News Archive
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How did medieval Europeans deal with Greek debt? They sacked their capital city
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe real reason for the diversion to Constantinople in 1203 by the Venetians and the crusaders, and for their subsequent attack on the imperial capital in 1204, was a simpler and, in their minds, increasingly pressing concern: the payment of outstanding debts -
Archaeologists to examine underground chamber in medieval church
Posted on May 17, 2012 | No CommentsA mysterious chamber buried beneath the central part of St Winwaloe’s Church at East Portlemouth in southwest England will be examined by archaeologists thanks to a grant of £12,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fun -
Iron and sulphur compounds threaten old shipwrecks
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No CommentsSulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of Sweden. -
Thousands of Irish Medieval Documents now available online
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsTrinity College Dublin historians have reconstructed invaluable medieval documents destroyed during the bombardment of the Four Courts in 1922. -
Margot Fassler wins 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsMargot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded the 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts. -
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies draws over 3000 medievalists
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsOver 3000 scholars, historians, writers, students and medievalists came to Kalamazoo, Michigan over the last four days, where they took part in the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies. -
Research uncovers new details about John Cabot’s voyage to North America
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsEvidence that a Florentine merchant house financed the earliest English voyages to North America, has been published on-line in the academic journal Historical Research. -
Shona Kelly Wray (1963-2012)
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsIt is with sadness that we report the death of Shona Kelly Wray, professor of history at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. -
Glass discovered at Glastonbury Abbey dates back to 7th century, researchers find
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsGlass furnaces recorded in 1955-7 were previously thought to date from before the Norman Conquest. However, radiocarbon dating has now revealed that they date approximately to the 680s, and are likely to be associated with a major rebuilding of the abbey undertaken by King Ine of Wessex. -
Exhibition reveals the genius of Leonardo’s anatomical work
Posted on May 2, 2012 | No CommentsLeonardo da Vinci’s ground-breaking studies of the human body are to go on display in the largest-ever exhibition of his anatomical work. -
Marco Polo really did go to China, new study finds
Posted on May 1, 2012 | No CommentsA thorough new study of Chinese sources by University of Tübingen Sinologist Hans Ulrich Vogel dispels claims that Venice’s most famous traveler never truly went as far as China. -
What can dirt on pages tell us about medieval manuscripts and their readers?
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsFor the first time a new scientific technique has allowed us into the minds and motivations of medieval people – through their dirty books. -
Medieval treasures discovered in English abbey
Posted on April 20, 2012 | No CommentsAn archaeological investigation at Furness Abbey in northwest England has uncovered the grave of an abbot, which includes an extremely rare medieval silver-gilt crozier and bejewelled ring. -
British Library purchases the St Cuthbert Gospel for £9 million
Posted on April 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe British Library has announced that it has successfully acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel, a miraculously well-preserved 7th century manuscript that is the oldest European book to survive fully intact and therefore one of the world’s most important books. -
Bones4Culture project to examine a thousand medieval skeletons from northern Europe
Posted on April 16, 2012 | No CommentsA new project is underway to analyze population, life, health and culture of the people that lived in the German-Danish border land during the Middle Ages (AD 1050 – 1536).
