Medievalitas

The early history of building the Middle English Dictionary

We are in Germany in 1933: After the assimilation of the military, civil service, and the judiciary, Adolf Hitler and his followers move their attention to the universities, first dismissing Jewish and then left-leaning faculty and threatening everyone else with firing them or cutting their research support unless they align with the new government’s priorities.

How the reception of the Middle Ages 'partnered' with nationalist agendas (in Portuguese)

In the shadow of Bismarck’s empire, one dedicated teacher quietly built a staggering body of scholarship on Geoffrey Chaucer—without a university post, a research grant, or a single PhD student. His name once filled the footnotes of English literature. So why don’t we remember him?

Compares Notre Dame of Paris with Washington National Cathedral, and how its Confederate windows became part of an inclusive kind of medievalism.

Misogynist opposition to laughter from the premodern to contemporary times

An exceptional presence in a 1980s movie situated in the Middle Ages, a black monk.

Courtly love and courtesy, then and now

On the Dumbarton Oaks exhibit of the medieval narrative of the juggler

Whose (medieval) congress is it? Conflicting claims about the world's largest annual meeting of medieval scholars