Medieval Fish with Richard Hoffmann
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Richard Hoffmann about what people were eating, how they caught it, and how fish farming evolved over time.
Where the Middle Ages Begin
This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Richard Hoffmann about what people were eating, how they caught it, and how fish farming evolved over time.
In 1495, the Danish warship Gribshunden sank off the coast of Sweden. In recent years, researchers have dived to explore the wreck and have made several important discoveries.
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Eastern England.
Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne’s Francia a century later, new tests reveal. The findings could transform our understanding of Europe’s economic and political development.
Instruction and Information in the Works of John Trevisa Barton, Jennifer Marginalia, Vol. 9 (2009) Abstract In John Trevisa’s Dialogue, the character of the Lord…
This paper presents a selection of medieval riddles and discusses the various roles they play in Middle Ages education: from ludus to the relations between aenigmata and the omnipresent religious mentality.
Nine-men’s morris played with dice is a nearly forgotten medieval variant of the merels games.
An Arab Game in the North Pole? By Thierry Depaulis Board Games Studies, Vol.4 (2001) Introduction: The impressive so far unpublished or very little…
Re-reading Through Return in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Some Late Medieval Carols Steer, Alex Marginalia, Vol. 2, Cambridge Yearbook (2004-2005)…
A Thirteenth-Century Textbook of Mystical Theology: The “Mystical Theology” of Dionysius the Areopagite in Eriugena’s Latin Translation with the Scholia translated by Anastasius…
The Annunciation as Model of Meditation: Stillness, Speech and Transformation in Middle English Drama and Lyric Marginalia, Vol. 2, Cambridge Yearbook (2004-2005) Saetveit…
Ambition and Anxiety in The House of Fame and The Garlande of Laurell Bennett, Alastair, Marginalia, Vol. 2, Cambridge Yearbook (2004-2005) Abstract Chaucer’s The House…
The macabre encounter of skeletons mocking the living has haunted Case Western Reserve University art historian Elina Gertsman’s imagination since childhood walks with her…
Ruth Nugent of the University of Chester has been awarded The Society for Medieval Archaeology’s John Hurst Prize for the Best Undergraduate Dissertation,…
Almeria Silk and the French Feudal Imaginary: Toward a “Material” History of the Medieval Mediterranean By Sharon Kinoshita Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and…
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Campbell, Mary Ann (Washington University) Mid-American Review of Sociology, V ol. III, No.2 Abstract The attempt here…
The Hem of Whose Garment? Intertextual Allusion in Osbern of Canterbury’s Miracles of St. Dunstan Vaughan, Sandy Marginalia, Vol. 1 (2005) Abstract Osbern…
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” Méndez, Jerónimo (University of Valencia) BAD BEHAVIOUR Volume 3(1) (2010)…
Why did medieval women go to war?
Like Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games (MMORPG)? Like the Middle Ages? On Facebook? If you said yes to all three, an online game…
Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century Kieckhefer, Richard Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer (2006) Abstract The European witch…
Witches, Saints, and Heretics: Heinrich Kramer’s Ties with Italian Women Mystics: Heinrich Kramer’s Ties with Italian Women Mystics Herzig, Tamar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)…
The Meanings of Magic Bailey, Michael D. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer (2006) Abstract The establishment of a new…
The Construction of Episcopal Identity: The Meaning and Function of Episcopal Depictions within Latin Saints’ Lives of the Long Twelfth Century By Matthew…
Scottish Portias: Women in the Courts in Mediaeval Scottish Towns By Elizabeth Ewan Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Vol.3:1 (1992) Abstract: By…
The main purpose of this comparison is to see the roots of the Viking and Hungarian ascendancy and to find out to what extent this success can be explained by the tactics, weapons and the social background of the invaders.
Can Atheism be Rational? A Reading of Thomas Aquinas BROCK, STEPHEN L. Acta Philosophica, vol. 11 (2002) Abstract Does St Thomas Aquinas have anything…
Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier is a project and exhibition that examines the impact of “medievalism” on conceptions and representations of the…
Little is known about suicide in England in the medieval period. Legal records provide the best source of post-mortem data about suicides.
A history of this Egyptian metropolis from its founding by Alexander the Great to our own day. Close to a hundred pages are devoted to the medieval era.
For anyone who visits Örebro, it is hard to miss its castle – an ancient-looking fortress made of weathered grey stones that stands on an islet in the middle of the city centre.
On the 10th of August 1628, the Vasa sank in Stockholm harbour, thus ending the career of the most powerful warship that Sweden had ever seen.
This strategic location not only makes the castle a majestic sight, but also earns it the reputation as the most modern defence fortress in its time. But, as all ancient buildings, there is always more than meets the eye. Here are the five things that you may not know about Uppsala Castle.
How do you operate a business when you can’t read and your knowledge of math is extremely limited? Making your mark on the…
Narbonne is one of those European cities with evidence of its past on every street.
The V&A Museum opened its latest medieval exhibit exhibit on Saturday: Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery. I had the opportunity to see it opening day and it was spectacular.