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2012 Books Archive
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Dunluce Castle: History and Archaeology
Posted on March 26, 2013 | No CommentsDunluce Castle, dramatically positioned on cliffs that plunge straight into the sea, was for centuries at the centre of a maritime lordship encompassing north Ulster and the Western Isles of Scotland. -
Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages
Posted on January 10, 2013 | No CommentsThe Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. -
L’Anse aux Meadows was a ‘temporary base camp’ for the Vikings in North America, study finds
Posted on January 9, 2013 | No CommentsA new study of the archaeological remains from the only confirmed Viking settlement in North America argues that it was never meant to be a long-term settlement. It is also very likely that it was the home to at least one Norse woman. -
Fleas, Flies, and Friars: Children’s Poetry from the Middle Ages
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsIn Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide variety of children's verse that circulated in England beginning in the 1400s, providing a way for modern readers of all ages to experience the medieval world through the eyes of its children. -
The Pope Who Quit
Posted on December 15, 2012 | No CommentsWhat led him to make that decision and what happened afterward would be shrouded in mystery for centuries. -
Medieval Cures from The Alphabet of Galen
Posted on December 7, 2012 | No CommentsUse green mint to stop hiccups, radish to relieve aching joints and donkey dung as toothpaste! Some medieval cures from the Alphabet of Galen, the pharmacy handbook of the Middle Ages. -
Medieval Military Technology
Posted on December 6, 2012 | No CommentsA new edition of Medieval Military Technology, by Kelly DeVries and Robert D. Smith, is now available. -
New Book on ‘The Book of Kells’ launched
Posted on November 21, 2012 | No CommentsThis new publication, presented in a cloth-bound slipcase, features 84 full-size reproductions of complete pages of the manuscript, while enlarged details allow one to relish the intricacy of elements barely visible to the naked eye. -
John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame
Posted on November 19, 2012 | No CommentsRead our interview with Mary C. Flannery about her new book -
Hugh Kennedy of Ardstinchar: Joan of Arc’s Scottish Captain
Posted on November 14, 2012 | No CommentsPriest, soldier, pillager, diplomat, counsellor to kings, Archdeacon of St Andrews… and mentioned in the birth of Scottish golf. You couldn't make this man up. -
Kerry, Ireland A.D. 800 – medieval children’s book
Posted on November 6, 2012 | No CommentsSet in Ireland's majestic Ring of Kerry in the year 800, the tale is an inspiring coming-of-age adventure that deals with life lessons on the backdrop of an educational and entertaining plot -
Medieval Pets
Posted on October 23, 2012 | No CommentsNew book by Kathleen Walker-Meikle on pets in the Middle Ages -
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Posted on October 12, 2012 | No CommentsW. Jeffrey Bolster takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. -
BOOK REVIEW: Edric the Wild
Posted on October 2, 2012 | No CommentsA book review of the new release "Edric the Wild", by Jayden Woods -
The Life and Miracles of St. Margaret of Cortona (1247 – 1297)
Posted on September 26, 2012 | No CommentsMargaret’s extraordinary career brings the historian closer to the early development of the Franciscans and the Order of Penance; it tells us much about how women saints were described, and about how civic cults of saints emerged. -
Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsMedieval European culture was obsessed with clothing. In Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High-and Late-Medieval England, Andrea Denny-Brown explores the central impact of clothing in medieval ideas about impermanence and the ethical stakes of human transience. -
Review: The Medieval Anarchy: History In An Hour
Posted on August 25, 2012 | No CommentsThe latest ebook from History In An Hour, The Medieval Anarchy aims to give the reader a relatively quick look at events during the reign of King Stephen (1135-1154), a period of civil war throughout the Anglo-Norman empire. -
Fatal Colours: Towton 1461 – England’s Most Brutal Battle
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe battle of Towton in 1461 was unique in its ferocity and brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude the first War of the Roses -
How Venice almost got a second head of Saint Mark the Evangelist
Posted on July 13, 2012 | No CommentsIn 1419, Venice was almost able to get a second head of Saint Mark the Evangelist. -
Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture
Posted on July 12, 2012 | No CommentsThis two-volume set proposes a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. -
REVIEW – The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
Posted on July 9, 2012 | No CommentsDan Jones is an acclaimed English historian and award winning journalist. -
Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice
Posted on July 2, 2012 | No CommentsWhy the Middle Ages Matter refreshes our thinking about this historical era, and our own, by looking at some pressing concerns from today’s world, asking how these issues were really handled in the medieval period, and showing why the past matters now. -
The Great Beginning of Cîteaux
Posted on June 11, 2012 | No CommentsIt is a book of history and lore, often with miraculous stories, meant to continue a great spiritual tradition, and it is also a book meant to justify and repair the Order. The Exordium magnum was in part an effort to provide a historical and formative context for those who were to be Cistercians in the thirteenth century. -
Royal Armouries selling sponsor copies of the world’s oldest surviving fight book!
Posted on June 6, 2012 | No CommentsJust in case you get into a street fight...here’s what to do ;) A serious medieval combat book for summer! -
New book offers translation of medieval Islamic debate
Posted on June 6, 2012 | No CommentsThe candid nature of the debate and the instincts of the characters to speak freely and to openly question basic Islamic and religious tenets forces readers to challenge widely held views of Islam and religious freedom, especially during the Middle Ages.