Game of Thrones – Review SE02 EP10 – Valar Morghulis
A season finale to end all season finales? No, unfortunately not so. This episode was not remotely equal to last week’s mind blowing attack on King’s Landing.
The War Against Heresy in Medieval Europe
No surviving writer suggested on the eve of the millennium that the propagation of heresy of heresy among the people of Western Europe was active, or that any of the heresies of antiquity had survived.
Tales of a Medieval Cairene Harem: Domestic Life in al-Biqai’s Autobiographical Chronicle
The extraordinarily intimate nature of the text is best illustrated by the author’s tell-all accounts of his own messy domestic life: failed marriages, family feuds, harem melodrama, as well as childbirth, nursing, and infant mortality.
Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250
The research addresses the presence of the castles and discusses their roles as weapons of conquest and structures of administrative control.
The Medieval Cookbook and The Classical Cookbook published in revised editions
The Getty Museum and British Museum have published two cookbooks for those wanting to try recipes dating back to the Middle Ages or ancient times.
New website – Getty Research Portal – offers better access to art history resources
The Getty Research Portal is a free online search gateway that aggregates descriptive metadata of digitized art history texts, with links to fully digitized copies that are free to download.
Fulling Mills in Medieval Europe : comparing the manuscript and archaeological evidence
This paper provides a brief overview of the current knowledge concerning medieval fulling mills, but is primarily focused on eliciting further information and speculation from conference attendees about recent archaeological finds and manuscript evidence from medieval France and other parts of Continental Europe
Dynasty and Division: The Depiction of King and Kingdom in John Hardyng’s Chronicle
Throughout his life, John Hardyng (1378-c.1465), had many guises: soldier, esquire, spy, forger, chronicler, cartographer.
Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
The movie is sure to delight those who see it with it’s sweeping imagery, epic battle scenes and jaw-dropping visuals.
The Origins of Public Prosecution at Common Law
Judge and jury we can trace back to the high Middle Ages. But the prosecutor became a regular figure of Anglo-American criminal procedure only in Tudor times.
The Difference A King Makes: Religion And National Unity In Spain
It is the end of the Roman period, however, that interests us most. What happened then is a model for the relationship between Church and state that has had an enduring and powerful influence.
The Scandinavians in Poland: a re-evaluation of perceptions of the Vikings
Mentioning Poland in a publication dealing with Viking identities, diaspora and reception might be surprising.
Armed and expected: Traders and their Ways in Viking Times
The Baltic traders’ stimulation for trading with foreign countries was caused by the shortage of iron, the necessity to obtain good arms, salt, metals for bronze manufacturing, and silver.
Placenames and the settlement pattern of dark-age Scotland
This study will examine some placename evidence for features of settlement in E Scotland, that zone which lies of the Firth of Forth and E of the main Scottish mountain mass. In this areaat least four different languages have been spoken with differing temporal and spatial extents: one non-Indo-European tongue, Celtic, Norse and English.
Saints and sinners in the works of Marie de France
What was Marie trying to share with her twelfth century audience when she wrote The Lais?
Fact to fiction: how the Tuatha de Danaan of history became the fairies of contemporary fantasy
I will show an evolution of the Tuatha de Danaan from historical people into the fairies commonly associated with Irish myth, how the Tuatha de Danaan have changed and morphed into the contemporary fairies of the fantasy genre, and why this change has occurred and been allowed to take its place among fantasy.
Transylvania in Hungarian History: An Introduction
From their Balkan homeland the Vlachs began their migrations north in the thirteenth century, migrations that were accelerated no doubt by the beginning of Ottoman Turkish expansion into the Balkans.
Braşov (Kronstadt) in the Defence against the Turks (1438–1479)
Confrontation with Ottoman expansion began for Braşov at the end of the 14th century with the treaty with Mircea the Elder in the year 1395 which was part of King Sigismund of Luxembourg’s anti-Ottoman policy and was signed in Braşov.
The doctors’ dilemma: sin, salvation, and the menstrual cycle in medieval thought
In the Middle Ages as at other times, the nature of menstruation provided a curious meeting ground for religious thought, scientific theory, practical physiology and popular prejudice.
Experimental Archaeology at L’Esquerda – Crops, Storage, Metalcraft and Earthworks in Mediaeval and Ancient Times
The archaeological site of l’Esquerda is placed in the inlands of Catalonia, in the town of Roda de Ter, county of Osona, 70 Km north from Barcelona.
From the End of European History to the Globality of World Regions: A Research Perspective
To put the end of European history in its wider historical context, a brief review of the rise and fall of Europe is in order.
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition – exhibition at The Met
Nearly 300 works of art are now on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to mark how the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean underwent important changes between the seventh and ninth centuries.
Sex, Lies, and Mosaics: The Zoe Panel as a Reflection of Change in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
The subject is the mosaic known as The Zoe Panel, located in the South Gallery of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. The mosaic was originally produced between 1028 and 1042, and subsequently altered sometime before 1050.
Snow White and the Huntsman
In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.