Medievalists.net » Videos http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 03:41:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Power and Politics at the time of King Harald Bluetooth, Denmark http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/03/power-and-politics-at-the-time-of-king-harald-bluetooth-denmark/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/03/power-and-politics-at-the-time-of-king-harald-bluetooth-denmark/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2015 17:44:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62971 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?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/26/heirs-of-genghis-khan/feed/ 0 The Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago): The Temple of the Stars http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/26/the-way-of-st-james-camino-de-santiago-the-temple-of-the-stars/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/26/the-way-of-st-james-camino-de-santiago-the-temple-of-the-stars/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:59:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62793 A documentary about the famous pilgrimage route from the Middle Ages

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/26/the-way-of-st-james-camino-de-santiago-the-temple-of-the-stars/feed/ 0 If Books Could Talk: Medieval Manuscripts in Iowa http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/25/if-books-could-talk-medieval-manuscripts-in-iowa/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/25/if-books-could-talk-medieval-manuscripts-in-iowa/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:52:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62770 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/25/if-books-could-talk-medieval-manuscripts-in-iowa/feed/ 0 The Sick and The Dead: Medieval Concepts of Illness and Spinal Disability http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/the-sick-and-the-dead-medieval-concepts-of-illness-and-spinal-disability/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/the-sick-and-the-dead-medieval-concepts-of-illness-and-spinal-disability/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2015 22:05:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62684 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/the-sick-and-the-dead-medieval-concepts-of-illness-and-spinal-disability/feed/ 0 Book Talk: Ivory Vikings, by Nancy Marie Brown http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/book-talk-ivory-vikings-by-nancy-marie-brown/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/book-talk-ivory-vikings-by-nancy-marie-brown/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2015 18:44:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62681 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

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/book-talk-ivory-vikings-by-nancy-marie-brown/feed/ 0 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Later Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/englands-immigrants-1330-1550-resident-aliens-in-the-later-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/englands-immigrants-1330-1550-resident-aliens-in-the-later-middle-ages/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2015 17:26:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62678 Paper by Bart Lambert given at Medieval and Early Modern Records Seminar held in Leeds, on August 2, 2014

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/21/englands-immigrants-1330-1550-resident-aliens-in-the-later-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Animated Epics: The Canterbury Tales http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/animated-epics-the-canterbury-tales/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/animated-epics-the-canterbury-tales/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:53:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62658 A 1998 animated version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/animated-epics-the-canterbury-tales/feed/ 0 Medieval Animation: The Founding of Lithuania’s capital Vilnius http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/13/medieval-animation-the-founding-of-lithuanias-capital-vilnius/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/13/medieval-animation-the-founding-of-lithuanias-capital-vilnius/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2015 06:11:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62507 Created in 1990 by the Lithuanian Animated Film Studio, this film tells the mythological tale of the founding of Medieval Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/13/medieval-animation-the-founding-of-lithuanias-capital-vilnius/feed/ 0 Walk this Way: Two Journeys to Jerusalem in the Fifteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/07/walk-this-way-two-journeys-to-jerusalem-in-the-fifteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/07/walk-this-way-two-journeys-to-jerusalem-in-the-fifteenth-century/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2015 18:16:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62356 This paper appraises place pilgrimage to Jerusalem in two late-medieval English texts: The Itineraries of William Wey and The Book of Margery Kempe.

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