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Creation and Food in Old Norse Mythology
Posted on July 23, 2014 | No CommentsNot surprisingly, as we can ascertain by reading the Bible and many other religious and mythological texts of the past, also in Norse beliefs food and fecundity were central elements in the origin of all things -
Bringing the State Back in: Toward a New Constructivist Account of the Medieval World Order
Posted on July 23, 2014 | No CommentsThe crux of my argument, here as elsewhere, is not that fully evolved sovereign states populated Latin Christendom from 1300 on, but that a constitutive script of corporate-‐sovereign statehood had come to define the political imagination of the era, and that the enactment of this script was the defining dynamic of late medieval political life. -
Viking Canada
Posted on July 23, 2014 | No CommentsNewfoundland is at the heart of what we may consider to be ‘Viking Canada.’ -
Can you solve these Anglo-Saxon Riddles
Posted on July 21, 2014 | No CommentsHere are ten riddles from Aldhelm's Enigmata. See if you can figure out the answers -
Mole removal and sliced whale meat: The accounts of a medieval noble
Posted on July 21, 2014 | No CommentsWhat did medieval nobility spend their money on? A new book takes a look at the surviving accounting records of a 14th century noble - Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare. -
Asteriscos et obelos suis locis restitui – the revision of the Psalter during the Carolingian Renaissance
Posted on July 21, 2014 | No CommentsToday, I would like to discuss one type of early medieval psalter and the one feature that discerns this type - and that is the presence of critical signs. -
The Use of History in Dracula Tourism in Romania
Posted on July 21, 2014 | No CommentsIn this article I will examine what kinds of history and tradition are used and told in Dracula tourism in Romania, and which eras of history are highlighted and why. -
Ten Medieval Warrior Women
Posted on July 20, 2014 | No CommentsWhile Joan of Arc is well-known as a woman who was involved in medieval warfare, there are many more examples of women who took up arms or commanded armies during the Middle Ages. -
Foreign dangers: Activities, responsibilities and the problem of women abroad
Posted on July 18, 2014 | No CommentsI consider a very important issue in dealing with the subject of Empires: the problematic position of women, and their contradictory witnesses not only in representations in early medieval sources but also those deriving from their gendered roles as they have been imagined -
War or Peace? The Relations Between the Picts and the Norse in Orkney
Posted on July 18, 2014 | No CommentsThis article will focus mainly on the earliest period of Norse settlement, before the Norse earldom was established. -
Urban Jousts in the Later Middle Ages: The White Bear of Bruges
Posted on July 18, 2014 | No CommentsJousting competitions between towns excited passions which, far from releasing citizens into some escapist unreality, could plunge them instead into violence. -
State Formation in Europe in the First Millenium AD
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsThe central point I want to make in this section is that both the Germanic world of the fourth century and the Slavic of the ninth and tenth centuries saw the emergence of political entities of sufficient size and solidity to be worthy, in some way, of the designation 'states'. -
Wise Sayings from Medieval Ireland – The Maxims of King Aldfrith of Northumbria
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsBe cautious so that you may not be burdened with debts. / Be thrifty so that you may not be grasping. / Be obliging so that you may be loved. -
The Medieval Understandings of Participation
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsRichard Cross, Stephen Gersh and Douglas Hedley speaking at the University of Notre Dame -
Annabella Drummond, Queen of Scotland
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsAnnabella Drummond was married to Robert III, King of Scots. They had the longest duration of a Scottish royal marriage in history -
Remains of medieval church discovered in Nottinghamshire
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsThe remains of a medieval church, which was once part of Rufford Abbey in Northamptonshire, England, have been uncovered after a two-week dig. -
The Tablet, Medieval-Style
Posted on July 17, 2014 | No CommentsWax tablets have been around since ancient times, and now that I’ve made one, I can see why. They’re easy to make, use, and reuse; they’re light and durable; they’re portable; and they have lots of room for making mistakes. -
The Holy Lance, by Andrew Latham
Posted on July 16, 2014 | No CommentsAn upcoming novel by Andrew Latham. -
Images of Castles from Medieval Manuscripts
Posted on July 16, 2014 | No CommentsSarah Peverley has put together this set of 43 images of medieval castles and walled towns besieged, under attack, being constructed, and in the landscape. -
Melancholia in medieval Persian literature: The view of Hidayat of Al-Akhawayni
Posted on July 16, 2014 | No CommentsThis paper aims to review Al-Akhawayni’s 10th century knowledge on melancholia which can represent the early concept of this disorder in the Near East. -
Researchers discover genome of Brucellosis from 700-year-old skeleton
Posted on July 15, 2014 | No CommentsA 700-year-old skeleton from a medieval village in Sardinia has given researchers new insights into a chronic disease that causes profuse sweating and muscle and joint pain. -
Finding Richard III: The Official Account
Posted on July 15, 2014 | No CommentsThe ‘Looking For Richard’ team of historians and researchers spent many years amassing evidence. Now for the first time they reveal the full story of how that evidence took them to a car park in Leicester. -
How well do you know the origins of English words?
Posted on July 14, 2014 | No CommentsCan you tell which word derives from the English of Anglo-Saxon times, and which word came from French? -
The influence of the Bible on Medieval Women’s Literacy
Posted on July 14, 2014 | No CommentsThe image of Saint Anne, who teaches Virgin Mary to read, suggests the feminine culture of the medieval Christian tradition, in which mothers have the mission to educate their girls. -
From the street to the brothel: following the go-between
Posted on July 13, 2014 | No CommentsAssociated to the practice of gossip, bartering, display and selling of her trinkets around neighborhoods and streets, the old woman was allowed into the female domestic spaces of late medieval Europe.
