Arthuriana is the quarterly for the International Arthurian Society - North American Branch. It is dedicated to all aspects of the Arthurian story from its inception in the Middle Ages to its enactments in the present moment. The only academic journal in the world on Arthurian subjects, Arthuriana is poised on the cutting edge of current debates on Arthurian topics. Contributors to the journal consistently include the top scholars in the field, and the journal constantly seek out new and innovative scholarship that brings fresh perspectives to Arthurian studies.
Launched in 1989, Exemplaria publishes papers that reconsider the methods and aims of scholarship on the medieval and early modern periods, broadly conceived.
Scholarly studies on any aspect of late Medieval and Early Modern culture and society including art, literature, theatre, music, philosophy, theology and history.
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies aims to develop a present-minded medieval studies in which contemporary events, issues, ideas, problems, objects, and texts serve as triggers for critical investigations of the Middle Ages. The journal also underscores the important value of medieval studies and the longest possible historical perspectives to the ongoing development of contemporary critical and cultural theories that remain under-historicized.
Speculum is the oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. The chronological boundaries of the medieval period are defined as approximately A.D. 500-1500. The primary geographic focus of the journal is on Western Europe, but Byzantine, Hebrew, Arabic, and Slavic studies are also included. There are no restrictions as to subject matter: the journal publishes articles and book reviews on any and all aspects of the Middle Ages, including art, history, literature, philosophy and theology, music, science, law, and economics. All scholarly methodologies and approaches are welcome. Also physically held in the library.
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The author discusses the glossed Bible of scholastic theologian Peter Lombard and its long-abandoned search carried on by Ignatius Brady, editor of the periodical "Sentences." Topics include the history of Brady's search for the glossed Bible, the possible use of the glossed Bible by theologian Peter Comestor and English Cardinal Stephen Langton, and the misinterpretation of a crucial passage examined by historian Beryl Smalley.
The balance of power in northern Italy changed significantly in the latter part of the 1260s, when supporters of the Ghibelline cause permanently lost the dominant position they had enjoyed in many of the region's most important cities. The switch came about in May of 1265, when, at the request of two successive popes, Charles of Anjou, count of Provence and younger brother of King Louis IX of France, sailed to Rome with an army of French knights to take control over the disputed Italian territories from Manfred, the Hohenstaufen claimant to the imperial crown. Charles's decisive victories against the Hohenstaufens in 1267 and 1268 bolstered papal claims in Tuscany and allowed Guelf factions throughout northern Italy to seize power in their cities by violently expelling Ghibelline adherents from their towns.