Videos Archive
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Is the Past a Foreign Country?
Posted on May 22, 2013 | No CommentsPeople tend to overemphasize similarities and ignore differences when comparing the present with the past, says Suzannah Lipscomb. -
Chasing Krüger’s Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical and Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy
Posted on May 17, 2013 | No CommentsNew computational techniques show how modern digital philology is changing the way we think of the transmission of medieval manuscripts through space and time. -
Charity in the Middle Ages
Posted on May 3, 2013 | No CommentsLecture by Valerie L. Garver, given at Northern Illinois University on April 3, 2013 -
Pleasurable Forms and Forms of Pleasure in the Pages of the Pearl – manuscript
Posted on April 30, 2013 | No CommentsBahr discussed the poem, Pearl, jokingly termed, 'a formalists wet dream', and focused on its implied relationship between pleasure and form and how it explored the relationship between desire and fruitfulness. -
Comparing Harems: Abbasid and Ottoman Harem Organization
Posted on April 26, 2013 | No CommentsThe following research delves into the organizational structures of the luxurious harems of Medieval Abbasid and Ottoman Empires; comparing the two different empires' harems within the political, economic, and social spheres that the royal women lived in. -
Top Ten Videos from Museum Secrets
Posted on April 24, 2013 | No CommentsOne of the best history TV shows being made right now (and made in Canada too!), Museum Secrets takes viewers each episode to a new museum to explore its artefacts and stories. -
The Anecdotal Way to Santiago de Compostela
Posted on April 22, 2013 | No CommentsVideo of the Keynote Lecture by David L. Simon from the 34th Annual Plymouth State University Medieval and Renaissance Forum -
A History Of Personal Hygiene
Posted on April 21, 2013 | No CommentsAllan Gregg interviews Katherine Ashenburg, the author of The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History -
The History of Saint Patrick – a Short Story
Posted on March 17, 2013 | No CommentsSt. Patrick was born, not in Ireland, but in Britian around AD 387. Well, actually, he wasn't called St. Patrick at the time, or even Patrick, but was referred to as Maewyn Succat. -
Reconsidering the Health Care Provider: Lessons from Medieval Miracle Accounts
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsUsing medieval canonization inquests, Archambeau will try to answer the seemingly simple question: What did people do when they were sick? -
The Hidden Masters of the Middle Ages: the Limbourg Brothers
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsTheir best known work is the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, which is called the 'most valuable book in the world.' -
Making Manuscripts
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsA short video on how medieval illuminated manuscripts were made. -
The Medieval Calendar
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsCalendars used during the Middle Ages were very different from the simple calendars we use today. In the middle ages people experienced time very differently. For those who could decipher it the medieval calendar was a map of the church year. -
How to make a medieval pen
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsHow people wrote in the fifteenth century isn't really a lot different to how people write today. You need to basic tools of the trade - piece of paper to write on, something to write with, and some ink. -
The Saga of a Viking Age Longhouse in Iceland
Posted on February 26, 2013 | No CommentsA documentary about the excavation of a Viking Age longhouse in Iceland. Can historical texts and sagas help archaeology. Created by Jesse Byock and Adam Fish. -
The Story of Byzantine
Posted on February 26, 2013 | No CommentsThis short documentary tells the story of Byzantine. -
Modern finance in the Middle Ages
Posted on February 26, 2013 | No CommentsIn this short video, Professor Adrian Bell of the University of Reading discusses the parallels between financial crises today and those 800 years ago - including credit crunch, sovereign default, foreign exchange and rate rigging. -
Lotions and Potions: Medical Books from the Middle Ages
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsMedicine existed long before it was a science taught at medieval universities. This lecture takes the audience to the eleventh and twelfth centuries, when the first medical handbooks were translated from Arabic into Latin, the learned language of the West. -
The Search for King Richard III News Conference
Posted on February 7, 2013 | No CommentsSpeakers include Richard Buckley, Lead Archaeologist, Jo Appleby, Project Osteologist, Lin Foxhall, Kevin Schurer, Project Geneaologist, and Turi King, Project Geneticist, and Richard Taylor of the University of Leicester. -
Great Battles: The First Crusade
Posted on February 1, 2013 | No CommentsIt really seemed like the final bitter and wretched end to an endlessly long and brutal march and an endless horrific siege. -
The Cross of the Scriptures: Power Meets Religion in Medieval Ireland
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsA lecture examining the medieval cross and the monastery of Clonmacnoise in Ireland -
What is A Chronicle? On the Joy of Reading History
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsRecent scholarship has hotly debated the definitions of chronicles as a genre, and focussed on the task tracing them back to their authentic, pristine text. However, another way of approaching this is to think of the chronicle as a physical object, a history book, with each new transcription being a new crystalization of the work. -
How to have a Renaissance Hairstyle
Posted on January 24, 2013 | No CommentsA video showing how to recreate a Renaissance hairstyle from early sixteenth-century Flanders. -
Silence through schism and two Reformations: 451-1500
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsThe significance of the threeway split in Christianity after the Council of Chalcedon (451). The purposeful Chalcedonian forgetting of Evagrius Ponticus and the contribution of an anonymous theologian who took the name Dionysius the Areopagite. -
Islamic Monuments and National Patrimony in Modern Spain
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsIn Spain, the Islamic past usefully differentiates Iberia from the rest of Europe, and its monuments—particularly the Great Mosque of Cordoba and the Alhambra—are a source of pride. However, the Islamic past is treated as 'distant.'
