He was the Harald that won for himself all of Denmark and Norway and made pagans Christian, and that is fairly easy to read, but what did he exactly say? What does it meant when he says he won for himself all of Denmark?
Heirs of Genghis Khan
November 26, 2015 By
It all begin in the year 1190 when Genghis Khan managed to bring together the different nomadic tribes of Mongolia in a single, powerful army of 200,000 men.
The Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago): The Temple of the Stars
November 26, 2015 By
A documentary about the famous pilgrimage route from the Middle Ages
If Books Could Talk: Medieval Manuscripts in Iowa
November 25, 2015 By
The paper, bindings, bookplates, repairs, stains, handwritten notes, stamps and markings all leave traces that give clues to how they were made, where they have been, and can even tell about the lives of the people who have read them. We’re finding clues and following up with research to find out more.
The Sick and The Dead: Medieval Concepts of Illness and Spinal Disability
November 21, 2015 By
There is an often erroneous idea that past societies were a) very sick, and b) didn’t care about the sick. This as I want to show is not the case. I will show examples of illness, but I also want to show that ideas of what is sick and what needs healing are not the same as our own.
Book Talk: Ivory Vikings, by Nancy Marie Brown
November 21, 2015 By
Nancy Marie Brown speaking on her new book Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them, at Cornell University on October 15, 2015
England’s Immigrants 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Later Middle Ages
November 21, 2015 By
Paper by Bart Lambert given at Medieval and Early Modern Records Seminar held in Leeds, on August 2, 2014
Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales
November 20, 2015 By
A 1998 animated version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Medieval Animation: The Founding of Lithuania’s capital Vilnius
November 13, 2015 By
Created in 1990 by the Lithuanian Animated Film Studio, this film tells the mythological tale of the founding of Medieval Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Walk this Way: Two Journeys to Jerusalem in the Fifteenth Century
November 7, 2015 By
This paper appraises place pilgrimage to Jerusalem in two late-medieval English texts: The Itineraries of William Wey and The Book of Margery Kempe.
Agincourt 1415 – 2015
November 1, 2015 By
Anne Curry talks about the myths and history of the Battle of Agincourt
Agincourt 1415: The Battle
October 25, 2015 By
What you haven’t got is an ordered advance – you’ve got complete and total chaos.
The Proud Symbolism of Heraldry: Why It Matters; Why It is Fun!
October 16, 2015 By
It is often regarded as an esoteric science and something for the snobs.
Researching Architectural History Through Archaeology: The Case of Westminster Abbey
October 7, 2015 By
For half a millennium, scholars have researched and written about the history and architecture of Westminster Abbey, using documents and visual inspection. One might therefore assume that the architectural history of this iconic building is well understood, and in some respects it is.
Teaching Math in the Middle Ages
September 23, 2015 By
Today I would like to talk about the places mathematics and mathematical pedagogy in particular appear in the Latin writing of the medieval world.
Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
September 11, 2015 By
Jay Gates, Nicole Marafioti and Valerie Allen speak about Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
The True Knight
September 11, 2015 By
What it takes to be a true knight! A wonderful cartoon short made by students at the University of Bournemouth
‘Getting Medieval?’ The Middle Ages in Modern Politics
September 10, 2015 By
‘Ideas about the Middle Ages are indispensable to how we think about the modern world.’ – Louise D’Arcens
Anglo Saxon House: A Reconstruction
September 2, 2015 By
Four videos from Woodlands.co.uk on how trees were used in the Middle Ages
The Newport Medieval Ship in Context: The Life and Times of a 15th Century Merchant Vessel Trading in Western Europe
August 26, 2015 By
This paper presents a summary of recent research into the broader economic, cultural and political world in which the Newport Medieval Ship was built and operated.
Between Subjects and Citizens: the Commons of England, c. 1300-1550
August 17, 2015 By
The political, social and cultural conditions of later medieval England fostered a situation in which ordinary people could have remarkable political agency.
Landlord of England, not King? Reinterpreting the Reign of Richard II
August 13, 2015 By
Mark King is a PhD student in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge working on the political history of Richard II’s reign.
How did medieval seafarers turn trees into boat parts?
August 10, 2015 By
In this video, Professor Jon Adams of the University of Southampton explains the techniques by which shipwrights have converted the trees of the forest into the components of the boats in which people eventually sailed around the world.
Horn Iconography as Found in the Grand Medieval Bestiary
August 5, 2015 By
Given at the 47th International Horn Symposium, on August 4, 2015
The Diverse Pedagogies of Medievalism
August 5, 2015 By
This roundtable explored some of the many pedagogies of medievalism in the modern academy. To what purposes is medievalism taught, and how? Using what texts and in what contexts?
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