Medieval Warfare Magazine

The stories of medieval women remain to be fully revealed and thoroughly explored, in scholarship and popular culture. Select textual and visual sources offer insight into their various roles within medieval society, but much more awaits discovery an

The various versions of the Holy Rood legend have their origins in hagiographies connected with the Garden of Eden. They tell of how the seeds, kernels, or twigs from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil were received by Seth from the Angel of

As the ninth century dawned, it could be argued that the centre of the world was Baghdad. It was still a young city, just about 50 years old, but as the capital of the Abbasid Empire it became enormously wealthy. With its wealth came the scholars, wr

Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture Boydell Press, 2020 ISBN: 978-1783272716 Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ISBN: 978-0230114135 Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the

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