The Economics of Guilds
The Economics of Guilds By Sheilagh Ogilvie Journal of Economic Perspectives,Volume 28, Number 4, 169–192 (2014) Occupational guilds have been observed for thousands of…
‘To Avoide All Envye, Malys, Grudge and Displeasure’: Sociability and Social Networking at the London Wardmote Inquest, c.1470–1540
‘To Avoide All Envye, Malys, Grudge and Displeasure’: Sociability and Social Networking at the London Wardmote Inquest, c.1470–1540 By Charlotte Berry The London Journal,…
Holy Blood Devotion in Later Medieval Scotland
Holy Blood devotion in later medieval Scotland By Richard Oram Journal of Medieval History, Volume 43, Issue 5, 562-578 Sometime in 1440 the townsfolk…
What Exactly is the Forum Confessionis? Secrecy and Scandal in Church Governance
What Exactly is the Forum Confessionis? Secrecy and Scandal in Church Governance (12th – 14th Centuries) By Arnaud Fossier Academia.edu First of all,…
Encounters with Alcabitius: Reading Arabic Astrology in Premodern Europe
Encounters with Alcabitius: Reading Arabic Astrology in Premodern Europe By Margaret Gaida PhD Dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 2017 The most popular text on…
Beekeeping from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
Beekeeping from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages By Gene Kritsky Annual Review of Entomology, 2017. 62:249–64 Humans and honey bees have a long history…
Medical Auxiliaries from the Physician’s Viewpoint in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Medical Texts
Medical auxiliaries from the physician’s viewpoint in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance medical texts: codifying professional skills or establishing a hierarchy? By Dina Bacalexi and…
The Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure and History within Ireland
The Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure and History within Ireland By Edmund Gilbert, Seamus O’Reilly, Michael Merrigan, Darren McGettigan, Anne M. Molloy,…
Castle for Sale in Tuscany
Located in the Tuscan hills near the town of Montalcino, Castel Verdelli dates back to the 14th century.
Take a look at the Luttrell Psalter
Watch Facsimile Finder’s video taking us through this fourteenth-century manuscript.
St Albans Cathedral Finds Lost Abbot
Archaeologists from the Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT) working at St Albans Cathedral have discovered the grave of John of Wheathampstead, a former Abbot…
Are These the Bones of Santa Claus?
A new radio carbon analysis of a relic claimed to be part of St. Nicholas’ pelvis suggests the bone could possibly be authentic.…
New Medieval Books: War, Politics and Beauty
From battles and wars to manuscripts and castles, here are five medieval books to explore.
The Watlington Hoard: The Viking Treasure that Marked the Foundation of England
Having you ever visited and been dazzled by Anglo-Saxon collection at the Ashmolean Museum, a priceless treasure hoard that the Museum has fought hard to keep earlier this year?
The Medieval Magazine 102 – Vol. 3, No. 19: Merry Medieval! Christmas – Part I
The first of our holiday issues! Christmas cheer, Medieval style! A mulled wine recipe, monastic brewing practices, Japanese Anime’s take on Medieval legends, and the Circumcision of Christ. We’ve got your table talk covered in in this issue, so pass the gravy!
The Shakespeare Project Quiz
Test your knowledge on all things Shakespeare. This quiz includes his life, the times he lived in, the theater and his works. Enjoy! #GoShakespeare
Call for Papers: Omission – University of Oxford English Faculty Graduate Conference 2018
From lost or damaged Medieval manuscripts to censored modernist texts, omissions have marked and shaped our critical practices.
A Royal Gift Exchange
Natalie Anderson explores the gifts exchanged between two powerful medieval monarchs: King Henry VIII of England and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.
The Soul of Early Irish Monasticism
Not many people are aware that when it comes to Irish religious history, St Patrick only scratches the surface. The island in fact has a rich and fascinating Christian heritage, of which monks and sprawling monastic communities play a central role.
The Sistine Chapel: History and Meaning
The Sistine Chapel in Rome is one of the most famous monuments of the Italian Renaissance. The images which adorn the altar wall of this chapel are so ingrained in our minds and our culture that Michelangelo’s representation of Creation are found throughout popular culture.
How did so many Roman artifacts make it into the Viking Early Middle Ages?
This paper examines the evolution between the periods of antiquity, late-antiquity, and the early Middle Ages through archaeological findings.
Researchers unlock the chemistry of Irish medieval manuscripts
Hidden away among the letters and words that cover the Gaelic manuscripts of the late middle ages is a world of minerals and chemical compounds. These chemicals have their own tales to tell about the craft and ingenuity of the scribes.
1,300 Hebrew manuscript now online in bilingual website
The British Library has launched its first ever fully bilingual web resource, providing free access to its spectacular collection of Hebrew manuscripts to researchers worldwide.
Combat in Saga Literature: Traces of martial arts in medieval Iceland
On a first glance, the Íslendingasögur can seem like a never-ending chain of feud killings, and many of the best known and most noteworthy saga scenes are scenes of combat.
The Struggle for North Africa between Almohads, Ayyubids, and Banū Ghāniya
This thesis is concerned with the invasion of the Almohad Empire by the Banū Ghāniya of Majorca and the Ayyubid amir Sharaf al-Dīn Qarāqūsh in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries A.D.