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Full-Text Articles in Medieval Studies
Medieval Infertility: Treatments, Cures, And Consequences, Zia Simpson
Medieval Infertility: Treatments, Cures, And Consequences, Zia Simpson
The Forum: Journal of History
Since the first civilizations emerged, reproductive ability has been one of the most prominent elements in assessing a woman’s value to society. Other characteristics such as beauty, intelligence, and wealth may have been granted comparable consequence, but those are arbitrary and improvable. Fertility is genetic, and for centuries it was beyond human control. Among the medieval European nobility, fertility held even greater power. The absence of an heir could, either directly or indirectly, bring about war, economic depression, and social disorder. Catholicism provided a refuge by allowing barren women to retain their hopes, while simultaneously enriching Rome’s coffers. Other women …
A Guide For Instructors And Students: Mld Mapping Project, Maryanne Kowaleski
A Guide For Instructors And Students: Mld Mapping Project, Maryanne Kowaleski
Digital Pedagogy: Medieval Londoners Mapping Project
This site contains instructions and other materials for a linked data digital project developed by Dr Maryanne Kowaleski and Ms Camila Marcone for two Fordham University courses in Fall 2020. The assignment required students to structure information found in medieval London property records into a spreadsheet that had columns corresponding to fields in the Medieval Londoners Database (MLD), an online searchable database of people who lived in London from c. 1190 to to c. 1520. Each person in the deed was noted in a separate row or record in the spreadsheet. Students next summarized the data about each property into …
2020 Medieval Object Assignment And Instructions, Maryanne Kowaleski
2020 Medieval Object Assignment And Instructions, Maryanne Kowaleski
Digital Pedagogy: Omeka Medieval London
Assignment with instructions on researching the medieval object and loading metadata and images into the Omeka digital platform for each item and exhibition.
F. Layers Of London Grid Template, Maryanne Kowaleski
F. Layers Of London Grid Template, Maryanne Kowaleski
Digital Pedagogy: Medieval Londoners Mapping Project
Empty grid form to be filled out with data on each deed; the data entered are then transferred to an online Layers of London record.
C. Mld-Mapping Dataset 1250-1334, Maryanne Kowaleski, Camila Marcone
C. Mld-Mapping Dataset 1250-1334, Maryanne Kowaleski, Camila Marcone
Digital Pedagogy: Medieval Londoners Mapping Project
The original dataset of London deeds selected for the undergrad students, taken from the website of The National Archives (TNA), E40 class, which took the deed abstracts from A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office: Series A, 3837-6122; Series B, 3871-4232; Series C, 2916-3764; Series D. 1-1330. Ed. H C Maxwell Lyte. London, 1890. Includes the names of cataloguers assigned to these deeds, which were mapped on Layers of London.