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Revisiting Female Pilgrimage in Medieval Oxford: Evidence from the Miracula Sancte Frideswide*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 604-625, December 2023., 2023 The most common form of female pilgrimage in medieval England was local pilgrimage to a saint's shrine. One English pilgrimage destination which is especially associated with women is St Frideswide's shrine in Oxford, owing to a collection of miracle stories compiled in the 1180s in which women are particularly prevalent.
Anne E. Bailey
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 182, Issue 3, Page 452-466, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Objectives This study explores the paleoepidemiology of the Black Death (1348–52 AD) mass graves from Hereford, England, via osteological analysis. Hereford plague mortality is evaluated in the local context of the medieval city and examined alongside other Black Death burials.
Emilia R. Franklin +2 more
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Ecosphere, Volume 13, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Drylands represent more than 41% of the global land surface and are at degradation risk due to land use and climate change. Developing strategies to mitigate degradation and restore drylands in the face of these threats requires an understanding of how drylands are shaped by not only soils and climate, but also geology and geomorphology ...
Michael C. Duniway +11 more
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The ‘Gothic Slum’: MPs and St Stephen's Cloister, Westminster, 1548–2017*
Parliamentary History, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 279-302, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The history of St Stephen's cloister in the Palace of Westminster, a fragile and little‐known Tudor survival, exemplifies the long‐standing tensions between preserving parliament's built heritage and meeting its political and business needs.
Elizabeth Hallam Smith
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Blood is thicker than baptismal water: A late medieval perinatal burial in a small household chest
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 358-365, May/June 2021., 2021 Abstract The interment of stillborn infants in later medieval burial grounds stands at odds with Catholic Church Law, which forbade the inclusion of unbaptised children within consecrated ground. When perinatal remains occur within graveyards, their interpretation can be problematic.
Kevin Cootes +4 more
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‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ Y in Medieval Welsh Orthography: Caligula versus Teilo
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 119, Issue 1, Page 1-39, March 2021., 2021 Abstract A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is the use of
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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History, Volume 105, Issue 367, Page 673-690, October 2020., 2020 Abstract In July 1220, the boy king Henry III attended the Translation of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury, whereby the saint's body was transferred from its original tomb in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral to a splendid new shrine in the main body of the church.
Louise J. Wilkinson
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History, Volume 105, Issue 367, Page 691-715, October 2020., 2020 Abstract This article marks the 700th anniversary of the canonisation of St Thomas de Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford (1275‐82, canonised 1320), by providing a comprehensive overview of the extant fourteenth‐century miracle collection, Oxford, Exeter College, MS 158, with reference to a contemporary copy in Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat ...
IAN L. BASS
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Compassed about with so great a cloud: the witnesses of Scottish episcopal acta before ca 1250 [PDF]
, 2007 This article is the result of examining the witnesses to some 600 episcopal acta. Despite the unequal incidence of survival from one diocese to another and the difficulty of identifying those men who had no surname, it is possible to draw some ...
Bateson, Cosmo Innes, Norman F. Shead
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