The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print. This study explores the Mughal conquest of Kashmir (tasḵẖīr-i-kashmīr) through the region’s phased openings rather than a singular watershed event signalling either a climactic loss of independence or usher…
The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print. The murder of Priscus the Jew seems to be one of the earliest documented episodes of murder involving Jews in the European Middle Ages. The incident, described by Gregory of Tours (Gregorius Turonensis) in …
The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print. Over the past 20 years, a renewed interest in material culture, materialism and materiality has shaped the practice of history in new ways moving the discipline ‘beyond words’ to consider the worlds within …
The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print. This article brings to focus the material life of early modern perfumes in the Indian subcontinent. It offers a ‘documentary archaeology’ by foregrounding texts that recorded perfumes in their stage of prod…
The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print. The recension of Marco Polo’s Devisament dou monde—an incunable of Francesco Pipino’s Latin translation titled De consuetudinibus et conditionibus orientalium regionum—used by Christopher Columbus is one of…
The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print. This paper aims to analyse the circulation of political ideas within the context of Iberian educational centres with a special focus on their contribution to the settlement of new dynasties—like the Avis in…
The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print. This paper examines three allegedly Sanskrit names that appear on a fourteenth-century kīrtistambha inscription at Dullu in the Jumlā region of west Nepal. The inscription records the matrilineage and patri…
The Medieval History Journal, Ahead of Print. Noëlle-Laetitia Perret and Stéphane Péquignot, eds., A Critical Companion to the ‘Mirrors for Princes’. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2023, 568 pp. ISBN: 9789004518759.
The Medieval History Journal, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 113-136, May 2023. Historians have studied the medieval city from many different perspectives already, and even literary historians have endeavoured to identify the evidence in fictional texts pert…
The Medieval History Journal, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 113-136, May 2023. Historians have studied the medieval city from many different perspectives already, and even literary historians have endeavoured to identify the evidence in fictional texts pert…