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Christmas Books: Great Medieval Fiction Reads for the Christmas Holidays!
Posted on December 8, 2013 | No CommentsSome medieval stocking stuffers for the historians on your Christmas list! -
The Hidden History of Christmas Carols
Posted on December 8, 2013 | No CommentsApparently early carols could be quite lewd, and they were originally associated with dance as well as song. -
Tremors in the Web of Trade: Complexity, Connectivity and Criticality in the Mid-Eighth Century Eurasian World
Posted on December 7, 2013 | No CommentsEvents within a fifteen-year period in mid-eighth century Eurasia included the Abbasid revolution, An Lu-shan's Rebellion in Tang China, and the collapse or emergence of empires from Frankish Europe to Tibet to the kingdom of Srivajaya. -
Beautiful medieval wall paintings restored in Welsh church
Posted on December 7, 2013 | No CommentsA series of late-medieval wall paintings can now be seen again after being hidden away for hundreds of years underneath layers of limewash. -
Devil Worship in the Middle Ages
Posted on December 6, 2013 | No CommentsProbably the most reasonable explanation of the Devil worship phenomenon at this time is a combination of both of these hypotheses. Lingering ideas of pre-Christian cults of Diana and the Homed God became entwined with the doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning evil. -
Legal Competition in the Medieval World
Posted on December 6, 2013 | No CommentsLegal Competition in the Medieval World Aaron L. Bodoh-Creed (Cornell University) Cornell University: Working Paper, June 30 (2009) Abstract We develop a model of competition between legal systems with overlapping jurisdictions based... -
The King’s Three Images: The representation of St. Edward the Confessor in historiography, hagiography and liturgy
Posted on December 6, 2013 | No CommentsThis study will revolve around the characterisation of Edward as constructed in the various surviving texts, and its emphasis will be twofold: my primary concern is to explore how St. Edward the Confessor's images were constructed, i.e. how he is represented in the various texts written about him. -
Medieval Geopolitics: An interview with Andrew Latham
Posted on December 6, 2013 | No CommentsWas there such a thing as International Relations in the Middle Ages? -
The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe
Posted on December 6, 2013 | No CommentsHistorians have for years harbored doubts about the term 'feudalism' and the phrase 'feudal system,' which has often been used as a synonym for it. -
Book Review: In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn
Posted on December 6, 2013 | No CommentsIt is particularly useful in that it brings together much (usually) scattered information into one place and links places, events and context together. It is a useful reference book with extensive links to further information. -
New Insights from the Metal Detected Brooches of Early Medieval Frisia
Posted on December 5, 2013 | No CommentsMy research undertook the bulk analysis of over 600 copper alloy brooches by hhXRF and onsite morphological analysis at repositories in the north of Holland. -
Regnum et sacerdotium in Alsatian Romanesque Sculpture: Hohenstaufen Politics in the Aftermath of the Investiture Controversy (1130-1235)
Posted on December 5, 2013 | No CommentsAlthough no longer preserved today, a series of paintings in the St. Nicholas chapel of the Lateran palace in Rome incurred Frederick Barbarossa’s wrath because they presented his predecessor, King Lothar of Supplinburg (1025-1137), in a submissive position as the pope’s vassal -
Christ in Motion: Portable Objects and Scenographic Environments in the Liturgy of Medieval Bohemia
Posted on December 5, 2013 | No CommentsIt accordingly seems clear, from many preserved accounts, that by the end of the fifteenth century the rubric of the Church of Prague was no longer the same and that progressive versions contained different layers of alteration to the performance practice of Palm Sunday ritual. -
Ӕlfwynn of Mercia
Posted on December 5, 2013 | No CommentsVery little is known about this granddaughter of King Alfred the Great. -
Play it Again, Sam: Medieval Tunes
Posted on December 5, 2013 | No CommentsThere are some songs and rhymes that are so well-known in our culture that we often wonder where we learned them. -
Projecting Power in Sixth-Century Rome: The church of Santi Cosma e Damiano in the late antique Forum Romanum
Posted on December 4, 2013 | No CommentsIn the year 526 CE, the bishop of Rome, Pope Felix IV, petitioned the Ostrogoth king Theoderic for permission to convert a small complex in the Forum Romanum into a place of worship dedicated to the Saints Cosmas and Damian...This paper critiques traditional interpretations of this church—its physical location and its apse mosaic—in light of new research that nuances our understanding of the historical context in which it was commissioned. -
‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice
Posted on December 4, 2013 | No Comments‘Selling stories and many other things in and through the city’: Peddling Print in Renaissance Florence and Venice Rosa M. Salzberg (University of Warwick) Sixteenth Century Journal: XLII/3 (2011) Abstract... -
Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments
Posted on December 4, 2013 | No CommentsRenaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments Samuel Cohn, Jr. Economic History Review: University of Glasgow, 19 October (2012) Abstract Over the past decade ‘material culture’... -
Fighting the plague in medieval towns
Posted on December 4, 2013 | No CommentsA new article is revealing how French towns coped with waves of plague outbreaks and other diseases in the late Middle Ages. It reveals that in these towns they made vigorous attempts to improve hygiene, employ doctors and isolate those infected so they would not spread the disease. -
Saint Francis of Assisi: An Exorcist of Demons
Posted on December 4, 2013 | No CommentsSaint Francis was considered such a model of Christian virtue that he was able to perform miracles as an agent of Jesus. Among them, the description of demoniacs and exorcisms are particularly interesting for the history of psychiatry. -
The Icelandic Althing: Dawn of Parliamentary Democracy
Posted on December 4, 2013 | No CommentsIt is an old idea, and one that reaches as far back as the nineteenth century, that Viking Age Iceland was democratic and much like an early republic -
The Interaction between the Crusaders and Muslims in the East: Myth and Reality
Posted on December 3, 2013 | No CommentsChristianity and Islam have had their fourteen hundred-year relationship defined by the era of the Crusades, a period that has often been characterized as a disastrous clash between two societies. -
The Vatican and Oxford University team up to digitize 1.5 million pages of medieval manuscripts
Posted on December 3, 2013 | No CommentsThe University of Oxford and the Vatican have jointly created a digital project that will put online over 1.5 million pages of medieval and biblical texts. -
New underwater robot will allow archaeologists to examine ancient shipwrecks
Posted on December 3, 2013 | No CommentsKnown as the U-CAT, it will allow archaeologists to go inside the remains of ancient and historical shipwrecks without damaging them. -
Casting Light on the Darkening of Colors in Historical Paintings
Posted on December 3, 2013 | No CommentsMany archeological sites, cathedral wall paintings, and famous masterpieces from major painters are affected by a slow, irreversible, light-induced degradation of pigments
