l'on retrouve bien des traits partagés avec les Mendiants. On insiste, notamment, sur la vigueur des structures confraternelles et sur l'ouverture sociale du recrutement des frères et de leurs bienfaiteurs.

http://pubp.univ-bpclermont.fr/public/Histoire_Medievale.php ; International audience ; Les ordres militaires sont-ils les "fils" de la révolution urbaine du XIIe siècle ? Représentent-ils en cela un jalon qui aiderait à comprendre le passage de l'ordo monasticus traditionnel aux "Religiones novæ" du XIIIe siècle incarnées par l'expérience mendiante ? Pour tenter de mieux comprendre les modalités de l'inurbamento des ordres militaires, on s'efforce d'abord de situer brièvement ces derniers au sein des différents courants de la vie régulière attirés par la ville. L'intégration parfaitement assumée des commanderies à l'économie urbaine est ensuite évoquée. L'adoption de nouvelles formes d'écriture "pragmatique" - comptabilités, testament - traduit des logiques de gestion qui participent de certaines formes de culture urbaine. Pour faire écho aux récentes réflexions sur la "fabrique urbaine", on s'interroge ensuite sur la marque des commanderies dans le paysage. Fut-elle spécifique au regard des autres implantations monastiques dans la ville ? Est enfin abordée la position des frères dans l'encadrement des sociétés urbaines où l'on retrouve bien des traits partagés avec les Mendiants. On insiste, notamment, sur la vigueur des structures confraternelles et sur l'ouverture sociale du recrutement des frères et de leurs bienfaiteurs.

This essay points out a general source for Enrique de Villena's Los doce trabajos de Hércules. The source is Guido da Pisa's Fiorita d'Italia, specifically a section of it which is entirely devoted to Hercules' labors. Villena draws historical and exegetical data from this source, and at times he does so verbatim, but most often he amplifies and manipulates these data with originality in order to pursue his moral and political goals. ; Este ensayo indica la fuente de Los doce trabajos de Hércules de Villena en una sección de la Fiorita d Italia de Guido da Pisa que está dedicada «alie fatiche d'Ercole». De ahí Villena saca el plan general de la obra y una serie de datos históricos y exegéticos, a veces traduciéndolos al pie de la letra, pero en la mayoría de los casos amplificándolos y variándolos para adaptarlos a sus planes políticos y morales.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Perceiving the urban: South Asia-introduction -- Part I Concept of urbanity -- 1 Urbanity and the city: a note -- Part II Locating urban space: case studies from early South Asia -- 2 Experiencing the urban: neighbourhoods of Ancient Bhir and Sirkap -- 3 Peripheral city of Māgama: a case of tropical urbanism in Sri Lanka -- 4 Nature, knowledge, construction, and medieval archaeology: revisiting the by-lanes of medieval capital city Mandu -- Part III Texts and images: representing cities -- 5 Elusive borders: the city in Gandhāran narrative art -- 6 The city, the Kāma culture, and Daṇḍin: shades and varieties of urban life in the Daśakumāracarita -- 7 Cities as a point of convergence: case studies from early medieval India -- 8 The Deccan ports and their hinterlands -- Part IV Making of the cities -- 9 Dhaka - from an obscure urban settlement to a mega-city -- 10 Class in a colonial port city: Bombay, opium, and empire -- 11 Lahore: a cultural and literary 'New' Delhi for North India after 1857 -- 12 From a wilderness to capital city: the making of Agartala -- Part V Urban fringes and insurrections -- 13 Slum dwellers as agencies and victims of urbanization in Calcutta from the past to the present -- 14 Locating Metiaburz against the backdrop of urban Calcutta: experiencing marginality -- 15 Insurrectionary city: revolts in colonial Calcutta, 1918-1946 -- Index.

Introduction: Women and the circulation of material culture : crossing boundaries and connecting spaces / Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany -- Mapping gold in motion : women and jewelry from early medieval Scandinavia / Nancy L. Wicker -- Remembrance and erasure of objects belonging to Rus' princesses in medieval western sources : the cases of Anastasia Iaroslavna's "Saber of Charlemagne" and Anna Iaroslavna's Red Gem / Talia Zajac -- Symbolic geography in the tomb and seal of Berengaria of Navarre, Queen of England / Kathleen Nolan -- Matilda of Saxony's luxury objects in motion : salving the wounds of conflict / Jitske Jasperse -- Female networks and the circulation of a late medieval illustrated health guide / Jennifer Borland -- Saint Birgitta of Sweden : movement, place, and visionary experience / Benjamin Zweig -- The place of a queen/A queen and her places : Jeanne of Navarre's Kalila and Dimna as a political manuscript in early fourteenth-century France / Amanda Luyster -- Of movement, monarchs, and manuscripts : the case for Jeanne II of Navarre's picture Bible as a geopolitical bridge between Paris and Pamplona / Julia Finch -- The personal geography of a Dowager queen : Isabella of France and her inventory / Anne Rudloff Stanton -- Moving possessions and secure posthumous reputation : the gifts of Jeanne of Burgundy (ca. 1293-1349) / Marguerite Keane -- Valentina Visconti's Trousseau : mapping identity through the transport of jewels / Diane Antille -- Moving women and their moving objects : Zoe (Sophia) Palaiologina and Anna Palaiologina Notaras as cultural translators / Lana Sloutsky -- The shoes of an infanta : bringing the sensuous, not sensible "Spanish style" of Catherine of Aragon to Tudor England / Theresa Earenfight.

"Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving the text of a church ritual for 'brother-making' (adelphopoiesis), in which two adult men are pronounced by the prayers of a priest to be 'brothers.' They are expected to remain on friendly terms, and have access to one another's households as quasi-family members. Both the ritual and its application are well attested from the late eighth century to the 15th century and beyond. This phenomenon was at the center of John Boswell's highly controversial and publicized book Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe (1994). Although most critics dismissed Boswell's claims that these 'unions' represented church-sanctioned homosexual marriages, his book introduced readers to a poorly-understood Byzantine institution. Claudia Rapp's project will be the first ever book-length study of the ritual brotherhood in medieval Byzantium. Her main objective is to contextualize the tradition in other kinship relationships of Byzantine society and to trace its origins back to early Byzantine monasticism. Rapp will draw on new material on the structure of the ritual and its appearance in the manuscripts to show its proximity to rituals of Christian initiation, such as baptism and entry into the monastic life. She will also consider parallels to male-male relationships in pagan antiquity. Her book will make a timely contribution to an ongoing debate which has lost some of the heat since the aftermath of Boswell's book, but which remains of intrinsic interest to medieval studies, church history and the evolution of social institutions"--Provided by publisher