Friday, May 23, 2008

History Compass

This journal, which you can access here, is devoted to historiographical surveys of the field. Here are some medieval articles from recent issues:

May 2008

Rome's Final Conquest: The Barbarians, by Walter Goffart

The Prehistory of the Crusades: Toward a Developmental Taxonomy, by Burnam W. Reynolds

An Introduction to Medieval Environmental History, by Ellen F. Arnold

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Teaching the Middle Ages on Film: Visual Narrative and the Historical Record, by Martha Driver - you can freely read this article here

March 2008

Kabbalah: A Medieval Tradition and Its Contemporary Appeal, by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Postcolonialism and the Study of the Middle Ages, by Nadia R. Altschul