Samantha Zacher talks about Anglo-Saxon Jewish heroes.
Law in the Lives of Medieval Women: Beyond the Magna Carta
April 11, 2015 By
Ruth Mazo Karras discussed, through an analysis of the lives of three women, the way law affected (or not) women at different levels of society in medieval England.
Shining Light on Medieval Illuminations: Pigments through the Ages
April 10, 2015 By
Identifying the materials used in medieval illuminated manuscripts gives us an insight into the techniques and skills of the scribes and illuminators, as well as the sometimes complex trade routes of the times.
A Young Man’s Progress – The First Book of Fashion
April 5, 2015 By
A Young Man’s Progress is art work by London photographer Maisie Broadhead and fashion designer Isabella Newell in collaboration with Cambridge cultural historian Ulinka Rublack.
Regarding the Medieval Book
April 3, 2015 By
What hooked me on medieval studies was my fascination with the material documents themselves: their feel, their smell, their creaking bindings, the specific and idiosyncratic redactions of texts they contain, and the marks of use on their pages.
Ostsiedlung or Transition of German Law? Legal Perspective on Settlement According to German Law in Medieval Poland
April 3, 2015 By
Paper given at Twenty-First Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians – 6th Berg Institute International Conference
The Skeleton in the Car Park: Richard III and the legacy of his re-discovery
March 22, 2015 By
Two years on, as his body is reinterred in Leicester Cathedral, what difference has this discovery made? How has the team’s research changed the way we see the ruler, his reign, and the establishment of the Tudor dynasty?
Templars, Hospitallers, and 12th-Century Popes: The Maltese Evidence
March 21, 2015 By
To date, scholars have cataloged approximately 1,000 pre-1198 papal documents for Templars and Hospitallers, including deperdita (lost documents, inferred from other, still existing documents), as well as forgeries and falsifications.
Middle Age Couriers: How Medieval Polish Manuscripts Turned Up in Milwaukee, and How They Got Back Home to Poland
March 21, 2015 By
Middle Age Couriers: How Medieval Polish Manuscripts Turned Up in Milwaukee, and How They Got Back Home to Poland Lecture by Neal Pease Given at the University of Kansas on April 14, 2014 “He said he had something – a collection of stuff – that he wasn’t actually sure what it was, but he wanted […]
William the Conqueror and the Harrying of the North
March 21, 2015 By
This lecture examines the events leading up to the Harrying of the North and the impact of this event on the North of England.
Lessons from the Viking Lifestyle
March 20, 2015 By
‘I am here to talk to you about my life as a Viking and how it has changed and shaped my personality and the way I view several aspects of today’s society, and how I started hunting for the authentic experience.’
The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire
March 19, 2015 By
A five-minute video shows the fortunes of the Byzantine Empire, from the year 396 to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453
Local and Traditional on the Millennial Scale: Sustainable Waterfowl Management from Viking Age Iceland
March 9, 2015 By
Inhabited by Vikings since approximately 600 AD, the islands hosts an abundant, but terribly fragile resource, puffins, flightless birds that nest on rocky exposed cliffs, in easy range of the islanders other prime food source, pigs.
Breaking the Mold: The First Woman in Italian Literature
March 9, 2015 By
Active between 1260-1270, the woman known only as La Compiuta Donzella (the fulfilled damsel) attracted the attention of several male writers. Two of them were astonished that such wisdom could be found in a female.
Is it possible to accurately recreate a loaf of medieval bread?
March 8, 2015 By
I propose that the experimental process is the best way to gain a better understanding of what bread was like for our medieval forebears and how it compared to the bread that we eat today?
Global Approaches to the Middle Ages
March 4, 2015 By
This interdisciplinary panel discussion marks the appearance of the new journal The Medieval Globe.
King John and the Making of Magna Carta
March 1, 2015 By
All sorts of myths and legends grew up around King John and the Magna Carta – this is a part of history that passed into popular culture.
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
February 24, 2015 By
Chet Van Duzer, author of the recent book Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, will trace the history of sea monsters on European maps, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the tenth century and continuing to the end of the sixteenth century.
How Youtube has Changed the Middle Ages
February 22, 2015 By
YouTube launched 10 years ago this month, and has grown to become one of the most popular and important sites on the Internet. It has also deeply changed many aspects of media and society, including about the Middle Ages. Over 2.7 million videos have been uploaded that have something to do with the term ‘medieval’ and another 250,000 that are about the ‘Middle Ages’.
Epidemics Past and Present: What Historic Diseases Tell Us About Future Threats
February 19, 2015 By
Dr. DeWitte will discuss how bioarchaeological research on past epidemics such as the Black Death can improve our understanding of emerging diseases and human-pathogen coevolution in general, and the potential it has to provide tools for dealing with disease in living populations.
Hildegard of Bingen: Authorship and Stylometry
February 18, 2015 By
A documentary based on the article ‘Collaborative Authorship in the Twelfth Century. A Stylometric Study of Hildegard of Bingen and Guibert of Gembloux’
‘There is nothing outside the box’: Considering the institutional narratives and object histories of the Franks Casket
February 17, 2015 By
The Franks Casket, a much studied, famously ambiguous 8th century Anglo-Saxon object, presented to the British Museum in 1867 after its rediscovery, was recently redisplayed alongside the re-design of the Sutton Hoo exhibit, in a manner that makes its object-status clear to those engaging with it.
The medieval roots of gender and sexuality in Spanish colonial law
February 12, 2015 By
Marie Kelleher will discuss the medieval roots of gender and sexuality in Spanish colonial law, beginning with the written law (both secular and ecclesiastical) and how it defines the parameters of respectable female behavior.
The Age of the Vikings
February 12, 2015 By
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and developed a vast trading network. They traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships, not only to raid but also to explore.
Amazing archery shots based on historical research
January 26, 2015 By
By making use of ancient and medieval sources, Lars Andersen is revealing techniques lost for centuries and showing off some incredible archery shots.
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